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iamflimflam1
5,752karma·1,549submissions·February 26, 2009
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I've got a YouTube channel - It's surprisingly successful and people find it interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/atomic14
You can email me: chris -at- cmgresearch.com
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> We show that exposure to algorithmically curated content led users to follow conservative activist accounts. In contrast, when the algorithmic feed was switched off, users continued to follow th…
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This made me spit out my coffee… > One of the virtues of OKRs is that they are straightforward for managers to apply.
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Not that much different from humans. We have pre-commit hooks to prevent people doing the wrong thing. We have all sorts of guardrails to help people. And the “modern” approach when someone does somet…
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The gartner hype cycle is still as relevant now as it was during the dot com boom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle At the moment we’re at the peak of inflated ex…
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This is a classic play book by anyone who is anti regulation. Present it as something that appears to be ludicrous - eg “they are banning infinite scroll!” and rely on the fact that very few people wi…
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Sorry to be that guy who buzzes in - I might be missing something, but don't you just mouse over the green button?
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As one of my friends put it - driving in the US is like being in Whacky Races.
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I removed my app from the US App Store and all was good.
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15 years ago there were fewer content farms trying to get your clicks.
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Fun fact - Atari threatened to sue me for my “clone” of Battlezone. https://youtu.be/bf7Ert1wkg4
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Even more amazingly - that software I worked in is still being used and sold. Probably still has some of my ropey old code on it…
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I worked on some software that was used by telcos around that time - you were probably hacking our dongles :)
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There was also STAC for the Atari ST - absolutely loved it. Unfortunately my artistic skills were not up to making anything good. https://www.ifwiki.org/STAC …
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I would also point out that a lot of real world problems don’t need a complex architecture. They just need to follow some well established patterns. It is a pattern matching problem and that seems to …
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I think this is sadly going to be the case. I also used to get great pleasure from the banging head and then the sudden revelation. But that takes time. I was valuable when there was no other option. …
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Worst case - you could at some point rip out the brains and replace them. CNC machines are somewhat basic machines really.
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Creating PCBs is surprisingly straightforward and there are a ton of good resources available. It’s probably one of the few area of YouTube that is actually still useful. Probably a high enough barrie…
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Much of the western (at least in the UK/US) way of life is/was predicated on being able to have some trust in the government and officials. Politicians have always been seen as venal and cor…
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Why does one person become addicted to gambling while another can visit a casino, try it once and then just walk away?