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by pseut 14y ago
Jesus, part of why I left facebook was because I got sick of the photo dumps where someone would upload 50-100 unedited pictures of their kid's birthday party. Who could possibly want to look at all of those pictures? I can't imagine that
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I, on the other hand, love beer and chocolate together. Not quite as nice for breakfast as coke (soda), chocolate and a cigarette, but I ain't that young any more.
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It is amazing that you're seemingly willing to stake your reputation that there's no possibility of a conflict of interest at an institution you're only distantly associated with. But, how serious are you? What odds will you give me that
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> Which shows that the popularity did not rise dramatically (take the green line for the left part until they cross, then take the red line). It's less dramatic, but it does look like there's a pretty substantial increase that can proba
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by pseut 14y ago
That's great to know; I just haven't used the new keyboards so a direct comparison wouldn't have helped me much. The last laptop keyboard I've really liked was the Thinkpad T43 (I might be off by one or two on the model number), but it die
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> The main thing that distinguishes this keyboard from Apple's is that the keys aren't as flat - I'm used to tactile and auditory feedback on the Das Keyboard[1], and while neither Apple's nor Dell's keyboards provide this, having the i
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by pseut 14y ago
Thanks for mentioning the keyboard, I use the Das Keyboard too and the (imo) terrible Mac keyboard has kept me from buying one for serious use. How much have you used Lenovo's laptops? Can you make a comparison to their keyboards? Edit: t
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> I think it comes down to being a manager basically sucks. A lot of people, all other things equal, would rather not do it. That hasn't been my experience at all; a lot of people like to be in charge.
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Full professors are a tiny minority of faculty, but they're the ones with experience and job tenure comparable to deans.
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Dean? Are you sure you don't mean department chair? It's not clear from your profile whether you're in grad school or undergrad, but if you're a PhD student and the guy's really a dean seriously consider changing advisors even if he's a "b
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>>What if they all overlook some crucial aspect because of the way they were trained, or their entrenched / ingrained assumptions? >This happens surprisingly rarely. It helps that we are trained to constantly question our entren
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I don't think he's claiming "bug free" -- and if I remember right, people have already found "bugs" and he claims to have a patch that he'll post soon. There's a huge difference between minor errors that invalidate the proof but can be fix
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This link goes to an older edition of the book; it's since been split into a short version ("basics of clarity and grace") as well as a longer version ("lessons in clarity and grace") -- the longer version has exercises (I think) and the sh
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by pseut 14y ago
This quotation seemed strange: "Then it gets even richer: The users suggest features which already are on our roadmap but were cut due to the word minimum." I thought that was the whole point of the MVP. Your initial users just told you wh
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by pseut 14y ago
One point in addition to what I posted earlier: check out the old (maybe the original) version of Slate's "Today's Papers." It was awesome: a ~1 page prose summary of the major newspapers every morning. The Slatest is but a pale shadow.
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Is this trying to be, "headlines done right," "a newspaper's home page done right," or something else? FWIW a combination of twitter and the BBC's mobile site[1] work for me. I was surprised that Gaza was mentioned on your front page but n
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by pseut 14y ago
I wonder (sincerely), do the posters who prefer email to a phone call really find other people's writing easy to understand? I love my own emails: they're great and unambiguous and filled with insightful nuance, but half the time I receive
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This is only true of very senior faculty these days, at least in Econ, Statistics, Math, etc.
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At least this essay lets me feel better about my inefficient toy projects.
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Point taken; I was saying (unclearly, maybe) that not liking conferences/speaking/whatever is a pretty weak reason for avoiding them. Lots of people don't like them, but go because it's what the job requires (and, just to preempt replies,
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>>Go to conferences. ... Find conferences that relate to it and attend... later, speak at said conferences. >Well, I'm screwed. I can barely speak in private or deal with people. Maybe things are different in tech, but I don't k
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-> "Note, Silk has sound, Mute?" That was considerate and awesome. Thanks.
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A dot chart would have been substantially better. I haven't seen that sort of visualization before. It's probably a mistake to try to show the relative size of each group in the same picture as the absolute size.
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I can not upvote this enough.
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Essentially, yes. An overview is here: http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2007/02/how_paul_volcke.... and the original interview is informative too. (tl;dr: Great Inflation)
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There's clearly a need for a word that means, "increase in the price level" and that word is "inflation." Your nitpick almost reads like a criticism of the word "fever": it doesn't distinguish the causes of the fever but lumps them togethe
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Should I be concerned that the person behind the "wingman app" is looking for a co-founder? I don't know whether that's a positive or a negative...
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Positive but low inflation.
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An increase in the volume of a helium-filled balloon is also "inflation." As an economist, I can assure you that I mean "price inflation" when I say "inflation" without a qualifier. So does everyone I talk to. It doesn't need to be confu
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Right, but the question is whether statistics is the most important facet of the work involved. Everything you've listed except "maintenance of the system" is part of statistics (which I'm going to define broadly as: 'what statisticians do

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