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by bd 18y ago
It's not that bad. Mitch Resnick, professor at MIT Media Lab, finished his PhD when he was 36. Fourteen years after his undergraduate degree, meanwhile spending five years as a science/technology journalist for Business Week magazine. And h
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by bd 18y ago
Thanks for the clarification. MemcacheDB does indeed look like App Engine Datastore/SimpleDB sans extra query machinery. Which is still interesting, as this is anyway their most efficient use pattern (in terms of resource consumption, not e
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by bd 18y ago
For this particular topic, there is a relevant classic philosophy essay by Thomas Nagel - "What Is it Like to Be a Bat?" "To the extent that I could look and behave like a wasp or a bat without changing my fundamental structure, my experie
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by bd 18y ago
It looks similar to Google App Engine Datastore [1] or Amazon SimpleDB [2], so I guess it could have similar use cases. If you already architect your application to use these cloud services, it should be easier to switch to/from MemcacheDB
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The Daily Routines of Interesting People(mentalfloss.com)
10 points by bd 18y ago|11 comments
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by bd 18y ago
Ctrl-Shift-T on Windows: works in Firefox, Opera and Chrome. Also middle click closes tab.
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by bd 18y ago
Using externally supplied fossil-fuel is kind of cheating. The energy still comes from photosynthesis, but the energy that was created over eons is used in (geological) moments. It's somehow similar venture capital. It's a resource produced
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by bd 18y ago
Congratulations, you made a top Google search result for "Marle and Lucca": http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Marle+and+Lucca
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by bd 18y ago
Jason Fried: welcome Frank Zappa: not welcome
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by bd 18y ago
Well, I have zero illusions about top dogs that got their positions by political means/connections. My whole point was about low ranking civil servants that do the bulk of the nitty-gritty administration work and that all must pass through
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by bd 18y ago
There are interesting relevant comments in the HN thread on conspicuous consumption (linked from the Best of HN'08 post): "Child enrichment has replaced the yuppie trends of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when it was important to own a BM
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by bd 18y ago
Do you really believe that they could get away with 95% fraudulent spending? That nobody would notice 95 billion Euro corruption? Or to put it another way, if this is true, it means that they are able to run real EC functions with just 5 bi
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by bd 18y ago
"The conventional view of the task of the philosopher is to solve seemingly intractable problems of philosophy using logical analysis (for example, the problem of free will, the relationship between mind and matter, what the good or the be
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by bd 18y ago
It's possible to have very efficient bureaucracy. European Commission that basically runs European Union (500M people) has just around 25,000 employees [1]. This is tiny. Just to get an idea about the scale: New York City (8M people) govern
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by bd 18y ago
This is silly. Imagine a world where this would be enforced. There is no way to know in advance that your look and feel doesn't accidentally resemble some of the existing millions of websites. This holds even more for 37signals type of eleg
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by bd 18y ago
On a related note, see also N.N. Taleb's answer to The Edge Annual Question 2009: http://www.edge.org/q2009/q09_10.html#taleb
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Amazing Possibilities(gilkalai.wordpress.com)
1 points by bd 18y ago|1 comments
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by bd 18y ago
It's not just about classical economical mechanisms. With Euro there is a large psychological and political component. It is hard to estimate indirect effects on Europe's economy (500M people, combined GDP higher than US). If you can get Eu
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by bd 18y ago
Banach-Tarski http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=411043 Just kidding :)
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Yoshimoto Cube Blows My Mind then Fries My Brain [video](gizmodo.com)
28 points by bd 18y ago|9 comments
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by bd 18y ago
I wonder if at least part of this phenomena cannot be explained by observer bias. People complaining about their students are usually the ones with superior performance compared to the average student. Usually, top students become graduate
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by bd 18y ago
This can be another facet of the "uncanny valley" of web applications [1]. When you are in the "web" mode, you operate asynchronously - click, do something unrelated, return to see the result. When you are in the "desktop" mode, you expect
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by bd 18y ago
Fascinating. I wonder what are the implications for AI research. It may be not so hard after all to create artificial conscious mind, in fact in may be even easier than getting right the "intelligence" part.
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Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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Private firm may track all email and calls in UK(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by bd 18y ago|1 comments
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World's oldest profession, too, feels crisis(iht.com)
1 points by bd 18y ago|0 comments
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by bd 18y ago
Still the same. Though PR doesn't really seem to matter that much anymore. My site with PR 0 gets much more traffic from Google than my site with PR 4.
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by bd 18y ago
Thank you. That's an excellent recipe. I just made the soup and it was very delicious. A lot of work, but it's worth it.
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The Reckoning - On Wall Street, Bonuses, Not Profits, Were Real(nytimes.com)
2 points by bd 18y ago|1 comments
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by bd 18y ago
Ah yes, I also found this information when I was looking for historical divorce numbers. It indeed seems that there are structural differences considering marriages/coupling in US vs Russia. From what I read, it looks like in US divorces ar

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