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by seanstickle 16y ago
Slower in a computer, slower yet in people. And the throughput in AAABBBCCC is 1 project in 3 days, where ABCABCACB has a throughput of 0 projects in 3 days. In a business where cashflow is important, that 3 day throughput is more important
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by seanstickle 16y ago
Let's say you have three projects, A, B, and C. Assume each one takes 3 days. You can work on them serially: A A A B B B C C C Or multitask them: A B C A B C A B C If you take a look at when the projects complete, you'll see that, in the se
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by seanstickle 16y ago
I'm curious to know why calling a phone number was a deal-breaker. It seemed eminently likely (to me) that it would be an automated system, but, even if it wasn't, talking to someone isn't that big a deal to me. I certainly wasn't concerned
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by seanstickle 16y ago
The graphic opening the "Typographic Terms You Should Know" section is seriously broken. Arrows point to all sorts of wrong things. With a graphic like that, on a topic so graphically important, my rule of thumb is to disregard the article
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by seanstickle 16y ago
It's a pretty good (and quick) read. It has been retitled "To Be Or Not To Be Intimidated?: That Is The Question" due to people thinking it was actually about intimidating other people, rather than standing up to certain types of business i
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by seanstickle 16y ago
As a business, making and selling tshirts is no great innovation, I agree. But when the web application is a painstakingly detailed clone of another company's, I think that the virtue of "completely bootstrapping it" to be undermined, and r
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by seanstickle 16y ago
If by "hacking the traditional value chain and business model", you mean cloning another company's site and calling it his own.
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by seanstickle 16y ago
ooShirts appears to be a fairly direct rip-off of a company I used to work for, CustomInk.com. Compare: http://www.ooshirts.com/ vs http://www.customink.com/ . Maybe it doesn't take too much money to start up a company that is more or le
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by seanstickle 16y ago
Standard English is a construct of a society predominantly run by, and for, men. It is, in no small way, the English of Those Who Rule, which is to say, at least for a very long time, men.
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by seanstickle 16y ago
Ptolemy, and his intellectual descendants, didn't actually use epicycles-on-epicycles. Just a single epicycle on a deferent. Although "epicycles-on-epicycles" might be traditionally emblematic of "incorrectly formulated over-complicated the
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by seanstickle 16y ago
Books and a computer on a desk. All I need. http://i.imgur.com/E1TW7.jpg
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by seanstickle 17y ago
Not to be too critical, but that quote is traditionally ascribed to Cicero, not Michelangelo. (Though sourcing the quote to something that Cicero actually wrote is absurdly hard on the Internet.)
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by seanstickle 17y ago
The other person being, presumably, Cincinnatus?
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by seanstickle 17y ago
I think I remember that Leeeeeroy Jenkins was not the leader of the group, but he was the only one to have chicken.
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by seanstickle 17y ago
One of these would have been very useful when my AD&D adventuring party was exploring the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth.
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by seanstickle 17y ago
Talk about survivor bias: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1165768/The-man-surv...
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by seanstickle 17y ago
Programming is my MMORPG. I often take on quests into GitHub, Savannah, or SourceForge. I belong to several guilds like #rubyonrails and #mysql. And best of all, my MMORPG pays me .
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by seanstickle 17y ago
In fact, that is time travel. In the same way that you travel into the future every day, since what was the present when you woke up in the morning is now the past. In this restricted sense, yes, time travel is possible and proven. But when
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by seanstickle 17y ago
You might find Gliffy ( http://www.gliffy.com/ ) to be useful. Or LucidChart ( http://www.lucidchart.com/ ) might strike your fancy.
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by seanstickle 17y ago
What you say makes a lot of sense. However, notation actually does affect the ideas, and deeply. Euclid did not consider 1 a number, for perfectly sound reasons. Multiplication is a very different animal in Euclid's math, and his proportion
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by seanstickle 17y ago
You say that "our understanding of mathematics and methods of learning have changed substantially since then". While I of course agree that we now have a lot more mathematics, including non-Euclidean geometry, I don't see what thay has to d
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by seanstickle 17y ago
I'd be curious to know what you find difficult about them, and why you think they do not teach well. I find Euclid extraordinarily clear in his exposition of geometry. And I have not yet found a better teacher on conics than Appolonius, alt
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by seanstickle 17y ago
I heartily endorse reading the classic works of geometry as a way to both the subject as well as a way of thinking about math, proof, and argumentation. Start with Euclid's _Elements_, and then move onto Archimedes' short books on levers an
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by seanstickle 17y ago
It was time well spent if I could help a fellow HackerNewsian.
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by seanstickle 17y ago
Ajai, I really like the idea of creating a resume based on the Toyota Production System A3 report ( http://www.coe.montana.edu/IE/faculty/sobek/A3/report.htm ). I'm not sure if that's what you meant to do, but the idea certainly is striking
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by seanstickle 17y ago
This doesn't bode well for me trying to use self-control to kick my sugar habit.