>The media is the reason for this. I don't quite follow. It's not like there is some naturally occurring flow of newspapers, radio and television broadcasts that discuss with the correct, important issues in an…
The author said it himself, these errors were caused by humans, not excel. I don't think making excel "smart" enough to prevent people from making dumb mistakes is a good idea. In fact I think that would transform excel…
I prefer we not go back to any oversimplistic analogies. That's part of what makes these debates so insufferable. A nation's economy isn't a household budget. A company isn't a person. A nation isn't a person. I don't…
On one hand I think this comment makes a fair point that this isn't a very useful app. The app's creator himself admits that. He didn't expect it to be downloaded much. On the other hand, I think this comment and…
I'll meet you halfway. It's a terrible comment about a terrible article. I agree that it's laudable to try to invent an improved version of online ratings, but this article wasn't effective in convicing me that they've…
This statement makes no sense to me. "Being sexist" encompases an absolutely huge range of behaviors. It could mean something as small as making a dumb assumption about what type of aesthetic preferences someone has, to…
The claim is that if Apple had to pay the sorts of royalties on Samsung's (and others') technology patents that Apple is asking Samsung to pay on Apple's patent on curved lines, Apple phones would be so expensive that…
People are interested in sports as a demonstration of skill, not of raw physical prowess. That is why golf has it's own channel on TV and distance running is more or less completely absent from TV. There are some…
Software is not analogous because it has been developed from the very start with the knowledge that the bits would be easily copy-able, and has been designed accordingly. I remember being asked to type in phrases from a…
For the past couple years I've been using a multiple monitor taskbar tool called Actual Multiple Monitors (http://www.actualtools.com/multiplemonitors/) which I think is superior to the tools he recommends (at least it…
I disagree. This comment supports Dave's argument about as well as any comment I could imagine reading.
While I am as dubious as the rest of you about how likely we are to actually see this, I appreciated learning that adhesives are one of 3M's 46 core technology platforms. Does anyone know what the other 45 are?
I've read it twice in it's entirety, and his main point is that he believes we would be better off changing patent law to create an explicit category for software patents and have different rules for those patents,…
So, you knew your troll post would be downvoted, as evidenced by your prediction, and yet you still post it and complain about it when it happens? It's not just that your post contained no thought other than "Government…
Real names enabled facebook users to quickly realize the "real world" social network within facebook, rather than building an entirely new network. I don't know email addresses or commonly used online aliases for even…
Maybe I am misreading your argument, but it seems like you are saying the cause of the US deficit problem is that the faction that trades entitlements for votes has gained control of the system. If that were true, and…
That doesn't really explain why the groups with 100% women did so well, or why the groups that were 50/50 did worse than the groups of all men or all women. Maybe I'm trying to take more information from the chart than…
"my windows-using coworkers" would be a better fix.
