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by rurp 8y ago
One possible explanation is that they are sitting on so much potential bad news it would be a disaster to release all at once.
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by rurp 8y ago
>Figuring out the most likely winner of a game of baseball is a little harder; there's a whole movie about a guy who was basically doing that in 2002. Nate was literally one of the core people working on Sabermetrics around the time
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by rurp 8y ago
It won't have any dramatic impact but I would bet there's some. A decent number of people will read this article and think something like, "Wow, that's a pretty shady thing Samsung did there". This won't swing
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by rurp 8y ago
If that's the goal, then why buy a platform that's rife with porn in the first place?
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by rurp 8y ago
Taleb isn't arguing that someone who doesn't look like a surgeon will necessarily be a good one, just that they are more likely to be good, relative to a surgeon who got there with fewer obstacles.
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by rurp 8y ago
> Unfortunately we can’t all have a custom UI written exactly to our specifications. This isn't what most people are asking for though, they just want Google to not make the UX worse. Increasing the page load time and making a bunch
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by rurp 8y ago
On the other hand you've now added a whole new layer of friction to using a car. Sure, in theory you'll just hit a button on an app and a car will show up in a few minutes, and it's only a minor inconvenience. But what happen
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by rurp 8y ago
Wow, thank you for this. I complained to Netlfix support about the auto-playing videos and asked how to disable them. They never mentioned this option, just said that it was a test I couldn't opt out of.
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by rurp 8y ago
This is just my experience but I found the previous system far better. I discovered a surprising number of new shows that I liked under that one, shows that I might not have found through other means. In contrast, the new system has been ut
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by rurp 8y ago
It could be the case that nothing is actually broken. I have unfortunately received a number of similar calls on systems that were working exactly as specified. Random nonsense "disasters" can happen a lot in dysfunctional compani
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by rurp 9y ago
It's possible the withdrawals do break sometimes, but undercharging people results in far fewer irate phone calls.
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by rurp 9y ago
The odd thing is that I highlight lines haphazardly as well. I hate the popups on Medium because I constantly highlight text without thinking about it. At some point I noticed that it helps me keep my place as my attention bounces around. T
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by rurp 9y ago
I'm curious why you think highlighting text is a bad habit. I find it useful for quickly finding my place after looking away from the screen.
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by rurp 9y ago
I recently tried DDG again after reading the quality was approaching Google. I was surprised to find the results are actually much better, for exactly this reason. The results I get from Google are often filled with answers to distinctly di
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by rurp 9y ago
That frees up the developer to work on projects that would have been infeasible a couple decades ago. To put it another way, has the growth of high level languages like Python led to more jobs or fewer? I strongly suspect the answer is more
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by rurp 9y ago
The fact that I can get a basic web app up in an hour rather than days does not mean that I only work an hour per week, it means that I can spend my time building much more complex applications.
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by rurp 9y ago
Sure, people are pretty much the same across eras. But cultures vary greatly, and that's a big distinction. A lifestyle that does not easily accommodate mass deforestation has a lot of benefits, intentional or otherwise. I'm not a
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by rurp 9y ago
Last year a co-worker frantically came over to tell me that text was disappearing from her computer screen. I walked over to her desk and watched as she began to type an email. Sure enough, the characters she entered went away one at a time
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by rurp 9y ago
I have had good luck getting rid of old things by posting them for free on Craigslist and leaving them outside. If it's at all usable someone usually comes by within an hour or two.