davi

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Robot locomotion in sand(sciencefriday.com)
9 points by davi 18y ago|1 comments
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by davi 18y ago
Maybe the karma accrued to the submitter should equal upvotes to the article, minus how many linkbait clicks it receives (with a floor of zero).
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by davi 18y ago
From your algorithm: When clicking through to an article, summarily verify that the title is an accurate depiction of the content of the article. If it isn't, don't read the article ... then state what the article is actually about. Is th
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by davi 18y ago
But one thing I never thought of Twitter as was Poor Man's Email, which is how Google CEO Eric Schmidt described it to analysts yesterday. ... I couldn't imagine two things being more different, Twitter and email. 1. Twitter is primari
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by davi 18y ago
I'm listening to one of its authors, Simon Johnson, on Fresh Air: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1013602... Good speaker & thinker. Blog has him + two other authors, and looks good.
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Baseline scenario: good, up-to-date blog on economic crisis(baselinescenario.com)
1 points by davi 18y ago|1 comments
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by davi 18y ago
abstract: http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/abstract/fj.08-125435v1?ma...
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by davi 18y ago
We used Gmail internally and all had a lot of email, so we never even considered designs that wouldn't allow for a lot of mail. Another example of the utility of eating one's own dogfood.
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Bank of America CEO regrets additional $20 billion(ft.com)
3 points by davi 18y ago|0 comments
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by davi 18y ago
I didn't get that they wanted a "cushy job in a shiny office". I got that they wanted access to positions that would give them a reasonable chance of making tens of millions per year.
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by davi 18y ago
Some progress w/ this: SEC. 218. The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall require that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic
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by davi 18y ago
Perhaps the yawn & meh were not necessary. But I do not see anything substantive in the letter.
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by davi 18y ago
I don't think the problem is with upvote inflation as much as dilution of individual-to-individual recognition. Limiting upvotes wouldn't address that.
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by davi 18y ago
I'm kind of surprised that the comments here are so positive. What does this letter really say? So today I’m rolling out a new management structure OK, what is it? the notorious silos are gone To be replaced by.... I’m creating a new
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Fact checking George Will on climate change(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
2 points by davi 18y ago|0 comments
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by davi 18y ago
reminds me of old days of Mac programming, when PICT format could store & replay Quickdraw commands
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by davi 18y ago
I noticed that sentence too, but my brain saw: "Launching lets you observe the collusion between your presuppositions and the needs of actual users." I went back, and you are right, it is collision . Collusion is more fun though. :)
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by davi 18y ago
Interesting. With a smaller population of users, each interaction becomes an investment in an individual relationship that may pay off later (financially or otherwise). And if someone upvotes your comment, you know they are endorsing you,
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by davi 18y ago
What a disaster that would be, to attract thousands of smart people to a site that caused them to waste lots of time. I wish I could be 100% sure that's not a description of HN. The reason HN is so addictive is because it is filled with t
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by davi 18y ago
visual programming seems to be one of the great failed dreams - lots of academics and practitioners tried it, and it just doesn't seem to work LabView is pretty powerful. Commercial, expensive, often annoying -- but pretty powerful. Int
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by davi 18y ago
We think there’s a third alternative which is much more enticing for the consumer and the manufacturer – make a netbook that is a pleasure to use and can serve as a gateway to lucrative subscription services. How about making a netbook t
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by davi 18y ago
real 64 bit addressing: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/08/26/road_to_mac_os...
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by davi 18y ago
The point at the end is worth highlighting: Of course, when one tells one story, one leaves out other stories. This graphic doesn't show that the starting points of the recessions were different: 1990: 109 million 2001: 132 million 2
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Job losses in recessions visualized(freegovinfo.info)
3 points by davi 18y ago|2 comments
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by davi 18y ago
Yes, "begs the question" is misused all the time. "Now, that being said, it begs the question of <whatever>" -- the sentence was tongue-in-cheek. I was illustrating, in a mocking way, the style I don't like. Sorry for the troll.
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by davi 18y ago
"The simplest and perhaps most obvious thing that they could have done is to engage their audience before they made the change. I believe much of the anger of their audience has to do with the fact that it was "discovered" by The Consumeris
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by davi 18y ago
That's right. Now, that being said, it begs the question of whether or not the style imparted is any good.
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by davi 18y ago
Two paragraphs lead off with the "Now, <statement>" construct: "Now, our funding situation is that..." "Now, we understand that..." I'm starting to get sensitized to this construct. The 'now' is like an 'um' -- i.e., filler -- exce
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by davi 18y ago
I didn't like them, but it was a good experiment.
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by davi 18y ago
No, no, don't you see, that's a bad wizard. You just have to go on a quest for a good wizard. Then everything will be fine.

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