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Joel on Software: barriers to entry [2000](joelonsoftware.com)
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Solitude and Leadership(theamericanscholar.org)
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by 6ren 14y ago
> Studies on primates have shown that eye size is proportional to the amount of > brain space devoted to visual processing. So the researchers made the > assumption that this would be true of Neanderthals.
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by 6ren 14y ago
> ... never want to tell one story in different ways. \tangent I know what he's talking about (spinning the truth), so the following is not addressing what he meant, it's just that the bald statement irks me so: when explaining somet
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by 6ren 14y ago
Wow, 32×32 doesn't sound like much to me, but it's actually 1024 pixels. If you had 4 bytes per pixel, that's 4K - you can do quite a lot with that, even in java: http://www.java4k.com
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Survival of the friendliest(news.nationalgeographic.com)
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Why dogs are more like humans than wolves(smithsonianmag.com)
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The first gesture and speech recognition device we created(online.wsj.com)
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by 6ren 14y ago
I know, it borders my state. But the article specifies the one in Western Australia. Seems OK; but maybe I'm just getting too accustomed to the unhelpfully concise style of mathematics papers. It was surprising to me too, but concluding
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by 6ren 14y ago
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing http://www.smh.com.au/news/Western-Australia/Pinjarra/2005/0... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_River_%28Western_Austral... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinjarra,_Western_Australia
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by 6ren 14y ago
It's #3 if you use quotes https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Stack+Overflow%22 (wikipedia is #2)
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Steve Mann: My “Augmediated” Life [lessons learned before Google Glass](spectrum.ieee.org)
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by 6ren 14y ago
Totally agree with division into modules lowering complexity (provided it narrows inter-module communication). An interesting idea, that a DSL is way to do this. But designing a language is hard , including a DSL. Even for experts. e.g. Co
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by 6ren 14y ago
> a way to exchange information across millions of people without using keyboards or voice recognition devices Brain-to-brain communication will be convenient, because we won't need physical I/O devices. However, I wonder if there will
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Genome Compiler(foxnews.com)
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by 6ren 14y ago
Google Glass solves output. But voice input is still problematic, it's generally only usable when the set of expected words is heavily circumscribed. Though, most people can talk faster than they can type, around 150–160 WPM, so in princip
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by 6ren 14y ago
I think many people, like me, have been waiting for someone to address this obvious niche that has been crying out for attention. There's also an interesting path to monetization: it's pretty much models the buying process, esp for the ente
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by 6ren 14y ago
I wonder what the impact is of reddit's look of disapproval: ಠ_ಠ?
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by 6ren 14y ago
Is a great memory a requirement for great programming? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/572620/is-a-great-memory-... Alan Kay: in programming there is a wide-spread 1st order theory that one shouldn't build one's own tools, languages
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by 6ren 14y ago
Sounds like an atheist, more so in the KJV version. I thought the bible was pro-heaven? http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+9%3... Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, n
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by 6ren 14y ago
The game dwarf fortress most reminds me of is git.
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by 6ren 14y ago
My view is that if you focus on the things you like in your job, they become resources that you can build on. Not necessarily for a promotion in the job; not even in order to enjoy that job, but as building blocks of what is meaningful to
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Oscar Predictions, Election-Style(fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Seven Tips From Ernest Hemingway on How to Write Fiction(openculture.com)
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by 6ren 14y ago
Elon isn't competing against Ford. He's competing against Exxon. EDIT mkt cap: Ford 47.24B https://www.google.com/search?q=f Exxon 398.83B https://www.google.com/search?q=xom
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by 6ren 14y ago
Hypothesis: we will never solve multi-core for general purpose computing (there's also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law ). But we can do multi-core for the embarrassing parallelizable - such as graphics (top GPUs have over 1000
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by 6ren 14y ago
Was that just in the early prototype? The bulk at the back of present design looks OK to me: http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/ (3rd image from the bottom). Just going by appearance, there are ordinary sunglasses with a simi
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by 6ren 14y ago
If the first iPhone was embarrassing to use, would it have hindered or enhanced adoption? Jonathan Ive will design a nice version, Apple will own the market, and google will aghast "but... we were first...". Google glasses look cool as an o
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by 6ren 14y ago
> If I heard a voice It's more like talking to yourself. (There's a school of thought that language is thought; related is Sapir–Whorf). The limitation of words is a strength; it enables you to pin down ideas precisely, like butterfli
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Kids (and Animals) Who Fail Mirror Tests May Still Have Sense of Self (2010)(scientificamerican.com)
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