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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
Yes, he was billionaire-ish from Microsoft, and I imagine he does believe in what he's doing, so I guess he's not intentionally a bloodsucking asshole, but I don't know that that makes it that much better.
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
Relatedly, Myhrvold did actually make a really genuinely huge contribution to cuisine with his gigantic ubercookbook Modernist Cuisine, and so it makes me sad that he turns out to be a bloodsucking asshole by trade.
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
It's not a student's fault if their high school is arbitrarily bad. You can sometimes tell that a student is smart and their high school sucked. Such students tend to get even smarter than you thought they were once they get to college.
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
High schools can be arbitrarily bad, and so it's customary for most colleges to have remedial courses, like Physics for Poets, for those students coming from high schools that didn't provide that.
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
Having the words you write be dispassionate and objective doesn't mean you lack an agenda. Everything written ever picks a small set of facts to consider from an effectively infinite set of facts. The choice of which facts to include, moreo
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
10.6 is fairly easily piratable, though.
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
To do that, wouldn't they have to admit that they aren't growing like nuts anymore, and wouldn't that kill their valuation? (Even established companies like Apple and Google base most of their valuations on the premise of future growth. Whe
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
I believe he was saying that in lieu of the bot.
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
There are still many stupid comments, but I think at least one flavor of stupid that was there before is now gone. Also, I find fewer stupid comments at the top of each page. This was enacted during what felt like an apocalypse of comment s
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
The whole point is that you can't compare a town with 300k people with a blue-collar culture to the Bay Area. It's not even close to as good for startups. Why is this controversial?
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
Yes, it has people with degrees, but no, it does not have many rich people. It has a few, and if they buy not-too-expensive houses and seem Pittsburghite-friendly, they are venerated. It did well in the recession because its economy is base
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
Rich people would never want to live in Pittsburgh for many reasons, including that the culture of the place is in some ways morally opposed to the concept of rich people, the infrastructure is poor, the weather is always terrible, there is
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TED: Sam Martin: The quirky world of "manspaces" [4.5 min video talk](ted.com)
5 points by ecuzzillo 15y ago|1 comments
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
I don't know if this data is available, but I'd be interested to see what percentage of this class was incorporated before applying, and what percentage got incorporated as part of the process. Also interesting would be what percentage of t
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
A key selling point of the Air is that it is a full-fledged Mac computer. If it has to run normal Mac applications in an emulation layer, which will undoubtedly be slow because the Air's processor is not powerful, this will not be true.
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
I don't disagree, but to be fair about the time, there's at least an hour in the DC airport and at least half an hour in the Boston airport, and that's assuming there are no delays on either tarmac due to planes being in the way of your gat
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
HN feature request: Make the color of links I've already read something other than semi-invisible grey. Currently when I'm looking for a link I just clicked on, it takes me a very long time because it's so anti-eye-catching. So, in particul
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
I flagged it because every comment I read on it was stupid. There was nothing intellectually curious about the topic-- just poking people's political identities. Here, someone in close proximity to a reasonably significant historical event
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
Given that the reddits initially had a bad idea, wouldn't this mean that if they applied today with a similarly bad idea, you'd have rejected them and not called them back?
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
It seems like companies that apply with no idea, then, would be at a noticeable disadvantage during interviews. Is this true?
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
He isn't just sticking you in a bucket randomly. Your language on the subject has an emotional edge that goes beyond dispassionate observation that college education may be overvalued. It actively pushes the reader toward the conclusion tha
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
Why don't you?
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
They don't consistently fix it if it's slow, though. It takes about four seconds to search for a term you haven't previously searched for in Gmail (which I think requires having 10k+ emails, but I'm not sure), and it has for a long time.
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
I'd be most interested to see whether hiding the scores changed voting behavior appreciably. Do stupid comments get upvoted more or less? It seems like that's the ultimate test, much more than whether people prefer it after trying it for a
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
I mostly agree. It reminds me of stop-and-copy GC: you have a root set (very old accounts, or maybe current moderators) and you see what you can reach from it (the accounts the root set consistently upvotes), and you chuck everything else p
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by ecuzzillo 15y ago
It's very rare that there is a huge volume (>100 comments) of insight provoked by a single article, just because there's not usually that much insight to be had in the first place on that topic, and you can be sure that 100 separate com
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On Bullshit(scribd.com)
2 points by ecuzzillo 16y ago|1 comments
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
Or you could just talk to them.
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
Nobody ever acts like the next revolution is the next revolution. If they did, it would be the current revolution, or at least the current fad.
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by ecuzzillo 16y ago
It seems to me that most of the innovation doesn't come from big companies anyway, so why should Apple give them precedence for any seats?

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