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Roger Tomlinson, Father of GIS, Has Died(gislounge.com)
1 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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Robot Construction Workers Take Their Cues From Termites(npr.org)
1 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
have control over their own feelings and that Prozac is no better than a lobotomy dreamdu5t said neither of those things, and there's no need to be rude.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I like Szasz too, as well as his hippie counterpart R.D. Laing (whom you might check out if you're interested), but please, don't play intellectual hardball in this thread. The OP just lost his brother.
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by gruseom 13y ago
That study is a classic that belongs alongside Milgram (obedience to authority) and Zimbardo (Stanford prison experiment). I'm not sure why it isn't better known. The three go together perfectly.
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by gruseom 13y ago
That wasn't Hemingway. The first recognizable version was by William R. Kane. Never heard of William R. Kane? Me neither; hence the Hemingway. Quotes always bond to the nearest plausible famous person. http://quoteinvestigat
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by gruseom 13y ago
But putting an s-expression front end on the language doesn't do anything to escape Greenspun, does it? Two different phenomena.
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by gruseom 13y ago
That's about the evolution of complicated programs, so quite different.
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by gruseom 13y ago
It's an urban legend.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Do you have an example? That seems like a howler that surely his editor would have caught if he didn't.
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by gruseom 13y ago
In Polish, you don't use the plural vy as a formal singular. In Russian you do. I took Polish lessons at one point and my teacher would wince every time I accidentally called him vy . He told me the Russians used to force Poles to a
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by gruseom 13y ago
It seems that where all y'all is used, you have the re-emergence of the distinction between the formal ( y'all ) and plural ( all y'all ). Which is pretty fascinating.
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by gruseom 13y ago
This reminded me of an excellent post the other day about an anonymous messaging network ("Rumor Monger") that ran inside Apple until management shut it down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7204558 It got ve
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George Orwell: The Sporting Spirit (1945)(orwell.ru)
2 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
Well, I'm glad I didn't come to the wrong conclusion. It's too bad, though, because Minecraft modding got this kid really excited, and there are many (maybe millions) like him. It seems like it could be a really fruitful area
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by gruseom 13y ago
I used to think it an astonishing coincidence that Bernays was Freud's nephew. But then I learned that Bernays was involved in making Freud's reputation so high in the US while it lasted (a reputation which was odd in the extreme
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by gruseom 13y ago
High school boys in tech are much more likely to be misogynistic That rings very false to me. It was not at all the case when I was in high school. In fact it was just the opposite, and I see no reason why that would have changed.
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What's The Point If We Can't Have Fun?(thebaffler.com)
4 points by gruseom 13y ago|0 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
> this behavior will be exhibited at a very young age, or not at all That's so obviously false that I doubt she's saying it. I suspect it's more like: these qualities tend to come up in childhood, so if we want to see more
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by gruseom 13y ago
How do you get kids modding Minecraft? I suggested this a little while ago for a kid in my brother-in-law's Grade 8 class, but then regretted it because the tools for doing it seemed inaccessible to beginners.
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by gruseom 13y ago
That seems uncharitable. "Born in childhood" is not a quality like the others. "A child's sense of play" might be.
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by gruseom 13y ago
To say that a 12-year-old farm girl was in a "privileged position" with respect to computers strikes me as absurd.
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by gruseom 13y ago
Seems to me the author vividly conveys what she means by "hacker" in the very paragraph you quoted: technologist addiction solving puzzles building things "victory!" moment impose will on electronics The
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by gruseom 13y ago
If your goal is to pursue the truth and make correct decisions, you must not pay any heed whatsoever to the emotions This presupposes that the emotions cannot be a source of true information.
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by gruseom 13y ago
I've never been able to make sense of the article either, and I've tried many times. I think it boils down to its title, which is just the right mix of vague and catchy to be optimal for getting repeated. The article itself is mer
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by gruseom 13y ago
One hears that argument, but I think it's shallow. People aren't cogs—some work better together than others. It isn't just about who you're comfortable around. Lou Reed and John Cale, for example, were not comfortable ar
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by gruseom 13y ago
The word "culture" doesn't mean the same thing in "bro culture" vs. "culture fit". To me, "culture fit" is another way of saying "chemistry". It means that people work well together, an
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The Conservative Case for a Higher Minimum Wage(unz.com)
9 points by gruseom 13y ago|2 comments
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Google Doodle celebrates Canada’s coldest day, -63 ℃(ottawacitizen.com)
100 points by gruseom 13y ago|51 comments
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by gruseom 13y ago
The "great artists steal" line comes not from Picasso but from T.S. Eliot. Lots of previous discussion about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=picasso+eliot#!/comment/forever/0/... eliot The line

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