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901.
by tabtab 7y ago
Do you mean sell the cars to students? It's same problem: they will probably prefer very used cars from known brands over slightly used cars from an unknown brand.
902.
by tabtab 7y ago
They are probably more likely to merge than outright fail, barring a bigger-than-normal recession.
903.
by tabtab 7y ago
They look nice to me, but my wife always tells me my judgement on fashion is an outlier (said using less pleasant words).
904.
by tabtab 7y ago
They generally were jokes, some with images, some not. It seems every joke site at the time had at least one about Yugo's or Hyundai's. At least that's what I remember. This is roughly between 1995 and 2000. Some may have bee
905.
by tabtab 7y ago
You don't remember Rodney King "getaway car" jokes? Maybe that was regional.
906.
by tabtab 7y ago
If I walk into a tech-related meeting and see somebody slickly dressed, I immediately think either "marketing droid" or PHB (clueless buzzword-filled Dilbert boss). The person who really knows what's going on from a tech pers
907.
by tabtab 7y ago
There is no article there. Is there a Magic Button I'm missing, other than "subscribe"? It seems content is also fighting for its life. Here's a similarly-name article that's open-able, at least to me: https:&#x2
908.
by tabtab 7y ago
I thought this was going to be about Twitter Bootstrap's UI library, and was thinking, "Oh good, I can read about simple consistent rules so that it's not so organic and unpredictable anymore!" It was not to be. Back to
909.
by tabtab 7y ago
For some reason we can't "spread the load" of economic activity so that we are not all crammed into dots on the map. I suspect this is partially due to the specialization needed to globally compete. You have to hire lots of s
910.
by tabtab 7y ago
Most of the evidence is that wide-spread trade and art relatively suddenly "popped up" around 50k years ago.
911.
by tabtab 7y ago
He has one advantage that past failed attempts didn't: electric cars are relatively simple compared to combustion engine cars. But American consumers will want to see roughly 5 years of reliable quality reviews before they trust the br
912.
by tabtab 7y ago
It seems there was a tipping point in human evolution where trade and negotiation grew more beneficial to a given tribe (or group of tribes) than attempting to kill all your competition through war. You could get the best arrowhead stones w
913.
by tabtab 7y ago
An example product? Note that I was talking about two different things: a GUI markup standard (probably XML based), and an ASCII WYSIWYG GUI designer. I'll make the distinction clearer in an edit.
914.
by tabtab 7y ago
I've been kicking around the idea of a plain-text GUI to demonstrate what a "GUI Markup Standard" may work like. Making a graphics-enabled version is a lot work for a demo. VB-classic also had a text-based mouse-able GUI opti
915.
by tabtab 7y ago
It's fairly close to what I have in mind, but it's also mostly static, I believe. It would need enhancements to handle interaction and UI updates better. And I'm not sure about its cross-platform abilities, but I haven't
916.
by tabtab 7y ago
Re: "What's wrong with HTML?" It doesn't handle "state" well, and lacks common GUI idioms like menu bars, tool-bars, editable data grids, combo-boxes, model dialog boxes/windows, MDI, and others. Perhaps H
917.
by tabtab 7y ago
Humans suck. They are mostly social creatures who follow social instincts to gain social credit. Logic and efficiency play a back seat to those goals. If you pretend or hope they'll become like Vulcans, you will be repeatedly disappoin
918.
by tabtab 7y ago
What's really needed is a standard GUI markup language (SGML) and probably a dedicated browser, or at least a browser pluggin. Emulating desktop-like GUI's using JavaScript and DOM has proven clunky and unreliable, largely because
919.
by tabtab 7y ago
Re: "Apocalyptic claims about climate change from both sides are wrong." Indeed! Don't listen to pundits and politicians. They are generally blowhards, not experts. Even some experts make outlier predictions, and those who wa
920.
by tabtab 7y ago
I lot of the time it seems programmers are just avoiding using SQL to do query-centric processing (slicing and dicing lists). Aside from performance problems, another downside is that one reinvents query language idioms in each programming
921.
by tabtab 7y ago
Re: "My salary has never been well correlated with my productivity." I'm thinking more from the owner's perspective. If they hired a bunch of Lisp programmers, then they'd produce more software with fewer programmer
922.
by tabtab 7y ago
Re: "For example: YAGNI. "Your ain't gonna need it." It could be used to advocate for deferring a decision for which you don't have enough info..." Another rule of thumb is "know your domain". Re: &qu
923.
by tabtab 7y ago
Re: "Lisp isn't more productive just because..." Whether Lisp or functional programming is "more productive" in general or just in the hands of a few is a controversial topic. Example debates: https://wik
924.
by tabtab 7y ago
Yip, I've also encountered "architects" who obsess on certain things, and make a mess in the process, at least something that is a "mess" to the majority of coders. One is left with a dilemma of complain harder or l
925.
by tabtab 7y ago
There are several key "rules of thumb" to keep in mind, and they are often contradictory. Knowing how to weigh them well against each other takes experience in both the domain and IT in general. Another rule of thumb to add is &qu
926.
by tabtab 7y ago
I too admit I'd like to see a CliffsNotes summary of the trick he pulled off rather than read through a long story-esque narrative. Maybe I'll form "ADHDreadersClub.com" as a startup. I have at least 2 customers here.
927.
by tabtab 7y ago
But is it just protecting the organization, as one is typically paid to do, or is it an "irrational" decision? Science and math cannot tell you what the "correct" decision is without some reference goals, and the referen
928.
by tabtab 7y ago
They could be shipping stuff to jack up sales numbers in the short term. It could be an incentives program gone rogue.
929.
by tabtab 7y ago
Next article: "Build yore own grammar checker" :-)
930.
by tabtab 7y ago
What's the max G's a top drone can do? I'm pretty sure drones can do things manned jets cannot. I'm not saying they were drones, but not sure it can be ruled out yet.

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