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by andreyf 16y ago
Sounds familiar: Anathem is set on and around the planet Arbre. Thousands of years prior to the events in the novel, society was on the verge of collapse. Intellectuals entered concents, much like monastic communities but without the relig
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by andreyf 16y ago
Hence the suggestion that he do it after retiring from practice.
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by andreyf 16y ago
What a load of horseradish. Feynman was adored by his students, and was often quite introspective about how he goes about solving problems.
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Data mining the behavior of conference attendees(sunnythinking.org)
4 points by andreyf 16y ago|0 comments
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by andreyf 16y ago
The truly scary thing? There's a lot of money to be made in determining who the "customers who will call in and cancel it" and "the customers who won't notice or care". My cable company has now twice added a "premium bonus" $15/month for a
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by andreyf 16y ago
I'd just use placeholder, and screw anyone using an old browser. If people can upgrade their cell phones every year, they can install a modern browser. ;)
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by andreyf 16y ago
I don't think he'd threaten it, but rather would just immediately liquidate his share, and move on his merry way.
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by andreyf 16y ago
$720M of yearly revenue is nothing to sneeze at. Just because we don't stand for this by American standards hardly makes it a "mafia". Many Europeans would never stand for how we handle our energy or health sectors, that hardly makes them a
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by andreyf 16y ago
Anyone else find this happening? Have coping strategies? Yup. Nope.
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by andreyf 16y ago
That's called placeholder test: http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html
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by andreyf 16y ago
In addition, while Reddit facilitates anonymous discussion, Hacker News has a substantial transparency in its population. My real name and address, for example, are trivial to find out using the information in my HN profile -- and that's k
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by andreyf 16y ago
When you get a chance, please read the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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My First Solid Thought about working @Google(meta2.tumblr.com)
4 points by andreyf 16y ago|1 comments
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by andreyf 16y ago
Everyone in the industry knows they'll be transitioning off of oil in the long run. In the short run, this would take the fall off BP, and onto the oil industry, just as Apple moved the blame onto the phone industry.
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by andreyf 16y ago
It would seem that AT&T won a few of those battles. All of the features you mention are so bandwidth-intensive, that the user experience for them would be non-existant. FaceTime simply wouldn't work on a typical AT&T connection. E
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by andreyf 16y ago
How about this: I know about 20 people who have iPhone 4's. None of them have any issues with the antenna, no matter how they hold the phone. This issues is hugely overblown, demonstrated by elementary arithmetic. These issues exist in very
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by andreyf 16y ago
With this guy, I can't get my mind past the feeling that he's trying to sell me a DODOcase, a Shopify account, and a get-rich-quick scheme in one post. Are we to believe that he, of all people, isn't being compensated by DODOcase or Shopify
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by andreyf 16y ago
Nothing you couldn't do in assembly. Just easier and more elegant.
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The Enigma of Amigara Fault(brasscockroach.com)
1 points by andreyf 16y ago|0 comments
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by andreyf 16y ago
Isn't that quote a bit hypocritical?
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by andreyf 16y ago
Prototype systems are great. I use them all the time, even in other languages. Extending prototypes of existing objects is amazing and powerful, and can be used for some beautiful data structures.
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by andreyf 16y ago
if any reporter has the balls to quickly run over and unsheathe the boxes None of the reporters had a camera, and most cloths probably weren't covering anything serious.
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The Hidden Cost of Smart Drugs (2008)(scienceblogs.com)
52 points by andreyf 16y ago|41 comments
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by andreyf 16y ago
I use my phone as a map a lot more than I do to make phone calls. Heck, I use the compass app more than I do make calls.
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by andreyf 16y ago
I wonder what an IDE that enforces all of these guidelines would be like?
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Google JavaScript style guidelines(google-styleguide.googlecode.com)
118 points by andreyf 16y ago|29 comments
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by andreyf 16y ago
No, I'm suggesting he's a little too quick in believing the "scientific method" over people with direct experience in a classroom.
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by andreyf 16y ago
Precisely.
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by andreyf 16y ago
I don't regard that as a waste - it may have been an expensive lesson, but I presume the money was spent on subsidizing smaller class sizes in schools. I can assure you that when a smart teacher who spends every day with kids says one thi
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by andreyf 16y ago
And what makes his definition of "effectiveness" any good? When goals are as clear as "maximize profit", I have no doubt Bill Gates is one of the most competent in the field. However, when it's as vague as "improve education", I have seriou

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