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Accessibility is a Harsh Mistress(diveintomark.org)
17 points by __ 18y ago|2 comments
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The Plot to Kill Google(wired.com)
38 points by __ 18y ago|14 comments
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Threshold(youhaventlived.com)
1 points by __ 18y ago|0 comments
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Melting into Air: Before the financial system went bust, it went postmodern(newyorker.com)
9 points by __ 18y ago|0 comments
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by __ 18y ago
An economist's point of view is not indifference to human suffering. If you value the old lady's happiness, then you would be willing to trade other things (e.g. several seconds of your life) for it.
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by __ 18y ago
Not necessarily. Journalists, many of whom don't care about what's actually being measured, probably met them halfway.
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by __ 18y ago
True, but working in teams is hard. The larger the team must be, the harder it is to recruit, train, organize, supply, maintain confidentiality, keep out spies, and avoid detection (hence the cell structure). Forcing terrorists to work in
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Was the Yahoo/Google deal a ploy to weaken Yahoo?(betanews.com)
2 points by __ 18y ago|0 comments
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I wonder how much text messaging costs in China, where $0.20 USD is a larger fraction of the average person's income. I suspect it's much cheaper, and yet the companies presumably aren't losing money on it.
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The Singularity is Far(scottaaronson.com)
37 points by __ 18y ago|71 comments
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by __ 18y ago
As Arnaud Weber, a Google engineer and one of the characters in the comic book, says in a speech bubble: "We're applying the same kind of process isolation you find in modern operating systems." It is a geek's way of saying that developers
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Review of Chrome by a former IE designer(scottberkun.com)
24 points by __ 18y ago|6 comments
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by __ 18y ago
I love people who take risks and follow their passions, but if your resume lists a series of short stints at failed startups, I think it’s natural to question a person’s career management skills. What are "career management skills"? Two
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How I Learned to Love Middle Managers(inc.com)
57 points by __ 18y ago|11 comments
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by __ 18y ago
This is horrible. It's just an overexplanation of the exuberance unleashed by computers and the internet. The author observes the habits of modern-day college students and assigns a deep meaning to them. Whenever he notices some superfici
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Economics needs a divorce(unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com)
8 points by __ 18y ago|0 comments
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by __ 18y ago
I'm not sure your strategy is sound. Nonetheless, if you're determined to work in another country (assuming you're not a citizen), you will quickly run into legal trouble: in most countries, you need to have some sort of work permit, which
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by __ 18y ago
"[My father's] most adamant instruction was that I should never under any circumstances go into debt." Now that's a dangerous heuristic. Never purchase a house, car, education, or medical treatment, except with cash?
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Anonymous Crusader Takes On Pop-Up Ad Industry(onthecommons.org)
1 points by __ 18y ago|0 comments
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Interviewing and being interviewed(seberin.blogspot.com)
2 points by __ 18y ago|1 comments
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by __ 18y ago
Google is terrified, no doubt.
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The meaning of Bill Gates(economist.com)
2 points by __ 18y ago|1 comments
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The carefully woven ack duality(denoted.dyndns.org)
1 points by __ 18y ago|0 comments
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by __ 18y ago
It's worse than that. "Scientists confirm that parts of earliest genetic material may have come from the stars".
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Innovation by firing people(scottberkun.com)
4 points by __ 18y ago|0 comments
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Did 37Signals Jump the Shark?(deadprophet.com)
4 points by __ 18y ago|1 comments
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by __ 18y ago
Paul, what specific activities do you recommend for listening to a city? You mentioned general eavesdropping and walking around residential areas in the evenings; any others?
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by __ 18y ago
That's pretty reliable evidence that it's a crappy company.
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by __ 18y ago
What exactly does it mean for an AI to be "out of the box"? When the AI is in the box, its "sensor" is the Gatekeeper's keyboard, and its "effector" is a terminal that can show only text. Does being "out of the box" mean that it's fitted
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Something doesn't seem right about Doctorow's example of attacks on children. He writes, "But the fact is that attacks by strangers are so rare as to be practically nonexistent. If your child is assaulted, the perpetrator is almost certai

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