As sick of paying a premium for antiquated goods as businesses may be, they aren't going to make a decision that has costs far in excess of it's benefits. The benefit of abandoning COBOL is greatly increased programmer…
A visit to the wikipedia entry on the National Association of Scholars may help you understand the author's perspective. The first half of this article makes a reasonably convincing case that Mr. Khan is a much worse…
"You can complain all you want about food manufacturers making tasty/addictive foods which are bad for you, but they were responding to the public's demand for "low fat" driven by bad science." I am arguing that they…
The surprise is genuine, and I didn't include any anecdotes in my post. The research I have seen indicates that high carbohydrate intake (particularly sugars) is more likely to make someone obese than high fat intake.…
Great question, I've often wondered about the same thing. I think it's probably a combination of factors, the most important being, in my view, culture. I suspect that other countries may have more homogeneous eating…
I'm always surprised at the theories people are willing to believe about obesity, particularly people on hn. It really sounds reasonable to so many of you that the cause of the obesity epidemic is people actually…
I wouldn't expect many creators to start understanding this point. To accept the reality that the demand for new (music / books / newspaper stories) just simply isn't high enough to support very many people making their…
>The media is the reason for this. I don't quite follow. It's not like there is some naturally occurring flow of newspapers, radio and television broadcasts that discuss with the correct, important issues in an…
The author said it himself, these errors were caused by humans, not excel. I don't think making excel "smart" enough to prevent people from making dumb mistakes is a good idea. In fact I think that would transform excel…
I prefer we not go back to any oversimplistic analogies. That's part of what makes these debates so insufferable. A nation's economy isn't a household budget. A company isn't a person. A nation isn't a person. I don't…
On one hand I think this comment makes a fair point that this isn't a very useful app. The app's creator himself admits that. He didn't expect it to be downloaded much. On the other hand, I think this comment and…
I'll meet you halfway. It's a terrible comment about a terrible article. I agree that it's laudable to try to invent an improved version of online ratings, but this article wasn't effective in convicing me that they've…
This statement makes no sense to me. "Being sexist" encompases an absolutely huge range of behaviors. It could mean something as small as making a dumb assumption about what type of aesthetic preferences someone has, to…
The claim is that if Apple had to pay the sorts of royalties on Samsung's (and others') technology patents that Apple is asking Samsung to pay on Apple's patent on curved lines, Apple phones would be so expensive that…
People are interested in sports as a demonstration of skill, not of raw physical prowess. That is why golf has it's own channel on TV and distance running is more or less completely absent from TV. There are some…
Software is not analogous because it has been developed from the very start with the knowledge that the bits would be easily copy-able, and has been designed accordingly. I remember being asked to type in phrases from a…
For the past couple years I've been using a multiple monitor taskbar tool called Actual Multiple Monitors (http://www.actualtools.com/multiplemonitors/) which I think is superior to the tools he recommends (at least it…
I disagree. This comment supports Dave's argument about as well as any comment I could imagine reading.
While I am as dubious as the rest of you about how likely we are to actually see this, I appreciated learning that adhesives are one of 3M's 46 core technology platforms. Does anyone know what the other 45 are?
I've read it twice in it's entirety, and his main point is that he believes we would be better off changing patent law to create an explicit category for software patents and have different rules for those patents,…
So, you knew your troll post would be downvoted, as evidenced by your prediction, and yet you still post it and complain about it when it happens? It's not just that your post contained no thought other than "Government…
Real names enabled facebook users to quickly realize the "real world" social network within facebook, rather than building an entirely new network. I don't know email addresses or commonly used online aliases for even…
Maybe I am misreading your argument, but it seems like you are saying the cause of the US deficit problem is that the faction that trades entitlements for votes has gained control of the system. If that were true, and…
That doesn't really explain why the groups with 100% women did so well, or why the groups that were 50/50 did worse than the groups of all men or all women. Maybe I'm trying to take more information from the chart than…
"my windows-using coworkers" would be a better fix.
As sick of paying a premium for antiquated goods as businesses may be, they aren't going to make a decision that has costs far in excess of it's benefits. The benefit of abandoning COBOL is greatly increased programmer…
A visit to the wikipedia entry on the National Association of Scholars may help you understand the author's perspective. The first half of this article makes a reasonably convincing case that Mr. Khan is a much worse…
"You can complain all you want about food manufacturers making tasty/addictive foods which are bad for you, but they were responding to the public's demand for "low fat" driven by bad science." I am arguing that they…
The surprise is genuine, and I didn't include any anecdotes in my post. The research I have seen indicates that high carbohydrate intake (particularly sugars) is more likely to make someone obese than high fat intake.…
Great question, I've often wondered about the same thing. I think it's probably a combination of factors, the most important being, in my view, culture. I suspect that other countries may have more homogeneous eating…
I'm always surprised at the theories people are willing to believe about obesity, particularly people on hn. It really sounds reasonable to so many of you that the cause of the obesity epidemic is people actually…
I wouldn't expect many creators to start understanding this point. To accept the reality that the demand for new (music / books / newspaper stories) just simply isn't high enough to support very many people making their…