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Nokia’s Suicide Note(esr.ibiblio.org)
131 points by cwb 16y ago|45 comments
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Emacs introductory video tutorials (Hack Emacs)(youtube.com)
3 points by cwb 16y ago|0 comments
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by cwb 16y ago
Orszag is referring to deliberate practice ( http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracti... ) and it's not hard work , but "hard" practice that makes people better. What that practice should entail is not always obviou
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by cwb 16y ago
Derek Sivers explains in a 3 min TED talk, http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_you... , that by keeping your goals to yourself, you become more motivated to achieve them (because you haven't made them part of your "soc
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by cwb 16y ago
Simply because I think they had the opportunity to create a great OS (whatever its relation to Unix) and chose not to. My point was that I think DOS/Windows hindered the innovation in applications -- not necessarily their complexity or size
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by cwb 16y ago
How come no one talks about the loss of innovation Microsoft have incurred on the world? What if Windows were NeXT or Unix? What if Bill Gates had tried really hard to create the best tools possible, rather than the most profitable softwa
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by cwb 16y ago
Well, I'm not sure if these classify as lesser known, but Cocoa (that is most) text fields in Mac OS X support basic emacs bindings which I use all the time (native vim support would be even better of course, but hey..): http://www.hcs.har
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DIY Flying Drones(singularityhub.com)
5 points by cwb 16y ago|0 comments
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by cwb 17y ago
Sorry, won't be in London, but would have liked to come.
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Living with Complexity(jnd.org)
1 points by cwb 17y ago|0 comments
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Judgement vs. testing(counternotions.com)
2 points by cwb 17y ago|0 comments
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Living on the Edge of Incompetence (Deliberate Practice)
1 points by cwb 17y ago|0 comments
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by cwb 17y ago
A bit wordy I think. Summary: Run (with low-padding shoes). Eat better.
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by cwb 17y ago
I agree, though I would be even more prescriptive: when people hear of a new idea they should first try to understand the upside (the value created if the idea takes off). Then , think through obstacles/problems and put them in perspecti
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by cwb 17y ago
I don't. It's an excellent question though. There may be literature out there on this -- please tell me if you know of any. You probably want to look at examples where this has been done and try to abstract a method out of those. Neil Strau
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by cwb 17y ago
It seems that's what Blippy, the company Paul mentions at the beginning, does: http://blippy.com/
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New Year's Resolutions: Potheads, Planners and Players(alljapaneseallthetime.com)
1 points by cwb 17y ago|0 comments
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Climategate and a hand-holding analysis of raw-data homogenisation(wattsupwiththat.com)
3 points by cwb 17y ago|1 comments
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by cwb 17y ago
I'd be up for that (in the first half of December).
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by cwb 17y ago
The strict answer to your question has to do with humans being social, motivation, and strong AI, I think. However, if we allow teachers to stay in the picture, software could (and should I think) be used more to support learning. It could
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by cwb 17y ago
Why is the focus on money here? The impact of the technologies they create dwarfs any monetary contributions. What's the value of their technology on top of what the obvious sellable product is? That is, how much more valuable is their prod
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by cwb 17y ago
Sorry. I submitted it because of the tutorial, not the (patently) weak Emacs bashing... Maybe I should have changed the title. Also, it's by the same guy who wrote the excellent "Understanding Git" ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5315
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The One True Text Editor(eecs.harvard.edu)
17 points by cwb 17y ago|32 comments
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by cwb 17y ago
Distinction understood. Many think that the risk of misuse * potential cost is unacceptably high however. Misuse is also relative to current political fashions and those tend to change over time. If you want, surveillance on that scale make
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by cwb 17y ago
The Swedish word for integrity (integritet) can be used in two senses: the property of having a consistent value system or a right to privacy. tjogin most likely intended the latter meaning. I'm curious about the distinction between Big Bro
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by cwb 17y ago
Strunk & White's The Elements of Style deserves a mention here in case anyone has missed it -- clear, concise, and practical writing advice. 1999 edition on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fourth-William-Strunk/d... 191
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by cwb 17y ago
And for printing, you might find http://www.utdallas.edu/~aria/research/resources/orwell.pdf preferable.
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by cwb 18y ago
Congratulations! Invest a little in yourself: 1. Get a good doctor and dentist; commit to yearly full check-ups. 2. Develop a life-long exercise habit that you can perform anywhere. No weights, minimum props. Get help from (i.e. pay) army
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by cwb 18y ago
When my physics teacher lent me Euclid rules, OK? (1) I was struck by how effectively and engagingly comics could explain concepts and help build mental models. Scott McCloud analyses the medium superbly in Understanding Comics (Amazon:
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Collection of scientific comic books by Jean-Pierre Petit(savoir-sans-frontieres.com)
2 points by cwb 18y ago|1 comments

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