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PCWorld ends print edition(techland.time.com)
3 points by antitrust 13y ago|0 comments
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by antitrust 13y ago
Blippex sounds like a dubstep musician. Despite dubstep being apparently totally uncool, I'm cool with that. Wait for the bass drop.
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City scanning all traffic for stolen cars(chron.com)
3 points by antitrust 13y ago|1 comments
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by antitrust 13y ago
It sounds like the problem here is not militarization of police, but the incompetence of these particular police and the huge amount of drug-related activity going on. If people react to the end of drug prohibition the same way they reacted
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by antitrust 13y ago
The original idea behind the web was a publishing platform that, like a classic car, would be easy to explore, maintain and develop. The new vision is the application. Whether it's on a phone, or running as a web site, these are not pu
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by antitrust 13y ago
Even bike lanes may not be enough. I'd prefer separate roads. That's sort of the approach taken by the green belts in my city, which allow you to bike alternate routes to some major destinations. Unfortunately, it's mixed ped
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by antitrust 13y ago
The inevitable biking debate continues. If the US had bike lanes, and bikes didn't choke traffic back to 8 mph as I see them doing every day on major streets, causing a half-mile backup[1], I think the US would be more friendly to bike
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by antitrust 13y ago
> The problem with netbooks is that they were full desktop software running on hardware that was far, far short of a full desktop. I didn't have a problem with my Acer netbook. It's slow, but not horribly slow. The main laggard
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by antitrust 13y ago
Consumers know the pattern: over time, technology gets cheaper. Laptops and desktops are not selling well because, at the same time there have been no huge leaps in actually useful technology, manufacturers are trying to upsell us toward fa
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by antitrust 13y ago
> Elon Musk, Oprah, Marissa Meyer, Bill Gates, Jack Dorsey Not to be a cynic, but except in the case of Bill Gates, it's not clear these people were not cases of being in the right place at the right time more than any specific bril
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by antitrust 13y ago
Or time to talk with the boss' boss and remind him that time is money, and you can save him money. The incompetence of the people around you isn't your moral responsibility.
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by antitrust 13y ago
> Personally, I don't see a value in...[spending] more time watching TV or drinking beer, but if that is what you really want to do, fine ... That's an entirely separate issue, isn't it?
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by antitrust 13y ago
> These are the same people who were high school dropouts or got kicked out of college for not doing the work. Like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and every hacker known to humanity? > Could it possibly be that people work at different paces
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by antitrust 13y ago
I find your message to be profound. > They want prestige and the root of almost all forms of prestige is nostalgia. There's something of the hazing cycle in this too. They suffered, so they glorify the suffering, and share it with o
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by antitrust 13y ago
> I'm 24; I work a day job from 8 to 5; I go to the gym and go home and work on a startup from ~7-12 and do it all over again. And your life occurs where in that process? Sounds like a path to being a droid.
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by antitrust 13y ago
Yes, but that advantage is based on appearance and not results. That's contract to every hacker ethic I know.
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by antitrust 13y ago
> I am constantly reminded about the amount of low-hanging fruit there is out there for automation that is currently handled extremely manually, sometimes by some very well-paid people. On the other hand, they have job security that way.
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by antitrust 13y ago
And also fear of getting blamed when something goes wrong. If something goes wrong and you were working 80-hour weeks, you can say, "We did everything possible and still the ship sank." If you were out having fun most of the time
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by antitrust 13y ago
> It's not fair to blame the tool because most people are too lazy to use it well. Which tool? The tool who called the meeting? Har-har... I'm here all week. But seriously, I think you make a good point. There's an equally
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by antitrust 13y ago
In my view, the hacker mentality is always about finding a way to automate your way out of tedium and do something more interesting with that time instead. We're all mortal. Even computers have a finite number of ticks on this earth. T
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by antitrust 13y ago
Glorify results. Glorify efficient results. And then, going out there and having a life, even if it's sitting home alone drinking tea and ready mystery novels.
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by antitrust 13y ago
I self-censor because I want people to like me. If I accidentally blurt out that I think Pearl Jam sucks or the Metallica black album "has some good songs," they may decide I'm a moron and never talk to me again.
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by antitrust 13y ago
RIP "The Nice Guy Company" Google 2010 Apple 2013
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by antitrust 13y ago
FREE WEEV!
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Judge Rules Against Apple in E-Books Trial(nytimes.com)
4 points by antitrust 13y ago|0 comments
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by antitrust 13y ago
In my observation, you're correct. School teaches a narrow subset of what must be learned, and emphasizes a passive attitude toward learning. It's better to let kids learn on their own. Some of them will grow up to be socially pow
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by antitrust 13y ago
> I think that tests and teaching in general could use a lot more discussion and analysis You're right, but so many times when this is brought up, the result is one of those "express your feelings on this topic" type assig
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by antitrust 13y ago
I question the value of memory-based education. Application of historical theory is a lot like coding, and requires some memory retention, but classes that test on historical detail seem to me to have missed the point.
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by antitrust 13y ago
" One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless — no correlation at all except for brand-new college grads, where there’s a slight correl
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by antitrust 13y ago
Hard, or just detail-oriented?

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