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by apl 15y ago
It's a bit too easy and somewhat condescending to brush off public speaking as strictly inferior to written communication. In fact, I disagree strongly with Graham's stance. Sure, pure information transmission is enhanced in written form: t
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by apl 15y ago
> (...) and there's no way to scroll to the right Just swipe using two fingers, and everything works as intended.
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by apl 15y ago
> Never settle for the average. Now that is advice that doesn't scale.
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by apl 15y ago
It's unfortunate that the guy stumbling upon this apparently noteworthy vulnerability happens to be so utterly immature . [EDIT: Unsurprisingly, the dude's 18. See http://homakov.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html for reference.]
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by apl 15y ago
> you run the very real risk of having zero conversions > from all that homepage traffic. Dear God. Don't use web-y start-up lingo in situations where none of the platitudes apply. R-PI faces demand severely outstripping
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by apl 15y ago
> I've noticed that some of the really great mathematics > work (e.g. Grigori Perelman) seems to come from > outsiders, That impression may simply be bias at work. Put together and successful do not form an interest
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by apl 15y ago
> If what you're saying is indeed true, then we're not > looking at a technical problem; we're looking at a social > problem. Thinking otherwise is, quite frankly, delusional. The technology has been available for y
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by apl 15y ago
Olfactory and gustatory analysis of flavors are intricately linked; losing smell severely diminishes one's ability to discriminate between subtly different aromas. Indeed, smell generally dominates here. So I don't think that's what happene
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by apl 15y ago
> they become mnemonic freaks With heavy emphasis on the freaks . Messing with specific protein kinases by simply ramping up production/phosphorylation doesn't just give you better long-term memory. It severely alters normal pl
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by apl 15y ago
> if we are going to be nitpicky, when you use something > like that for its intended purpose it's still a fork No. Fork is definitely not semantically congruent with use. You're only forking Bootstrap if you create a pat
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by apl 15y ago
> Much like Microsoft's VBScript, Dart is a nonstandard > client language that is developed and supported by a > single vendor outside of the Web standards process. Now that's just bursting at the seams with thinly
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by apl 15y ago
How is a one-time download while setting up your system of any significance at all? Sure sounds like picking a screwdriver based on how fast you can unbox it.
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by apl 15y ago
Utterly unremarkable. Most of the non-tech posts can be reduced to "MB(A) plus Photoshop/text editor".
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by apl 15y ago
> Depending on what you mean by "educators," I might prefer > that Khan Academy (and a bajillion different competing > providers) offer up content by actual domain experts > rather than content by "educators."
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by apl 15y ago
> This is an ongoing falsehood. I realize that now, and apologize for spreading a misconception. We don't hear much about non-engineers through the biased HN-filter; hiring Silverstein gets you headlines. Part of my point, howev
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by apl 15y ago
> Khan said that they are currently working on a platform > to make it easier for anyone to add things to KhanAcademy That strategy appears to ignore what made KA as successful as it is -- quality content. His 10 minute le
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by apl 15y ago
I wonder when they'll start hiring, well, educators . While engineering challenges may exist, Khan Academy's biggest scaling problem seems to be Khan's ability to produce solid content. His biology stuff, for instance, is decidedly worse t
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by apl 15y ago
Nitpick: You'd have to test the difference between before and after at a certain level of significance, not just establish estimates for before and after. Different things.
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by apl 15y ago
You're right: 37signals don't have to do this test properly. Their prerogative. However, until they do, the 5% figure and implied causation are meaningless. We don't know if their SD is in the same ballpark. Thousands of possible confound
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by apl 15y ago
> If chrome tries to pull the same tricks today, people > will just build chromium without it and compete. I doubt that. As ootachi mentions, this isn't a purely technological race. Far from it. Chrome succeeds for multipl
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by apl 15y ago
> The big difference is that Chromium is open-source > while IE was not. While certainly laudable -- how does that matter in practice? The drama surrounding IE5 would have unfolded in a similar manner if Microsoft's browse
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by apl 15y ago
> These jobs are both extremely difficult for completely > different reasons, and neither person can do the other > persons job. What is good practice for one is an > abhorration for the other. We are both program
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by apl 15y ago
> In terms of speed increase, I didn’t measure my typing > speed before switching so I can’t compare objectively, > but I know I type way faster now. Not exactly convincing , to be honest.
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by apl 15y ago
> Although the newcomer C# was only introduced ten years > ago, there is little in the language to reflect the > thirty years of research into programming languages since > C++ was introduced. Not a huge fan of
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by apl 15y ago
> This is logically flawed. It is entirely possible that by > removing the barrier of bachelor's degree, they will > receive even more applicants who cannot program > (percentage-wise). While certainly true, th
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by apl 15y ago
How does that differ from, say, Haskell's QuickCheck [1] and its ten thousand counterparts in other languages? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickcheck
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by apl 15y ago
> Also, what about Clojure? That runs on the JVM but how > does it fare on the "correctness" claim of Haskell, i.e., > "If it compiles it's close to what the programmer > intended". Clojure's a dynamic language
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by apl 15y ago
> [...] my cofounder is the one putting forth this > thesis [...] that we're too smart to be successful. > [...] For instance, I do tend to over engineer, over > optimize, and under execute. Surely, knowing up
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by apl 15y ago
Exceptions aren't the one and only solution to 'null' issues in Java et al. http://blog.orbeon.com/2011/04/scalas-optionsomenone.html
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by apl 15y ago
The expression "[...] is win" is decidedly not win.

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