Lambent_Cactus

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by Lambent_Cactus 12y ago
"Despite the title of this post, reading almost 8,000 messages and scoring them for how personal they were was clearly intractable." Big data!
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by Lambent_Cactus 12y ago
"One group was asked to talk to the stranger who sat down next to them on the train that morning. Other people were told to follow standard commuter norms, keeping to themselves. By the end of the train ride, commuters who talked to a
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by Lambent_Cactus 13y ago
This is a scary thing to be the person running, no? Could be the hook for a great thriller.
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by Lambent_Cactus 13y ago
When did we decide that Michael Arrington, of all people, was a credible source for allegations like this in the first place?
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by Lambent_Cactus 13y ago
"If all that is alledged is true, that's pretty damning and this isn't just a general bitcoin crackdown." This could easily be the open move in a general crackdown, a sympathetic test case to establish that operating a b
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by Lambent_Cactus 13y ago
At my last gig we used Stypi or Google Docs plus a phone to do live code exercises, and CodePair likes like a step up from that. But what we're running at my current gig is sending a trivial problem ahead (after an initial phone screen
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by Lambent_Cactus 13y ago
In the long run, the price of food and housing should match the marginal cost of producing them. Since a relatively small portion of the (Swiss, at least) population is poor, we should expect that feeding and housing all of them won't
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by Lambent_Cactus 13y ago
The author appears to intend that latter meaning, where SV companies have more egalitarian ownership structures on their own, but that now that we've seen the results, the government should encourage those structures more broadly in the eco
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by Lambent_Cactus 13y ago
Victims of domestic violence, to name the most obvious example, probably feel differently about making their location indexed and searchable for anyone to look up without restriction.
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by Lambent_Cactus 13y ago
As far as I can tell from the article, EFF is asking for transparency into how ALPR records are used in the LA law enforcement. The only policy response even mentioned - and it's not even explicitly called for - is for the legislature to s
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by Lambent_Cactus 14y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but how do the HTML and the JS panes relate to each other? Neither appears to refer to or include the other, but obviously they're combining somehow to produce the output.
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by Lambent_Cactus 14y ago
"the government steps in, briefly nationalizes them, sells off the parts (the shareholders get nothing, of course), and life continues" That's the solution I would have preferred in 2008, but the political system has shown it can't commit t
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by Lambent_Cactus 14y ago
If 80% of candidates are failing, you want to ask it right at the start, to minimize the time you waste interviewing people who aren't qualified.
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by Lambent_Cactus 14y ago
Take it from this gringo, you can tell he's being at least a little facetious even just watching it cold with no knowledge of Korean language or culture, let alone the artist's discography. The only question is how much of it is skewering
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by Lambent_Cactus 14y ago
Call me old-fashioned, but if you're not making new technology, you're not a start-up, you're a small business. Making a small business is cool, and if your small business happens to be a website, that's cool too. But if all you want is to
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by Lambent_Cactus 14y ago
At this point they're just trolling the "The [New York] Times Is On It" twitter feed: https://twitter.com/NYTOnIt
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by Lambent_Cactus 14y ago
I fell like Snow Crash would be much more successful as an animated movie. There's a lot of whimsical, somewhat silly stuff in there that works in a book and could work animated but doesn't translate well to live action.
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by Lambent_Cactus 14y ago
I get that you're going for a mashup of "Easel" and "Easily" as in "Easily create Infographics!" The spelling, however, makes my mind go first to "Weaselly", which I imagine is not the association you want to create.
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
The code is on GitHub: https://github.com/meteor/meteor
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
It also has to have some effect on lowering the costs to launching a new startup by limiting the downside risk, particularly to technical talent. Surely some people have though "Sure, I have a good job now, but if it doesn't work out we'll
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
Really really cool. Minor copy edit on your splash page - there's a 't' on the end of 'messages' in this section: Streak Plays Nice Streak never alters any data in your Gmail. No extra labels, and no moving around your messagest. Streak add
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
Which is to say, asking questions isn't so much a marker of intelligence so much as of privilege. More than any particular subject matter, that's what Harvard is instructing its students in.
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Never Hackathon Alone(blog.trevoraustin.org)
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
Relevant and prescient: http://xkcd.com/137/
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
Is the author really wasting time worrying about this? TechCrunch's market power seems a lot less permanent to me than the existence of cliques in high school. Enough negative stories like this one can cost TC enough readers and enough in
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
I for one have always known that I am, in an irreducible way, smarter and indeed _better_ than everyone around me. I am gratified to see this empirical reality reflected in scientific literature, and see no reason to question these finding
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
"a huge and growing body of knowledge" ... Laydeez
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
The naming is a little off, isn't it? South of Houston all bets for street numbers are off, so I'm fine with making up South Xth street, but you should maintain the consistency the grid currently has. You've lost the East/West distinction
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
Silicon Valley isn't a special place for invention and for startups because of special infrastructure or special laws, but because of special ideas and special norms. Those norms don't hold up in court, and they erode a little bit every ti
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
Shorter NY Technologists: We have no theory of social change. Which, you know, is fine. If you think the way to change the world is with your "subscription-based site for fashion essentials" I say let a thousand flowers bloom. But you sho

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