hschenker

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by hschenker 16y ago
Quitting the internet? How is that any less ridiculous than someone in the 1980s saying he's going to quit using the phone and reading the newspaper because he feels addicted to calling his friends and checking sports scores - and asking hi
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by hschenker 17y ago
I don't use Twitter myself (either to follow anyone or to post my own stories), but I work for a large tech company, and I fundamentally disagree with the article's first assertion: > Tweets have no value For my organization, tweets do
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by hschenker 17y ago
It could be that my estimation of other people's elbow angles are incorrect. When I place my hand above the numeric keypad, my elbow angle is about 100 degrees. When I move it about 10 inches to the right, it increases to about 120 degrees.
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by hschenker 17y ago
> I'm now trying to retrain my hands to keep the mouse closer. I find that I naturally end up keeping the mouse in about the same place as always, far to the right of the keyboard. Ha ha. Irony of ironies. Keeping your hand farther away
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by hschenker 17y ago
Very good point. I was about to jump into the prescriptivist-bashing fray - in fact, I upvoted subwindow's comment, and I can't take it back, since I don't have enough karma - until I took a look at the heading of the "article" and realized
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by hschenker 17y ago
Very good point - in the dinner examples, if the parties involved agree with the proposal, everyone involved "wins" in some form or another: The person paying builds up "you'll owe me later" points; the rest of the table saves money, at lea
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by hschenker 17y ago
The "ridiculous reason" scheme works, and Cialdini would probably agree, because people are always looking for the easiest route to a decision. If there's a situation in which they can legitimately turn their brain off because they can defe
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by hschenker 17y ago
I wonder if the researchers know about Dasher and have considered combining the two interfaces to make text entry even faster? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher Or is the issue that people with "locked-in" syndrome often can't even move
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by hschenker 17y ago
30 to 40 minutes a day, 7 days a week. 4 days a week: cardio. 3 days a week: weights. For cardio, it's most often the stationary bike in my condo gym. I pedal as fast as I can get to 1,000 calories (about 32 minutes). I sometimes go for a 1
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by hschenker 17y ago
A biz dev guy from Wolfram gave me a walkthrough recently (no NDA required, which was nice) - he had a big text list of queries that he ran through it, and although I didn't try to stump him with my own suggestions, the results returned see
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by hschenker 18y ago
After coming back to the light background of the Hacker News web site, I have a mutation of my eye sockets. I know this is completely irrelevant to the linked article, but using white text on a dark background is such a significant violatio
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by hschenker 18y ago
Strong candidate for worst infographic ever. Can't imagine how a simple text list wouldn't be better in almost every way, except in terms of providing a graphic designer several hours of work. Even the reasoning for the map device itself is
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by hschenker 18y ago
Satire's usually more effective when it's not immediately obvious, as in this BMJ article: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/329/7480/1447?ehom
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by hschenker 18y ago
> Onko joskus tullut eteen tilanne, jossa olisit halunnut siirtää osan ikkunasta toiseen paikkaan? Homma ei onnistu ilman oheista Basic-laajennusta. Se lisää QL:n käskysvalikoimaan GMOVE-käskyn, jolla voi siirtää grafiikkaa esimerkiksi
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by hschenker 18y ago
I used to use Basecamp as part of an eight-member team for web projects. After a few weeks, it had so many rabbit holes of data in it (each one created by different users who created different organization systems) that I stopped using it b
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by hschenker 18y ago
I do my work in the "interstices of [my] mind-wandering." That quote (see http://tinyurl.com/454tao ) is going to stick with me for a while.
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by hschenker 18y ago
What happened to consistency? You people disappoint me. I clicked on this comment thread expecting disdainful sneers, not cautious optimism.
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by hschenker 18y ago
Upvoted for the obviously intentional meta-irony.
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by hschenker 18y ago
"The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR," by Al and Laura Ries.
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by hschenker 18y ago
"Influence," by Robert Cialdini - although it's not necessarily packaged as a marketing book.
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by hschenker 19y ago
IE 6 gets my vote because of the three browsers (IE6, IE7, FF2) that are most popular on the site I work on and therefore have to have installed, it allows for the smallest amount of browser chrome.
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by hschenker 19y ago
Hi, is this the line for bitching about all stuff related to 37signals? If so, my complaint goes back a couple of years - when someone on my team suggested using Basecamp for managing our web site projects. Without too much thought, we sign