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by stoney 16y ago
I think the uses of "sloth" and "lazy" here are quite importantly different. The idea of working smart by being lazy, really means (at least to me) coming up with a better solution than the obvious hard work, time consuming approach, then
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by stoney 16y ago
But the doubling every year claim really only makes sense over a short period of history too. Starting from the article's 27 exabytes every 7 days in 2010, tracing back in time (halving each year), you get down to about 1 byte of informat
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by stoney 16y ago
Maybe I'm not thinking hard enough, but it seems like a fairly straightforward question to me. Once you define what you mean by "ship" (which probably also requires defining who is answering/asking the question) then you'll have your answe
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by stoney 16y ago
It's an interesting supply and demand question. If everyone suddenly started valuing "passion" more and "money" less, then as you said, given the current pay scales then maybe lots of accountants would switch to being rockstars. But as wel
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by stoney 16y ago
As long as by "follow your passion" you don't mean "follow your passion to the exclusion of everything else", then it seems very possible. It seems unlikely that someone will have a passion for emptying my bins, but that's not to say that
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by stoney 16y ago
But when I close a program, most of the time I want it to go away and go away quickly. If the program hangs for a few seconds while it saves data that I've already told it I don't want on the off chance that I decide I really do want to re
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by stoney 16y ago
I don't really know for sure, but I'd guess that in the UK salaries are a fair bit lower than rdl suggested. And actually the categories aren't looking so bad now - the 100-250 has twice as many people as 75-100, I'd bet 100-150 has a lot o
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by stoney 16y ago
I wonder what percentage of responses come from the US?
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by stoney 16y ago
But don't forget the many millions of business critical spreadsheets powered by VBA...
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by stoney 16y ago
I'd say it's a bit early to call Windows irrelevant - certainly one look at Microsoft's bottom line would suggest that Windows is still very relevant. In some ways, yes, the choice of operating system is now largely irrelevant - if you main
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by stoney 16y ago
I find that one of the most enjoyable procrastination activities is to plan out the thing that I'm supposed to be doing. I have something I know I should do, but I can't make myself do it. So instead, I sit down and break down the big tas
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by stoney 16y ago
Nice idea, unfortunately I don't have an iOS device. Would love to see a longer write up of this - maybe one article about your manual data collection + analysis + insights (if that's not too personal for you!) and another article about how
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by stoney 16y ago
I agree, when I search for "fabric" I want to see the same results (more or less) on whichever computer I'm on - logged in to Google or not. If I want information on the fabric python library I just search for "python fabric" - works on Duc
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by stoney 16y ago
Great explanation, thanks! It's that miracle of compound interest turning up again.
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by stoney 16y ago
Is there a simple explanation for non-economics types like me of why the linear graph is misleading and the log one is not?
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by stoney 16y ago
Yes, living in a mostly unaffected area I find it a bit hard to connect to the scale of the event, even though it's happening on my doorstep. I can see some damage from where I am (like the river walk), but these pictures were actually ver
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by stoney 16y ago
Well the political hierarchy is something like: - Campbell Newman, Lord Mayor of Brisbane - Anna Bligh, Premier of Queensland - Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia I think it's pretty unlikely that you could pin the blame on any of t
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by stoney 16y ago
The last flood in 1974 reached higher levels in Brisbane, but I haven't seen anything explaining to what extent (if any) the flood levels were lower this time because of the dam? Would it have been even worse without the dam? At the very l
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by stoney 16y ago
Further north there were reports of crocodiles swimming into people's homes. But not in Brisbane.
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by stoney 16y ago
My bank in Australia, Commonwealth Bank, recently refurbished my local branch as a "flagship" branch, lots of TV advertising about how awesome the new experience is, etc. I thought nothing of it until the other day when I had to go to the
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by stoney 16y ago
I'm not sure how fair the cost comparison is. At the time, pretty much anything would have cost less in Spain - Britain was very expensive due to the high pound. A bit different now though.
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by stoney 16y ago
I agree that T5 is pretty decent. The queues are short and there's lots of seating. Access by car is pretty decent if you're on that side of London (which most of the country is). Pretty much all I care about. I generally try to avoid He
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by stoney 16y ago
For me it's a grey area. For a small specialist shop where I receive useful advice? I'd almost definitely pay the higher price in return for the service offered by the shop. For a bookstore where all I did was wander around on my own occ
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by stoney 16y ago
In some ways, going to a bookstore for me is like going to a museum. I'll wander through the sections, stop to look at things that look interesting on my way around. Mostly I'll walk back out when I'm bored, but knowing a little bit more
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by stoney 16y ago
Is there a good resource that explains the DL's approach to achieving this in a more practical way? "Train your mind not to worry" is great advice but not easy to apply without more specific guidance. He hints that his approach is called
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by stoney 16y ago
I gave up on contacts - didn't like the idea of jabbing my fingers in my eyes every day for the rest of my life. I wear glasses all day every day, no problem. Thinking about getting them lasered.
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by stoney 16y ago
I think it depends what's being posted. Facebook does it both ways - in a message thread it shows new stuff at the bottom, on the news feed it shows new stuff at the top. I think the key difference is where you have stuff that should be r
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by stoney 16y ago
> Sure, if I fired all the employees every few years I'd stay away from process too. I think I'd do the opposite - if employee churn was high I'd want to be damn sure that well documented processes were in place so replacements could g
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by stoney 16y ago
That poll's about a year and a half old - I wonder if it's changed much since then?
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by stoney 16y ago
Unless you're away from your usual location for a couple of weeks, in which case this type of remote hosting is pretty darn useful (unless your primary computer is your smartphone, but not everyone has one).

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