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by quirkot 5y ago
I say this with all the love and compassion in my heart: have you tried bookmarks? Not trying to be snide, but having that many tabs open and expecting to ever come back to the same one twice is 100% incomprehensible to me. But, I freely ad
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by quirkot 5y ago
I am, admittedly, on the "one app open at a time" end of things, but so much of this article seems like a user complaining about a mess they made for themselves. >> I have 37 windows open, with some 75+ tabs >> I have
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by quirkot 5y ago
If you can find a customer who will pay in advance on product with (reportedly) 40+ weeks lead time, then you've found a customer who will probably be insolvent by the time you ship
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by quirkot 6y ago
The only real answer to improve your ability is practice. You might check out Toastmasters to build practice and confidence. To improve your belief in your ability, practice helps. But there are a bunch of other psychological tricks you can
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by quirkot 6y ago
I'll take the counterpoint. Tribal instincts exist because it is impossible to have rational/conscious debate about most things. It's basically over engineering the problem. How would you convince an entire lakeside community
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by quirkot 6y ago
If arguing online has taught me anything, it's that you don't need to win a fight to persuade bystanders of your righteousness
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by quirkot 6y ago
This presents a fairly narrow view of persuasion, a romanticized version. Broadly defined persuasion is alive and well. Consider the massive political demonstrations that have occurred in the last year, who persuaded these people to leave t
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by quirkot 6y ago
Page is jumping all around on me and barely comprehensible and all I can think is "Desirable Websites: where do people prefer to browse?" and the answer is not this =/
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by quirkot 6y ago
Want to throw out one of my favorite stats: while conceptually the same, European double entry accounting predates Newton's 3rd law of motion by over 200 years.
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by quirkot 6y ago
The 10-key calculator was invented in 1963 and I think it will undoubtedly still exist in nearly identical form in 2063. I'd even say that 2163 isn't that big of a stretch
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by quirkot 6y ago
That makes sense to me, to hone already developed skills. I was reading this thinking it was targeted at novices
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by quirkot 6y ago
This article loses a lot of impact by focusing on an all-or-nothing task like shooting a basketball. Why would you practice shooting at a wrong size/wrong height basket at all? There are no points for near miss and you make enough shot
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by quirkot 6y ago
ICBMs... the black knight and the white knight of the cold war
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by quirkot 6y ago
This is the opposite of a localized solution. It attempts to do waste collection at an aggregated point. Where does all the waste go that doesn't end up in river with managed waste collection, is the issue
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by quirkot 6y ago
I use "Quick Javascript Switcher" on Chrome and it's amazing. Turning off javascript on certain sites improves usability by a ton.
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Organization to Clarify Limits of AI(twitter.com)
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by quirkot 6y ago
Some audits are because the easy and reliable processes break down and require human interpretation.
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by quirkot 6y ago
A potential reply to avoid coming across poorly could be something like: "what time code or project number should I report my time under when I stop my vacation and go on-call?"
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by quirkot 7y ago
Hear hear. I got a few sentences in and was like "Oh. The Diablo problem"
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by quirkot 7y ago
I guess the question is: if your leading point is that lying is OK and necessary, why should we believe anything in this comment at all? edit: which is why it's critical to be honest with your customers at all times.
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by quirkot 7y ago
> "provide valuable feedback and commit to it" I would add that it's important to remember TO WHOM the feedback should be valuable. Something you need to get off your chest? Worthless to the receiver. It should have undeni
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by quirkot 7y ago
No one ever got fired for choosing IBM... i mean AWS
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by quirkot 7y ago
It's RSS. Twitter invented RSS.
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by quirkot 7y ago
I guess my questions would be 1. "what exactly do these founders believe they are starting up?" 2. "if they aren't trying to create a sustainable business, how could they recruit employees with a clear conscience?"
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by quirkot 7y ago
If a startup is trying to create economic value, then there is no point of view. You either made money or you did not. If the real startup is the friends we made along the way while spending investor cash, then sure.
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by quirkot 7y ago
The critical assumption here is that the first date is a useful metric for a long term relationship. And I don't think that holds, using hiring as an analog
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by quirkot 7y ago
Zappos is not a software company. They sell inventoried product. The high quality support for this inventoried product is provided by low skill / low cost employees. The quality of the support staff is not in direct competition with th
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by quirkot 7y ago
large chunks of downtown chicago are cooled with ice storage. See here: https://enwavechicago.com/how-district-cooling-works/system-...
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by quirkot 7y ago
“By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well. This is one of the ends for which they exist.” ― Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style
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by quirkot 7y ago
stares at camera in zombie-apocalypse virus

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