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15901.
by api 14y ago
Oh please yes. Make this standard.
15902.
by api 14y ago
A major reason that people do only what's required to get by in their "day job" and tool away on startups is that the promotion is dead. You don't advance in the workplace by any means except changing jobs or doing your own thing. Companies
15903.
by api 14y ago
Never trust the cloud. Never trust local storage, either. Never trust any one thing to keep your data safe. Keep multiple backups at multiple locations of anything really important.
15904.
by api 14y ago
Basically, the old IRC protocol was pretty brittle. You could break the network with DDOS attacks, exploits, etc. in order to get "ops" on IRC channels. This resulted in a sort of emergent hacker game called channel wars. Massive attacks we
15905.
by api 14y ago
Anyone remember EFNet IRC in the mid-1990s? Bitcoin is going to be like that, except real money is at stake.
15906.
by api 14y ago
Major web sites should sue for theft of service. They are modifying someone else's copyrighted content to steal their advertising revenue. Also: https everywhere, now.
15907.
by api 14y ago
The PC revolution is regressing too. We're going back to mainframes and jailed devices.
15908.
by api 14y ago
Good developers can only write good code if they can think and plan. Neither of these is ever a sprint objective. The objective of a sprint -- in practice -- is always to bang out the absolutely minimal quality hack required to complete the
15909.
by api 14y ago
Sustainability is really the achilles heel of inflationary economics. The Earth is finite. Exponential growth cannot continue forever. When a steady state is reached, that's apocalyptic to inflationary money systems since debts all the sudd
15910.
by api 14y ago
Risk.
15911.
by api 14y ago
"We tried 1 week and 2 weeks iterations. Neither worked out. With short iterations there was a constant pressure to get shit done and technical debt accumulated like a huge garbage heap. It is impossible to squeeze a good solution into a sh
15912.
by api 14y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeXoOkU5PjQ Partitioning probably works because it groups kids such that in each ability group they are at or near the region of maximum Shannon information density in the feedback they're receiving.
15913.
by api 14y ago
Does this invalidate certain crypto patents, like the NTRU patents or the RSA patent (if it were still in effect)?
15914.
by api 14y ago
What this really underscores is that conventional capitalism provides little incentive for fundamental innovation. All this stuff we're gluing together is the product of state-funded research, mostly from the cold war era. DARPANet, the web
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Google engineer: DRM has nothing to do with piracy(zdnet.com)
2 points by api 14y ago|0 comments
15916.
by api 14y ago
Their site is rather awful too. Someone needs to Hipmunk them to hell and back.
15917.
by api 14y ago
Looks like an overall outstanding blog. Added to RSS reader.
15918.
by api 14y ago
I love the ending: "And your good employees will leave you, and I can't blame them."
15919.
by api 14y ago
The "set and setting" hypothesis is strongly supported by the fact that in the studies I linked fake acupuncture outperformed a fake pain pill for the treatment of pain. My current hypothesis on homeopathy is that it's a placebo surrounded
15920.
by api 14y ago
It's possible to combine practical with aesthetically pleasing. Again I reference Apple. And it does matter. Health is part body, part mind.
15921.
by api 14y ago
I don't disagree much on fact, but the attitude on display here is not helpful. It turns people off. There was a time when people were willing to trust authority figures and accept the advice of credentialed experts without question. That t
15922.
by api 14y ago
You might find this quite interesting: http://programinplacebostudies.org/ http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/01/the-placebo-phenomenon His studies comparing fakes strike me as the most innovative thing I've heard about in medicine in year
15923.
by api 14y ago
Open source is more than just open information. It's accessible information, accessible tools, and accessible discourse. Also: most of the replies on this thread have misunderstood my original post. I was not arguing for homeopathy or alt-m
15924.
by api 14y ago
I agree. But likewise, your doctor will not tell you that the psych meds they're prescribing for you may be no better than placebo for most users: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3085/do-antidepress... I really wonder what percen
15925.
by api 14y ago
I have a friend who's into homeopathy and such, and I normally keep my mouth shut. But I have done some thinking about why. This friend is very smart, very intellectual, very curious, and not overly credulous. She's really a bit of a nerd.
15926.
by api 14y ago
"Free is so often bad..." Very interesting point. I think free is good when it comes to code, apps, etc... things that can be copied and distributed. It creates a good shared base of stuff on which to build. But when it comes to services, t
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by api 14y ago
http://www.geekwire.com/2012/jeff-bezos-smart-people-change-...
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by api 14y ago
The market does excel at giving people what they want. That's not a feature. It's a bug. "If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse." - Henry Ford (possibly apocryphal, but probably true) Markets pander. They d
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by api 14y ago
Yes, and a casino is more profitable than a hospital, and "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads, that sucks." (Jeff Hammerbacher, Facebook.) Communism is dead, socialism is dead, fascism is dead, g
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by api 14y ago
TFA says "You know what would be awesome? If we wrote our libraries so that they could run either on the server or on the client, and they did so in a transparent way." Ever tried GWT? I played with it a bit. It gives you One Language -- Ja

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