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by dood 17y ago
I confess (as the poster) that I'm not a huge fan or even a regular reader of this blog. But his writing is often stimulating, provocative and insightful; and moreover provides a useful counterpoint to the startup and technology blogs I spe
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by dood 17y ago
paranoid, head-for-the-hills nonsense that seems to crop up a lot these days It is worth noting that this blogger, while a major commentator in the 'collapse scene', has always been on the other end of the spectrum, arguing for calm and r
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Endgame: collapse is beginning in earnest(thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com)
21 points by dood 17y ago|17 comments
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by dood 17y ago
Mine: Three-Toed Sloth: data, complexity, and so forth: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/ Paul Kedrosky: economics, insight, analysis and links: http://paul.kedrosky.com/ Mind Hacks: fantastic source for everything mind/psych
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Ask HN: what are your favorite blogs?
8 points by dood 17y ago|4 comments
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Could there be unknown knowledge?(dailymeh.tumblr.com)
8 points by dood 17y ago|0 comments
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The stray dog ecosystem of Moscow(ft.com)
119 points by dood 17y ago|8 comments
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Gremlin: A Graph-Based Programming Language(github.com)
62 points by dood 17y ago|11 comments
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by dood 17y ago
Fun, but what languages/libraries are being used? I don't understand why this information isn't in the post.
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by dood 17y ago
I'm intrigued by the Knowledge Database idea, care to explain a little more about that pkrumins? I may build something similar for myself.
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by dood 17y ago
I suggest dropping the project, since civ has cost humanity enough already - browser civ could cripple my productivity... just a few keystrokes away when already procrastinating. I both love and fear this project.
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by dood 17y ago
My friends who went to medical school are finishing their residencies and starting in private practice; my friends who went to law school are making partner. In most industries, you're just beginning your career when you're in your early 3
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by dood 17y ago
I like that they show you the source pages, confidence, and alternative sources for the data. However, it suffers the classic Google app problem; it does interesting stuff, but just looks ugly, and is generally unappealing. Hard for me to e
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by dood 17y ago
Somewhat related on the subject of motivation; the phenomenon in forums or mailing lists where a request for information leads to few, succinct answers, yet an inaccurate or inflammatory post on the same subject results in long, detailed, a
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by dood 17y ago
A hide option, to remove links from the frontpage. Has been suggested a few time before, but not for a while. With hiding users get to see more new content on each refresh, and get to ignore their pet annoyances (for me Twitter, Gladwell, t
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by dood 17y ago
Just clicked the register link [ https://www.domainpigeon.com/users/register ], got "Internal server error" with a load of info and a backtrace, which I imagine you don't want to display.
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by dood 17y ago
Add the on: [root_hn_url] link to comment metadata when viewing a single comment. Rational: when viewing a single commment for whatever reason, you often want to see all comments. Currently you have to click through the chain of parents, wh
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by dood 17y ago
Indeed, much of the feature list is comically facile, "create as many documents as you like... Documents can be sorted... rename documents, delete one or many, and export a single, multiple, or all your documents". None of the features are
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by dood 17y ago
I'll copy the response here: What blew my mind is how it forces an appreciation for the nature and power of thinking functionally. Getting a feel for function composition, combinators and lambda calculus opens the door to a very different a
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by dood 17y ago
Interesting as this is, it's 3 years old, I presume the bots have evolved since then.
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by dood 17y ago
I read a lot of the same subreddits, and I think you're missing out by not reading the comments. Sure there can be a lot of noise, but with a little practice you can skim to the gems quite easily.
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by dood 18y ago
The UI doesn't make it clear, but if you don't want to use the Nanogenre thing, use the 'most like' bit on the left. I think the UI would be improved by making the Nanogenres and 'most like' more equal, as they are both useful but in differ
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What is Gradual Typing?(ecee.colorado.edu)
17 points by dood 18y ago|5 comments
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by dood 18y ago
How do you go about finding names? I've looked hard, and wasted a lot of time - I think that part of my brain must be missing or broken or something. I think mibbit is a great name btw.
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Del.icio.us finally gets some respect from Yahoo, exposes data through BOSS(readwriteweb.com)
22 points by dood 18y ago|2 comments
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by dood 18y ago
Thing is, a lot of people could have invented something like YouTube, and a lot of people tried. But the YouTube people had the skills to grow and scale their site in a phenomenal way, which is why they're the ones that are remembered. YouT
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The State of PyPy [pycon video](blip.tv)
2 points by dood 18y ago|0 comments
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by dood 18y ago
Agreed, seems like a non-story. Lots of people with an interest in the field have ideas like this all the time. And it has barely been tested or compared. I'm trying not to be too snarky, as it is interesting, and I enjoy all innovation (es
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Reddit pycon keynote video(pycon.blip.tv)
28 points by dood 18y ago|2 comments
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by dood 18y ago
It is intersting to watch Amazon's strategy as they improve existing cloud computing services and add new services. The way they are going, it looks like Amazon will totally dominate the market. I expect this will have huge importance to th

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