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by anactofgod 15y ago
One could jump start one's thinking on this subject by reading Edward Glaeser's "Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier" (Reading Jane Jacobs seminal works can only help, too
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by anactofgod 15y ago
This is an appropriate topic for HN, since it has to do with roles & responsibilities w/i a company. So, let's try to correct some misconceptions. Steve Jobs was the CEO of Apple. And... “A CEO does only three things. Sets the overall v
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by anactofgod 15y ago
> "The iPhone is also a subsidized product and it seems very successful. How come it won? The answer is in details." One of the other relevant details is that any subsidies that are provided are done so by the wireless carriers, not App
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by anactofgod 15y ago
Thanks for doing this, Simon. Erlang Factory (www.erlang-factory.com/) keeps a pretty decent list of Erlang goings on. Info about ErlangDC 2011 should be posted there, too, shortly.
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An Epic One-Day Erlang Conference in Washington, DC(erlangdc.com)
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Tips for Raising a Venture Round(readwriteweb.com)
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by anactofgod 15y ago
It just occurred to me that the restrictions on Doom and Doom II officially expired on Aug 31st, and Sep 01st is the anniversary of Germany's invasion of Poland. Just an interesting coincidental juxtaposition of events.
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by anactofgod 15y ago
This analysis is astonishingly shoddy, for all the reasons that tabbyjabby pointed out and more. But worse, it doesn’t even get close to the root-cause for why Apple may decline in the post-Steve Jobs’ era. Steve Jobs' greatest accomplishme
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by anactofgod 15y ago
It does, but the link is broken. You can find it here... http://20bits.com/articles/network-programming-in-erlang/
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by anactofgod 15y ago
RealITy television.
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by anactofgod 15y ago
Don't sit all day. Stand.
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by anactofgod 15y ago
As I said in the comments field of the article, in response to a VC acquaintance's post... A "land grab" strategy implies there is a means to lock out competition, and a strategy to defend and retain the land that is grabbed. So, one has to
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by anactofgod 15y ago
“Market cap" represents a "perception of future performance", not an assessment of a company's "value to society”. Investors are just expressing a sentiment that Apple - a company that has rebased its product and service offerings at least
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by anactofgod 15y ago
As usual, Gruber is right. And, the Wall Street Journal turned into the Yellow Journal years ago. I wouldn't wipe a parrot's ass with it, let alone lend any credence to what's printed in it.
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by anactofgod 15y ago
"Dwarf Fortress unfolds as a series of staggeringly elaborate challenges and devastating setbacks that lead, no matter how well one plays, to eventual ruin." Soooo.... One can play this game, or one can be in charge of a real country's econ
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by anactofgod 15y ago
Here is a NASA page with more info about the Sphere project... http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/spheres_smart...
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Reuter's investigates "shell" and "shelf" corporations.(reuters.com)
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by anactofgod 15y ago
From their site ( http://www.lexingtoninstitute.org/mission ), we find that the Lexington Institute's mission is... "The Lexington Institute believes in limiting the role of the federal government to those functions explicitly stated or imp
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by anactofgod 15y ago
Jobs drives towards elegant, uncluttered solutions. Much of his "vision" stems from his ability to say "No." to crappy stuff ( http://blogs.forbes.com/carminegallo/2011/05/16/steve-jobs-g... ). This being the case, if I were Jobs - and if I
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Bitcoin on scaling to very high transaction rates (from 7tps to 4000tps)...(en.bitcoin.it)
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by anactofgod 15y ago
I have a singular criterion: The most capable (for the 10 years, Mac) laptop that I can fit into the saddlebag of my Harley.
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by anactofgod 15y ago
I don't intend to imply that security products/services will address the problems inherent to badly architected/implemented IT systems. Just that we can expect to see an upswing in expenditures for these sorts of tack-on products/services f
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by anactofgod 15y ago
HB Gary... Sony... Fox/X-Factor... others/more to come... Prediction: Web security products/services will be the hot ticket for the rest of 2011-2012.
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by anactofgod 15y ago
Hogwarts has a new Headmaster.
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by anactofgod 15y ago
LOL! Exactly what came to my mind, as well.
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by anactofgod 15y ago
Heh. I suspect that this is happening in a less transparent way with automated commodities trading systems.
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by anactofgod 16y ago
April Fools?!? Now, I'm really angry... nerds...
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by anactofgod 16y ago
"You don't actually need to know a lot of the groundwork and the basics to appreciate the exciting bits of mathematics. The more technical things are still awesome as tools and are necessary in some places. But luckily I am usually with oth
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by anactofgod 16y ago
"He ... wrote operating systems in FORTRAN." Now, that's talent. smile
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by anactofgod 16y ago
These young whippersnapper roboticists have it so easy these days, what with their new fangled flying robots. Back in my day, we were happy if we could get our robots to walk. In the snow. Up hill. Both ways.

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