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Wouldn't a lossy JPEG (or HEIC) compression reduce the entropy?

Something I read a while ago that stuck with me - ‘When you are looking for a new opportunity, you are really just looking for a person.’ This reframing totally changed how I look …

I think Tufte is great, and his ideas of reductionism should never go away. But, this is giving me MLA flashbacks all over again.

Resetting settings made a huge difference. Does not delete any data, only the settings across the phone

I have to disagree. However well intended, It sets up an unnecessary expectation, similar to your birthday. If you’ve ever gone through a birthday where nobody wished you, I don’t …

Have you read the book Traction yet? It provides a very usable growth framework. More importantly, It also allows you to start thinking of marketing as a testable iterative process…

Slightly OT: The biggest collective fiction today is probably this idea that as tech person, we can change the world, and as a result we should try to change the world. Anything le…

Selection bias is something worth avoiding in understanding health studies. It’s quite likely that you know about these folks because they had the right genetics to be healthy outl…

This comment made me realize why I never remember summaries of self help books. Using examples makes it easier to relate and remember, whereas summaries require an additional step …

I'll agree on the debt side. The grade issue is infinitely worse in a lot of competitive cultures. Even if you take the money factor away, Have non-US universities really figured o…

Even though this incident sounds more personal than idealistic, it keeps bringing back up the question of the purpose of universities. I am okay with universities being a medium of…

It doesn't hurt that Microsoft is able to hire the best engineering grads, pay them 100k, and convince them that writing documentation for .NET is a better deal than building some …

Why all the hate for "Big Data"? Other than that it is a shiny MBA term that cannot, god forbid be part of hacker terminology. Lets focus on the Enterprise tools sector, since this…

Three finger scrolling works on a mac (Lion). I think you can enable drag lock on snow leopard for the same effect. EDIT: The mouse does move off the view port during drag, so its …

I'm not sure I understand this correctly. After buying the app and then asking someone for a favor - now they need to plunk down for the app to view the favor? I'm not sure they ar…

I agree with MVP and your anecdotes - less bloat, all the better, but from a UI/UX perspective, let me give you a few examples of what usually gets thrown out in a mobile first des…

Good points, but I dont agree with this: >> 14. Design for mobile first (even if a mobile app is not in your roadmap). The constraints of a mobile context will force you to focus o…

Estimation becomes a lot easier a few weeks into any project. Once you have the framework and an overall story down, and you start getting your hands dirty with a few classes, the …

You would surprised to see how mind numbingly similar the middle class is across all the states in India. Or for that matter similar to middle classes across the world. Also - I do…

Yup. The 3 satellites will be used for primary communication along with an X-band transmitter on the rover itself to talk to earth. Edit: Link (communications): http://en.wikipedia…

Is it the angle of the photo - or did he just melt the pcb in Photo#4 in order to wipe out the A and figure out what chip it was?

The book is from 1996, but you are right, I did jump the gun there. It seems the 747 example itself has been around much longer than that - http://www.bpfh.net/sysadmin/never-under…