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by sturgill 9y ago
What's wrong with waterfall? I've got a buddy who works at Lockheed on the f22 and a brother who's a pilot in the Air Force. I prefer certain systems be completely spec'd out before a single line of code is written. Movi
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by sturgill 9y ago
The great part about this process is that, in my opinion, it highlights the importance of pragmatism. Google, as multi-billion dollar ad company, is understandably (and I would say, correctly) risk adverse when it comes to changes to its br
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by sturgill 9y ago
I once sat through a presentation by a county medical examiner. Flipping through his slides, he made a remark that has stuck with me 20 years later: "this man died of what we in the industry call 'acute lead poisoning.'"
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by sturgill 9y ago
I don't actually travel much, and have never used Booking.com. So no dog in this fight. But your question is pretty much my point: if people aren't going to use some other service, it's a lot harder to quantify long-term nega
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by sturgill 9y ago
Hi/Lo pricing is great that way. Harbor Freight always sends 20% off coupons. It's a wonderful technique for running price discrimination. The frequency of running offers, and which offers to run, are just business details that ca
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by sturgill 9y ago
"Frankly, I don’t think I am going to stop using Booking.com. I am not aware of any other service with a comparable number of properties and reviews." It's hard to quantify negative impact of future dealings, but it's ev
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by sturgill 9y ago
As a single example that immediately came to mind: WWDC. If that isn't a massive marketing channel directly targeted at developers I don't know what is.
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by sturgill 9y ago
I think Apple's paid marketing efforts are a counter example to your argument. Ineffective advertising is ineffective. As a tautology this statement is pretty unremarkable. I first found out about ipinfo from a Google search looking to
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by sturgill 10y ago
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by sturgill 10y ago
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Building a Bandit: Part 1(datums.io)
1 points by sturgill 10y ago|0 comments
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An Experiment with Bandits(datums.io)
4 points by sturgill 10y ago|0 comments
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by sturgill 10y ago
We agree that actively reducing voting stations in ways that disproportionately impact the poor is problematic. But it's hard for me to believe that voter ID laws inherently target the poor more so than ID laws governing the sale of al
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by sturgill 10y ago
Bold claim. I'd love to read the source material.
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by sturgill 10y ago
Reading the link you provided (and admittedly not doing any other research on the subject while on the company's time), this struck me as relevant: > Controlling for other factors, they can only confidently show strong negative corr
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by sturgill 10y ago
I'll copy the points of interest from the original post verbatim and reply in kind. > I always hear about the mythical intelligent religious person but somehow, they remain elusive. I offered myself as a simple example. I'm nei
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by sturgill 10y ago
I'm a very religious guy and consider myself reasonably intelligent. As I get older and learn more, I find my faith in God also increasing. Godel was much smarter than me and appears to have believed in some divine being. Kant was also
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by sturgill 10y ago
I'm struggling with understanding your position. It's okay for your cousins (or whomever) to be sympathetic to political leaders as long as they don't act on those sympathies? If I believe that Trump is the lesser of two evil
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by sturgill 10y ago
Hard to argue they are not decreasing competition and not being anti-competitive when the TOS you quote specifically disallows competition. They literally prevent people from creating apps that compete with their own system apps. Again, at
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by sturgill 10y ago
In the mobile space? They own the mobile space. Which is why everything is labeled an "iPhone killer." No one labels a new product as an "Android killer." This is still their market to lose.
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by sturgill 10y ago
Do you feel the same way about Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer and trying to crush all competition in the browser market? Or do you only feel this way because it's Apple's sandbox? At least with Microsoft you _could_ install
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by sturgill 10y ago
Real wages didn't get higher when they got kicked out of the basement. The difference is they had to do something in order to feed themselves. I think a 20 y/o who lives with their parents so they can play video games is a sloth.
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by sturgill 10y ago
I had two thoughts as I read this: - Lots of talk about how the happiness of this group of people was higher, but no numbers on the happiness of their parents. I have three kids. I love them immensely. I don't want them living with me
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by sturgill 10y ago
Noise canceling headphones combined with low key music have greatly increased my happiness and productivity. I've got the big Bose ones that are very obviously anti-social.
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by sturgill 10y ago
I don't believe classic ELB supports websockets[1] making this a tenuous comparison. There might be workarounds that I'm not aware of (our production network isn't currently on AWS so I'm a couple of years behind in my d
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by sturgill 10y ago
This sentence sums up one of my main reasons for appreciating AWS: The hourly rate for the use of an Application Load Balancer is 10% lower than the cost of a Classic Load Balancer. They frequently introduce new features while cutting costs
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by sturgill 10y ago
I don't believe that's what I implied. I was pointing out the discrepancy in the parent's argument that an increase in lobbying spending should correlate with a decrease in introductions of these types of bills. If these type
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by sturgill 10y ago
A great way to increase an industry's lobbying efforts is to introduce bills like this that require a coordinated response.
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by sturgill 11y ago
I run the analytics department at Daily Burn and we were joking today about making shirts with this slogan on it. Unbiased insight is hard enough to get in a business setting. There is a latent tendency to prove one's preconceptions. A
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Firearms vs. Intentional Homicide(guns-vs-homicide.github.io)
69 points by sturgill 11y ago|34 comments

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