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I hope the actual study wasn't as "tricky" as it was referenced in the article re: the Linda example

I'd imagine there's enough stuff Kahneman identified with biases that have held up and don't involve artificial questions like this designed to trick the respondents whose real world applicability seem questionable at best...

further, in the supplied example, I'd argue that the prior probability of Linda being a feminist (based on her being an activist/etc.) is probably higher than her not being a feminist so, in a sense the respondents got it right (i.e., in that population, I'd argue there are more women who are bank tellers and feminists than just bank tellers)...

from the article: "Then the students were asked which was more likely: that Linda is a bank teller or that Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement. The vast majority went with bank teller and active feminist, which has to be the less likely choice because the probability of two conditions will always be less than the probability of either one."

Isn't that a bad question to ask, it suggests there are only two possible outcomes, wouldn't a better question include a third option of "not a bank teller and may or may not be a active feminist"?

what's your approach to using kodi on ATV?

do you have a paid $99/year dev account?

yeah, we vote in people, regularly, whose mission it is to dismantle the EPA/FDA/CDC/etc. in the name of "progress"

I enjoyed flying Midwest Express a long time ago - it was like the whole plane of business class service

This thread seems pretty credible and seemingly consistent with what little official information is available

see comments by "throwawayboeingN704AL"

I think they made special boxes you could put the printer in to attenuate the noise it made though generally closing the door of the room it was in was sufficient (this was whatever printer we had with an apple 2gs... probably some sort of imagewriter)

and the print quality was relatively poor especially compared to laser

mostly my siblings used it as they are older than me - I was able to use an inkjet (!) in future years and now rarely print anything other than return labels...

I wish you luck, I can definitely appreciate the difficulty in trying to achieving some degree of excel feature parity

I had come across this copy to more than one cell issue when I was curious to see the performance myself in making some random numbers and doing some look-ups based on those results which I couldn't do en masse due to this limitation

a few other things to think about implementing

(1) some more formatting/font/point size options

(2) customizable number formatting like excel

(3) functions like hlookup, edate, perhaps even array function like functionality (i.e., a relatively powerful and open ended underused feature in excel due to a combination of difficulty in understanding as well as being very slow calculation-wise)

(4) some minimal vector drawing abilities

(5) it doesn't bother me and it's part of your marketing but starting with "0" may confuse some people (and would break excel compatibility) since excel doesn't do that (though I appreciate indices/etc. do that in "real" programming)

(6) filtering data doesn't include a "contain" or "does not contain" option

(7) perhaps some limited ability to customize the interface and have user defined keyboard shortcuts triggering formatting/etc. type macros/python

(8) some sort of print/formatting to yield output to pdf

I've been the excel/vba resource at various consulting firms for 20+ years...

I strongly recommend you enlist some people like me to kick the tires on your product before a more wide roll-out

among other things, I'd make an effort to implement as many standard excel functions as possible

--> I would LOVE a highly performant version of google sheets (though ideally as a desktop style app) so I can use keyboard shortcuts among other reasons

--> one thing I like about google sheets that you don't have is that it has excel style short-cuts like alt+d+f+f for autofilter... (though I really only use google sheets as a grocery list so I can walk through my house and do an inventory using my phone)

I can't copy and paste formulas to more than one cell at a time?

if I highlight a range of cells to copy something to, only the last cell will be populated?

omg dude - shouldn't these users be querying a database in some capacity where this data resides in the first place?

perhaps via some more "accountant friendly" app than SQL?

That said, I suppose that's partly the goal of this product... a visual/faster alternative to SQL though I personally avoid putting big data in excel, I just (as an accountant myself) carve out subsets from SQL and then peruse it via excel to identify whatever transactions/activity I need to analyze since the web interface for the ERP is such slow steaming garbage...

I'm more in search of a better excel than an excel which can handle big data as I suspect many users will somehow, no matter how well this is built, make it slow/terrible whereas an SQL based approach could be multiple of orders of magnitude faster....

I live in excel in a multibillion dollar company as the "excel" guru... though my company doesn't really have big data generally speaking

I would love a performant desktop excel replacement - I miss using excel 2003 - it has been downhill ever since...

That said, I'm clearly not the target market for this product though I believe there's some degree of frustration with how poorly modern excel works with many files now which this product may address.

I would guess that making this a light-weight and performant (not electron) desktop app (ideally portable so installing it wouldn't require admin access) with substantial feature parity and compatibility with excel would be a big deal - I'd install it right away...

gotta love the streisand effect!

I remember Josies... nice place back then

Definitely odd that a person with a severe sesame allergy didn't know about tahini - she can't even eat hummus

That said, I suppose decades back such foods were less mainstream and/or she was new to the allergy

omg so true re: terrible behavior of senior people (though thankfully not universal)

I suspect people view these senior leaders are irreplaceably important and tolerate all sorts of terrible/pathological behaviors from them...

I use teams all the time but only use the mobile app for audio since that's less crap than the desktop electron/etc. based apps

I recommend everyone to just the mobile app for audio since most people can't manage to get pc/windows audio working consistently and it's just works on most people's phones without issue

while I can certainly get it working fine on my pc, I have a nice bluetooth headset that is a pain to repair to my pc so I always just use the headset so I can walk anywhere and not be tethered to my pc (where bluetooth always seems unreliable in windows...)

this 100% - you technically can't even ask someone how they are doing on an interview as that's not job related

I could definitely see arguments for asking these sorts of questions in how they could be job related but not worth the legal risk

I haven't had (nor ever likely will) have the luxury of working somewhere where potential/smarts is too relevant past a relatively low threshold

yeah, I'm an accountant (not an MBA) and we get a bad rap for this

corp accountants don't care about cutting costs, we just care about making sure things are presented/tracked in accordance with gaap

we may help identify/track costs but we aren't usually tasked with cutting costs

someone has to pay for our big rewards program!!! :)

often as high as 2-2.5%

I'm on Verizon FIOS - they rolled out IPv6 a couple years back and it was so poorly rolled out and communicated (i.e., lots of things/services were complete broken) that I fully disabled IPv6 on my router and don't intend to reenable it until I have to...

great analogy

the svg on the side of their page is kind of hilarious

though I've used this program too in the past to seamlessly convert html to text to easily import into a database...

yeah, I'm a finance guy, I never tell anyone where I'm going for a while out an abundance of caution though I'm no where near important enough for anyone to care lol

only once did I wait out a formal non-compete for a few months in my youth though it was well worth it...

yeah, even target.com won't publish any 1 star reviews of their products - I bought a play kitchen years ago that was pretty terrible but sure enough they would never publish the review

it sounds genuine to me - perhaps it's worth it for him to be a whistleblower?

I was under the impression they USED to do this and only have oddly minimal QA anymore on updates

i.e., I make a point to never run windows updates, they've only caused more harm than good post Win7

that old ipad probably has been updated to an iOS that really isn't designed for it

or, if it hasn't, you're trying to view websites with heavy javascript which requires too much memory/cpu to view effectively

most people aren't sophisticated enough to identify those issues practically speaking sadly

e.g., I'm one of the only people on my team at work whose computer just works consistently since I understand these things and sidestep well intentioned but poorly conceived it policies such as untested updates that nearly brick laptops often...

not all meds are the same for everyone - maybe try an maoi like emsam - helped me a bunch with that feeling

to varying degrees, jobs are what you make of it rather than what it makes of you

LOL