artumi-richard
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Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
Back in 2006 I read that people don't understand the intended tone in emails. I'm assuming it applies to most text based communication, and is one of the reasons I have devalued email and comments.
The key quote:
"According to recent research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, I've only a 50-50 chance of ascertaining the tone of any e-mail message. The study also shows that people think they've correctly interpreted the tone of e-mails they receive 90 percent of the time."
I think this means we overlay what we think the intended tone was meant to be on top of the email, and usually it's more to do with us than the content of the email, and I suspect in Coraline's case it was uniformly negative due to unrecognised prejudice. I would suggest that in the corporate setting, if you've not got a relationship with the author of code you shouldn't be able to feedback initially as text, but instead either in person or on the phone. In that way you get the relationship between reporter and coder off to a good start, and follow up text communications will have a better chance of working.
I would actually go so far as to say no-one in a corporate setting should be communicating with each other as text without a phone call or a meeting to introduce each other.
Here's the article that's stuck with me so long:
https://www.wired.com/2006/02/the-secret-cause-of-flame-wars...
Comment · 9 years ago
I would have thought a single multi-column index would have been more appropriate. Did you consider these? They have been in PostgreSQL since 9.2
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/indexes-multicolu...
Comment · 9 years ago
That reference about DHL being German doesn't sit nicely with me. Germany is much more socialist than the USA.
Comment · 9 years ago
To emphasise this point, he believes that consciousness is provided by a non-physical unmeasurable substance that has some kind of complex structure, in order to contain the complex consciousness. Could you build a human molecule by molecule to match another that was naturally born, then it wouldn't be conscious as you wouldn't have the means to build a consciousness to go with it.
Once I'd got this far with the book, I put it down.
Comment · 9 years ago
There has to be a ceiling to how much demand can be induced.
Comment · 10 years ago
There are 2 Aldi's near me here in the UK. One in a wealthier area and one in a poorer area. They do seem to alter the store somewhat to match what they sell. The Aldi in the wealthier area has a larger area for fresh foods and a large stock of those foods. I think the poorer one has more biscuits and soft drinks.
Comment · 10 years ago
I think the two labels are "absolute poverty" and "relative poverty"
Comment · 10 years ago
What fun:
I have recently been reading The Hobbit with my 6 year old son Benjamin stop he has become engrossed in the book somewhat and then just hearing about the Adventures of Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf as well of course as mine growing are a diary Norrie tilly tilly Bailey and wailing not forgetting the king Under the Mountain himself starring oakenshield Gollum Gollum
Comment · 11 years ago
I just today listened to the BBC Bottom Line Special [1] on this, and their guests, one who used to run Jaguar, and an expert on VW, don't buy it. Their argument is that the engineers in VW could have done a proper job, but the technology would add another $500 to each vehicle, and VW must have been looking for a way not to spend the $500. And all the other VW engineers would ask "How did you do it?".
[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06jt518 9mins 15 onward
Comment · 11 years ago
One thing I've noticed since using an e-reader that I've not heard anyone else mention, is that I've become far less happy with the quality of print and the quality of the paper in the physical books I'm buying. I once read a book [1] that had unusually high quality paper which made it noticeably denser and the pages had more flex in them, which made one handed reading a doddle. It wasn't flawless, as the print would smudge if I rubbed my slightly moist fingers against it.
Still, every time I go to a book now I'm usually thinking "the type is too large" or "that font is awful" or "the paper is too thick".
I think it's time the industry had another look at how paperbacks in particular should look and feel, given the influence of the e-reader.
1: http://www.amazon.com/Unreliable-Sources-20th-Century-Report...
Comment · 11 years ago
I used one in the Arts Tower of Sheffield University where I studied. It was fun, but felt slow. There were also 2 (3?) conventional elevators that seemed like the best bet when doing more than 5 floors.
It's still functional.
Comment · 11 years ago
I think you can generalise one more step up. Markets that look horribly inefficient may well not be.
Comment · 11 years ago
Does anyone know of a conference that takes a wider view of the job of programming? It has always felt to me like the focus is all about our tools, because tools can look cool, but I'm interested in the process of starting with a messy list of requirements and getting to a completed project in the most successful way, which is often the real challenge in my work.
Comment · 11 years ago
Open access science books
1) I prefer text too and ongoing communication requires lots of this. 2) You should be able to call people over simple things. 3) You should have a work environment where calls are OK. I've solved to many problems with a phone in 10 minutes that others have spent a week playing email ping-pong with. 4) An initial conversation does have lasting effects, "First impressions count" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_impression_(psychology) 5) It's not about making people like you, it's about reducing misunderstandings. If you've got open prejudice then this could help to address even that. 6) While you may not learn about someone from a call, especially if you struggle to understand the emotional content of a call, but that doesn't mean they don't understand something about you which eases future communications with that person. 7) Tone setting is really valuable for some people who struggle with focus.