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by agilord 14y ago
After visiting Singapore I've bought Lee Kuan Yew's books and it is really hard to describe his thoughts and point of view in just a few sentences, but at least I have a feel of what and why they did. Since then, I'm following the media cov
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by agilord 14y ago
I've visited Singapore just for a few days, but based on that experiment, the western media is overdoing this Singapore-bashing. I'd strongly suggest to visit the country, or at least get familiar with its history, its surrounding neighbors
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by agilord 14y ago
this made my day and ended my grumbling with quora, thank you!
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by agilord 14y ago
That is great, and I am personally a great fan of Celts. However, what's up with the elves, trolls, orcs...? These are well-understood races, are they free to use?
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Ask HN: Free fantasy world (e.g. not LotR)
2 points by agilord 14y ago|6 comments
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by agilord 14y ago
Copy infringement of movies is your choice. You could just watch it and not redistribute it. Copy infringement of seeds is by design. You cannot plant, grow, sell or process your crop without the basic operation of replicating the original.
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by agilord 14y ago
I start to wonder: what can we do to actively prevent such things to happen? E.g. someone can copy a blog content, set the date back by a few months, publish it, and submit the DMCA takedown. Even if it reaches the court, who and how will d
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by agilord 14y ago
I'm pretty sure that there are harmful and undesired things that activate the brain too, so I'm not sure that activating the brain is the ultimate goal. Why not concentrate on why stories are powerful? E.g. exploring their strength of makin
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by agilord 14y ago
That'd really block away the potential cognitive interest, wouldn't it? At least you could name it like "Why this is the last link you will follow that contains the word 'brain'."
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by agilord 14y ago
Satisfaction is not black-and-white. I think it is perfectly valid that someone is satisfied with the existing work environment (hey, there is just so much you can expect from an employer), yet, they want to create their own. It might be th
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by agilord 14y ago
This is a really great concept, that enables client applications on a different scale (and reduces their complexity very much). Thanks Twitter team! A big advantage over web components (or angular, or others) is that this is much more light
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Zef Hemel: Throwing Darts (about Google Dart and JS)(zef.me)
8 points by agilord 14y ago|0 comments
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by agilord 14y ago
Thanks for the link, it was refreshing to read it! I guess by 'modern approaches' you mean (and the faq suggests) that making everything public and highly visible. The idea behind the "publish it as book" is that it makes it public, but not
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by agilord 14y ago
As one answer, I do remember an advice from years ago: 1. Write down the ideas and some of implementation details in a book. 2. Submit it to Lulu or other self-publishing site, order a few copies to yourself, but don't open some of them. 3.
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Ask HN: How to protect yourself against patents from your own product?
5 points by agilord 14y ago|3 comments
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by agilord 14y ago
I tend to think that if someone is willing to pay $250k for permanent residence, they should be allowed to do so. I mean, most immigration laws are against the poor and uneducated, and not the rich guys who are bringing their wealth and kno
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by agilord 14y ago
Transferring the person (incl. moving, flight, cost of living) is still high-cost. Transferring the information about/from the person becomes cheaper-and-cheaper. So I suppose things get (slowly) better for remote teams over time.
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David Weinberger: Too Big to Know (summary of his talk and book)(agilord.com)
2 points by agilord 14y ago|0 comments
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by agilord 14y ago
Why does it bother you that others care about getting into YC? People have different understanding of our world and their positions in that. It is fairly legitimate for them to express what's on their mind and their feeling about their actu
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Ask HN: Wordpress nested multisites - or any alternative?
1 points by agilord 14y ago|0 comments
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Inside the World of Gokul Rajaram, Facebook’s Ad Architect(adexchanger.com)
1 points by agilord 14y ago|0 comments
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by agilord 14y ago
It would be really interesting to know that if someone downvoted this link, why did they do it? I'd be eager to learn about the reasons and to understand it better.
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Facebook paid posts reveal the real value of our customer reach(agilord.com)
1 points by agilord 14y ago|1 comments
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by agilord 14y ago
+1 to share your experience. Kiip and other companies do that, and if you need to decide on a certain technology for your upcoming development, these are really exciting and far-from-boring posts.
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by agilord 14y ago
Thanks for the lead! I've found bing login for casperjs, but otherwise most example out there assume anonymous access. I wouldn't use my cookie files, especially because it limits automation. It is so stunning that nobody tried to solve thi
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From RSS to sharing on social networks - phantomjs?
2 points by agilord 14y ago|2 comments
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by agilord 14y ago
"All your data processing codes are belong to us." Unfortunately, this is not as funny as it should be.
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by agilord 14y ago
http://zenpencils.com/comic/80-henry-david-thoreau-on-happin...
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by agilord 14y ago
It is a selection bias, we would like to be part of the success story, therefore we talk, write or read about it more. Learning from regretful decisions or failures is undervalued in many ways.
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by agilord 14y ago
This page has some maps: http://www.sfmta.com/cms/venf/truckbus.htm Check: "Truck and Bus Restricted Streets Map (PDF)"

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