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by scrozier 6y ago
That may be the point, but when you introduce something radical, it's naive to think that it's "one and done." I would guess that within 6 months, many issues will be raised internally about this policy. It's not th
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by scrozier 6y ago
My first thought: a startup in the server business shouldn't be also trying to redefine compensation in the world. I say this because I've tried something similar several times, and always regretted it. They're going to hav
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by scrozier 6y ago
The latter. All the things you say, plus inexpert management, ridiculous legalese in employment matters, lack of respect for employees, poor hiring practices, etc.
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by scrozier 6y ago
After being an entrepreneur and an independent contractor most of my career (I'm 62), and now finding myself working for a company "rolling up" a bunch of software companies, I will say that the state of employment seems to h
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by scrozier 6y ago
I'm 62. I fell in love with programming as an undergraduate in 1977. I had traveled across the country to attend a school (University of North Texas) renowned for their music program. Not seeing my future in music, I was fortunate that
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by scrozier 6y ago
I discovered Chick's "Children's Songs" about six months ago, ordered the book of music, and have been playing them joyfully since. It's a series of 20-ish little compositions for solo piano, each very short (1-2 mi
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by scrozier 6y ago
"We're losing $1.00 on every sale, but we'll make it up in volume!" (I can't remember where this comes from.)
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by scrozier 6y ago
I’ve got 40 years in the software biz. This is an excellent list, and the author is very fortunate to have gotten to this point so fast.
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by scrozier 6y ago
You're making a giant logic error. It may well be true that most self-made millionaires started a company. It is certainly not true that most people who start companies become self-made millionaires, which was the premise of your ori
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by scrozier 6y ago
I think you're on to something, but "humility" doesn't seem to quite get at it. Maybe "focus"? It seems that the author is saying that to be moral and morally effective, one needs to be ends-focused, as opposed
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by scrozier 6y ago
Probably not. 2020.48.26.
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by scrozier 6y ago
My wife lets me drive her Model 3 with FSD when I'm good. I drove it quite a bit this past weekend, in lovely Dallas winter conditions. (No snow, no fog, no rain.) While snow is obviously a challenge, the Tesla is so far from being abl
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by scrozier 6y ago
Like music or art, I think that one starts to see, and appreciate, nuances as one learns and experiences more. If you’re drawn to the beauty and nuance of fonts, you start to develop preferences and appreciations for details. If you’re simp
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by scrozier 6y ago
I totally agree with you. I’m no fan of Comic Sans, but monospaced it’s really quite nice. I think Comic Shanns does things like set all the characters on the baseline, eliminate goofy tilting, etc. The letter shapes themselves are nice.
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by scrozier 6y ago
It looks like it’s not exactly the same. With Lufthansa, it looks like you get some sort of cushion that presumably smooths out the seat bumps, which would make a big comfort difference, at least for me. However, I won’t be trying it out.
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by scrozier 6y ago
Trauma Room One still exists. At least it did several years ago. I went to Parkland for a CT scan (my wife is a doctor there) and in this rather bustling, fairly mundane room, there was a modest plaque, identifying the room as Trauma Room O
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by scrozier 6y ago
Yep.
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by scrozier 6y ago
I take the general gist of some of your points, but it might be worth reframing some of your logic. To take just one point, let's go to the casino: you have a 97% chance of winning...pretty great! The downside is that if you lose, we t
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by scrozier 6y ago
Scientific studies are validly subject to inspection and comment. Just because the authors state something doesn't mean they've reached the correct conclusion, that the study was well designed, that there are not alternate explana
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by scrozier 6y ago
Gb major. This Chopin guy is just showing off now.
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by scrozier 6y ago
I like this idea. Am going to try it right now. Thanks!
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by scrozier 6y ago
I got to love the city many decades ago, as a young software consultant. Oh, the smell of urine and the sight of graffiti on the trains and garbage in the streets! I still love it, but you're right, it is quite a different place. In so
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by scrozier 6y ago
Oddly enough, I'm a remote worker who is trying to move to NYC to enjoy the crush of humanity in the subway. :-)
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by scrozier 6y ago
I think a (the?) major one is that of providing riders with real-time information about closings, reroutings, etc., that was previously pretty hard to get without physically being present in a station. And then there's me, watching the
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New York MTA launches real-time digital subway map(map.mta.info)
4 points by scrozier 6y ago|10 comments
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by scrozier 6y ago
Because it's lovely. Designers usually have a pretty refined aesthetic sense, and sometimes it wins out over usability.
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by scrozier 6y ago
This reads to me like a textbook case of a note (and the referenced paper) that should not have gotten published. In addition to the introduction you cite, the note also says: > This measure is certainly not without its shortcomings. and
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by scrozier 6y ago
At my first real job, the hackers of the day (1980) were figuring out how to draw stuff on 3270 terminals. They (the terminals) were massive beasts with a somehow delicate font.
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by scrozier 6y ago
Seems like a nod to Charles and Ray Eames’s “Powers of Ten” video (1977) might also be in order? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
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by scrozier 6y ago
I've had an idea for a while: some body (could be the government) maintains a list of useful/important infrastructure projects--bridges, hospitals, schools, etc. If you die with more than $x million, we take all the excess (like t

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