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by qaexl 17y ago
To me, the Service example you gave was actually another form of a controller, albiet one that is not a classic, HTTP-oriented, stateless controller. I have not thought this through yet -- but I suspect the state machines that manage lifecy
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by qaexl 17y ago
Others here might have heard this many times before, but this is first time I've heard of it. It clears up a lot of confusion I'd have in thinking about this. I think one of the commenters is right in that people believe they are paying f
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by qaexl 17y ago
Wow, reading about the wikipedia articles on the difference between sam and acme sounds like the same pattern of arguments of using vi vs. emacs.
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Intangible Assets and Sunk Cost Fallacy(hosheng.blogspot.com)
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by qaexl 17y ago
"Flow" is a modern take on a very old idea. Atheletes and martial artists before that have been using various methods to enter this state. Josh Waitzkin figured out a method for consistently triggering flow in his book, _Art of Learning_. T
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by qaexl 17y ago
Yes it has. It's pretty cool discovering something new, eh? What's more interesting is that these ideas are not really new. They are ancient. Check out "Mindfulness in Plain English" as an example. If you want a modern book on how to consis
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by qaexl 17y ago
The Pomodoro technique is a timebox mechanism, so it has benefits beyond triggering the state of relaxed focus. The sudden-death nature of a microtimebox like 25/5 and 48/12 is what forces you to eliminate the unnecessary. A person can stay
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by qaexl 17y ago
If your attention seizes on the fact that you are in the zone, you'll start noticing yourself drop out. Your attention is no longer on the task at hand and your mental energy pours into that self-awarenes. If you let the observation pass yo
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by qaexl 17y ago
True. However, scrum-like standups mitigate it since you always report the status everyday like clockwork, so it doesn't feel personal for that particular task. Projects should be broken down into things that can be done within a day or les
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by qaexl 17y ago
I am not familiar with the laws out in England. What do you mean it is not recognized? I had assumed that to have an English limited company, you have to register it here. I make this assumption because all corporations and limited liabilit
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by qaexl 17y ago
You guys are assuming that the specifics of DBA works the same in England. There's no point in setting up a DBA with a limited liability entity. Why? You're basically saying, "I don't want the limited liability". I don't know the specifics
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by qaexl 17y ago
The problem isn't that Apple isn't paying him. The problem is that the OP set up a limited company then used his personal account. That's very sketchy.
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by qaexl 17y ago
Do you control the English Ltd? Get your app on your new account with your new company. By the way, the whole point of limited liability companies is so that a different legal entity is handling the transaction -- at least in America, using
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by qaexl 17y ago
"Talent Code", Daniel Coyle. http://www.amazon.com/Talent-Code-Greatness-Born-Grown/dp/05... The book suggests that great talent -- specifically "success" in the athletic / superstar world -- also has environmental factors. There are envi
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by qaexl 17y ago
I'm not doing a startup so much as building real estate investing business right now. I am running through the "4 Steps to Epiphany" and Ferris's processes right now. I'm trying to bring in innovations from current day techs (blog, web, etc
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by qaexl 17y ago
I think Tim Ferris wrote somewhere about how to take advantage of this. The trick is to run the normal business expenses you would had to pay anyways through these cards. For example, instead of purchasing a $100 set of headphones, you spen
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by qaexl 17y ago
Main thing I'd like to see in gitx: Three-panel merging, a la Meld.
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by qaexl 17y ago
Agile Programming process makes sure projects gets done. There are dozens of other project management methods, yet there are only a rare few processes that lets you discover what customers want, and how to get it to them. Steve Blank deve
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by qaexl 17y ago
http://steveblank.com/2009/02/23/theres-a-pattern-here/ http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09...
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by qaexl 17y ago
You're assuming that the professor was griefing.
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by qaexl 17y ago
I wrote about this in a different section. I'm with you here. People takes things too personally. From the article, I never got the sense that the Professor was taking this personally (he shouldn't, he is conducting a study). He wasn't deli
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by qaexl 17y ago
After sleeping on this, I finally figured out what was bothering me about the massive number of responses here claiming that this Professor was being clueless. The basic assumption is that the Professor was griefing other players. He wasn't
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by qaexl 17y ago
Right, I forgot to add "authority figure". Among my friends, we call those dangerous old men as having "Old Man Powers". Having had a day to think this over, I'm not sure "authority figure" would be the right attitude either. Even though I'
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by qaexl 17y ago
It'd be straight out of Lord of the Flies without some sort of authority figure. I generally think it is a great idea though, particularly about throwing them out into wilderness for survival training and martial arts. Going only by my own
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by qaexl 17y ago
Farmers breed docility into their livestock so that they are easier to handle when sending them to the slaughterhouse.
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by qaexl 17y ago
I don't know if the story of Dalton is true or not. I don't think it matters for this test. I think both Questions 1 and 2 are meant to respond to cultural value systems outside of China. I'm not sure about now, however, I can easily see a
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by qaexl 17y ago
I call bullshit too. What programming to a computer and speaking to another person share in common is the ability to resolve ambiguities. Communicating effectively requires sufficient skill in listening. I used to be big on being DRY in my
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by qaexl 17y ago
I default to being introverted too, and having follow on questions like that typically annoy me. (Probably one of the more annoying one is, "Are you OK?" asked by well-meaning friends). Having said that, I have happily chatted with random s
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by qaexl 17y ago
Have you looked at Steve Blank's Customer Development stuff that has been making the rounds here? Blank formalized a process for developing customers that has the same impact that formalizing software development process has on software dev
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by qaexl 17y ago
This may not help you in the short term, however, I was recommended a great book called "Secrets of Power Negotiating". The information contained in there is useful beyond this specific dilemma you have.

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