ericb

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What's on your Wish-List this year?
1 points by ericb 19y ago|5 comments
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by ericb 19y ago
I'll be keeping an eye on here if folks have anything to point about TinyWurld--it's my latest toy project.
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Explore the secret lives of TinyUrls(tinywurld.com)
1 points by ericb 19y ago|1 comments
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by ericb 19y ago
Simple, no, but I'll bite on the second half of your statement "that there's even a chance of it happening this century" because the chance is there. Curing aging is incremental. Life expectancy at birth in the United States in 1900 was 47
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by ericb 19y ago
You sound surprised. Death and aging are engineering problems. This is a site filled with people who believe engineering problems can be solved. What Aubrey brings to the table is reminding us of this and daring to attempt it. Fixes are po
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by ericb 19y ago
Hi edw519, Mainly that Hacker News isn't a forum. The format makes discussions here ephemeral. Hacker news is a niche site for posts of general-interest to that niche. A forum is topical, so narrow interest posts are channeled into topic
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by ericb 19y ago
Heroes is great! It's also a great example of why not to over-value an idea--it's the implementation of Heroes, not the idea, that makes it a hit. Heroes does a great job executing on borrowed ideas from X-Men and other sources. Moreover,
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by ericb 19y ago
What they have is impressive at least as an implementation of AI window dressing. It did a decent job with context assuming this was not overtly scripted as they claim. Most notably, though, if sylvia was an astounding breakthrough in the
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by ericb 19y ago
LPTS, You bring up good points. Self-reports are notoriously unreliable (like eye-witness testimony) however, it is still use-able data. In terms of missing days, the questions can be ordered and repeated to those who miss. In terms of fa
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by ericb 19y ago
Here's one, but if no one does it and it's feasable, some day I might. I'd like to implement a large continual self-report study via email for the public good. Via an email every day or so, data is slowly gathered from participants--all an
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by ericb 19y ago
There is some info here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=56076
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by ericb 19y ago
When I have seen large rewrites fail, it's often because of an all-or-nothing rather than iterative or staged approach. At my previous company, 2 different managers approached the migration of a massive VB6 project. The first tried a total
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by ericb 19y ago
I took a class titled "Entrepreneurship" when I was in college about 10 years ago. Every other week a different entrepreneur spoke. The founder of Jolt Cola came in and told us "we love water [as a market]--it comes out of the tap, and you
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by ericb 19y ago
Oh sorry, didn't mean to imply Brooks wrote Code Complete. I just accidentally left the author out of the sentence...
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by ericb 19y ago
Oh, one more: A Clockwork Orange. The book is much better than the movie. It's nicer if you haven't already seen the movie and got Stanley Kubrick's acid-trip biasing your perceptions..
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by ericb 19y ago
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. It is arguably the most useful book I've ever read, albeit with the most embarassing title. As inklesspen mentioned, Elements of Style is a must. Code Complete and the Mythical Man
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by ericb 19y ago
run4, Thanks for the feedback. While I agree with you in principle, I find this hard to quantify. If we succeed, I will owe my success to the utility company for providing potable water and my webhost for hosting my site. I'm not sure, if I
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by ericb 19y ago
I have found in my last several startup attempts that I'm wasting (using) far more time on design-related issues than I would care to. It is the one obstacle that bars me from running full-speed with my ideas. Specifically, I think that i
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How much equity for a web designer?
1 points by ericb 19y ago|6 comments
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by ericb 19y ago
Shoutfit, based on its site being down, seems to have possibly failed to heed PG's "don't die" message." I like the name shoutfit, though... Catchy.
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by ericb 19y ago
I'm working on this now... Feel free to take a look. http:/www.ziptuck.com
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by ericb 19y ago
Coffee in evenly spaced doses is key for me. Too much and I go up a tree. It's about staying at peak alertness. I take naps too. Coding while tired=expensive. When I'm tired, solutions come slower, code-quality drops off and I end up fixing
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by ericb 19y ago
Will there be a plan for text message spam when verizon may have made far more from the messages than the actual spammer? I was one of the lucky recipients of the pump and dump text message the article mentions.
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Text Message Spam(msnbc.msn.com)
2 points by ericb 19y ago|2 comments