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by 10ren 17y ago
Making changes to addressing problems only when they occur is part of agile development. The problem here is that the change is an extreme one, that generalizes from one instance to all. But how do you tell how much you should generalize? A
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by 10ren 17y ago
The Kindle has 3G (current iPad doesn't, but apparently a version with it will be announced in 30 days). Kindle 3G is free. Kindle has 1 week battery life (iPad has 10 hours) - but probably doesn't matter, because people are used to recharg
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by 10ren 17y ago
Here's something: "But the really eye-opening thing about Wednesday's presentation was just how much Oracle actually had to say about Java. I expected superficial affirmations like Ellison gave at OpenWorld; what I got was almost too much t
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by 10ren 17y ago
Like the first Apple, the iPad is a miracle of tightly integrated design, giving maximum power from minimum hardware. (e.g. custom A4 processor for 10 hours of HD playback.) Web apps will be too slow. Eventually, hardware will catch up, and
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by 10ren 17y ago
http://technologizer.com/appletablet/ says they have live coverage of the event, and their site looks like it has video... but it probably doesn't because the text says "tell" not "show": We’ll tell you about the event as quickly as it
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by 10ren 17y ago
5x8? add a keyboard, and it's very close to the eeePC's dimensions. Differences: - much lighter (because ARM uses less power, therefore lighter batteries for same battery life; lighter construction in general; and lighter because no keyboar
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by 10ren 17y ago
- self-centered - blind to the relative importance of issues These are also characteristics of children. I note them in myself. I think every human being has these characteristics to some extent, but they are especially prevalent in geeks/
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by 10ren 17y ago
That initial minor boost is enough to throw a submission high up the frontpage - even 2 points, given close enough together in time, can do it. simple solution : remove the automatic upvote given when an article is submitted that has alrea
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by 10ren 17y ago
Not an example, but there are many cases of people "working around" a patent. In this case, it is a spur to technological progress. That is, preventing progress can encourage progress. There's a "prospect" theory for patenting (which with
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by 10ren 17y ago
Sorry, you're right of course.
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by 10ren 17y ago
That interview showed me that "Die Hard" resurrected the dead metaphor of "diehard". This is a powerful way to capture attention. I might also watch "Lethal Weapon", for it's 3/3min dialog/action structure (and to observe how engaged/entert
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by 10ren 17y ago
You can edit it (I just tested it - don't know how long it's editable though).
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by 10ren 17y ago
Robert Kiyosaki (rich dad poor dad) has a story where he's interviewed about his book by journalist who's an excellent writer, and having trouble breaking in. He advises her to take a copy writing course, to help her sell her work. She obje
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by 10ren 17y ago
Single Page: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24patterson-t.htm...
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by 10ren 17y ago
A fun experiment with a striking result. The environment provided for the slime molds doesn't seem to record mountains and lakes etc, so they can't be expected to choose the same system. When we find that engineers and nature have arrived a
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by 10ren 17y ago
I like how you present the developments as filling in logical gaps - almost a kind of deduction. It seems inevitable that some practical application using the basic system will eventually also need one of the logical consequences. A little
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by 10ren 17y ago
I mentioned it because I used it just now, because of this story, and I found it too slow to really be usable. It's, you know, a comment on the submission. Other sites are fast (e.g. HN). If they use a lot of javascript, that might be slowi
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by 10ren 17y ago
I dread github sites because the site is so slow; exploring it, while a very appealing idea, is unfortunately just too tedious. In lieu of a isitslowjustforme.com , is it slow for anyone else? I'm in Australia.
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by 10ren 17y ago
I was picturing an AST, with the parentheses in the context of that. However, you're quite right that context seems to have a specific technical meaning here, and not the general one I was using.
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by 10ren 17y ago
In C, parentheses mean expression grouping, function invocation and cast... depending on context. In English, many words have different meanings depending on context: e.g. not to be mean, but you know what I mean, right? Ordinary human spea
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by 10ren 17y ago
I think there's a good argument for that approach being applied to the description of the patent. That's the part that a person skilled in the art should be able to use to make the invention. However, it's not so applicable to the claims
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by 10ren 17y ago
The assumption is to achieve big goals in small steps. The growth mindset is that they can get better at these small steps . e.g. I bet I can improve at adding! For children, you wouldn't expect them to break down their big overwhelming g
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by 10ren 17y ago
You can't patent something that has been publicly disclosed, including disclosure by yourself. Commercial use counts as disclosure. This was filed June 18, 2004, so given the one year grace allowed under US law, if Google made commercial u
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by 10ren 17y ago
It says "the work you do while procrastinating". Sometimes when you procrastinate it will be by playing (movies, HN); but sometimes you put off one kind of work by doing another kind of work. And some kinds of play actually involve some w
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by 10ren 17y ago
I couldn't see a link to the reddit clone working - is there one? BTW: reddit was originally in lisp (they switched to python, for libraries and hiring). - their blog: http://blog.reddit.com/2005/12/on-lisp.html - Pycon Keynote question:
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by 10ren 17y ago
The selection for intelligence is appealing, but the low rate of reproduction impedes evolution. Although breeding by-design is probably a more effective selector, we don't breed for intelligence in a community of dogs nor for the inter-pac
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by 10ren 17y ago
Agreed. Wayback machine is another strategy to date articles. http://www.archive.org/
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by 10ren 17y ago
I use `:tabstop=2` in vim, and whenever I load the java library source files, the indentation is mucked up: they mix space and tabs (`:ts=8` fixes it). I'm guessing this a common (?) I use tabs mainly from habit, but I think it helps keep c
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by 10ren 17y ago
Joel says don't rewrite, like the Netscape guys did http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html Derek Sivers rewrote 90,000 lines of code in 12,000 lines... after 2 years on a failed rewrite. http://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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"This is one of the reasons why the average processing time for a patent is roughly three years." [emphasis added] For an average patent, what percentage of those 3 years is spent on printing, scanning and entering? If it's one day, then

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