Notes"Social loafing is the tendency for individuals to expend less effort when working collectively than when working individually. A meta-analysis of 78 studies demonstrates that social loafing is robust and generalizes across tasks and S populations. A large number of variables were found to moderate social loafing. Evaluation potential, expectations of co-worker performance, task meaningfulness, and culture had especially strong influence. These findings are interpreted in the light of a collective effort model that integrates elements of expectancy-value, social identity, and self-validation theories. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)"Unfurl
NotesI don't like writing negative articles that don't include a solution to the problem, but in this case, there is no solution. The state of in-app purchases has now reached a level where we have completely lost it. Not only has the gaming industry shot itself in the foot, hacked off their other foot, and lost both its arms ... but it's still engaging in a strategy that will only damage it further.Unfurl
NotesItâs just such a bummer to see a place that I remember as openminded, laid back, creative, nonjudgmental erupting with all this anger, everyone pointing fingers, blaming people that really arenât to blame. Come on, guys. Youâre better than this.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesSo hereâs my plea to the âdecencyâ policeâSarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Gov. Bobby Jindal and their many parrots: Defend speech you donât agree with. Stand up for the right to an opinion you donât share.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesAn Arduino, with its 8-bit 16 MHz microcontroller, will set you back around $20. A microSD card with several gigabytes of memory and a microcontroller with several times the performance could be purchased for a fraction of the price.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesYou had to bang your ideas around, twist them, turn them, searching for something, anything that would help you squeeze them into the machine. Sometimes you found it, and you got one step closer to realizing your ideas. Sometimes you didnât.FeedUnfurl
NotesSome telomeres are too long, and some are too short. Perhaps striking the right balance of caffeine and alcohol is the key to keeping them just rightâas if you needed an excuse to have another hot toddy.Unfurl
NotesIt's unpopular to say you don't care about consoles, to suggest you don't need to care. It feels like disloyalty to the industry. But what's becoming clear, even if it feels controversial and treacherous to say -- even if it threatens the industry and its loyal consumers, galvanizes them to internet arguments -- is that the console business and the industry models that built it are no longer the main avenue for the medium of games. They're probably not even the most important, even though they remain the most visible to your average person. Unfurl
NotesAs a systems hacker, you must be prepared to do savage things, unspeakable things, to kill runaway threads with your bare hands, to write directly to network ports using telnet and an old copy of an RFC that you found in the Vatican. FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesThe conflation of faith as âunevidenced beliefâ with faith as âjustified confidenceâ is simply a word trick used to buttress religion.Unfurl
NotesThere are strong arguments against minimum or basic incomes, too. Cost is one. Creating a massive disincentive to work is another. But some experts said the effect might be smaller than you would think. A basic income might be enough to live on, but not enough to live very well on. Such a program would be designed to end poverty without creating a nation of layabouts. The Mincome experiment offers some backup for that argument, too.âFor a lot of economists, the issue was that you would disincentivize work,â said Wayne Simpson, a Canadian economist who has studied Mincome. âThe evidence showed that it was not nearly as bad as some of the literature had suggested.â Unfurl
NotesSo what do I want? I want a world where the core JS engine is swappable. Maybe Iâm deploying on an architecture not supported by V8 (Node on SPARC came up while working on SpiderNode). Maybe my employer only wants to use the JVM. Or maybe Microsoft can get some performance wins by using Chakra for Windows Azure. Back to modules, I donât want to get rid of npm. Or maybe I do and I want something that only supports ES6+ modules.FeedUnfurl
