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by Jd 16y ago
It is a natural byproduct of the speed of submissions and necessity to hit a certain number of points before "making" it.
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by Jd 16y ago
I found out that Posterous could not successfully import my Tumblr blog posts despite several attempts, which wasted a good bit of my time and made me inclined never to try the service again.
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by Jd 16y ago
There are lots of subtle things they have already achieved that you might not know about because they are not covered extensively in the press because if they were... For instance, Random House recently bowed to pressure and did not publish
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by Jd 16y ago
Not speculation. Stated by Google employees on the Protocol lists explicitly last year.
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by Jd 16y ago
"Women can be equally competitive if they desire. It’s not a question of competency. Or a skill only boys have. If they want to succeed by competing they can. They just have to learn the rules and practice them." It is hard to imagine that
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by Jd 16y ago
Atlassian
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by Jd 16y ago
Fantastic article. Hits the nail on the head. Shortly after the announcement of Google Wave I flew out to the Bay Area for the introductory hackathon. I was intrigued, in fact fascinated by the idea of a federated protocol layer to replace
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by Jd 16y ago
They discontinued development themselves.
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by Jd 16y ago
Yes, but what can be done about it?
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by Jd 16y ago
Agreed.
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by Jd 16y ago
Idiocy, corruption and war profiteering != murder
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by Jd 16y ago
re: (2) What do you suggest? re: (4) Yes he may have revealed classified information but it does not appear he endangered the lives of anyone by the revelation (you think he did?)
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Ipad Owners are 'Selfish Elites'(apple.slashdot.org)
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Tag Folksonomy and Tag Synonyms(blog.stackoverflow.com)
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by Jd 16y ago
Actually, Paul Graham's explicit statement re: success is that you should sell out before you are operating at large scale (else you might start growing pointy hair). As it turns out I'm poking about Wharton these days myself and, although
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by Jd 16y ago
Would you argue that this is worse than the historical or societal norm? If not, it is a mere property of policing actions, not an indication of "totalitarianism" unless you would argue that virtually all societies are "totalitarianism," in
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by Jd 16y ago
I disagree. An ineffective totalitarian system is not totalitarian. A totalitarian system is only totalitarian insofar as it can effect fear on the part of those subjected to it. If the US government (or any other government) were able to s
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by Jd 16y ago
I don't quite get why the citations for major institutions have grown at a rate of ~10K per year since the late 90s, but much fewer for the decade before that. Can anyone explain?
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by Jd 16y ago
Drugs fall into different categories regarding the reason why people use them as well as their effect. Here are some commonly appearing taxons: (1) Drugs which are used to control a certain set of behavior or cultivate a certain desirable s
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by Jd 16y ago
Let's restate those rules of yours: (1) You cannot blame the drug if something negative happens while you are taking the drug (2) You can give the drug credit if something positive happens while you are taking the drug I wonder why you come
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by Jd 16y ago
Please explain why dependency on a single language that everyone knows as the sole form of communication is less efficient than multiple languages. Please also explain which global tech sectors China is becoming a dominant force in. As for
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by Jd 16y ago
I spent several years of my life learning Mandarin and, although I am about ready to enter a Masters program so that I will become proficient in both Japanese and Classical Chinese, I strongly doubt the utility of any and all of the above f
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by Jd 16y ago
Moreover, the Chinese do not want to speak Chinese with you but would prefer English. That said, this is only true in certain circumstances and among the younger generation. Among bureaucrats, for example, you will be hard pressed to find g
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by Jd 16y ago
Fubar can be a design principle. Perfect transparency is not desirable in every and all circumstances and often hoops are constructed just so that people will jump through them.
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by Jd 16y ago
Apples and oranges. I believe the discussion was of standard input systems (i.e. keyboards) not iPhone keyboards for which I can easily believe that handwriting outperforms pinyin and/or wubi.
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by Jd 16y ago
Gotcha
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by Jd 16y ago
No need to deny the sales pitch aspect so long as you have a product. What exactly is recommended by the CET/IUP folks (I know both FYI) ? Everything? There were a bunch of sites like yours awhile ago, although I'm not sure how many have su
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by Jd 16y ago
Who is "we" ?
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by Jd 16y ago
IMO it is both/and not either/or. Flogging + making things as interesting as possible. As I suggested on the other branch, I highly recommend calligraphy as, in my experience, appreciating the beauty of the characters helps with retention.
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by Jd 16y ago
I mean beating figuratively. Spending a lot of time each day doing something that might be perceived as uninteresting and menial is largely a matter of personal discipline, but this discipline can be imposed (or amplified) by the environmen

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