driekken

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by driekken 15y ago
Great works (be they books, movies or art) should be treated the same way life is: as one more step on your journey. Overplanning will make your choices too selective, thus making you knowledgeable in some areas and totally ignorant in othe
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by driekken 15y ago
I'm reminded of an interesting way babylonian merchants used to do business. They would bargain for a deal while intoxicated on alcohol, thus proving to each other that they are being honest. Perhaps we should force all politicians to do th
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by driekken 16y ago
Also, doing customer support before going to sleep serves as a wonderful soporific :)
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by driekken 16y ago
According to a 2007 study by Loughborough University academic, Thomas Jackson, most of us reply to e-mails immediately - many within six seconds. Then it takes at least a minute to recover our thoughts. Not long after, more e-mails arrive,
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by driekken 16y ago
It's dangerous for the web's videos to rely on a format for which royalties are expected to be paid. Hopefully Google will release the VP8 codec as a royalty-free alternative (as rumour has it) and it becomes the standard.
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by driekken 16y ago
I don't think that the patent system is bad by itself. There was a time when it did bring value to the innovator. It served as a series of rules to describe a relatively simple system. The negative thing is that it doesn't scale well. It's
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by driekken 16y ago
I agree with both you and davidw that loyalty towards a country is wrong from a formal point a view, but since humans are not entirely rational beings one cannot deny that the random entity you happen to get born into shapes a big part of w
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by driekken 16y ago
The whole concept of loyalty towards a corporation is off. You can have loyalty to family, to friends, to a country but never to an economic entity whose only purpose (on paper) is profit. I think that professionalism and well-defined inter
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by driekken 16y ago
> During April, only Internet Explorer and Opera failed to show positive growth. It would have been quite a feat for them all to show positive growth :)
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by driekken 16y ago
I'm starting to get a disconcerting feeling because of these ubiquitous ads in everything and everywhere. No wonder we become desensitized - it's the only way our brain can cope with the information overload. A short film (Logorama, Oscar w
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by driekken 16y ago
2005 or not it's still valid :)
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by driekken 16y ago
Wonderful boomarklet. While I don't use it often, it's absolutely crucial for some problematic websites, which make your eyes bleed. It's a good thing that every month or so someone links to it so that others might find out about it.
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by driekken 17y ago
I think the author makes an extremely far-fetched parallel between prominent people throughout history being excellent poker players. Could it be the other way round: being an extraordinary personality would make one good at activities that