peejaybee | 9 years ago | on: Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app
GMail was definitely best in class for web mail when it rolled out, and if something has taken its lead, I don't know what it is.
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peejaybee | 9 years ago | on: Demon Core: The Strange Death of Physicist Louis Slotin
I'm not sure I would go that far. Some considered Slotin's methods dangerous: 'Enrico Fermi himself had warned Slotin that he would be “dead within a year” if he continued'.
peejaybee | 9 years ago | on: Updating classic workplace sabotage techniques
It's easy to understand. Open plan offices have the advantage of being cheaper, and the disadvantage of harming productivity. The cost savings are immediately apparent and easily attributed. Productivity hits (or gains) come later, are harder to assign a utility to, and are harder to attribute.
peejaybee | 9 years ago | on: The cave divers who went back for their friends
I dunno, if you have been gestating a foal, you might be a little undernourished at the end of the process, so a placenta's worth of nutrients might then be "vital."
peejaybee | 10 years ago | on: Lead Water Pipes in 1900 Caused Higher Crime Rates in 1920?
"Third, a city-level analysis such as ours does not suffer from a common problem with individual-level studies, namely that individuals exposed to lead typically come from poor neighborhoods with both low-quality housing and high crime rates. Common confounders of the lead-crime relationship in individual-level studies pose less of a problem in our city-level study, where in most cases the entire city population was exposed to lead through water."
Paper's here: http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/jfeigenbaum/files/feigenbau...
peejaybee | 10 years ago | on: The Al-Qaeda Leader Who Wasn’t: The Shameful Ordeal of Abu Zubaydah
From the sound of it, "do nothing" would be no less effective, and a bit cheaper.
peejaybee | 10 years ago | on: Why Cities Aren’t Ready for the Driverless Car
Why do you need data for somewhere the car may never go? The car knows where it's going; it can get the data it needs when it needs it.
peejaybee | 10 years ago | on: How an Immigrant from Bangladesh Became America's Master Builder
Oh, man, the comments section on that article is a dog's breakfast.
peejaybee | 10 years ago | on: A small 2009 car demolishes a 1959 Chevy in a crash test [video]
I think that's a neat idea, but I personally would be nervous about smearing grease all over my tablet, or spilling fluids on it, or dropping it -- something that happens to almost every other tool at one point or another.
As a reference away from the garage, it would be cool, but I would still want something I would feel safe having by my side as I work on the car.
peejaybee | 10 years ago | on: A small 2009 car demolishes a 1959 Chevy in a crash test [video]
You might want to pick up the Chilton's or Haynes manual for your vehicle and start from there. Most of these manuals will have a section describing how you perform basic maintenance on the vehicle.
It's how I learned.
peejaybee | 10 years ago | on: The destruction of Alderaan was completely justified
That's the lovely thing about this piece. Often times when I read these thinkpieces, I know a bit about the author and his or her biases, and have to exercise some discipline to not let that color my opinion of the article too much.
I've never heard of Sonny Bunch, so in this case it is pretty easy.
peejaybee | 10 years ago | on: Lorentz forces and cheating at the Pinewood Derby
The latter won't matter if they do as my pack did, where each race had three heats and each car raced in all three lanes.
But yeah, get your wheels right and polish the heck out of your axles.
peejaybee | 10 years ago | on: “This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”
It takes only a small amount of induction to conclude that given the number of death row exonerations pre-execution, there almost certainly have been innocent persons executed.
If you hold out for conclusive proof, you will probably not find it, as it's a bit of a fool's errand to attempt to exonerate a dead man when you could devote that effort to exonerating one who the state has not yet committed manslaughter upon.
peejaybee | 10 years ago | on: “This mistake will become the thing you are best known for”
Yes, of course.
However, the primary evidence we have that Glossip ordered the killing is the testimony of the guy who actually did the deed, and who avoided a death sentence in exchange for that testimony. It's a little fishy.
peejaybee | 10 years ago | on: Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty New Boss
Not the founding team. Some guys who contributed 10-20 hours one time.
The guys who built the MVP.
peejaybee | 10 years ago | on: Our Team Won Startup Weekend and All We Got Was a Shitty New Boss
That grant would be bigger than anything any subsequent engineer would earn, and it's beyond dubious to think the contribution of this guy -- who's patting himself on the back for figuring out a CRM schema -- is worth more than the guy who stays for 4 years and actually helps brings the product to maturity and exit.
If I've learned anything since I got out of graduate school, it's this: what you're "worth," what you "deserve," are meaningless concepts. You get what you negotiate, no more and no less.
Someone who thinks that 40 beeps for the founding team is too much probably shouldn't invest in this startup. For me, if I thought that the company would be worth $100M in five years, the $1.6M the SW team would be getting would be the least of my concerns, well behind 'how do I get in on this?'
peejaybee | 10 years ago | on: 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School
It's almost like attempting to traumatize the kid and his peers for no good reason and for what?
That's pretty simple -- their "authority" depends on never, ever, admitting that they were wrong.
peejaybee | 10 years ago | on: The Hellburner Was the Renaissance Equivalent of a Tactical Nuclear Weapon
The old, grim joke was "a tactical nuke is one that explodes in Germany."
But yeah, small and designed to be delivered against enemy troop concentrations, as opposed to the larger strategic weapons that are designed to be used against enemy population centers and strategic weapons.
peejaybee | 10 years ago | on: Mini flash crash? Trading anomalies on manic Monday hit small investors
The technique is known as "running the stops." There's a description here: http://www.mypivots.com/dictionary/definition/121/running-th...
Basically, you don't know the stops are there; you make an educated guess.
peejaybee | 10 years ago | on: Who Hacked Ashley Madison?
The same "not sticking our noses into other people's relationships" was the root of the Family Values crowd in the 80's saying that domestic violence is a family issue, incest is a family issue, etc. Where do you draw the line at sticking your nose into other people's relationships?
How about we put the line somewhere between physical force and broken promises? Just an idea.
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