Request PG: Could we please have the black bar out for Steve Jobs?

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 06, 2011, 7:09 AM UTC

shinratdr wrote: post #74

cperciva wrote: post #72

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I expressed an honestly held opinion. It is possible that opinion was the result of painful arrogance. Those are not contradictory.

Typically people understand being brutally honest as providing a painful to hear but helpful or contributory opinion. When your opinion comes from nothing but arrogance, ignorance, and a 4chan style need to draw attention to yourself by being deliberately insensitive, then your opinion isn't brutally honest. It's worthless, and you should keep it to yourself.

Post by sid0 » Thu, Oct 06, 2011, 10:59 AM UTC

_delirium wrote: post #56

prodigal_erik wrote: post #49

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I was thinking it, but to my surprise I find myself disagreeing. I watch with growing dismay as crippled appliances and learned helplessness sweep the industry, but they are in fact what the market currently wants, and with long practice Jobs developed exceptional and laudable skill at not only identifying what the market wants but making a corporate behemoth deliver it in a very focused form.

That's an interesting agreement/disagreement. :) It seems what you're saying is that Jobs was very good at what he does, but what he does is inimical to hacker culture...

Post by crc » Thu, Oct 06, 2011, 12:26 PM UTC

cperciva wrote: post #72

shinratdr wrote: post #64

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You seem to think you are being brutally honest. You aren't, you're being painfully arrogant. There is a massive difference.

I expressed an honestly held opinion. It is possible that opinion was the result of painful arrogance. Those are not contradictory.

Post by cperciva » Thu, Oct 06, 2011, 5:10 PM UTC

Robin_Message wrote: post #82

cperciva wrote: post #71

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other than the fact that the account balance alerts only consider storage used, not traffic charges. Grr. I wish I had a good solution to this -- but it's impossible to predict when someone is going to be using lots of bandwidth, and alerting based on the current total spending rate had a very high false positive rate since bandwidth usage usually spikes for a single day and then goes down to a small fraction of the…

Any discussion of the technology of someone who is running a small business is certainly on-topic. So, what about using exponential smoothing or 95% peak estimation to get a better "current" spending rate? There is also the possibility to do some data mining on the actual usage (assuming you have collect that data and are willing to use it in aggregate to improve service) — i.e. customers who spend like you do and ha…

Post by diolpah » Fri, Oct 07, 2011, 12:49 AM UTC

cperciva wrote: post #87

Robin_Message wrote: post #82

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Any discussion of the technology of someone who is running a small business is certainly on-topic. So, what about using exponential smoothing or 95% peak estimation to get a better "current" spending rate? There is also the possibility to do some data mining on the actual usage (assuming you have collect that data and are willing to use it in aggregate to improve service) — i.e. customers who spend like you do and ha…

Exponential smoothing and peak estimation won't help with the fundamental problem, which is that warning based on storage costs alone produces the correct result -- in the sense that funds run out after exactly 7 days -- 90% of the time. Any non-trivial addition of bandwidth costs into the equation is going to hurt far more often than it helps.