NotesThe storyboards above are the original production boards for the series intro. The camera work, screen design, transitions, and compositions are fantastic - and the infamous Batman music playing above it all really tops it off. I knew that this show was great when they were still producing episodes for it back in the early 90's, but after looking at this book again, I have a whole new respect for the artists who designed it and the producers who made it possible.Unfurl
Notes You are setting up teachers to take the blame for all of this. You have portrayed us as greedy, lazy money-draining public servants that do nothing. I invite you to come do my job for one week Governor Christie. I invite you to come see my students, see how little they really have during the school day as they are being forced to keep learning for a single snapshot of their educational worth. For that one end-all, be-all test, the NJASK. The one that the future of my job and my life is now based upon. FeedUnfurl
NotesIf you ask me about Kopi Luwak, I will supply the usual answer, âWhy would I want to drink crappy coffee?â However, the true reason is that there is no food product that is worthwhile if it causes undue stress or pain to an animal. However, if anyone wants to buy some of the best specialty coffee ever, I am willing to sell any of my coffees for $200/ lb.Unfurl
NotesFreezer cooking! Have you heard about this? You spend one day preparing meals for the month to keep in your freezer so you donât have to think about it later. FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesDouglas Hofstadter, the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, thinks we've lost sight of what artificial intelligence really means. His stubborn quest to replicate the human mind. FeedUnfurl
NotesIntellectualism invites the constant assessment of the âcorrectnessâ of a person's belief system. That's dangerous ground for a fundamentalist Christian. When you confront them on a particular belief you are not only confronting them on an idea that they have held to more rigidly for a longer time than most other folks but you are confronting the very core of who they understand themselves to be. For them, it is on those core beliefs upon which their salvation hangs in the balance, at least in part. Questioning it doesn't just question the thought but, for them, it puts into question a lifetime of holding on tightly to that thought.Unfurl
NotesAs we recall from bitter memory, the Hubble and the space station are in vastly different orbits. Getting from one to the other requires so much energy that not even space shuttles had enough fuel to do it. The telescope is 353 miles high, in an orbit that keeps it near the Equator; the space station is about 100 miles lower, in an orbit that takes it far north, over Russia.
To have the movie astronauts Matt Kowalski (Mr. Clooney) and Ryan Stone (Ms. Bullock) zip over to the space station would be like having a pirate tossed overboard in the Caribbean swim to London. Unfurl
NotesThe four-finger method worked for seven days. And during that unforgettable week, my neighborhood shut down. Nerf footballs sat untouched on driveway blacktops, tumbleweed rolled across emptied bike paths, dust gathered on Intellivision gaming consoles, zero progress was made on bar mitzvah haftorah portions.EmbedUnfurl
NotesLast year, Mr. Johnson received one of the first two grants given by Gamers Helping Gamers, a nonprofit organization founded by a group of successful young New Yorkers to assist a very specific group of students: those who play the fantasy trading card game Magic: The Gathering. Unfurl
Notes The question to me -- as an American and as someone who cares about the integrity of speech -- is how we restore faith in our technology. I don't have the answers to this question right now. Unfortunately this is a long-term problem that will consume the output of researchers and technologists much more talented than I am. I only hope to be involved in the process.FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notestheir house has banned any technology post-1986, the year the couple was born.
