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Not sure how how legit it is, but I saw there was a follow up study where researchers couldn’t reproduce the deliberate practice finding to the degree the original researchers did:…

Been working on a web service to convert JS apps to PWAs and host them: https://www.superweb.app Hoping that it makes it easier for folks to create native-like apps, especially gam…

I really hope this site works out. Posted a few of my films: http://www.filmbreak.com/projects/framed-baby-photos http://www.filmbreak.com/projects/strange-human-custom http://www.…

Thanks for posting the Delayed Gratification link. Sounds like a great idea.

Can Apple do anything other than lose its shine? Is it possible for it to get shinier? I mean, it already has the world's highest market cap and is revered in a way the subsequent …

The argument isn't that success is due entirely to luck. It's that you'll never know how much of that success is due to luck. It may be a lot or it may be a little.

But then do people overestimate the impact of their own influence? Would it benefit themselves/the world to come to grips with randomness?

I'm surprised by how defensive people can get about their own success. It seems to me that you can never know if your success was due to your own hard work or some lucky breaks (or…

"It will likely be a good-looking, entertaining disaster..." If it's good-looking and entertaining, I don't see how it can also be a disaster. My impression is that the writer is u…

Anybody have an opinion on ctrlp vs LustyExplorer? http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1890

"...HDCP encryption, a newer part of the HDMI standard..." I don't think that's true. My understanding is that HDCP encryption has been around for as long as HDMI has been around. …

>Think of it as "Moneyball for movies" -- that is, what types of successful film productions does Hollywood tend to undervalue in favor of large, expensive (and tremendously risky)…

I'm interested in the rent vs. buy thing too, so here are some of my thoughts: >What if I hate the place and want to move away from it? Then a high demand for housing would play in…

I'm a guy who went to school for a BA in Film/Digital Media and a BS in Mechanical Engineering. I now work as a software engineer. It is my opinion that my BA in film to did not de…

I loved Black Swan for the same reasons. I also read "Hollywood Economics: How extreme uncertainty shapes the film industry," which reads like an applied version of the Black Swan …

Some context: this was a DeCal class which is run by students. From the DeCal website: "DeCal is a student-run democratic education program at the UC Berkeley - here, students crea…

It does seem unfair to have to respond to an inflammatory anecdotal op-ed with a reasoned non-anecdotal argument, but I think that's the burden of a good faith response. In that re…

The original WSJ article struck me as disingenuous, but this article seems to just go the ad hominem route.

Cuban makes the point that he only had to be "right" once and then goes on to express his annoyance with people who refer to him as lucky. But how does he know that he was "right" …

This comic rings mostly true for me, but I disagree a bit with the claim that information in 1984 was restricted; Good information was hard to find, but if I recall correctly, bad …