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by 10ren 16y ago
A keynote can only be assessed with respect to a value system. It's impossible to understand or influence someone without knowing their value system.
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by 10ren 16y ago
I'm a bit bemused by your question, but anyway: 'Perhaps the easiest way to epitomize the differences between these two groups is to contrast the way they use the phrase "I see." When visionaries say "I see," they do so with their eyes clo
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by 10ren 16y ago
She keeps using the word "disruptive", but actually only discusses uniqueness of skills. Probably just a bit of PR.
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by 10ren 16y ago
Just for some market cap context: AAPL Apple Inc. 251.57B MSFT Microsoft Corporation 218.24B IBM Intl. Business Machine... 164.21B GOOG Google Inc. 156.21B ORCL Oracle Corporation 138.24B <---- HPQ Hew
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by 10ren 16y ago
Nit: the lock-in is that other razors don't fit (like apple usb). Sure, plug-compatibility is trivial, but Gillette had sufficient market power at that point to cut off any retailer stocking them.
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by 10ren 16y ago
Spirals here. My programming is dominated by efficiency concerns - the whole point is to make it as short as possible, right? It's morally wrong to have waste. And in an information theoretic sense, a more compact representation, by encodin
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by 10ren 16y ago
> So I’m usually working on four or five hours of sleep. Then I make it up on the weekends. That doesn't sound healthy either! But if his doctor thinks so, and if he's not gaining 50 pounds like before, I guess it is. I'm interested, be
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by 10ren 16y ago
TLS 1.2 = Transport Layer Security: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5246
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First algorithms, then interfaces(c2.com)
41 points by 10ren 16y ago|6 comments
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by 10ren 16y ago
Moore on the optimism of visionaries is fun: they see with their eyes closed. That's how they see .
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Quadrotor Drone flies through hoops(gizmodo.com)
3 points by 10ren 16y ago|0 comments
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Screenshot: "A Fire Upon the Deep" sequel (2011)(norwescon.org)
86 points by 10ren 16y ago|27 comments
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by 10ren 16y ago
I feel the same. BYO music (iPod) helps, but not completely. On this topic, there's sometimes a really annoying hum where I live. White noise solves it. In summer, I use a box fan. In winter, I used to use this: cat /dev/urandom &#62
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by 10ren 16y ago
Popular writing reminds me of image compression: part eternal truth, part Human Visual System. People enjoy fiction because it connects with them somehow; pop fiction targets the Human Narrative System. Joseph Campbell has the idea of the u
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by 10ren 16y ago
See if you can recall an exact phrase (even if short), and google for it (in quotes of course). It's amazingly effective - provided you get the phrase right. It's quite easy to mis-recall, but for articles that strike me, there'll often be
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by 10ren 16y ago
I always enjoy theatlantic submissions here; this one is really sweet. single page (also js-free!) http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/10/autism-821...
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by 10ren 16y ago
Ah, sorry, I see what you mean now.
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by 10ren 16y ago
A way to implement this is to use the new page. There's little indication of what you "should" read, so you have to make up your own mind, from the title or brief skim. There's no or few comments, so less opportunity for meaningless conflic
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by 10ren 16y ago
I think he means your overall karma (in the top right hand corner), not the karma on each comment. An experiment would be to remove it, and only display it on your username page (as your average karma is now.)
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by 10ren 16y ago
I'm really confused: after all that insightful discussion of social site size, why is there suddenly a "programmers" site, in addition to "stackoverflow"?
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by 10ren 16y ago
Only if it sells. eg. electric cars were in production around 1900 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car#1890s_to_1900s:_Ea...
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by 10ren 16y ago
It's fun to think of a software product as a giant ADT (Abstract Data Type), as it specifies operations that may be carried out (via a GUI, or command line, or webpage, or webservice, etc), while the detail of the implementation of those op
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by 10ren 16y ago
Garbage collection (mentioned in the article) is also a great example of integrated vs modular, with the same tradeoffs: when you handle it manually, it is integrated with the code - and it's possible to optimize/customize its performance m
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by 10ren 16y ago
At the moment, their primary task is actually to gauge/encourage interest - without that, they have lost. A following task is to discover if what they have is usable/useful by real people, and the only real test of that is to release it an
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by 10ren 16y ago
Baby steps are the way to start, and move forward, though don't think that's what you meant by "small feet". I think it's also important to have realistic, doable goals for "completion" that aren't "100%". This is because you'll learn more
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by 10ren 16y ago
Corollary: them falling in love will cost you a close friend, 40% of the time.
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by 10ren 16y ago
If you do some reading around MVP, you might be surprised at what a low standard exists to constitute a product. Some folk even count an ad + landing page as an MVP. ie. 0 code base. An MVP is a point of departure, not arrival.
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by 10ren 16y ago
The "P" stands for product, not code-base. Logically, security and privacy are secondary: they are properties of some functionality/data.
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by 10ren 16y ago
It's an MVP. Problem is, it's in an established market. Although this worked for open source in the established unix market, that wasn't a mainstream market. But note: only a tiny subset of users are going to switch initially anyway, so,
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by 10ren 16y ago
Xbox gui should be instantly responsive (at least as an option). It's so tediously slow, it even misses button presses - you have to wait for it. It's frustrating and unnecessary in a graphics machine. No offense, but even the grossly under

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