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by dood 19y ago
If it isn't too much trouble, I'd be very interested to hear more about that. I'm no scholar, but I find Taoism and the Tao Te Ching fascinating. I would understand it being partly satirical of prevailing thought, whilst being esoteric, but
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by dood 19y ago
Not definitive, but hard to beat: Isaac Asimov - filled my teen years with fun, promoted friendliness, humanism and wonder Captain Beefheart - incarnated ineffability, inestimable artistic genius and influence Leonardo - the archetype of th
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by dood 19y ago
Where do you hear that? Got a link?
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by dood 19y ago
Indeed, I learnt that lesson from that episode!
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by dood 19y ago
Of course I would have gladly helped him, but I didn't know there was a problem until it was too late! I had recently moved at the time, and neither of us had a mobile, so we were just out of contact for a while. I thought I was giving him
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by dood 19y ago
I once worked a job moving and scanning data from an old paper archive to some custom built software. I developed a batch system which allowed me to spend around half the day browsing the web. When I left, I recommended a fairly smart frien
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by dood 19y ago
Badness = yes was painful. I wished there was a box to justify yourself ;) To answer ericb's question, I feel exausted, having worked all day then decided to apply and filled out the form in less than three hours. I always do these things a
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The Maasai warriors' guide to England(telegraph.co.uk)
11 points by dood 19y ago|3 comments
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by dood 19y ago
I heartily encourage you put fingers to keyboard if you can spare the time (and be sure to submit here if you do). It strikes me as a project of such complexity and delicacy that the risks involved in publicising some of your ideas are much
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by dood 19y ago
Wow, that's pretty much what I'd be doing if I had infinite free time and much deeper knowledge of CS. Have you written any more about this anywhere? I'd be very interested to read about your game & systems design and the process you're
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by dood 19y ago
A new way to organize things/data online to enable greatly improved retrieval.
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by dood 19y ago
I think the best solution to maintaining the quality of a rapidly growing community/vote driven site is restricting the flow of new users by providing disincentives. Metafilter (for example) has a $5 sign up fee. Requiring a small karma min
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Essential MediaTech Keynote: Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn [video](us.intruders.tv)
1 points by dood 19y ago|0 comments
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Diigo Revamps Social Bookmarking Service with v3.0(techcrunch.com)
1 points by dood 19y ago|0 comments
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by dood 19y ago
I suspect there is a massive, unexploited gap in the current venture model (with YC and Google leading the way in exploiting it), which will soon start to rapidly close as the opportunities become clear, and a new set of investment skills i
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by dood 19y ago
Startups tend to be fairly binary, with you making either a very large amount off of them or nothing at all. Recently re-reading pg's How To Make Wealth [1] made me wonder if this will soon become an outdated view of startups. The factors
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by dood 19y ago
Ah, I was forgetting polling, right you are.
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by dood 19y ago
I presume the poster was referring to the idea, not this site specifically. If there are any they're a well kept secret.
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by dood 19y ago
Sure, I just enjoy stretching ideas to breaking point to see what happens. I really like the idea though, it'd be an interesting project.
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by dood 19y ago
Taken far enough it quickly becomes a very strange type of self-modifying or 'nomic' game [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic ], where those with the karma get to make the rules about how karma is made, transferred, destroyed. I'm very c
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by dood 19y ago
Twitter has an interesting problem: they sell it as service to tell people "what are you doing", explicitly pushing the "hyper-connected" angle. This was great for early adopters, but normal people don't care about the idea of being "hype
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by dood 19y ago
I sometimes think the lack of rigor is serious: most Mythbusters' viewers could probably create similarly rigorous experiments if they had the inclination, what is lacking isn't so much holding beliefs to experiment, but interpreting the va
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by dood 19y ago
I think experimentation is hard-wired into the brain (its partly how we're able to learn so much so quickly as children), but rigor isn't. So is Mythbusters' approach to experimentation without rigor a net win? I spend probably a third of e
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Administrative Debris - Learning from Tufte(tomayko.com)
5 points by dood 19y ago|0 comments
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by dood 19y ago
I think you missed the most interesting aspect, not about obedience or toys specifically, but that attempting to control, regulate and educate children has severely hampered their ability to control, regulate and educate themselves. "Essent
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by dood 19y ago
I just came in to say something very similar; the article's actual headline is much better: "Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills". Thanks for the excellent link though curi!
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5 more essentials for your programming toolbox(spiteful.com)
11 points by dood 19y ago|3 comments
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DBpedia - structured, queriable infomation extracted from Wikipedia(dbpedia.org)
5 points by dood 19y ago|0 comments
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And Nerds Became Kings: Yahoo! to Announce Semantic Web Support(readwriteweb.com)
6 points by dood 19y ago|0 comments
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by dood 19y ago
I think there is a fair chance that much of the semantic web dream (i.e. "the internet organizing itself") will arrive pretty suddenly, with exponential-like growth. There has been a very long period of ramping up, experimentation and hype,

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