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by sopooneo 11y ago
It's bugged me too, almost to the point of me thinking I was crazy. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out how people were handling these problems with WordPress. And frankly I'm still baffled. I'd get these looooongg
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by sopooneo 11y ago
A thought just come to my head... For a lot of dev departments at non-tech companies, might consistent mediocrity be an improvement? If management is used to disaster at every turn, and then they hire some consultants, and then things are j
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by sopooneo 11y ago
I work for a company that takes federal contracts. We're allowed to accept basic coffee, but not doughnuts. I'm serious. And frankly, I don't have any problem with that.
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by sopooneo 11y ago
Also, at the beginning of this process, did they know that what they wanted as an end product was an iPad running an app that made an arrow point left/right? Or did they have a problem they wanted solved, and specing out a way to do it
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by sopooneo 11y ago
I fully believe that such a screw cap is objectively superior. But I really like the ritual of finding a cork-screw and POP pulling out the cork. For me it's all just different concentrations of ethanol without the ceremony.
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I have a strong suspicion that is exactly what would happen.
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by sopooneo 11y ago
Though I find his understanding of statistics to be off sometimes, I am very grateful to Russ Roberts for this podcast, which as taught me an enormous amount.
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by sopooneo 11y ago
One thing I've never understood about situations like this: why doesn't the platform manufacturer just make it technically impossible to call private classes/methods without some kind of signed key? White list the OS classes&
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by sopooneo 11y ago
Can't we build our own propensity for imperfect decision making into a calculation of safety? Can I not realize that while I consider myself more rational and cautious than my neighbors, they likely feel the same, and X% of them die wh
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by sopooneo 11y ago
What baffled me most as an child during the "Satanism Panic" was what the grownups thought the danger was. Regardless of whether there were really people worshipping the devil, and regardless of whether such people believed what
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by sopooneo 11y ago
I often wonder if an agile development approach that only plans in the range of very short iterations could run into the same problem.
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by sopooneo 11y ago
Does this mean all your features are able to be completed in a day?
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by sopooneo 11y ago
Good point. I did mean statically.
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by sopooneo 11y ago
I have never used a strongly typed language. But it seems like it would be almost strictly superior to the php and ruby I use now. So why on earth isn't everything strongly typed? What's the downside?
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by sopooneo 11y ago
Thank you for this, because I think I'm about to learn from you, but I'm confused. How can you control them? Is there some way for a site to signal to a browser whether it should or send referrer headers and under what circumstanc
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by sopooneo 11y ago
I thought Berkshire-Hathaway had been incredibly successful since Buffett had any share in it. What am missing?
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by sopooneo 11y ago
When you practice a particular talk or presentation, you have to practice handling the freeze . Too many people think they have to practice just to get the sequence or even exact words right. No. You practice in front of a group, as contri
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by sopooneo 11y ago
Wouldn't the likelihood of the area going up already be built into the price?
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by sopooneo 11y ago
I bet there were other such warnings, many of them valid, that just didn't turn out to be catastrophic. If there are any high level managers here, please tell me, does it seem like your people are constantly alerting you of dire risks?
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by sopooneo 11y ago
Why do the parachutes chords angle to the side in the air? It seems like after a little while in constant wind, it would end up hanging vertically, while falling at an angle.
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by sopooneo 11y ago
I agree with you completely. I think there is definitely a minimum project scope before a PM becomes a good investment. But I also think there should be a multiplier for how scattered/non-technical/crazy the client is.
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by sopooneo 11y ago
To me, this seems like the sort of project that would benefit greatly by putting an experienced project manager between the client (ie Rumsfeld) and the dev team. Other than planning meetings, I really think non-technical stake holders shou
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by sopooneo 11y ago
Here's an article attempting to answer that: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-zappos-determines-salarie... But from my reading it sounds like the truth is at least partly: by fudging it.
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by sopooneo 11y ago
Unless it turns out that profits are directly proportional to creator happiness, why would a for-profit company use that as the primary metric in deciding the compensation of managers? I am willing to bet there is correlation between the tw
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by sopooneo 11y ago
Out of curiosity, why do you clear the array of counts of live cells every five iterations? And why even have it be an array of ints rather than just a single int?
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by sopooneo 11y ago
Because agreeing to settle by fight proves you're not scared to fight. It shows that even if another person can beat you, they're going to have to work at it, and risk damage in the process. Loosing a fight is much better for a
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by sopooneo 11y ago
I am very ignorant about all this stuff. But am I correct that until recently, the Chinese government was actively devaluating the yaun to support their export industries? But now they've had to do an about-face and start trying to p
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by sopooneo 11y ago
To your point, the first step is to make them want to be convinced . For the irrational, changing beliefs is about many of the things we might consider heresy: appeals to authority, ad homonym attacks, etc. But much more often, I have foun
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by sopooneo 11y ago
Then when does the mass suicide occur? At time n*0 after the pronouncement by the visitor?
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by sopooneo 11y ago
Relatedly, what about the idea that people move to their own personal risk tolerance, which may not be aligned with the company's? For instance, I might figure that a shortcut to get my component completed will have a 1% risk of destro

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