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by danblick 11y ago
I thought I'd throw in a mention of a book on a similar topic, "The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains", a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2011: http://www.nicholascarr.com/?page_id=16 If I had to
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by danblick 11y ago
I can imagine two separate motives for this hack: (1) The hackers dislike the idea of adultery and wanted to harm the site & punish its users; (2) The hackers wanted to blackmail the site and its users by threatening to expose them if t
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by danblick 11y ago
Here's another interesting one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer's_principle Landauer's principle is a theoretical lower limit on the amount of energy required to perform a computation that destroy
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by danblick 11y ago
What will happen to the value of a programmer over time? Do you think opportunities to make an economic impact with software are increasing, decreasing, or staying the same? (I'd say they are increasing, as the world depends more and
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by danblick 11y ago
Great presentation. This focuses on new business opportunities enabled by technology... but what kinds of political changes would you expect as half the world's population gets access to cheaper information and communication? Which i
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The article isn't loading for me right now, but I thought I'd mention co-inductive types and how they relate to "interaction". In Coq, co-inductive types are used to model infinite objects like (never-ending) streams or
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by danblick 12y ago
Could you elaborate on the uses at Facebook?
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I don't think this argument is very compelling: to me there is something behind the "traditional wisdom" of career progression in software development. From the organization's point of view, good employees should ask t
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by danblick 12y ago
Where are formal methods used in industry? To quote http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/tla/am... - "We have found relatively little published literature on using high-level
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What's with the side-view mirrors?
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I have fond memories of this game too. :) I'll always remember how at some point it was possible to edit the game binary and create a character with maxed out stats that could kill the strongest monster in the game (the ghost) in one
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Engelbart: Augmenting Human Intellect(invisiblerevolution.net)
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by danblick 13y ago
Doug Engelbart has been a huge inspiration to me even though I never met him. I'm amazed at how much his group at SRI was able to accomplish. I think his vision - augmenting human intellect to help solve the world's complex prob
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Comcast: Why is Port 25 for email submission not supported?(customer.comcast.com)
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On the motives for DDOS attacks - http://www.securelist.com/en/analysis/204792189/DDoS_attacks...
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YouTube - Stanford Course on Technology Entrepreneurship(youtube.com)
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by danblick 14y ago
Not to be cynical, but this reminds me a little of Alan Kay's comment: """ By the way, Sketchpad was the first system where it was discovered that the light pen was a very bad input device. The blood runs out of your hand in about 20 second
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by danblick 17y ago
Both inspiring: Doug Engelbart's 1962 "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" http://www.invisiblerevolution.net/engelbart/62_paper_top.ht... Herbert Simon's "The Sciences of the Artificial" http://www.amazon.com/Sciences-Ar
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by danblick 17y ago
This site ("Dimensions") also has some great math-related visualizations (particularly the ones showing 4-dimensional objects): http://www.dimensions-math.org/ Fractals are in episode 6 from ~8 minutes onward: http://www.dimensions-math.
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by danblick 17y ago
It seems wrong to write an article about Canonical (Ubuntu) and Microsoft without mentioning "Bug #1": https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1
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by danblick 17y ago
this was in the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/business/global/02hacker.h...
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Olin Shivers on 100% and 80% solutions - http://www.scsh.net/docu/post/sre.html
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by danblick 17y ago
I thought this was great. Newell & Simon are sort of heroes of mine, and I enjoyed hearing McCarthy's view of the relation of Lisp to IPL & Fortran (from Backus). Are there any good biographies of these people? (I know that Simon
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by danblick 17y ago
The video of Alan Kay at http://www.archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987 is one of my all-time favorites.
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by danblick 17y ago
The same site has an interesting example of reference counting: http://stoneship.org/journal/2007/c-reference-counting-and-y...
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"The Roots of LISP" include Herbert Simon and Allen Newell too. They co-invented the linked list (once called "NSS memory") in the mid 1950s, setting the stage for LISP and earning them a Turing award (McCarthy got his own). They were fou