No computers, no tablets, no smart phones, no fancy coffee machines, no Internet, no cable, and â from the point of view of many tech-dependent folks â no life.FeedUnfurl
NotesIf youâre in the United States and have ever contributed to a Free/Open Source project in any way, please email our hospitality Ponies telling them to which project(s) youâve contributed and how and weâll email you back with a coupon code worth 10% off any BrewPony product. For as long as you (or we) live.Unfurl
NotesThe official Blu-ray has seven mini-featurettes. Seems kind of bare bones for such a major summer release, eh? Indeed it does, because Paramount has divvied up all the other features â including the commentary tracks with the cast and director J.J. Abrams, and several additional featurettes â have been given exclusive to the Target release, the Best Buy release, and the iTunes download. Meaning 1) if you buy the normal version you're getting less than half the special features created for the home video release, and 2) if you want all of them you're going to need to purchase at least three separate versions.Unfurl
NotesAn outbreak of measles tied to a Texas megachurch where ministers have questioned vaccination has sickened at least 21 people, including a 4-month-old infant -- and itâs expected to grow, state and federal health officials said. Unfurl
NotesDrakeâs story puts the lie to the notion that internal channels serve as anything other than a trap for unwitting whistleblowers. What is so revealing is that if Snowden had gone through internal channels, the outcome would have been worse: the United States would have charged him with espionage and heâd be in jail for, in essence, spying on his own country on behalf of the public. It should not require martyrdom for a free citizen to challenge government abuses of power. It should not require choosing oneâs conscience over oneâs career, citizenship, or freedom.Unfurl
NotesRecently I was working on a high visibility end user problem with computer performance that ended up having a somewhat-unexpected cause: the laptopâs external power supply.FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notesthe IAB is back with a new assault in the form of a full-page ad placed in Advertising Age (and also available online for your delectation [.pdf]) that is bigger, better - and barmier.Unfurl
NotesI decided to get a Facebook just to see what it was all about. I soon discovered that Facebook is useless without friends. My only friend is, like, my grandma. FeedUnfurl
NotesâTell me what kinds of toxins are in your body, and Iâll tell you how much youâre worth,â could be the new motto of doctors everywhere.FeedUnfurl
NotesSarah is Hebrew name. So, it is common, and has been in use for thousands and thousands of years. It does not take long (for him) to find a dark haired girl named Sarah, who has a younger sibling, and who feels that she is treated unfairly by her step mother. In a fit of rage he kidnaps this other child and spirits it away to the fairy world. Perhaps this new Sarah dies in the quest to find the child, perhaps she wins her sibling back and flees.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesFor many years I have asked myself, Why do you spend time with other people? but I never really attempted to come up with an answer. I always believed I was asking myself a rhetorical question, but this week I thought I would try and find an answer, because a question you ask yourself a thousand times eventually deserves to be answered.Unfurl
NotesAttackers could cause the unit to unexpectedly open/close the lid, activate bidet or air-dry functions, causing discomfort or distress to user.Unfurl
NotesStay away from super-cheap AC adapters built by mystery manufacturers. Spend the extra few dollars to get a brand-name AC adapter. It will be safer, produce less interference, and your device's touchscreen will perform better. FeedUnfurl
NotesWith only a few seconds of preparation the night before, you can awaken to steamy, creamy, perfectly prepared steelcut oatmeal. Itâs like youâre suddenly transported to a cozy bed-and-breakfast where the hostess bustled around in the kitchen early in the morning in order to serve you this healthy breakfast treat at the moment youâre ready.EmbedUnfurl
NotesAwww yuss. âWe expect the new Star Control to come in the form of a reboot, similar to what Firaxis did with the XCOM series last year. We are looking at Star Control II as a major source of inspiration.âFeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesSteve and I had talked about making a tiny arcade machine for his little chibi Street Fighter guys (street fighter guys fighting each other but in their own game â very meta).FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesA refusal to even to sit at a bargaining table is another way of refusing to govern. The nationâs founders created two chambers for a reason, but Republicans, in their blind fury to harm the least fortunate, are forgetting even those fundamental national values. Unfurl
Notes "It seems to me that people in Finland are more secure and less anxious than Americans because there is a threshold below which they won't fall," said Linda Cook, a political scientist at Brown University who has studied European welfare states. "Even if they face unemployment or illness, Finns will have some payments from the state, public health care and education." FeedUnfurl
NotesIf you attempt to make sense of Engelbart's design by drawing correspondences to our present-day systems, you will miss the point, because our present-day systems do not embody Engelbart's intent. Engelbart hated our present-day systems.Unfurl
NotesMen's Wearhouse has fired George Zimmer, its bearded executive chairman famous for his TV ad line: "You're going to like the way you look. I guarantee it."Unfurl
NotesItâs also worth pointing out that we do take certain technical measures to limit the data we collect. Weâve designed Persona so that the identity provider â including the fallback Identity Provider that we run â does not learn your browsing history. We consider that a good security practice, not specifically because of surveillance, but generally because collecting data without a user benefit just creates risk.Unfurl
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