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by cawel 18y ago
This kind of talk reminds me of "The Disadvantages of an Elite Education": http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su08/elite-deresiewicz.htm...
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Birkerts, after embracing the internet, do you look at your wife in the same way?(britannica.com)
1 points by cawel 18y ago|0 comments
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Fate of the book(kk.org)
6 points by cawel 18y ago|1 comments
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by cawel 18y ago
if someone can do it for free, then it will be inevitably free. While this is a trend, it might not always be true. In France, Mediapart (mediapart.fr) is a website with a focus on investigation-journalism, built on principles such as ind
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by cawel 18y ago
[...] the essence of Kubrick’s dark prophecy: as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence. source: last sentence in this article from Nic
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Business cases for the taking(mind-logger.blogspot.com)
1 points by cawel 18y ago|0 comments
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by cawel 18y ago
GitHub has improved my coding more than any other tool recently. [...] because it brings the social aspect into coding like never before. [...] It’s easier to go the extra mile for readability when you know others may be watching. Github,
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Five Questions with Ryan Bates (Railscasts producer)(blog.fiveruns.com)
3 points by cawel 18y ago|1 comments
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Ruby Streams(jpalardy.blogspot.com)
2 points by cawel 18y ago|1 comments
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by cawel 18y ago
The same piece of code will have a different value from one owner to the other. Thus, since the definition of quality depends on the context, doesn't it make quality inherently subjective?
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What does the word "Quality" mean?(weblog.raganwald.com)
4 points by cawel 18y ago|5 comments
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by cawel 18y ago
I think this really is a good understanding of the monkey patching debate. Jeff Atwood and Reginald Braithwaite are living in two very different worlds, with their respective legitimate perspective on what's good and bad, with their own ref
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Thoughts on the monkeypatching debate: it's a matter of culture(lhorie.blogspot.com)
1 points by cawel 18y ago|1 comments
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by cawel 18y ago
as I worked on Balsamiq for many, many nights and week-ends And this for sure is another form of cost.
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by cawel 18y ago
The original link works for me. Articles from The Economist seem to be accessible in 2 ways: - www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=[story_id] - www.economist.com/[category]/displayStory.cfm?story_id=[story_id] In addition to that, i
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Food for the brain: What to eat to make you smarter(economist.com)
18 points by cawel 18y ago|5 comments
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by cawel 18y ago
Nova Spivack is a serious counter-example to your claim: http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/web_30/i... Themes like 'semantic web' or 'recommendation engines' are still very pertinent.
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by cawel 18y ago
In which case I could charge you for playing the "6 degrees of separation from 'Ron Paul rules the home page' " game :)
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by cawel 18y ago
Well he played because he was challenged by vaksel. Plus, he made it with 1 degree: current consensus among economists written by a famous economist -> HN
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by cawel 18y ago
Just like in the movie The Island, where a powerful insurance company has clones of all its customers. Those clones stand ready to provide for potential failing organs in the body of their real-life counterparts. Immoral as a concept. Excel
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by cawel 18y ago
I didn't like the subtitle though: Why Chris Anderson's theory of the digital world might be all wrong . Anderson explains on this blog ( http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2008/06/excellent-hbr-... ) that Elberse uses different defini
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Why Chris Anderson's "Long Tail" theory might be all wrong(slate.com)
6 points by cawel 18y ago|3 comments
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by cawel 18y ago
Especially since last Fall saw the serious public-transportation strikes in Paris. This for sure is a good incentive to force people to use those bikes :) People were getting up extra early to maximize their chances of putting their hands o
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by cawel 18y ago
This kind of projects brings fun traffic management challenges. On late Friday/Saturday nights, it was impossible (experienced it myself) to find a bike for the taking in central Paris, since the flow of bikes was from the inner towards the
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by cawel 18y ago
It's coming in Montreal too in Fall 2008: http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=654... From the Gazette's article: Montreal plans to be the first city in North America to set up a large-scale "self-serve" public bicycl
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by cawel 18y ago
we'll develop something that can either rejuvenate us, [...] or cloning. I never understood how cloning could make someone live longer. If you can't transfer your soul/conscience into the clone, it's not going to get you anywhere.
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by cawel 18y ago
And thus forsaking (statistically) 10 years of your life? For me it's a non-issue: cancer would be the last option of the three, by far.
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Chris Anderson: free, the business model of the 21st century(mind-logger.blogspot.com)
6 points by cawel 18y ago|0 comments
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Comcast Faces FCC Sanctions for Blocking Web Traffic(wired.com)
2 points by cawel 18y ago|0 comments
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by cawel 18y ago
Very few options for Ruby or Rails code in this list. Only http://www.hotscripts.com has Rails resources. And I can see no sites with Ruby resources.

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