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by IsaacL 13y ago
Funny to see another ex-Warwickian here. Yes, I remember that coursework - I also found in interesting that Hugh Darwin thought SQL was too lax and flexible. I wish I'd taken the chance to ask his opinions on nosql.
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by IsaacL 13y ago
I've been addicted to Dice Wars www.gamedesign.jp/flash/dice/dice.html for a while now. Solarmax is cool too http://armorgames.com/play/11965/solarmax . I love these types of games - don't know what you'd call them, but they simplify the c
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by IsaacL 13y ago
I was working on an education idea a few years back in university, something very similar to YC's Lingt. After reading up on the market, I came to the conclusion that education was a sales-driven business, not a product-driven one - ie you
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by IsaacL 13y ago
It reads like someone who isn't a native English speaker (not a bad thing, their grammar is very good, but the cadence isn't quite natural), and the design screams "content farm", which makes you perceive the writing style negatively. It's
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by IsaacL 13y ago
This customer sounds like a bad apple and should be fired, but there is some justification for such an idea. ODesk enforces the use of their time tracking software for hourly projects. Their staff economist, John Joseph-Horton, has some int
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by IsaacL 13y ago
Yeah, I think Harvard is definitely an outlier. Sounds a lot like Oxbridge. I studied at two very good, but still 'second-tier' universities (Warwick and HKUST) and it wasn't much like you describe (both those universities are known for bei
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by IsaacL 13y ago
Ah, interesting. One thing that strikes me from reading biographies of people who lived in the past is how different the university system used to be. Of course, old universities were only for aristocratic men, but they also seemed to be a
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by IsaacL 13y ago
I'm surprised with he haven't got the usual HN comments which appear every year when this story is posted. That's a good thing, but here's my "inb4" reply for when those comments finally pop up. Type 1. Last year there was a comment like "I
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ELIZA for the 21st Century: a Working AI Therapist(ai-therapy.com)
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by IsaacL 13y ago
Thanks for the reply, and yes, that makes sense. What would you predict as the most likely other steps in the filter? Looking at our own planet, I would guess that it's a combination of a) it being simply infeasible to send large animals to
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Google says: Dont Trust Emails From Google(jezchatfield.tumblr.com)
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It would also be a good candidate for the Great Filter - the hidden factor that has stopped the development of all the other intelligent civilisations that would otherwise be out there. That would mean this is good news - we'd rather the Gr
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by IsaacL 13y ago
I could care less about the correct use of "beg the question".
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No. I come here because it's an entertaining distraction, but there are few articles I feel I have to read. So I normally visit every few hours, open a bunch of interesting articles and comment threads on the homepage, start reading one o
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by IsaacL 13y ago
A very interesting article. Though I felt that this part: "If at any time during his or her life, the person commits a crime or aberrant social act, the individual is called to the center of the village and the people in the community form
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by IsaacL 13y ago
Very interesting. The big idea, as I see it, is that intelligent systems try to maintain as many possible futures as they can - to keep their options open. People often think that all living beings are driven by the need to reproduce, but t
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by IsaacL 13y ago
When I saw this story, my first thought was to go to the comments and do a ctrl-F "michaelochurch". Was not disappointed. I think this story is essentially the Clueless -> Loser transition in Gervais principle terminology.
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Journalist claims "Guantanamo Detainees Have Cable TV, Games Consoles"(businessinsider.com)
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by IsaacL 14y ago
Pity the poor foo at http://bar.com/ .
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by IsaacL 14y ago
I've seen the world of freelance hiring from both sides, which gave me an interesting perspective. As a freelancer myself, I know how annoying it is when your bank account is dwindling, you need work, but people take so long to get back t
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by IsaacL 14y ago
I feel sorry for the student. This is going to be another of those "someone makes a dumb faux pas" stories that's copy-pasted all over the internet for everyone to jump on their high horse about.
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by IsaacL 14y ago
There's a few sites focusing on offering a "vetted freelance marketplace" of some description. Toptal, Scoutzie, and one or two others that I can't remember the name of right now. I actually just quit working on a startup that aimed to do e
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by IsaacL 14y ago
Doing this has the same advantages and disadvantages, for both businesses and customers, as price-fixing or forming a cartel. I'm not saying it's the same as forming a cartel, maybe a cartel lite . Think about it: from the point of view of
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by IsaacL 14y ago
I've thought this for a while. At least having subcategories for /programming and /startups would solve a few issues that people have - if you only want programming related links, only read /programming. Though personally I think there shou
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by IsaacL 14y ago
Yes, I too am confused by how paleo makes some people so angry. Try it for yourself, or don't, who cares? About two months I tried massively reducing the amount of sugar and carbs I consume, and saw good results. I wouldn't call my diet "pa
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by IsaacL 14y ago
It doesn't surprise me at all. Just like lower-tier universities have harsher rules for students, or cheap hotels have to ask for a larger % as a deposit, the more exclusive you are, the more you can trust the people you choose. If you have
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by IsaacL 14y ago
Yeah, I think the server is struggling to cope. Main issue is the company I was working for previously encouraged me to put some of the logic on the backend ("or people will copy-paste the code"). If it wasn't for that, it would all be stat
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by IsaacL 14y ago
I was working on this project last year, but for various reasons never got around to properly finishing it. I recently decided to get the code I have so far online, even if it's not perfect. Tip: play on Explore mode, it's more fun (though
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by IsaacL 14y ago
One of the reasons falls are so fatal for old people is because elderly people in our society rarely stay active. Look at cultures like the Chinese, where you so elderly women up in the morning doing Taichi, or working out on those weird ou
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by IsaacL 14y ago
http://www.quora.com/Technology-Trends/What-will-be-the-next... Is it this? One of the answers matches your phrasing.

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