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by 6ren 14y ago
Industries often have sayings that turn out to be relevant only in the short-term. It used to be that you needed to tackle a "technically difficult problem"; but many startups have succeeded by building something that people want without c
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by 6ren 14y ago
"Being sane in insane places", the 1973 Rosenhan experiment, concluded "we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
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by 6ren 14y ago
There's a theory that languages hitch a ride on platforms that do something useful, as a way of "scripting" (customizing or configuring) that platform. The obvious one for Javascript is the browser, but we can see others: C for unix; perl
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by 6ren 14y ago
tangent: an oddity about pajamas is they are actually quite formal, being a shirt and pants. The top has a collar, cuffs and a front pocket - more formal than a T-shirt. It's odd that people should dress for sleep as if attending an importa
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by 6ren 14y ago
> Normal people are pessimists [ about new ideas ] It's not that they're pessimists, it's just that they aren't interested in new ideas. I'm reading Guns, germs and steel , and it notes one advantage of European civilization was that i
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by 6ren 14y ago
The problem is scaling and complexity: if you have 100 interacting entities, and add one more, it increases complexity by a factor of 100x. The solution is to subdivide it into modules that can be treated as a single entity. The complexity
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by 6ren 14y ago
a related formalism is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity , the idea that the shortest possible program defines the complexity of the problem. Thoughts: - you might not have seen enough cases be able to characterise the t
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by 6ren 14y ago
> ...go for a binary representation. ... The question of what we humans need to read and write no longer has any bearing on what the computers need to work with. We seem to be heading away from binary. I think the bigger problem with XM
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by 6ren 14y ago
Good move. I still think it would be better to get as many people into beta access as possible (at the lowest price - or even no price), to maximize feedback and contributions. But he's still going to make it to $200,000, and it's still goi
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The question states they are in an order - ah, by that, they probably mean "not ordered".
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by 6ren 14y ago
For the first one, if they are in an order, and in an array, you can do a binary search, O(log2 n) time - better than linear time. Perhaps the question was misstated. Also, the friend's relationship is accidentally disclosed as a son.
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by 6ren 14y ago
Curiously, the big news on kickstarter in Dec 2010 was also a watch, also for an apple product: TikTok for the iPod Nano http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1104350651/tiktok-lunati... I wondered if apple might seize this, but they didn't
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by 6ren 14y ago
We're still evolving, but it's far overshadowed by cultural evolution, technology in particular. Significant evolutionary pressures at present include: rich people having fewer children; increasing infertility and sterility (caused by susce
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by 6ren 14y ago
Removing constraints (aka increasing flexibility) seems like a good bet, even if you don't know exactly how it will be helpful (all things being equal - i.e. you don't add new constraints/trade-offs) . There are forces/demands applied to ev
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by 6ren 14y ago
To bring out your implicit point, use the right tool for the job. For a simple job use JSON, for a complex job use XML (and XML schema, XSLT etc). Moreover, the existence of XML keeps JSON simple. Instead of complex needs motivating peopl
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by 6ren 14y ago
> Rather than claiming he invented JSON he instead says he discovered it–almost as if he was a naturalist on an expedition in some uncharted territory. JSON is part of javascript (it's even right there in the name). Far from uncharted t
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by 6ren 14y ago
Your cover letter (i.e. email) is far more important. Four short (1-2 sentences) paragraphs: 1. why you are choosing *them* 2. your basic competence for the job 3. what special talent you bring, that makes you outstanding 4. why y
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Adam Savage at TED-Ed "How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries"(education.ted.com)
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3D nano-printing(plus.google.com)
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Ray Kurzweil interview at SXSW 2012 [video](youtube.com)
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Ray Kurzweil: How my predictions are faring [2010, pdf](kurzweilai.net)
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Woz: Windows Phone more "intuitive and beautiful" than iPhone(wpcentral.com)
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platinum is not a rare earth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_earth_element
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How Can Planetary Resources Make a Profit From Mining Asteroids? [print](forbes.com)
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Firstly, the article is misleading in mentioning iron, when platinum group metals are their stated focus. Platinum at $1550/oz is priced much closer to gold ($1650/oz) than to iron ($30/ ton ), that's 50x the figure... 32,000x oz per ton..
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by 6ren 15y ago
Thanks: improvement; brand; free/ad supported. Looking at your site, looks like massive networks effects too, as people contribute quizzes that others can use (maybe it's fair to include viral word-of-mouth as a competitive advantage too,
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by 6ren 15y ago
> It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. - Steve Jobs But it depends on how new your product is; e.g. Macdonald's can calculate demand for new sto
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If you don't mind me asking, what's your competitive strategy? It's possible to create something valuable for yourself, and then it turns out other people value it too; but that can attract competitors. Though serendipity can often creates
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reminds me of Feynman's cargo cult science's rat mazes http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm
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A trip through the Graphics Pipeline 2011(fgiesen.wordpress.com)
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