DaniFong

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by DaniFong 18y ago
Honestly the bandwidth on HN is pretty low. You still have huge advantages if you're meeting or working with someone in person. Written communication is different though. Like photographs, sometimes the snapshots of written thought are more
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by DaniFong 18y ago
I think that the dynamics of the latest bubble burst had more to do with psychology, sociology and the moral questions of old than economics, and increasingly people are viewing it that way. What we're dealing with is to a large extent an e
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by DaniFong 18y ago
My cofounder did it. We shall see :-/ To be honest, the ideal would have been to keep the six figure job and use it to fund us, but Midway games was/is going down like a sinking ship.
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On Basketball and Science Camps(edge.org)
1 points by DaniFong 18y ago|0 comments
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A Forebrain for the World Mind (W. Danny Hillis)(edge.org)
4 points by DaniFong 18y ago|1 comments
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by DaniFong 18y ago
That's right; our perception is constantly changing. Thank's for the poem. It brought a smile to the New Year. :-)
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Carmack is a hacking demigod, but to me the 'throwaway line' about environmentalism was the most interesting thing in the whole post. It struck me that someone I did idolize had a completely different value system. Obviously that which driv
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Very cool, thanks!
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by DaniFong 18y ago
My point is that one can know something about the content of one's own subjective experience, and how it changes. Knowing about someone else's subject experience is a much taller order. So far people seem to learn about it by assuming that
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Nothing interesting? How can we be so sure? Qualia can at least be found out about, if perhaps not so scientifically. Recreational drugs can be taken to play with perception. Qualia can be made to change fairly reproducibly. Maybe you can't
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by DaniFong 18y ago
I recall some kind of problem when I attempted to do this at Dalhousie, but I can't remember what it was. Maybe I'll try again soon.
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by DaniFong 18y ago
38 bold exhortations to live life creatively. Here's my favorite: "Sing in your own voice. Piccasso was a terrible colorist. Turner couldn't paint human beings worth a damn. Saul Steinberg's formal drafting skills were appalling. TS Eliot h
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Self Awareness, the Last Frontier. By V. S. Ramachandran(edge.org)
41 points by DaniFong 18y ago|35 comments
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Ah, thanks, that does shed some light.
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Of course, and I'm happy that he's having fun. My point is peripheral. But it's interesting to me that he so decisively states that he doesn't care at all for the environment except in consequence to human life. Is this a common view?
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by DaniFong 18y ago
More specifically I was interested in a hosted interface that uses git as the backend.
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by DaniFong 18y ago
"I am fairly hostile to most of the environmental movement, finding it generally a modern tribal religion that justifies condemnation and control of others in the name of protecting the environment. I care nothing at all for the environmen
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Do you have a link? I've been looking for something like this.
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Wikipedia isn't intended to be anchored in the perspectives of a single person's views; in the ideal case Wikipedia is supposed to be completely neutral. Even if one's blog is more wiki-like, the owner would necessarily be associated with t
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Communication and Collaboration -- The Big Upgrade(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
16 points by DaniFong 18y ago|11 comments
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by DaniFong 18y ago
The article seems to ignore one thing: rent control helps people stay together, and in doing so helps communities stay together. The examples they give of communities with rent control and higher rents are places I'd want to live in. They h
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by DaniFong 18y ago
The page design is both inspirational, and raises the bar frighteningly high.
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Incidentally, readers might think that this is psychobabble, but as an ENFP with ENTP/INTP tendencies, I've continually struggled with starting projects that I never finished. Then I met my cofounder. He's INTJ/ENTJ. In our working relation
924.
by DaniFong 18y ago
I think the social stigma argument is oversimplified. Nerds often just trade the standard status hierarchy for another, governed by more nerdly pursuits. Yet positive nerd social spaces and stereotypes for boys are much more accessible than
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by DaniFong 18y ago
It's often said that the Chinese were on the leading edge of scientific advantage throughout much of history, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading this extensive list.
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List of Chinese Inventions(en.wikipedia.org)
19 points by DaniFong 18y ago|14 comments
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by DaniFong 18y ago
I started playing SimCity and Lemmings when I was just a sprite (my mother was as obsessed as I was at two), which put my best foot forward in systems thinking. Then I was on to SimEarth, the Island of Dr. Brain, the Incredible Machine, Rai
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by DaniFong 18y ago
To be fair, most men aren't pursuing careers in mathematics either. The population of professional mathematicians is a puny subset of the population at large. Even a tiny effects of cumulative cultural mores, when working on people subject
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by DaniFong 18y ago
I don't think dilanj is suggesting that no biologically driven differences exist. I think that the argument is that at MIT there's a preselected, science focused group of women, who have their professional involvement with math decrease dra
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Excellent. A major interest of mine, thanks for the link!

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