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by 6ren 14y ago
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw Most people are reasonable; mos
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by 6ren 14y ago
Moore's Law: 2^(500/1.5) = 2e+100 (assuming no limits!) Adam Smith: division of labour (specialisation) creates wealth. It is limited by the extent of the market. Therefore, economic forces favour larger populations. If you have separate c
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So obvious, trade-off space for time, yet I wouldn't have thought of it... I mean, I've thought about this problem, written a persistent JVM solution, and didn't think of it. Memory is cheaper than my intuition realises. I wonder how man
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by 6ren 14y ago
In the Enterprise, I think Java is here to stay for the foreseeable future. It's partly because huge organisations don't like to switch because it's expensive and problem-prone. Look at how long COBOL lasted (and is lasting). What I think i
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It's a couple generations behind (iPhone 4/iPad 1 had cortex-A8 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A4 ), but even the unsubsidised one is damn cheap, Rs 2263 = 41 USD I think India has the right idea, it's quite a powerful computer, and it
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Tools are automation. Rule of thumb: do it manually three times before automating it. That way, you'll have a fair idea of what it is supposed to do (which is the hardest part); you know whether it's predictable enough to be automated; and
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by 6ren 14y ago
$25 seems too cheap... but it's very specifically limited in scope, and so for someone with just the right skillset (e.g. getting a thrill out of playing around with matplotlib), maybe it is reasonable...? Perhaps, with another $25, you cou
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1. Simplicity is removal of redundancy. 2. More redundancy can be revealed by expanding scope. 3. The ideal scope size is what can be reasoned about independently and specified independently from the rest (there's a global optimisation prob
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I've heard a formula for the sub-genre of "founder story" is: founder is doing some activity that is cool to the target audience; encounters a problem; has a flash of insight; and quickly builds the product. Note it requires knowing your au
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It dynamically enlarges, so the statement is always below the fold, no matter your screen size. That's why it aligns so nicely. To be fair, maybe they did they before too. But if they changed it just to hide this clear statement they've
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Great advice, with many application, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall%27s_law A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. I'm not sure if it always works for a MVP; I
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Now 0-for-3, SpaceX's Elon Musk Vows to Make Orbit (2008)(wired.com)
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Indeed, psychological investigations have found that entrepreneurs aren’t more risk- tolerant than non-entrepreneurs. They just have an extraordinary ability to believe in their own visions, so much so that they think what they’re
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rms did a great job with GPL, fighting copyright with copyright - though v3, with patent conditions, has not seen universal adoption (because too late? or a more fundamental problem?) A distinction with surgeons is their work is not reprodu
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What it strongly suggests is that in the evolution of language, a computational system developed, and later on it was externalized. So, the beginning of human language was not communication, but a computational system. Interesting
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What is vim like on an e-ink display? Especially the "animation" of cursor movement, text entry, text editing and scrolling
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We have to mention the famous mathematician Paul Erdős http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the
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The inflection is nice, especially at the end, sometimes falling, sometimes rising. I guess this isn't yet available on desktop voice search? Since google knows so much about me, can I say: - what movie should I see? - book tickets - mark
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or you could just use the old html version of gmail, and open as many messages as you like in different tabs. http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html
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> Everywhere that agriculture and civilization went, lactose tolerance came along. Odd that they don't mention physical displacement: invasion, dispossession, death. The gene would likely have coincided with other developments of civili
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For redundant backups, can also push to bitbucket Private repositories, as many as you like, free. https://bitbucket.org/plan I think they justify it by (1) charging when you have more users; (2) Atlassian's under-the-radar Enterprise-sal
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Isn't cooperation the real basis of civilization? Rules of civility/politeness help of course, but without a basic respect for others, it's not enough. A civilization that stops cooperating soon stops existing. I think the dismissive top c
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True, but maybe the nature of the demand has changed, as computers have matured into consumer devices. However... if some new way of using computers comes along, it seems more likely to emerge in a more open system (like windows or androi
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I feel bad for Microsoft. When you are first with a new product with great benefits, everyone forgives your missteps, because it's the only one - the best there is. But when you copy, you are competing with something that has been through
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Nice postscript about ARM, a British company.
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This is the path to desktop disruption but Note: Nexus 7 lacks HDMI out How does performance compare - what's an equivalent netbook/laptop/desktop? BTW: Nexus 10 is looking good, cortex A-15 http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2012/10/26/impress
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> "Contains natural enzymes" to "The detergent has enzymes. Grains made of alcalase and esperase protein molecules are dissolved in the detergent, thereby making clothes cleaner." I think the latter is a less complete explanation, in
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I think of NeXT as Jobs' "second system effect", he tried to get everything right. BTW: the www was developed on a NeXT box http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT#Software_applications
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Gosling said similar about Java https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=dfjug.org/thefeelofjava.p...
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Other animals have much in common with us: able to navigate their environment, recognize specific objects etc, they have emotions of fear, anger, affection. And they have some problem-solving ability. They also have a lot less brain hardwar

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