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541.
by 6ren 14y ago
Extreme expressiveness makes a data-format harder to understand at a glance; and data is generally dumb enough not to need it. Examples are helpful. An example of an example: http://www.sinatrarb.com/
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by 6ren 14y ago
it's very easy in academic science to end up working on projects that are just little extensions of previously known stuff, and that's sort of a waste of time.
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Creature Comforts - Assistance Animals Now Come in All Shapes and Size [2008](nytimes.com)
1 points by 6ren 14y ago|0 comments
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Develop Android apps on the device(play.google.com)
46 points by 6ren 14y ago|44 comments
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by 6ren 14y ago
Google's web history, with its toolbar, allows you to search the pages you've visited before (not just their titles, as in browser history). That is, you can search the subset of web that you've seen http://support.google.com/accounts/bi
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by 6ren 14y ago
Just tried this to see if tab-completion works. It does (only for cd of course). BTW: what is "rc(1)"?
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by 6ren 14y ago
There can only be controversy when either the truth isn't clear, or it doesn't matter. If we knew the answer, and it mattered, everyone would do it that way (and those who didn't would lose to those who did). e.g. religious wars: vi v
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by 6ren 14y ago
This is why I don't want to buy a second-hand bike.
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by 6ren 14y ago
Love the concept, but I found Pipes got very complex to do anything I wanted - a common problem with visual tools. Zapier solves this by pre-configuring tasks that most people want. Also better times for it, with so many web-apps and web AP
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by 6ren 14y ago
The surprising bit is not that it explains the observations that it was modelled on, but that it explains further, unexpected observations that were unknown at that time. It's not that maths is so great, or even that models are great, but t
551.
by 6ren 14y ago
That $0.19 billion (at your [3]) becomes $6.93 billion, when adjusted for one-off charges (including $6.19 billion impairment of goodwill). Otherwise, it looks like a disaster for MS.
552.
by 6ren 14y ago
At PARC we had a slogan: "Point of view is worth 80 IQ points." It was based on a few things from the past like how smart you had to be in Roman times to multiply two numbers together; only geniuses did it. We haven't gotten any sm
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by 6ren 14y ago
ON vs ML, nice But there's also the stack. XML has XSD for validation and documentation; XSLT and XQuery for transformation; and most people seem to like XPath. The overwhelming response to analogues for JSON is horror - don't pollute our
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by 6ren 14y ago
Mutations can also be beneficial. I wonder if other traits, such as intelligence variability, are also related to father age? There's even a nice evolutionary coincidence: if you wanted to play with genes to make something, it's a good ide
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by 6ren 14y ago
In another sense, XML is strongly typed, in that it has a schema language (XML Schema - and DTDs are part of the XML spec itself).
556.
by 6ren 14y ago
A pain point is the way to start. Some, like the perfect fitting shirt or the package delivery kiosk, could give a strategic advantage to an existing industry player, and therefore provoke an acquisition bidding war. Or, they could concei
557.
by 6ren 14y ago
In the past, as PC's continued to improve past consoles, players switched to PC's, forcing the next generation of consoles. That's not happening this time around. It seems PC's have overshot the demand for power - a typical pattern accord
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by 6ren 14y ago
Similar to PageRank.
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by 6ren 14y ago
I read somewhere that it's common for people to plateau at a certain skill level, but some people overcome that. My google fu is not working for me, but I think it was to do with changing the approach. I've also heard of changing how you vi
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by 6ren 14y ago
Threats will continue until we have A Good Place to Work.
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by 6ren 14y ago
The mind is a muscle, use it or lose it. Similar to Dweck's growth mind-set: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Dweck#Contributions
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by 6ren 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect They tried increasing light. Result: increased productivity. They tried decreasing light. Result: increased productivity. Eventually they worked out that any change increased productivity. (re
563.
by 6ren 14y ago
http://bfi.org/about-bucky/biography/guinea-pig-b
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by 6ren 14y ago
Why did MySpace fail? Users are known to be sticky - they tend to stay with the same newspaper, brand of chocolate, chewing gum, household cleaning products and so on. But they are only sticky up to a point. If something is better by a su
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TEDx: 3D printed houses(youtube.com)
2 points by 6ren 14y ago|0 comments
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The inverse power of praise(nymag.com)
4 points by 6ren 14y ago|0 comments
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How to be a genius(er.ethz.ch)
2 points by 6ren 14y ago|0 comments
568.
by 6ren 14y ago
The deeply nested JSON (9 levels) seems difficult to understand without some kind of schema/detailed docs - though maybe domain users are already familiar with the underlying data's schema? Part of the problem is intrinsic data complexity,
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by 6ren 14y ago
Yes, it doesn't really matter how intelligence is defined, just that in aiming at creating an artificial mind, we'd try to include whatever was useful, including imagination. My reasoning is, if one machine can do it (us), it's possible fo
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by 6ren 14y ago
I didn't notice your point about impact. Impact is hard to measure purely objectively, but I agree Newtonian physics, being more fundamental, has had more impact. But it's also had 325 years to do so, whereas Information Theory has had on

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