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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
Humans don't have to do it well, only recognize when it's done well.
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
Do Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook compete effectively with their free alternatives? People use software for more reasons than price.
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
LOC correlates to complexity, and they reduced it by 1000x. Complexity kills progress. We made progress in physics when Maxwell's equations elegantly simplified enormously important phenomena. They're trying to find that simplific
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
It's good advice for most. I'm sure poker champions want their money invested similarly (instead of having their children attempt to grow their wealth by following their footsteps). But we shouldn't deny that investing is a s
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by throwawaymsft 10y ago
How about Berkshire Hathaway itself? http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-berkshire-hath... You can think he got lucky 50 years in a row (1/2^50, what're the odds? Does it invalidate the null hypothesis?)
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
It's standard operating procedure to cherry-pick a number that looks good. https://news.microsoft.com/2007/03/26/windows-vista-debuts-w... > Initial sales figures from Microsoft show its new operatin
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
It's the 90s all over again. Dell, hp, compaq destroying the experience for Windows users. Apple holding the line on what is acceptable. Let's see how it plays out...
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
Isn't it rational to use the strategy you know you will follow? Logic depends on a subjective choice of axioms, and an unstated one is "a plan that motivates permanent improvment is better than a temporary one".
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
It's not hard to believe user preferences can be different from the market share of pre installed applications (i.e., I.E.).
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
Off by "an (one) order of magnitude", i.e. off by 2 orders of magnitude.
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
Except make it so a student starves if they don't pass the class. Ask if they are in favor minimum grades then. The goal is to make the consequences of failure less severe.
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
The presence of a leader means there is a market, which is a good sign. > I would love to learn, I'd class it as a success if it paid for its own hosting and made me more than say $100 a month I think you know the answer you're
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
If someone believed in King Obama, would your surprise elevate or diminish your confidence in their general-purpose information gathering skills?
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
Would you want to work with someone who "is sure" of a trivially verifiable fact? It's ok to be ignorant ("I have no idea who owns what") but to be sure of something that pants-on-head false? What else are they &q
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
Originally I was going to say "democratic republic" but then it becomes a game of minutia. Not knowing that Amazon is controlled by a board of directors (elected by shareholders, the owners) is just like not realizing the presiden
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
What would you think of a government employee who didn't know the US was a democracy?
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
1. If you think a pc + keyboard + mouse is in any way a substitute then an Apple TV is not for you. 2. "Besides Netflix and YouTube I barely use it." What fraction of video minutes do those two represent? 3. The tvOS ecosystem is
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
Microsoft wrote down its entire purchase of aQuantive for 6B.
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
I'm sure there are some strategic advantages. But when a French-only mobile app languishes, the lesson isn't necessarily "don't make a mobile app". And it's not something you casually forget to mention in your
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
"If you want mass adoption, don't build apps with a max penetration of 1% of the global population" seems pretty obvious. Other variations: "If you want mass adoption, don't build apps only usable on Blackberry&quot
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
Sort of how teenagers occasionally destroy people's mailboxes today? There are risks to everything and we got over it.
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
At thrift stores they can barely give away mice and keyboards. Just checked craigslist, keyboards and mice were $5 each and a monitor was $20. So a few hours work at minimum wage and you have a computer.
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
Thank you, the comments look like something from the Onion. "Oh, I don't have any savings either, it's all tied up in my money market account, stock portfolio, house, car, and business." When someone reads "less tha
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
Agreed. Just FYI, you probably mean "ceding the small-fry market" (i.e. concede).
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
I do something similar trading volatility, using mean reversion/contango to make directional options plays. After a spike like Grexit volatility tends to return to its historical mean.
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
Yes, it's strange that people think stock market investing is purely a game of chance. The reasoning is typically "A winning strategy would be universally communicated, adopted, executed, and priced out." Which is a strange w
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
Our leaders have a poor understanding of technology. In the Washington Post there was a call for encryption with access for a "golden key". You know, so police, etc. can investigate if needed. They don't realize how that weak
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
Have you ever used uber? There's no tipping, no "credit card isn't working" bs, cars are generally nicer/have water, drivers more polite (because there are ratings)... I'd pay more to use an uber to be honest.
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
Then you ignore it and move on.
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by throwawaymsft 11y ago
Why should you care about the routines of anyone who achieved greatness? Even if you don't agree with the Pope's religion, you can admire his work ethic/drive/charisma/etc. to become the head of an organization with

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