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Interesting article! 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta tomorrow (noun): a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored.
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There's some impressive tech shown there, and what's even more impressive is how solo programmers created much of it. That is the coolest thing, IMO.
[edit] What? Marc doesn't make a biting, sarcastic comment? It's a rare Insider News response where that doesn't occur! (Sorry Kent!!!) [/edit]
Marc
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The company anonymized and aggregated data from more than 5.3 million messages, and figured out which qualities made an email most likely to prompt a response. The one from the CEO
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Those promising increased length get fewest replies?
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This study is junk science from start to finish, relying on logical fallacies for their conclusions.
It found that minor correlations exist between email length and response likelihood. With the same data and methodology, let's conclude:
1. Medium-length emails are more likely to produce responses because email receivers prefer to respond to medium-length emails.
2. Short and long emails are less likely to produce responses because email receivers prefer to ignore short and long emails.
3. Medium-length emails are more likely to produce responses because email senders are more likely to put important information into medium-length emails.
4. Short and long emails are less likely to produce responses because email senders prefer to put unimportant information into short and long emails.
5. Short emails are less likely to produce responses because email receivers like to read them on their phone while driving, and then die in a car crash before responding.
6. Long emails are less likely to produce responses because email senders prefer to send offensive content in long emails, causing the receiver to not respond and instead to run out to the parking lot and slash the sender's tires, delaying their inevitable death in an accident while reading a short email.
All of these conclusions are equally logically valid (and should be equally laughed at).
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Will CP pay me if I analyse all the posts and see ideal post length to get upvote. I have already done one such study. Ideal length of getting a tweet re-tweeted is less than 140.
This is useless study.
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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d@nish wrote: Will CP pay me
How about 10000 rep points?
This is useless payment.
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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No. Not that much. Just get me one of these[^].
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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A simple truth is:
When you absolutely want a response, don't send an email. Pick up the phone, and talk.
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I have performed my own scientific analysis of 5204443 posts in the Lounge. I used advanced artificial intelligence technologies[^] and found that a post has a 42.98% likelihood of getting upvoted if it contains the word "bacon".
Life is too shor
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You got my vote 
TTFN - Kent
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Mission accomplished!
Life is too shor
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Cat videos
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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If you work in the software industry, it’s likely that you have heard about the divide and conquer design paradigm, which basically consists of recursively splitting a problem into two or more sub-problems (divide), until these become simple enough to be solved directly (conquer). "Victorious warriors win first and then go to war"
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I don't see the difficulty in that problem.
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Sun Tzu on why the internet of pwned things can never be made secure.
Quote: Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.
Hostile armies may face each other for years, striving for the victory which is decided in a single day.
The elephanting morons guilty of writing the crapware running them are too fixated on time to market and having a new shiny to convince their vulture capital to fork over more money to worry about even lip service security.
And even even in the unlikely event that they did try to be secure, it only takes a single elephant up for the fortress to fall.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Developers can now use the service to manipulate and recognize image content "All I've got is a picture of you"
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In his memoir, Steve Wozniak offers this recommendation to inventors: “Work alone…Not on a committee. Not on a team.” "Two can be as bad as one."
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As long as the pair programmer / developer understand each other work
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The most effective "pair programming" scenarios I've ever been a part of haven't been two devs sitting together, but a dev and a Business Analyst sitting together.
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I prefer peaches and apples to pears.
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Google Deepmind has developed an algorithm that is able to resolve a notoriously knotty “100-hat riddle.” But did it get the job?
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Quote: The riddle requires such high levels of lateral thinking and problem solving
that my 8 year old solved it in less than 5 minutes?
The only intelligence in that riddle is to see that the meaning of blue and red must be changed for the first prisoner to indicate the oddness of one of the colors...From that this is a mechanical problem that no 'Deep mind' need to solve it...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kids are better than adults in some logical games
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It’s problematic that, a decade after the last DNS flaw that took a decade to fix, we have another one. The only secure system is a dead one (maybe)
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