dare0505
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Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Also, there were 18 mentions in the article about "success". Just 1 mention about "failure".
Survivorship bias at its best: https://xkcd.com/1827/
Comment · 7 years ago
There was a recent story on HackerNews about the New York Times, which cut off ad exchanges and still kept growing revenue.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18920079
I wonder if it's a similar thing about the supposed benefits companies thought they were going to get about limiting the customers "right" to repair their products.
On one hand, the benefit look "obvious", yet when you take into consideration the second-hand effects (like bad publicity, people getting frustrated by the inability to repair and getting a cheaper alternative) my guess is the costs were bigger than the benefits.
Comment · 7 years ago
What's interesting about Google is, they can have open source products that are hated a big % of devs (Angular) and something that doesn't have that problem (Tensorflow).
I wonder what's the underlying issue behind this disparity. Wonder if it the teams themselves behind those products...
Comment · 7 years ago
The way I read it:
A guy who made money by selling user data lobbied to pass a law that lets him get access to even more data to sell.
If you make money off something, you want more of that "something" :)
Comment · 7 years ago
Wow, does this mean that (in the near future) we'll be able to take that HUGE repository of WinForms apps and port them to the web? Would be exciting...
Comment · 7 years ago
This. When evaluating someone's claims, always take into consideration their background, career to evaluate for bias. This is the reason if, for eg, Spain plays against France in soccer finals, they won't put a world-class Spanish judge, however good he/she may be.
Comment · 7 years ago
It's amazing this still works in Chrome.
Open https://anttiviljami.github.io/browser-autofill-phishing/ , enter some auto-fill info, click "Submit" and monitor your "Network" tab requests. You'll find your browser leaked way more info than those 2 information...
Comment · 7 years ago
I had this issue with a developer once: We were at a hackaton, and I made a quick-and-dirty feature (we had less than 6 hours left). The other developer on our team got pissed because the code "sucked" and spend a full hour refactoring it...
While this is an extreme, I think every developer is a perfectionist in one area or another. This can be a disadvantage when you're working in highly unpredictable environments (read: business) and where a simple quick-and-dirty MVP will do the job.
So their tendency to be a perfectionist (in situations where this is NOT the optimal mindset) is my biggest struggle when working with developers.
Comment · 7 years ago
When other successful companies/people teach others how to be successful, I'm always reminded of:
Comment · 7 years ago
If you're interested in learning more, just type "cbt pain management" in Google there are plenty of similar evidence:
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318450.php
Some of these articles are more detailed than the first link I posted.
Comment · 7 years ago
On a similar note, Nassim Taleb says:
"Something central, very central, is missing in historical accounts of scientific and technological discovery. The discourse and controversies focus on the role of luck as opposed to teleological programs (from telos, “aim”), that is, ones that rely on pre-set direction from formal science.
The luck versus knowledge story is as follows. Ironically, we have vastly more evidence for results linked to luck than to those coming from the teleological, outside physics—even after discounting for the sensationalism. In some opaque and nonlinear fields, like medicine or engineering, the teleological exceptions are in the minority, such as a small number of designer drugs. This makes us live in the contradiction that we largely got here to where we are thanks to undirected chance, but we build research programs going forward based on direction and narratives. And, what is worse, we are fully conscious of the inconsistency."
What's interesting, according to Taleb, is that science has been hiding this fact, that progress mainly comes from trial & error & risk-taking, as opposed to well-defined theories and narratives.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rawnshah/2012/11/02/for-innovat...
Comment · 7 years ago
Seems the only viable free alternative to managing email from your own domain is Yandex. Zoho used to be my first choice up until 2018 when they disabled IMAP for their free plans.
With that being said, it's a refreshing article. Most articles on Steve Jobs focus on how visionary he was, how he was predicting everything etc. This one is stating that, he was a human after all, just like us, and that the future is notoriously hard to imagine and predict. Nassim Taleb would agree :)