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by caster_cp 2y ago
Fundamental attribution error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
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by caster_cp 4y ago
This is beautiful. Douglas Hofstadter would be proud. 1337 at the end got me.
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by caster_cp 5y ago
Sounds very interesting! However, I am very curious on whether this works for simple workarounds such as taking a screenshot of the picture or reducing image quality. Since the original and the altered images are visually identical to the h
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by caster_cp 12y ago
Tanenbaum said that Torvalds would not get a good grade on his course, epic. "I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high
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by caster_cp 12y ago
Peter Thiel's advice about monopoly is hugely similar to the point Porter makes in his first book, Competitive Strategy. On the first chapter of his book, Porter clearly states that a business located in an industry with strong competi
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by caster_cp 12y ago
I would LOVE if Sparkfun did some kind of a deal with Radioshack. I mean, SFun is what RadioShack should be right now, and they definitely could use some physical presence... ah, dreams... going through an online catalog of hobbyist stuff i
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by caster_cp 12y ago
As I said, I don't have the specifics so I can't judge the Macworld case. Assuming it was an unexpected layoff right after a very demanding day of work, I can see some wrong things there. First, you should inform people as soon as
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by caster_cp 12y ago
While I see your point, I cannot agree with you. Business is not separated from the people that form it. Yes, good businesses are profitable. Yes, if it weren't for the profits, there should be no businesses. But from my point of view,
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The History and Evolution of the Wristwatch (2004)(qualitytyme.net)
1 points by caster_cp 12y ago|0 comments
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by caster_cp 12y ago
It is really cool to see how history repeats itself in such a predictable fashion. According to the International Watch Magazine, at first wristwatches were seen as a passing fad, with some men even saying that "they would sooner wear
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by caster_cp 12y ago
From the Internet.org website itself, comes a very timely affirmation: "The future of the world economy is a knowledge economy - the Internet, its backbone". Should this backbone be on the hands of, or at least controlled by, one
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by caster_cp 12y ago
I really, really thought that the article contained practical tips for excel, the MS Office Excel
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by caster_cp 12y ago
This is genius. Really. In my mind you've just "jiu jitsued" the candy bars, by applying the same mechanisms they use to keep you hooked, but against them. By creating habits that are prone to compulsive behavior (the phenome
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by caster_cp 12y ago
Very good review, though I would only argue on one point. The author says it's unfortunate that Amazon heavily promoted the phone's most "out-there" features, while it really excels on usability and friendliness to the u
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by caster_cp 12y ago
I know this may end up seeming a pretty useless comment, but I cannot miss the opportunity of recommending a VERY good book about this subject, by the guy who coined the term net neutrality: http://www.amazon.com/The-Master-
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by caster_cp 12y ago
It's available since July 8th 2014 in Amazon... I see what you did there with your marketing ingeniousness, Mr. WSJ || Bill Gates. The problem is that I'm easy, all too easy, and I fall for these ploys. And now I'm biting mys
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by caster_cp 12y ago
The only way out of this, as I see it, is making privacy the default. But this require some cooperation and motivation from the big guys at silicon valley. Imagine if Chrome, Firefox, Safari, all of them had, just like the incognito mode, t
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by caster_cp 12y ago
Has no one read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"? I think all this conversation would be greatly enlightened if we start thinking on the opposite way: when AI is so advanced, how can we tell human and machine "behavior&q
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by caster_cp 12y ago
I think the point here is not "knowing how to use memristors". Sure, it is possible to use them simply as another type of non-volatile memory. But it's the same as having an airplane and driving it on the road. Memristors, th
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by caster_cp 12y ago
One factor that has to be taken into account is the "social" one, i.e. how can we enforce that the ultra-fast amazingly optimal sitting scheme will be used. Let's conduct a thought experiment. My grandma (that has difficulty
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Can design save Silicon Valley?(blogs.hbr.org)
2 points by caster_cp 13y ago|0 comments
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by caster_cp 13y ago
Dictating the text is an extraordinary advice! I (still) didn't manage to build a decent blog, but I do write a lot. When I started to think about the text as if I were simply going through what I wanted to speak with someone, it was l
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by caster_cp 13y ago
>almost every time i see a criticism of git it's about the way you use it not the tool itself. In my point of view, you cannot separate "the way you use the tool" with the "tool itself". A hammmer is easy and str
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by caster_cp 13y ago
Loved the story! Mostly because I lived this stuff, and I'm 25 years old :p. In my Electronic Engineering graduation we had three professors crazy about assembly and slow PCs (in fact, FPGAs and microcontrollers). I remember the nights
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by caster_cp 13y ago
I'm an electrical engineer and the first project I worked in my professional life was a Power Quality Meter, used by the power company at my city, in Brazil. In our specific case, DST was pretty good at shifting the two main power dema
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by caster_cp 13y ago
And there's the Google stock (a company which, last time I checked, made most part of its revenue through ads) sky rocketing to prove once and for all that ads are a thing of the past... I see this more as a crisis of the "old&quo
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by caster_cp 13y ago
In my experience, cynical bad students are usually douche bags that think they are too good for the world and that university is just a bunch of crap. A small ammount of them is really intelligent. The most part of it are people who think t
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by caster_cp 13y ago
The article makes good points about the (over)use of black in UI designs, but uses just one example to show how saturated color can be used in shadows, therefore concluding that black isn't that necessary at all. Wayne Thiebaud really
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by caster_cp 13y ago
And before Excel, the pencil was the root of all miscalculation evil. Damn you, pencils!
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by caster_cp 14y ago
"The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance

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