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by pmichaud 17y ago
For what it's worth, I actually knew that, but I didn't think the coldness would be clear in context without mentioning it.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
This actually rings true to my experience. I've been responsible for several outsourced problems, and one common factor among them is trying to get Indian programmers and PMs to just be straight with me. I've tried being direct by telling t
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Where is the data I've read that says most people are better off (in terms of lifetime earnings) as wage slaves? I want to examine it closely to see to whom it applies.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
This is a little strange. The essay says: 1) Paying workers as little as possible isn't the best way to maxmize business profits. 2) Paying workers way above market rates doesn't attract the best talent. 3) You should pay the fabled 10X pro
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Cold deserts?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Cute, someone disagrees with me so I get a downvote instead of a response. All in a thread about a dubious off topic submission. Nice, HN, keep it classy.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Mildly interesting, but not HN material. Flagged.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
This makes all the geeky little butterflies in my stomach flutter. I'll have to start ordering that polymer in bulk. Custom cell phone holder, chess pieces, and desk figurines, here I come!
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by pmichaud 17y ago
So you're saying that it's not right for us to let people move from, say, 1 on a "quality of life" scale, to 80, because some people in the rich country might be lowered from 81 down to 80 for their sake? I just made up the scale, but that
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by pmichaud 17y ago
tl;dr: it's a wordy but alright article about how the idea of an inferior product winning because it got a head start is a myth that has no actual evidence. QWERTY vs DVORAK is one example of this myth, but it's not central to the piece, ac
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I'm moving. I you look at history, the way it's historically worked is that a country, for whatever reason, finds itself in a position of global power, it becomes hyperactively restrictive over the course of decades by slowly eroding civil
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I wonder if this automated bug sniffing could evolve into something that can actually restructure a program to make its architecture better. Further, if that's where this is going, maybe we'll be a step closer to "Do what I mean" programmin
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I wrote a piece of software for myself that does exactly what yours does, and it rings, exactly like yours does.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
You haven't ever tried this, have you?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
This is actually the underlying concept behind my personal productivity technique. I'll write about my system (and the piece of software I wrote for it) in a couple weeks.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Looking forward to seeing the source!
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I did the same thing once to figure out if there really are "plenty of fish in the sea." I calculated that there are around 300 women in the world that I might be compatible with. Luckily I don't play by those rules and I already won the lo
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by pmichaud 17y ago
You might be right. Loss aversion is closely related to the sunk cost fallacy. That's why I wrote this last week: http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/sunk-cost-fallacy/ And I have a post coming up that ties it together. Look for that next
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Brain Hack: turn your Loss Aversion Bias on its head(petermichaud.com)
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by pmichaud 17y ago
The interesting part isn't what makes a great teacher, which is largely intuitive. The part I want to know about is how to produce and reward those effective teachers systematically.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Echoing my sibling: yes, absolutely. Think of it like a design pattern for writing. I think you can push the analogy pretty far actually: they are codified formulae designed to "implement" concepts in a story in a familiar and largely effec
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Yes... I run several moderately successful blogs and I'm overwhelmed by correspondence (in waves). Starting from the top and answering everything would be a way for me to make my full time job answering e-mail, while getting behind.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
In the middle he says that view-source encourages incompatible renderers but doesn't support that position. I really don't see how that can be the case?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
To add to this point, Avatar is actually more than an old story: it's a boilerplate movie plot. Anyone who is educated about script writing knew exactly what it was by minute 20 because it followed the formula to a T. The reason the formula
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Properties. Properties make for some mighty clean code though. I guess you have a particular bias toward protecting systems from crap programmers, which may serve you well in your environment. In my environment being concise wins because no
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by pmichaud 17y ago
The system you describe puts 100% of the onus of appraisal onto the borrower. It's in the bank's best interests to inflate the value of the home as much as possible and get a borrower on that inflated amount, because now, regardless of what
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Typically people pay if they have a desperate need and.or if you provide almost exactly what they need, but not quite. So #1 and #2 might work if people have a need more just a little more information... but why would they? Answer that, a
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I'm a little confused here. First, let me echo my sibling comment by saying that, yes, $ is a function, but no, the name "$var" will not execute the $ function. To me it's a method of notation, as the sibling also said. But you seem to unde
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I am interested in this, but I don't understand the reason for the video format. Is there a transcript available?
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Depending on the culture, this could work really well, or really badly. I guess the type of person who would use this technique wouldn't want to work at the type of company who wouldn't want him to, so maybe it's a good filter.

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