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by davi 17y ago
If all you have is text, text, text, then people will be less likely to read it. Put a little effort into styling the content, and your post will become much more readable. Pah. Text is good for people who can think about what they're rea
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by davi 17y ago
Eerily close to my life in 1999: "His very first job? To write a white paper explaining the new technology. ... Management was indifferent to the idea’s actual development value, but had a keen sense of what played well with clients in Ente
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by davi 17y ago
http://www.modha.org/ has much more detail: "The model reproduces a number of physiological and anatomical features of the mammalian brain. The key functional elements of the brain, neurons, and the connections between them, called synap
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Three Cheers for GCaMP : Optogenetic Brain Reading(brainwindows.wordpress.com)
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Let me offer a different summary: The greatest satisfaction to a hacker is to produce output that gives the hacker pleasure to look at, think about, and use. Achieving this satisfaction is an iterative hill climbing optimization. Each iter
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This is likely a 10 year cycle going on That's why I say "Maybe the next generation, who grows up watching their parents using Facebook" ... I bet between 2015-2020 Maybe not even that soon. I think things are getting entrenched. The
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by davi 17y ago
You mean you think someone could take significant users away from Facebook? It's hard to see how Facebook can lose out, this generation at least. People seem to like using the internet that way, and all their friends are there. Maybe the n
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by davi 17y ago
Another aspect of the Facebook engineering team is how large the ratio of active user to developer is. Currently it stands at 1.1 million users per developer. This ratio changes my model of how the world can work. I'm not sure how, yet.
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Pretty good, recent, extended Eric Schmidt interview(onpointradio.org)
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I suppose I should be encouraged we made it to 40k in decent shape. Maybe I'll be able to come up with some kind of fix. Please keep us updated as to your thinking & actions. It has been consistently interesting to watch you manage HN
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by davi 17y ago
be ok with the fact that trolls will start showing up and all we can do is ignore them No. If signal:noise gets too low, good people will leave.
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by davi 17y ago
You might want to factor in karma density as well. Maybe something like: w = ln(k * m) w = weight of vote k = karma of voter m = median points per comment by voter Instead of feeding into the post's score, it could al
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by davi 17y ago
I think the usual idea is that during development, cell division patterns in the plant apical meristem [1] implement some Lindenmayer system [2]. I don't know if anyone has looked into genetic & molecular mechanisms whereby cell divisi
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page 2: http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/2mandelbulb.html good link from page 2: http://www.bugman123.com/Hypercomplex/index.html
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That's right. People asked about this in the comments on the post. His answers are here: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1404#comment-242133 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1404#comment-242156 Bottom line: libgif and libpng.
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by davi 17y ago
On the one hand, I kind of know what he means. What he's calling "A-listers", I call "graceful overachievers". People who get an incredible amount done, but never seem to break a sweat; who are occasionally irked, but have taken the mea
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by davi 17y ago
Agree with you re: government, but maybe Detroit is a special case: "This piece also highlights the absolutely crucial advantage of Detroit. It’s possible to do things there. In Detroit, the incapacity of the government is actually an advan
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by davi 17y ago
discussed article: http://www.newgeography.com/content/001171-detroit-urban-lab... ----- edit: wonder what fraction of this land is contaminated by previous industrial activity? (per: http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/plowing-de
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Plowing Detroit Into Farmland(ideas.blogs.nytimes.com)
21 points by davi 17y ago|24 comments
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This is the beginning of a long-term trend, from a physically present combat force to an army of remote teleoperators.
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email pg http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=374196
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by davi 17y ago
The new method of debuting new comments at the top of the page -- a good thing, in terms of trying to keep discussion fresh & open to latecomers' good ideas -- may also have increased how rewarding the site is to quick negative posts. I
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Playing Quake with a real mouse(brainwindows.wordpress.com)
25 points by davi 17y ago|9 comments
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Let's see if you agree with this restatement of your post: Fast, mediocre coders may be able to iterate really fast in order to get something out in front of users. This means that when you don't know what the problem or the solution is
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by davi 17y ago
I'm not sure what you mean -- that if you hadn't done the first three steps, you wouldn't have needed so many t's in the last? you already invested a lot of other t's and d's into doing it the wrong way But the first three steps were an i
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by davi 17y ago
Sure -- but I don't think this is the point of the article. Let's say your ratios are correct, and you want the "t" to "d" ratio to be high in most cases, for shorter overall "t+d". The article is saying that you often want to get through e
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by davi 17y ago
You seem to be missing the point of the article: producing less bugs and better code can be wrong if writing that code slows down finding out what the problem is. Speed-of-writing-good-code is an orthogonal parameter, here.
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More interesting to me, the email that got the guy fired: http://dustincurtis.com/dear_dustin_curtis.html An articulate explanation of how good intentions at big companies can often be implemented only slowly.
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http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/compab.html http://www.google.com/finance?tkr=1&q=NYSE:BRK.A
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Looking at the topic currently, out of 10 root replies, 2 are jokes, 1 is a basically a one-liner, 1 is trash, 5 are on-topic, and 1 is a complaint that this isn't HN. (sigh) Yep, it's kind of a bummer. Be interesting to see how it unfol

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