Viewing profile — FilterJoe

While the HN crowd mostly gets this right when framed as a math puzzle, my guess is that confirmation bias is alive and well in high tech just like in any other field. One example:…

Out of curiosity I poked around on your site and did some test searches using words similar but not identical to some of your titles. I did this just on articles I thought people m…

With all the talk of water running out in CA and the world, I am wondering why desalination is not part of the conversation. According to Wikipedia: "Supplying all domestic water b…

I'm one of those people who has approached content creation strictly "as a service to your users, not as an exploit of your users." All of my blog posts are very carefully research…

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip A. Fisher is the best book I've read about the process of getting to intimately know one specific company. It was written long before t…

"not helpful" and "looks fake" are not the same. A review can be not helpful for many reasons, including: * one or more incorrect facts * goes on and on about one minor point while…

I wish Amazon had a "This looks fake" button above each review. I would click it multiple times per week. Most fake reviews are easy to spot. The simple test: Could this review hav…

The Great Suspender: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende... Combined with Session Buddy: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edac... Th…

Yes. Sandboxing makes sense when you think of browser as operating system. Isolate each process to increase security and crash-resistance. Makes sense, but it takes more memory.

The problem is using many open tabs with Chrome. If you use no more than 3 or 4 tabs, Chrome is generally fine. If you use more than that, Firefox has some built-in features to hel…

It's too bad that Barnes and Noble's ecosystem (free books, emailing books to your account, lending library, etc.) was and still is so inferior to Amazon's. Amazon has yet to produ…

Agreed that online reviews are broken. That's what drove me to co-found a company that takes a different approach to reviews, one which stresses category over individual products. …

http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com/ Doing the first 2 lessons will not only get your a vagrant powered VM up and running, it will also give you a good feel for normal use. And you…

Gross market cap lost during a CEO's reign is a poor measure of performance for a variety of reasons: * stock prices often get de-linked from the underlying value of the business (…

Safari was in need of an overhaul - Chrome, Atomic, and other browsers were so much better that I pretty much stopped using Safari. From what I saw in this review, the new Safari o…