The article is light on details. Presumably the original Nikkei article has more details but it's behind a paywall.
Recently watched Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. I still don't know how Enron made money which remarkably seems like it was also true at the time.
The page references a document Microsoft Windows User Experience. Is this online somewhere? I can only find Amazon links. Are there other good design manuals I can find online?
It sounds similar to a lot of US products. They outsource all production to China, then China essentially start making copies of their products and charging a fraction of the price.
Sorry, just copy pasted the headline they gave me at the time.
One interesting thing I noticed about the big boy locomotive is that the whistle is much lower pitched and more pleasant sounding than typical operating locomotives today
My favorite knot for a drawstring is a sliding type knot. Can't remember the name but it's like a prusik or hitch knot. It stays tight, but you can easily slide it to tighten or loosen it, and you don't need to ever re-tie it.
I have a hard time imagining how spx stock will drop to a reasonable price. You have to be a true believer at its current valuation, so who is going to sell? Maybe if enough insiders or stock options start selling it will drop.
They depict how Microsoft bought double fine at the end of the psychonauts 2 documentary. If you watch the documentary it's hard not to think it may not have been a genius financial decision.
If you weren't for the Patriot act you were pro terrorist. If you suggested that the terrorists might be motivated by us involvement in the middle east rather than pure evil then you were probably also evil. Mob mentality has been around since forever. And yet the current situation is making Bush seem like a statesman by comparison
To paraphrase a description of inform 7 I once heard in a podcast -
Inform 7 awkwardly pretends to be regular English, similar to how text adventures awkwardly pretend that the player has meaningful freedom to act in the game.
I don't know if that's completely true. Google, Apple, Amazon, Nvidia etc are somewhat expensive, but not ridiculously so based on earnings and growth. Tesla, spacex and openai are in a different universe, though I honestly can't say wtf is going on with them
Self help books definitely have a bad reputation, often with good reason - lots of cliches, preachy, etc.
My favorite advice (and central message I think) from "how to win friends" is to really have the other person's interests at heart, not to try to scam or game them.
Some of my other favorite self help-ish books
- a guide to the good life
- thank you for arguing
- algorithms to live by
Recently watched Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. I still don't know how Enron made money which remarkably seems like it was also true at the time.