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List of Common Misconceptions(en.wikipedia.org)
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by DaniFong 18y ago
They have a process where only about one in five of the games they start makes it out the door. They cull ruthlessly.
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by DaniFong 18y ago
And New Scientist!
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Eliezer, do you think AI is likely to be built, or emergent? I was thinking the other day that the internet (and the services and people who interact with it) are collectively gaining towards sentience: it has memory (archive.org), recall
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Ah, one issue from the SHJT list is that they weight more recent awards more heavily. Cambridge was a preeminent force in science and engineering in the earliest half of the century, but seems now to have diminished somewhat relative to oth
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Greenland Deglaciating at Triple the Rate of Last Year(greencarcongress.com)
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by DaniFong 18y ago
You can show fairly quickly that the success of Caltech alumni in sciences, as measured by awards, is comparable only to the École Normale Supérieure (and possibly Phystech in Russia depending on how you count). Check out http://www.arwu.o
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Thank you for your perspective.
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by DaniFong 18y ago
We (a compressed air powered vehicle startup) have a few things we repeat from time to time. I guess you could call them indicative of core values. The biggest difference with those listed in the OP, I guess, is that all of these are extern
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by DaniFong 18y ago
I support the policies of the big 3 and the UAW together as much as I support the policies of the paramilitary and rebel guerrillas of Colombia, or the militaristic policies of Israel and the PLA. Not at all. Dehumanizing is exactly the w
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Demanding benefits or high pay isn't the only thing they've extracted. The GM Job Bank is one of the most dehumanizing things I've ever heard of. The UAW is only considering dropping it now. ( http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0510/1
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by DaniFong 18y ago
his soon to be bother/sister, Ah. To be a bother; the sacred duty of little sisters everywhere...
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In the long run, yes, it's pretty much the same as JIT-ed Java. But technology always seems to be a moving target, and native, compiled binaries are probably going to be important for a long time. The interesting thing is that now the plugi
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Whoops, my mistake.
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Nativeclient: run x86 native code in Web Applications.(code.google.com)
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I've probably learned ten times more from the internet during the time when I was in public school than I did from school activities. Those who didn't have access were, and are, at a massive disadvantage. If the kids in now unserved communi
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by DaniFong 18y ago
I asked whether I should follow Good or Evil and it told me to go outside.
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by DaniFong 18y ago
There was another study where I read that the one degree that correlated best with success in business was philosophy. Additionally, for what it's worth, philosophers have among the highest GRE scores.
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I am a committee, chaired by a hedonist (mindhacks.com)
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Absolutely. The frightening thing is that average programmers on COBOL project seemed to still turn out ~3 lines of COBOL a day.
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by DaniFong 18y ago
The author suggests that programmers vary in talent by reliability, buglessness, extensibility and maintainability. He goes on to suggest that these are hard to measure. "It's not that good developers can churn out 10 times as many features
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by DaniFong 18y ago
I wasn't about to find the original report either, so I could be mistaken in this way.
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by DaniFong 18y ago
IIRC, one of the major results of the Ericcson language studies (see for example http://www.erlang.se/publications/Ulf_Wiger.pdf ) was that the lines of code metric was more or less constant over projects and across languages. "Comparisons
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by DaniFong 18y ago
I'm pretty sure this is false. Hackers such as Guido van Rossum or Linus Torvalds or Bill Joy are many orders of magnitude more productive than average programmers. Some of the old IBM studies cited in Peopleware show the average programmer
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Interview with Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm (video)(iinnovate.blogspot.com)
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by DaniFong 18y ago
Timebanking is a great concept. However, amazingly, the IRS also considers 'time banking' tax evasion. Apparently, if someone does something for you as a favor, you're supposed to log it as 'income' with wages charged at 'fair-market-price'
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by DaniFong 18y ago
There are probably in thousands of potential greentech companies that could achieve profitability on 10 - 100 million. Probably the best example here is solar, as many companies already have achieved profitability, but there are tons of opp
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"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you."
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Nah. Disco became mainstream, yet launched from gay clubs, which are in fact hookup-applications. There are quite a few other examples. Apparently these things do cross over.
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You can't build a user base.

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