bjitty

> The main difference between small and large companies was it simply took longer for people who got nothing done to be let go.

That is certainly true and one major facet to the problem.

Awesome thanks for quoting. I haven't seen that book but I'll look into it.

I can't remember where I first heard the analogy. I believe it was a poker pro on a podcast or training video. It was many years ago.

That's true also chess is a game where all variables are known, poker is not. So I agree they don't line up well in comparison. Again this was just an oversimplification that just because luck is a part of a game it doesn't mean that skill doesn't play a factor.

The most layman explanation of skill in poker I've heard is this.

Everyone agrees chess is a game of skill. If 2 players played 1,000 games of chess where the winner of each match wins $1. In the end the most skilled player would have the most money.

Take that same scenario except after every 10 matches the players flip a coin and the winner of the coin flip gets $10. Over the long stretch the more skilled player will still end up with the most money. However in the short term it's possible for the less skill player to be ahead because of a few lucky coin flips.

Over simplification I know. However I've used it to try to point out the relevance of skill and luck in poker to people who have no concept of it.

I have to agree. I've been using it a while and really like it as well. I agree with what others have said I wish it was open source. I haven't found anything that works as well as it does.

I use SpiderOak for all my cloud backups. I've been using BTSync to keep my cell phone photos backed up to my desktop and then that folder gets backed up to SpiderOak. So far it has been working well.

Awesome thanks for the link. I've seen this book / project a while back but completely forgot about it.

Thanks I appreciate it. Off to read it now.

Awesome, thanks for the links.

First impressions are good. Looks clean, I like auto complete. I also like the autocomplete for shortcuts (!).

I've set it as my home page (was already using ddg for my main search).

Is there a way to turn off the links at the bottom under the search? Set as homepage, etc? I keep mousing over them and the popups are distracting. I understand why they need to be there for new users.

Great work and thanks for what you do.

Thank you! I can't believe I missed it and didn't think to check for a white paper for this. Especially since that's what really cleared up bitcoin's proof of work blockchain to me.

I'm familiar with proof of work and how it works within a blockchain to secure blocks.

I keep hearing about prof of stake. I'm very interested in it, however I haven't found an explanation that clearly explains to me how it works. I've looked at the Wiki article and read a little about Peercoin. Do you know of any article, video or source that may help explain exactly how proof of stake works?

This didn't happen in the US. Although maybe the Dutch government has declared it property as well. I'm not sure.

I'm glad prettify source in the dev tools is finally in the build (It's been in beta for a while). It'll be a huge help working with JavaScript.

I completely agree. I emailed Amazon a while back because there was an add on item I really needed but could not buy. I understand they can't ship it free. That's fine, but like you said there was literally no way for me to purchase it and pay shipping. That's insane. They should make sure there's always a way for the customer to purchase something.

I also feel the SmartPost shipping is a broken promise. SmartPost almost always turns out to be 3 day shipping. 2 days from Amazon to the post office, then 1 day from post office to me.

I'm glad to see he's transferring to hover.com. I moved my domains there a little over a year ago and couldn't be happier. I didn't have issues with NS but had a lot of issues with Register.com doing shady things like this.

Hover.com is about first domain registrar I've used that didn't feel shady as far as milking every last dollar they could out of me. Trying to up sell, etc.

I agree if there was a button to click to jump to the next one it'd be less frustrating.

While it was pretty that was incredibly frustrating to read. I gave up after scrolling for a while.

Awesome that's great news thanks.

I recently started using the dev tools in FF daily in place of Chrome. One thing I really wish they had (and maybe they do but I can't find it) is a way to format JavaScript code. So much JavaScript is minimized these days so reading it is about impossible. Chrome has a {} button you can click to format the code. This would be extremely useful in FF.