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by 13ren 18y ago
I spent fifteen years using electronic mail on the ARPANET and the Internet. Then, in January 1990, I stopped, because it was taking up too much of my time to sift through garbage.
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by 13ren 18y ago
But testing also reduces ugliness: The act of making code unit testable makes it less ugly, because unit testing requires access to a portion of the code in isolation, thus making the code more modular. Modular code is less ugly (or so I cl
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by 13ren 18y ago
Note: unix also began as a skunkworks within a monopoly...
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Complaining about Knol's ranking contributes to it. any publicity is good publicity
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OK, you may have me there :). All power sources are dangerous, but we need fewer of a more efficient one. New dangers with nuclear power may be discovered (like those that those German researchers did), but that seems to be true also of ne
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by 13ren 18y ago
Google has indexed 38 so far: http://www.google.com.au/search?q=site%3Aianab.com%2Ftrillio... Tackling the data quality & diversity of the traversed pages (best) : Producing English text with the 40 bits, by driving a generative gram
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by 13ren 18y ago
BTW: your comment comes up 6th on my google search for 'python gecko'. When logged out, the search results are slightly differently ordered.
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by 13ren 18y ago
You could well be right (that a highly critical attitude does not prevent writing of useful code). But relating it back to "snobbery" - which I think is a highly critical attitude and "therefore I'm better than you" - I don't think PG was d
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by 13ren 18y ago
Thanks, informative. Hydroelectric power sounds very clean and safe, but dam failure is catastrophic. I'm sure you're correct on the fatalities for fossil fuel vs. nuclear, but fossil fuels are also much more widely used (I imagine by sever
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Reply to Scobleizer's "Silicon Valley VC Disease"(scobleizer.com)
18 points by 13ren 18y ago|2 comments
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I appreciate the information everyone - thanks. The thing about nuclear power is that errors such as these have more serious consequences than for other sources of power. Or so it would appear. But all this is relative: if nuclear power is
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Nuclear Breeder reactors are still, by a huge margin, the cheapest, safest, and most sustainable energy solution that the world knows. I've often heard this, but is it really the safest? I haven't heard of anything like Inside Chernobyl
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by 13ren 18y ago
In your experience, is criticizing yourself for not doing anything as effective as focusing on what encourages and inspires, and energizes you?
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Did he spend his energy being critical of them, or on working on a dialect that he found valuable?
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if someone can do it for free, then it will be inevitably free. I agree. It's similar to reversion to normal profits through commoditization, but where the costs (labour and capital) can be donated or supported by advertising. But "inevit
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by 13ren 18y ago
"Snobs" sparked off this chain of reasoning for me: - Snobs have overly critical attitudes (by definition). - Overly critical attitudes cause perfectionism. - Perfectionism causes procrastination, because if you haven't actually done anyt
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by 13ren 18y ago
I think Scoble has 20/20 hindsight disease: ... the small, seemingly unimportant platform today that gets early adopters excited will become the large, dominant platform of tomorrow ... How long did it take Visicalc to happen on the Apple
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by 13ren 18y ago
exactly. my point is that there is something more to it than the parts being special or unique.
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Isn't that also true of YouTube, that there's nothing special or unique about any part of it? (apart from the userbase and being known)
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by 13ren 18y ago
OK, I see. Yeah, we have similar tax breaks for capital gains (when they are realized, via a sale). I think it's half the normal rate if you wait a year (your tax rate depends on your income here - highest is about 50%); and half again (i
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PageRank (based on publishers' idea of relevance, though linking) can yield false positives, too. But, I guess someone who goes to the trouble of publishing a document will have a more considered opinion than readers of that document. Brows
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by 13ren 18y ago
I'd be very surprised if Microsoft did not apply for a patent on this before disclosing it.
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It's working for me now, too.
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Thanks for that. I think there's some kind of a distinction between a technology company, and technology company that is directly tied to a non-technology business, so that it also is a non-technology company. Buildsoft (the acquired compan
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by 13ren 18y ago
the same is true for stock u won't get taxed for buying stock and the tax is just one time (not recurring every year) at 25% (15% after 1 yr) Really? Here in Australia, we don't get a tax break for buying stock (AFAIK). When you earn the
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by 13ren 18y ago
There are many ways to be imperfect, because there are many ways to be disordered (higher entropy). There is only one way to be perfectly ordered. My point is that, in practice, counting the ways of perfection is counting the ways of imperf
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by 13ren 18y ago
There's only one way to be perfect.
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by 13ren 18y ago
I think there's a legitimate question of how possible it is to build a stable software/internet business for the long term It's easy to start such a business; but it's also easy for your new competitor, and for open source. But apart from
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by 13ren 18y ago
There's a tax advantage too: to have investments that return $100,000 pa you need to have saved (assuming 10% ROI) $1,000,000. You get taxed each year on that $100,000 as income - but you also got taxed when you made that $1,000,000 in the
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by 13ren 18y ago
I like your model. You're seeing the 'doing love' as input, and the 'market love' as output from a function you can't control. I agree that "entitlement" can create unhappiness with that output. Getting away from PG's essay, there could be

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