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Why can't all "tech" journalism be like this?(kottke.org)
239 points by hernan7 16y ago|78 comments
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by hernan7 16y ago
Some of these are not software engineering technologies at all: virtual reality, network computers... SharePoint?
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"Hackers Diet" guy on dietary supplements: pile 'em up(fourmilab.ch)
1 points by hernan7 16y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: examples of 'saving your customers money'?
1 points by hernan7 16y ago|0 comments
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The Name Game (1999)(dir.salon.com)
22 points by hernan7 16y ago|11 comments
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by hernan7 16y ago
Windbaggery, a.k.a. the fallacy of thinking that wrapping your ideas in intellectual-sounding verbiage will make them invulnerable.
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A walking table(vimeo.com)
1 points by hernan7 16y ago|0 comments
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by hernan7 16y ago
"Intrapreneurial"... I think the last time I heard that word was in the 90's at IBM (along with "rightsizing" and other business jargon that I forgot). Then came the Internet boom and brought along a new layer of lexical detritus.
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by hernan7 16y ago
I don't think people here think college education is useless in all fields. In the Humanities, yes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=565980 Also MBA degrees are bashed periodically; but I don't think engineering and medical school degr
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Scientists study the DNA of "earworm" songs(edition.cnn.com)
2 points by hernan7 16y ago|0 comments
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by hernan7 16y ago
Premiere = First Performance So they were technically correct. The jury is still out on that "Premium Gold" part, though.
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Buckminster Fuller's "Dymaxion" car, recreated(edition.cnn.com)
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by hernan7 16y ago
Nice try, but it's Heinz not HP. (Actually, Heinz acquired HP in 2005.)
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by hernan7 16y ago
Number 2 sounds good, but photographing food is insanely difficult. See: http://photocritic.org/food-photo-tricks/ I think hiring an artist to make a drawing of the food may be cheaper :-)
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by hernan7 16y ago
Just like the proliferation of cheap musical instruments diluted the value of the "pro" rock'n'roll bands. Nowadays any random dude with a cracked version of Illustrator can call himself a designer. And, they will be able to generate design
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by hernan7 16y ago
Paging Dr Velikovsky...
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Why you may not want to invest on secondary shares(homethinking.com)
1 points by hernan7 16y ago|0 comments
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by hernan7 16y ago
My recommendation as a (mostly) Perl programmer is, learn AWK first if you are not familiar with it. If your line of work is mostly website development, it's probably better to stick with PHP and Ruby in my opinion. Maybe look around CPAN a
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by hernan7 16y ago
I don't know what the iPod nano should or shouldn't have been, but a remote control for the cellphone is a terrible idea. So you are going to have to carry around the phone, plus this gadget, and maybe a wireless headphone too? Madness.
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by hernan7 16y ago
Same thing happens on Bourne shell, or Korn shell.
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by hernan7 16y ago
That's true, if you want to buy anything from them, be prepared to spend a lot more time than needed. The store I sometimes go to is organized as basically one long aisle spanning two floors. Contrast with Home Depot or any supermarket, whe
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by hernan7 16y ago
That, plus the fact that "Din", "Dax" and "Cocon" look terrible. Up there with Mistral in the "instantly dated" category.
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by hernan7 16y ago
Well, in the WW2 there was actually a war going on, so producing deadlier and deadlier types of weapons was a more urgent matter for all parties involved. Probably true of the early Cold War times too.
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by hernan7 16y ago
My hobby is playing jazz guitar. It's safe to say I'm not going to get many instructional DVD's filled with pretty faces. (Robert Conti anybody?)
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by hernan7 16y ago
K&R ESR's writings on hacking maybe?
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Ask HN: market for Facebook clones?
2 points by hernan7 16y ago|1 comments
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by hernan7 16y ago
Maybe a made-up story to find out who is leaking info to the press? http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/02/just-for-the-record-i-am-no...
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by hernan7 16y ago
Nature at the macroscopic scale may be red in tooth and claw, but at smaller scales it gets positively Lovecraftian. (See also: the cockroach brain parasite http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2006/02/02/the_wisdom_of_parasi... )
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by hernan7 16y ago
As long as they don't make me use cpio, I'm fine.
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by hernan7 16y ago
The "heaviness" speech, an oldie but a goodie. For some reason it reminds me of that quote from Annie Hall. Woody Allen trying to cop some hippie jargon... "Did it achieve total heaviosity?"

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