IsaacL

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by IsaacL 17y ago
If the US could make excuses for not paying off its debts, US Treasury bonds wouldn't have a triple AAA rating.
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by IsaacL 17y ago
Started off with some good points, but then went on to adopt a definition of "social media" that was so broad as to be useless. That too many Facebook "friendships" might devalue reasonable friendships is a reasonable point. Implying that F
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by IsaacL 17y ago
My first thought was that they were trying to protect their employees from the Chinese people, a subset of whom seem quite keen on starting nationalistic internet lynch mobs. Obviously the government is pretty dangerous as well, but I thoug
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by IsaacL 17y ago
Perfect timing - I've been playing around with arcade-style games in Clojure, trying to get them to work as applets.
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by IsaacL 17y ago
I'm a student, and can't afford to pay to watch Mixergy. But I still enjoy watching the videos while they're available for free, and I don't begrudge Andrew for wanting to make money off his own hard work. "HOME OF THE AMBITIOUS UPSTART" -
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by IsaacL 17y ago
Great link (though it should come with a procrastination warning...) I've just spent over an hour browsing through it. It's definitely a different perspective.
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by IsaacL 17y ago
His book is also excellent: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0123694965?ie=UTF8&ta... - I checked it out of the library recently and it really is a bible for game design. It literally covers everything you'd want to know about makin
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by IsaacL 17y ago
Although this guy is correct in saying that FarmVille, Mafia Wars, etc are really crappy, game-play wise (but excellent slot machines), I think Facebook games hold massive promise for indie developers; they're bringing casual games to a mas
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by IsaacL 17y ago
Isn't the obvious problem that it's a terrible idea? I can't comment on subway commuters, but I've never been especially interested in meeting people on my commute, beyond the occasional random smalltalk. "Each one of my co-founders was a k
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by IsaacL 17y ago
Links to a presentation by Jesse Schell, whose book on game design - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0123694965?ie=UTF8&ta... - I read recently. If you're at all interested in getting into games, this is such an essential read. It
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by IsaacL 17y ago
1. It takes only 1 hour for a post to disappear from the “New” page. Inevitable for a news site. 2. The Point system sets the wrong incentives Most people seem to be in it for the points. This could happen, but I haven't seen many signs of
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by IsaacL 17y ago
Can someone with statistics knowledge comment on whether these results are significant? With 10,000 trials they probably are, but it'd be nice to get more insight than raw percentages can provide.
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by IsaacL 17y ago
I didn't actually expect this to get posted. I assumed it had been posted to HN already, but I wanted to see what the discussion was (when you post an already posted link, you get taken to the comments page for that link).
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Larry and Sergey to give up control of Google(businessinsider.com)
3 points by IsaacL 17y ago|2 comments
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by IsaacL 17y ago
A startup in her 60s? That is impressive. Best of luck to your mum!
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by IsaacL 17y ago
Learning Chinese involves a lot of rote learning and memorisation （at least the writing does). Programming is a flowful activity that I enjoy doing. So I don't really see them as a same. One similarity: actually using the skills practically
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by IsaacL 17y ago
I've recently become much more aware of these 'trend' articles. When you realise that journalists love writing about new trends that they think they've identified, and that people love reading them... you learn to be a bit more skeptical as
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by IsaacL 17y ago
No. (Personally, I wouldn't try making yet another social bookmarking site. The only way I can see of competing with the existing players is to market it better so that you get users who've never heard of Digg/Reddit/SU/Delicious/etc. Hint:
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by IsaacL 17y ago
I agree; I wrote something similar as a comment on the TC post. I really can't see a vanity URL on someone else's site that you got for free is really your property, so all this talk about Facebook 'snatching' it from him is over-dramatic.
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by IsaacL 17y ago
Quite interesting, though it seems that more than a few seem to be extrapolations of current fads.
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Jobs of 2030(sciencesowhat.direct.gov.uk)
1 points by IsaacL 17y ago|1 comments
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by IsaacL 17y ago
An excellent article; my only caveat was at the beginning, where he basically said "China is not capitalist, it's communist because it lacks human rights". My initial thought was "it's possible for a country to be both capitalist and author
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by IsaacL 17y ago
This is something I've been thinking for ages; the future probably won't look like the scifi movie version of the future with holoscreens and voice recognition and gestures. Useful always beats cool in the long run, no matter how you market
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by IsaacL 17y ago
Some good advice (don't be pedantic, don't tell people what they should do), some not so good. Becoming a geek is more socially acceptable these days. A lot of people are interested in technology. A few girls find shy, geeky guys attractive
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by IsaacL 17y ago
It's an exaggeration to call China Daily a propaganda vessel. Yes, I'm serious. Also, the present leadership of China has no real desire to denounce capitalism. Other than that, your criticisms are valid.
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by IsaacL 17y ago
In fairness, I thought that when I read that line too - it seems almost too perfect. Goes to show that, despite all the quotes about world markets for five computers, sometimes yesterday's futurologists were right.
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by IsaacL 17y ago
Probably the best prediction I've read on this thread.
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by IsaacL 17y ago
- Facebook will not be displaced by another social network. It will IPO some time in the next two years. - Twitter will become profitable, but not as much as some expect. It will be less profitable than Facebook, and may sell to another com
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by IsaacL 17y ago
I'm also a fairly new programmer (I've only been programming seriously for about a year and a half), and I've been learning Clojure on the side. So far all I've done was a few Euler problems and played with some Java interop (Swing graphics
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by IsaacL 17y ago
Hume pretty much refuted this point of view 300 years ago. Lack of determinism does not create free will; if your actions were totally random and uncaused, then they could not be said to be free. They'd just be the equivalent of unconscious

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