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by 6ren 13y ago
Try this: we don't get alien visitors because space travel is prohibitively expensive. But communication is cheap. So you'd expect the sky to be filled with messages, maximally compressed and/or encrypted, and so indistinguis
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A programmer once pointed out to me that my project wasn't "cool" because it was too easy to use. There were no bragging rights; using it didn't impress anyone. Therefore, to get the aura of cool, make it a bit impenet
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by 6ren 13y ago
What if it takes more than a year? What if they are working much harder to invent something than regular, $100k employment? What if not everyone has the ability to do it? What if, for many programmers who pour in the resources, they don&#x2
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On reddit, I often see comments about upcoming games that really strike me as astroturfing... It's mainly that it makes so much sense for manufacturers to do this (word of mouth is more compelling than "advertising"), that I
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Anyone bookmaking? My money's on $15 million (linear + mirror flip at the end). The key thing here is that phone-like devices replacing desktops is inevitable. It's straightforward historically-supported Christensen + Moore. Phon
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Could someone upload this to youtube, please? vimeo is unwatchable on old/underpowered devices.
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joke: Legal wanted to open-source it, but was vetoed by Engineering. But seriously, this kind of back-compatibility horror is the hallmark of success, where success means enduring.
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Your personal value is not how much you take, but how much you give. You are a resource. Some resources are richer than others.
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by 6ren 13y ago
If you spend the day exercising self-control (angry customers, clueless co-workers), by the time you get home your cog resource tank is flashing E. The Linus solution becomes increasingly appealing...
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Remember, it's all immutable data structures. So whatever you do locally (i.e. apart from git push ), the old version is still there - git reflog will show it. Git eventually garbage collects old versions (i.e. not accessible from a
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by 6ren 13y ago
One thing that troubles me about technological progress is whether we really are making anything better. Sure, we solve one problem... but it creates problems of its own, and exposes previously hidden problems. I think this article provide
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one page (print dialog) http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelellsberg/2011/06/24/the-t...
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Maybe. I think that satisfying work (stressing that it's "work" not just pleasurable activity) will always be creating value. And value is valuable to someone, in some way, hence there's a way to make money from it. Mayb
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A self-running business seems cool and magical - like creating a living thing... life! But, I think, for truly passive income (meaning it runs itself), he's right that it does have to be some kind of arbitrage opportunity, that will te
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by 6ren 13y ago
Scribd got better! It's comparable, perhaps better, than google's viewer: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.leafpete...
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GPU review (Adreno 320, in the Snapdragon S4 Pro) http://www.anandtech.com/show/6112/qualcomms-quadcore-snapdr... Less powerful than GPU in iPad 3 (or iPad 2 in some benchmarks); but of course, it's got a sm
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by 6ren 13y ago
One seemingly unhelpful answer is that the only way a startup ever fails is by the founders giving up. But when you consider startups like AirBnB, who at one time were selling politician-themed breakfast cereal, maybe it is the simple truth
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It's telling how they mention incredible performance/power ratio only in passing, but focus their pitch on the unified architecture across different classes of machine (mobile to supercomputer), rather like Fred Brooks' 360 p
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It sounds like the key benefit is intrinsically problematic... How could they build the platform the right way?
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Arms dealing has a long and profitable history. Is the dynamic different, for the consumer, in an artificial world? Even cyclists happily pay top dollar for fancy components - and though they may appreciate the engineering, advantage and p
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My observation of people I know is that "euroasians" (mixed eurporean and asian) are better looking than average. The ones I know are also smarter than average, but that's harder to be sure of. It seems it's simply &quo
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Log4j 2: Performance close to insane(grobmeier.de)
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Very cool, but it looks like latency is a problem, since vortex propagation speed is limited by the medium of air (I'm guessing...) It might be OK when very close to the device, as in the tablet examples. Compared with rumble/vibr
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"As intelligence goes up, happiness goes down. See, I made a graph. I make lots of graphs." - Lisa Simpson
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About 2/3...3/4 the way through, the mood felt a bit forced, and it occurred to me that he was applying the formula to the piece itself. This may be a taste of the problem... but I think it's more imperfect application than d
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It's a refinement of the Hero's Journey (see Vogler's memo; Joseph Campbell). The formula itself: http://www.slate.com/content/slate/sidebars/2013/07/the_save...
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There is a correlation between quality and success, it's just not very strong. And when you get to phenomenal success, the only correlation is that it just has to be good enough, to pass some minimal threshold of quality. i.e. to hav
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It makes sense we'd refine our theory of story telling. It is modelling an aspect of humanity, analogous to how lossy image compression models human visual perception. Along the way, we might have a spuriously precise theory, that excl
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They are a counter-example: you are not the customer (you aren't paying for it), but you also are not the product.
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Yes, "without pushing" is key, but I think there's more to it... Theoretically, google ads are enriching, by noting the existence of an option likely to interest you. The adwords model came from goto.com (then overture.com) w

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