Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
-Gloria Steinem
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
-Gloria Steinem
If Tetris has taught me anything it’s that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear.
-Unknown
I need to start signing letters to my mom “Cody Bryce, Ph.D”
It’s fascinating to read about people like http://earlyretirementextreme.com/ who choose frugality over work
When we roll our eyes at business school grads, it isn’t because we don’t believe in measuring anything. It’s the same eyeroll that the 10 O’Clock news gets when they report the newest study linking molasses and cancer, which has nothing to do with my lack of belief in studies about cancer.
Not having all the information you need is never a satisfactory excuse for not starting the analysis.
Draco is not only a girl, she was removed before being at Hogwarts 9 months, what with the baby almost here.
Why spend a dollar on a bookmark? … Why not use the dollar as a bookmark?
-Steven Spielberg
I just think it’s good to be confident. If I’m not on my team why should anybody else be?
-Robert Downey Jr.
“Because the dollar is dirty” is one of those pained, stretched explanations people come up with to explain why they do what they do, not the actual reason (even in some small part) the bookmark was invented and became popular.
I’m afraid I don’t know what that stands for.
And they ship the characters the fans want.
There is an important tradition of people using the former names of things for decades.
If posting things said on lesswrong or OB or from HPMOR aren’t in scope, it seems a little odd things said in HPMOR discussion on a forum run by you that doesn’t happen to be those two is.
They gave a respectful nod because they are smartasses.
“We’re even wrong about which mistakes we’re making.”
-Carl Winfeld
There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.
-Shel Silverstein
That’s ridiculous.
That only serves to shut down discussion. Not only are analysis based on only part of the work fundamentally valid, they are exceedingly popular at the moment, and they are being participated in by the author. Besides...as Akin’s 9th law of spacecraft design states, “Not having all the information you need is never a satisfactory excuse for not starting the analysis.”
Convincing people to offer others programming help on the internet isn’t a special accomplishment of SO. From usenet to modern mailing lists to forums to IRC, there are tons and tons of thriving venues for it. The gamification might have helped SO’s popularity some, but taking time out of their busy lives to answer others’ questions was alive and well.
SO is a dangerous trash heap. It doesn’t encourage helping people make good programs; it answers extremely literal questions. Speed of post is important. Style of post is important. Blatantly wrong answers are upvoted by people who don’t know what they’re looking at when they are early, indicating that vote count isn’t telling ever. Doing anything but answering a question completely literally is treated with extreme hostility. These sorts of things have gotten worse with time.
The community relations are bizarre. Active members of the community buy into cheap salesman lines by the owners that are meant to favor the owners. The idea that the community can direct itself is thrown around as if it wasn’t blatantly untrue.
Yes, an incredible people jump at the chance to help strangers. SO didn’t invent that, they’re just one of the more popular current hosts to these people. It’s distasteful to act like it started by wondering if such people exist.
H.L. Mencken