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by 6ren 14y ago
According to Adam Smith, the basis of prosperity is the division of labour. When people specialise, they get better at whatever they do, because they practice it, spend more time thinking about how to improve it, and don't spend time adjust
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by 6ren 14y ago
Not because it's about russians, but because it's interesting: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
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Assassin’s Creed III: rendering water(fxguide.com)
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Elm: declarative language that compiles to HTML, CSS and JS(elm-lang.org)
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You're right, it doesn't fit. Now I recall that rates of red-green colour blindness are exactly predicted by whether one or both must be defective (7% for boys, .49% for girls). Both being active but the defective version having no effect
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by 6ren 14y ago
This illustrates the significant difference between the use-cases of "web APIs" and conventional APIs, that the former are more like a database CRUD (including REST), rather than a request for computation. They (usually) are an alternative
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The last section on sex differences is interesting. It explains boys having greater variation in ability than girls by boys having only one X chromosome (XY) while girls have two (XX). This would be a neat theory, if girls somehow used an
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suggestion: auto-linkize URLs (it linkizes []() syntax, but not plain urls)
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fp: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
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I've long held the theory that Dropbox's long-term secret plan is to host apps - as they already have the data, this will effectively make them the fabled "internet OS". Having Guido on board to make python its systems language makes sense
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Yes. Also, there's a spectrum of legal work, from bread-and-butter conveyancing and wills, to appellate litigation. The work that is truly straightforward can be automated... and is . For example, in Australia at least, you can get a DIY w
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It's unfair to those speaking a different language. There's also the extinction of other languages (and all the work that went into them, and all the works that used them, literature and associated culture). It's like the extinction of spec
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He presents prediction as new, ignoring google suggest; predictive text on phones/tablet keyboards; tab-completion in bash/vim; intellisense etc. And it obscures the part that is new: And the second is what actions would lead to usef
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Google believes the cloud/apps have enough providers now, so they aren't needed to drive it. Their strategy is to grow the web. This works because they make more money from the web being used. It also makes people love Google, which is imp
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Buybacks usually mean the company thinks their stock is underpriced. However, x86 is currently being disrupted by ARM, and the prognosis does not look good. For example, they've finally got their power consumption to around ARM levels, but
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Maybe, Amway wifi? Pyramid sharing? One way to kick off ad hoc suburban networks ... > The average person uses only 500MB, per device, per month. I used 19GB last month, without even trying. To be fair, that's at home, not on a mobi
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Microsoft Research: Safe Parallelism [pdf in gviewer](docs.google.com)
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Soon, a tablet will be fast enough to compile locally. But the article's setup still has the benefit of someone else managing OS/backups. Is is possible to have both? i.e. a " remotely managed local system ". (1) auto-updated OS e.g. chro
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
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Interesting, you don't think of Krispy Kreme as making robot donuts. Curious that Macdonald's, with so much careful specification of all processes, hasn't done this, at all. e.g. fry/remove/salt fries. (though their standard coffee is mostl
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https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/online-invoicing
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man calendar says its month/day... http://www-sbras.nsc.ru/cgi-bin/www/unix_help/man-cgi?calend... oh, you mean the adventure took place over more than one calendar year, and so without the years, the high bit of the ordering is lost, a
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Helps developers who are shy about sending invoices. It's so common, even including its developer: > please let us know what amount you would like to pay every month. http://createmyinvoice.com/pricing Feedback: The pdf looks nice! I
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by 6ren 14y ago
Good point, I think the standard pricing of "discount rates for greater sales" would naturally address this.
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> write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. ASIDE: Just been reading The Wealth of Nations , and Smith talks about the "division of labour", which is similar to this specialisation. By concentrat
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adblock the js that is triggered by highlighting (e.g. NY Times dictionary lookup).
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Features vs. Benefits: Features are what your app does ; Benefits are what your customers value . Because engineers always want to make something "better", and they consider that in terms of the product in isolation (not in terms of the c
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You manually do what an automated system would do, so it's indistinguishable to users. You are the implementation of the specification of your system - which enables quicker iteration of the specification. If you need responses from users,
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by 6ren 14y ago
Re: "no rails" - perhaps it reduces friction by not touching the ground, via a combination of a railgun propulsion + airfoil. Thus, not needing continuous maglev for levitation. Also explains the "concord" comparison.
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Simulating a brain using the same number of neurons is like simulating a body using the same number of atoms. Also relevant, Chomsky vs Norvig, on AI http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/06/norvig-vs-chomsky-and-the-f... Which boils do

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