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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
Being the famous guy in the graveyard isn't particularly appealing either.
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
To wit: the recession and slow recovery of the last couple of years are just that, a recession and slow recovery--they aren't a harbinger to the end of capitalism or conventional labor or employment. The recession
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
The real problem is that we keep reproducing uncontrolably. The religiously crazed keep pushing having tons of kids with NO WAY TO SUPPORT THEM. That's only the main issue if you're wearing Reddit atheist goggles. Populatio
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
If you give your surplus food to an area that supports 5,000 starving people, then you have only ensured that 6,000 of them will be around in the next generation to starve even more severely. Not sure how well that appli
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
Greeks work more hours than Germans [1] (in fact they're the 2nd hardest working people in the world according to an 2008 OECD study) and have shorter holidays (23 vs 30 days) [2]. [1] http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2011/
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
I don't see how the author is missing the point because of your claim. If the justice system is already crashing, then massively asking to go to trial would crash it even more.
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
Don't delude yourself with this Protestant hard-work-is-necessary mentality. Better representations are possible and they can save us a lot of work. It's easier to perform multiplication using Hindu-Arab numerals than it is with Roman numer
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
Using the categories [0] is the best way to navigate the icons on the site for me. But yeah, I agree that searching is problematic. [0] http://thenounproject.com/category/
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
Not the same thing at all. Google claimed to represent Mocality - AirBnB did not claim to represent Craigslist.
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
Why do we need computers? We already have the abacus.
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
Yeah, it's exactly because of the mentality of "ideas are worthless" that has dominated Silicon Valley that there's such a profound lack of imagination in today's technology world. It's perfectly fine to build things because they're "cool,"
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
It took my browser 20 seconds to render the text. I've no idea why he would load static content dynamically.
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
>Javascript (which is basically just a Lisp with infix syntax ;-)) No, it's not.
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
Your startup is not part of history. You couldn't find better evidence that SV is an intellectual bubble than this post.
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
The author doesn't provide a solution. Or his solution is so incoherent that it's simply not one. Listen, we are all frustrated. We're all waiting for the deus ex machina language that will be a direct interface to pure thought. But belittl
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
You actually get better code density with Clojure, for large enough programs. And a WAY better code density when you try to do multithreading.
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
The above probability does not hold true.
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
Did you even read the essay? Visions of the future are critical in shaping the focus of today's research. GUIs, laptops, etc. came almost entirely out of Alan Kay's mind. Visions of the future that just plain suck, such as Microsoft's, then
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
Yes. His latest tweet: >There was a section on Waving Hands In The Air interfaces, but I cut it. (Tho I liked the phrase "nut-punch to your proprioceptive senses".)
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
http://tpdsaa.tumblr.com/
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
What Jobs probably meant (not that I agree with it necessarily): Philanthropy is using money to enable others to innovate, in contrast to being an innovator.
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
If you're going to do this, add the ability to retro-record (i.e. when you press the record button, the recording starts from 30 seconds in the past - meaning that you'd have to record continuously and have the 30 seconds on a cache at any
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Somehow people have this picture of mathematics as this universal body of knowledge, but that couldn't be further from the truth. They are as earthly as anything else we've been doing as a human race. Fo
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
What do you think of Clojure? (if you've checked it out)
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
Not particularly valuable ones, at least.
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
>Upgrading is an investment in both time and funds, both can be spent better if you are already able to do what you want to do. You are operating under the assumption that the usual way of dealing with technology is that you have some g
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
There's a surprising amount of belief in historical determinism in the discussion here, which is utterly unjustified. It is easy to believe that the future will fix itself on its own. But such beliefs are mostly the result of not being able
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
Google was the Apple II of AI.
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by icandoitbetter 15y ago
I feel very uncomfortable with the constant comparison between Ritchie's death and Jobs' death. Even Rob Pike ended up doing this. [1] Why are we trying to create conflict and see injustice where there is none? The amount of media coverage

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