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by goldfeld 13y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. For a digital elite, it seems this new wave of avoiding college will be breeding increasingly narrow and specialist elites, shallow but for one deep focus. The statement in the article about "learning critical r
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by goldfeld 13y ago
I think a lot of people on here have that half mind to go (though probably not on this particular programme). This is the closest thing to the settling of the Americas ever since; it's something historically meaningful to be a pioneer. Gran
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by goldfeld 13y ago
Yes. And I really do think it approaches infinity, or else our wetware has a limited clocking speed and that would define a single atomic moment of awareness (seems more likely since we're highly advanced computers, but computers nonetheles
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by goldfeld 13y ago
That quite defines how I think about it. The current "me" is as different from the me within a second from now as from a theoretical me at the other end of a teleportation device that delivers me there within a second. The three selves are
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Wait, it's one thing for someone to take photos of their friends and post to Facebook or Instagram. If anyone were to use them for profit however, do the people showing in the photos have no rights? I'd think that it's not actually as simpl
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by goldfeld 14y ago
"No contact metadata" will be mostly irrelevant in the next years, when computer vision along with some automated social engineered photo correlation will be able to cleanly identify individuals out of photos, linking to their social networ
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Exactly, I have been searching for my functional language and have always felt that neither Haskell nor Clojure quite cut it, so I've been putting it off. The former because, well, it's not Lisp and I'd really like to learn myself a Lisp. T
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by goldfeld 14y ago
I've never seen it put more bluntly and truthfully than "the original product was the business." I always find it creepy to see all these founders and investors and Y-Combinator folks patting themselves on their backs for a hefty exit. It's
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by goldfeld 14y ago
I sympathize with the OP and don't mean to be derisive, but really there is so much open source software to be done, so many niches and gaps and itches to scratch (I currently am writing three projects for which I see little to no "competit
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by goldfeld 14y ago
How do you feel the extra step of compiling to CoffeeScript would impact performance and response time? I have been considering contributing in that direction.
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by goldfeld 14y ago
"If this hypothesis is correct, then the next time you relish the scent of fresh rain, think of it as a cultural imprint, derived from your ancestors." This is challenging the intelligence of it's readers. I thought that was actually the wh
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Exactly. I got burned by Fable moreso than any other game in my life, so hyped that I was by how he talked about it. In the end it was a very limited and lackluster linear RPG with some The Sims thrown in. Fun for a weekend. But no let down
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by goldfeld 14y ago
I tend to disagree. Why would you ask me about an obscure browser quirk? The interviewer would be much more better off testing my persistent and precise Google and StackOverflow searching skills in this case. Same for optimizations, and usa
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Since I have watched this talk, I have been integrating the open/closed modality to the pomodoro workflow. Sure, it isn't setting aside an hour and a half as Cleese suggests, but I think it's a far better use of left over pomodoro time then
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by goldfeld 14y ago
I clicked through because I thought they had developed a new structure of solar systems.
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by goldfeld 14y ago
If they have selected for their data to be sent to someone in their close trust, how is this a problem? The trustee will know they are not actually dead, and may in fact need to intercede, e.g. with the mail trying to reach the unavailable
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Would be cool if new people kept popping on top at the average rate people are born. also a good opportunity to stop such cruel segregation practices, and just mix up the folks at the rate they are born. The new generations should know no r
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by goldfeld 14y ago
All your caveats relate to velomobiles not being popular, which is indeed a network effect problem and the biggest issue. I'm sure they would cheapen up fast with mass production and competition driving down prices, and when you don't have
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by goldfeld 14y ago
I can't help but sympathize with the Morozov rant on O'Reilly when bleeding-edge tooling like this get sold as services and not offered up as free software for all the community to move forward (and it's not like both can't coexist even.) I
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by goldfeld 14y ago
This is in turn nice for people using .io domains, the weight of Github's many blogs and official project pages will lend trust to the TLD.
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by goldfeld 14y ago
CtrlP was exactly my mental case in point when I commented on that. I needed to add some stuff to it, which I did begrudgingly after seeing the source, but now I'm considering forking it and rewriting in Lua both for speed (it's slow) and
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Not really true. Half of it is just using vim commands within the language (such as set and normal), and it does get a bit weird with execute and all the string escaping. Vim regex is quite non-standard but that's because the use case in th
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by goldfeld 14y ago
So how long before BitNami announces something clever related to dotCloud?
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by goldfeld 14y ago
I assume you didn't focus on MongoDB first because there's already MongoHQ. How does their admin interface compare to your open source project and to your paid solution?
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by goldfeld 14y ago
I have read that 30% of Standford CS freshmen change majors or dropout because they don't get programming at all. Do you see such a thing in recruiting? That you fear the hire doesn't actually understand the reasoning of algorithms and basi
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by goldfeld 14y ago
Now Joe will create a domain service that offers to register all the typos surrounding your startup brand at a discounted price and automatically sets up these cool transitions using some clever Hamming distance stuff. Or just licenses the
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by goldfeld 14y ago
So I've just looked up Morozov's book and then realized I could get it at.. Safari Books Online (an O'Reilly Media venture.) Oh the irony. Still, it's free. Free as in I already pay for the subscription.
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by goldfeld 14y ago
That's so great, and mbostock's a coder I greatly admire. I have had it on my mind for the past few weeks precisely this--to get into the habit of reading code, and in doing so write deep articles explaining it. Thanks for this.
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by goldfeld 14y ago
I think especially if you think in terms of height the functionality makes more sense as it is. Think of an aircraft where pulling the yoke in your direction goes up and pushing it away from you goes down.
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by goldfeld 14y ago
It's not like it will suddenly see mainstream adoption in any case. The project is young and the early adopters will be the nerds and the geeks who don't mind the bumps. It's always like this. Organically it can spread and by then it could

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