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by tjic 17y ago
The bit in the post where the woman deleted a swath of emails touched on that. Ouch!
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dup
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> You'd better never read David Foster Wallace, then Sure I have. I don't think much of his writing either.
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Quite interesting. I disagree with the conclusion (more on that in a moment), but (a) this is a great thing to investigate with the data; (b) as soon as I saw the time-series data, I immediately wanted to plot it on the 2-axis / 4-quadrant
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by tjic 17y ago
15 years ago, when I worked for one of the first ecommerce startups ( OpenMarket.com ), one of our founders was quoted in Fortune that the reason we didn't have any chairs in the conference rooms was that it "kept meetings short". In fact,
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One thing to note is that there's a ton of selection bias: noteworthy findings get published, non noteworthy ones do not. Therefore scientists will submit papers containing noteworthy findings. If you do 1,000 experiments in your lab, and
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Tell HN: the Milky Way has 16 smaller galaxies orbiting it(en.wikipedia.org)
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First sentence of the post: Fresh from being chastised for expressing my personal opinion, on my personal blog and other strictly personal venues, about matters that may, or may not, ever intersect the realm of the impersonal a.k.a. corpor
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Idiot politician gets causality backwards; film at 11.
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That was a stunning long post with which to deliver the message "don't bullshit people; live up to your commitments".
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> Trademarks in CamelCase are a judgment call. OK, I guess that I agree with Wikipedia on this one!
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This line of ESR's > As Linux grows, there will come a time when your raw talent is not enough. is the key bit. ...and I think it was proven true several years back, when Linus found it increasing hard to keep on top of dealing with the
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I don't give much of a rat's ass for StUdLy CapS and other typesetting affectations. Is 37{" S" / "s" }ignals populated with smart guys who have stuff I want to listen to? Absolutely! Do I care to contort myself to follow their affectations
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37 Signals profiled in Slate.com(slate.com)
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> The thing is here, no-one is incentivized to deliver. Amen. Incentives are everything, and if you look at most things without keeping that foremost in your mind, you'll see a hodgepodge of weird random effects ... but use that perspec
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> NYC government could have created a small crack-team of internal IT people who could build the system for less than a 5th of the current cost. So you're arguing that the NYC government is incompetent at running a project done by cont
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This is basically the approach we used when we named http://HeavyInk.com - right down to the script to check for available .com names! ... except we did it pre-launch, so we didn't have customers to query. All in all, I think that it's a
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My favorite crazy law is that in Massachusetts it is illegal to display an artificially created albino person. http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/272-33.htm
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by tjic 17y ago
> > I quit Google after hearing Steve Jobs Speak > Eh? Why? Reality Distortion Field.
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Attempt at a facetious / humorous semantic quibble: Is it still "fractional reserve" banking [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking ] when there's a zero in the denominator?
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Ah crap. I wish this was titled "another inane rant by RMS" - I could have saved myself clicking on it and reading more of Stallman's quibbling little can't-see-the-forest-for-trees micropscopic-focus my-way-or-the-highway intractability. T
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by tjic 17y ago
Come on. It was clearly a bit of meta-humor. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_and_Knaves
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Much as I dislike it, the fact is that any government can raise taxes (until they hit the point on the Laffer Curve where higher rates == lower revenue ... and it's far from clear that China is at that point). Thus, China's "bankrupcy" is n
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Removing a leg or two could also help one towards a weight loss goal.
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The lead sentence is Middle-class kids are taught from an early age that they should work hard and finish school. Yet 3 out of 10 students dropped out Anyone catch the logical and rhetorical flaw ? First, we talk about how MIDDLE class ki
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by tjic 17y ago
Since when does anyone owe you information about how they make their decisions? If I dump a girl after four dates, I may tell her exactly why ... or I may say "I just didn't feel that spark". It's nicer, and easier, than saying "the more
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by tjic 17y ago
Speaking as the owner of a small company, I think that the government has absolutely no basis for telling me that I'm not allowed to make one of the most important decisions for my company based on all the data I can get. If a quick google
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The vast majority of times that the customer "does everything right", but my website "refuses to let them check out", and/or gives them error messages that do not appear ANYWHERE IN THE SOURCE CODE ... they are elderly.
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"Monetize" != "create profit" "Monetize" == "create revenue". You can monetize a free service by charging $1 for it, suddenly start bringing in $1 mill/year ... and still be profit negative because you're spending $2 mill/year on engineerin
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rebuttal: "premature optimization is the root of all evil" -- Knuth Why bother making something scale before you know whether there is demand or profit?

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