Silentio

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by Silentio 18y ago
He doesn't stash or throw rocks in the off season at the zoo. Says something about zoos, or at least the "look at the monkey" idiots who visit them, doesn't it?
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by Silentio 18y ago
I don't disagree with you on any particular point. I was only stating that to dismiss a PhD in the humanities "as a waste" says a lot more about the position from which one makes that dismissal than about the humanities PhD itself.
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by Silentio 18y ago
Exactly. Nintendo changed what the player has in her hands. They did it with the N64 (analogue control) and they have done it more radically with the Wii. I think it is Peter Molyneux who has said if you want to innovate in gaming change wh
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by Silentio 18y ago
"grad school is probably a waste, certainly most PhD's in the humanities are." This rests on the assumption that learning is only valuable insofar as it helps the learner attain greater financial reward. You may define knowledge as a commod
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by Silentio 18y ago
Have we learned nothing? Don't name your robot HAL!
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by Silentio 18y ago
I don't understand why Starbucks would release instant coffee at a time when it is being criticized for getting too far away from its core business, namely, good coffee. The title of this post might as well read, "instant coffee: almost alw
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by Silentio 18y ago
"Hey, uh, guys? Could we build a hanger to, you know, put the drones in? You know, just in case, uh, Google takes a picture of the base, or whatever."
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by Silentio 18y ago
The comments here are interesting. They either breath a sigh of relief and welcome the change in persona with open arms, or they let out a "pfft," uninteresting and wish for the old Zed. Any mediators out there?
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by Silentio 18y ago
That book is so incredibly good. When my kids are the right age I am going to give them that book to read so they will get hooked on science. It should be required reading in high school biology classes. Think about a class centered around
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by Silentio 18y ago
This is why bell choirs are either totally awful or completely amazing and never anything in between.
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by Silentio 18y ago
I wonder if the Twitter team realized the potential ways people have taken and will take the basic twitter platform when they came up with the idea.
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by Silentio 18y ago
I agree with you. We know that our planet and the qualities that it possesses are appropriate for sustaining life. Who's to say a form of life couldn't arise on a planet incapable of sustaining life as we know it. Would that life, then, vie
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by Silentio 18y ago
I don't agree that Twitter is a threat to Google, but I can see it gaining a foothold as a place for consumers, for example, to get direct user data on a product or company that is not possible through product reviews.
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by Silentio 18y ago
True, I suppose I was thinking too narrowly. I guess you'd have the xbox in there with some games running. And Excel spreadsheets. People could really get a kick out of plugging some numbers into one of those! And Word. Nothing like throwin
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by Silentio 18y ago
Good luck with that Microsoft. I think the thing that drives traffic into Apple stores is that people want to experience an OS they haven't used before and see what the buzz around Apple is about. I have heard good things about Windows 7, b
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by Silentio 18y ago
Yes, it seems like Tesla Motors is building their business the right way. They certainly picked the right name for the company!
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by Silentio 18y ago
All seems very subjective to me. The research, I mean.
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by Silentio 18y ago
To quote: "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
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by Silentio 18y ago
Give me a break. If you don't want to read 25 things about your friends, don't read them! I'll echo harpastum saying the most ridiculous thing about this is that it made it to the front page of TIME. What will the topic of the author's nex
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by Silentio 18y ago
Regarding the mention of Woz's interest in joining the board at Apple. What exactly would his role be there. I know Woz is an engineer, and a well respected one at that, but Woz seems like he just likes to tinker with things on a personal l
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Tubes for the Sticks: Internet for Rural America(graphpaper.com)
15 points by Silentio 18y ago|14 comments
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Programmers are Tiny Gods(daringfireball.net)
1 points by Silentio 18y ago|0 comments
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by Silentio 18y ago
I did read the majority of the article, though I admit I did quickly skim sections. Must have missed it.
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by Silentio 18y ago
Ah, okay. Thanks for clearing that up.
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by Silentio 18y ago
I would agree with this. I wouldn't call myself a hacker in the traditional sense of the word. I dabble in HTML and CSS but other than that I'm not much of a programmer. I am here, however, because the articles that come up are interesting
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by Silentio 18y ago
I think in spoken English this is the case. However, using the more formal "one" in writing, even on a blog, is a good way to clear up any misunderstanding a reader might have. Though the use of "you" is more and more accepted in everyday
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by Silentio 18y ago
I'm not with him 100% but he does have a point. I know too many people who think that "little blue e" is the internet.
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by Silentio 18y ago
Same experience here. I'd rather look at a list.
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by Silentio 18y ago
It can't help that the only Android phone on the market currently is on T-Mobile. T-Mobile is a deal breaker.
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by Silentio 18y ago
It's different when I think about the planet as a whole, or even when I am in a crowd or am viewing a crowd on ground level. But the vantage point the pictures in the post give us gives me an uneasy feeling.

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