Tried right-clicking on the icon of your window on the taskbar and doing a move? (This is useful when you have a dual monitor setup and you've not turned on one monitor - and that turned-off monitor happens to have your window that you'd like to move to the turned-on window)
You'll see that GOOG's tried to be a bit cute with the window border design - they tried to out-M$ M$. Bad call. The pointer ends up in a useless location.
And oh, while you're at it, could you please let M$ apply Autocomplete to text fields in Chrome?
Thanks
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Excel STDEV Formula
They never have enough fun finding ways to frustrate us. Something so simple as a basic standard deviation. And they can't even get that right.
All I did was create a column of numbers from 1 to 40. The standard deviation of the first N natural numbers is known to be rt( (N^2 -1)/12) - which is 11.543396 - I manually did a laborious sum of xi minux xmean and computed the stdev this way in Excel and got this. And, I used the Excel built in - which gives 11.69045194.
What the hell!!
All I did was create a column of numbers from 1 to 40. The standard deviation of the first N natural numbers is known to be rt( (N^2 -1)/12) - which is 11.543396 - I manually did a laborious sum of xi minux xmean and computed the stdev this way in Excel and got this. And, I used the Excel built in - which gives 11.69045194.
What the hell!!
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