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A Single Gene Possibly Responsible for Cortical Tissue Formation(sciencedaily.com)
2 points by ihodes 15y ago|0 comments
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by ihodes 15y ago
No, the implications of this do not include "intelligent chips". Neurons aren't "smarter" than something we can currently create digitally, and if anything they transmit information more slowly. The primary use of technology like this? Bett
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by ihodes 15y ago
For me, todos wouldn't add much. Todos require something with more sophistication than any calendaring apps I use (BusyCal, iCal or GoogleCal, all at different times.); I use Things, and could probably stand to move to OmniFocus. You can't
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by ihodes 16y ago
Out of curiosity, why did you switch to OSX? I'm on OSX now, and I love much of it, but the author's points ring very true. I'm less and less sure every day why I stay on Mac as apposed to Arch, which I use on my servers.
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by ihodes 16y ago
Those points are all reasons I get closer, every day, to switching to Arch. However, OSX still has a lot over the Linices. To name a few advantages: Great applications/uses that require a Mac: 1. Todo lists (Omnifocus or Things): I manage f
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by ihodes 16y ago
I've been using *nix for a while, but there are things in here I haven't used (tr, for example, and I haven't used much awk). A nice little diversion, and it's something I'd feel comfortable showing to a newbie if I were nearby to help out.
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by ihodes 16y ago
Maybe I should have been more clear; the costs of education go up concurrently with with CPI. CPI is used as a general measure of inflation. If you're not taking that into account, you're measuring the change in nominal, not real dollars. T
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by ihodes 16y ago
What a load of crap. Look at the CPI: that should be subtracted from the ENTIRE graph to show that most things on there have in fact deflated over time (is that even true), and that the apparently HUGE increases in College Tuition are still
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by ihodes 16y ago
The differences are there; superficially, all clients display tweets in a timeline, and provide the functionality that Twitter.com does. The differences abound, though. Check out http://shawnblanc.net/2011/04/tweetbot-review/ for more.
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Tweetbot(tapbots.com)
110 points by ihodes 16y ago|42 comments
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by ihodes 16y ago
The original paper is always at the bottom of Ars articles. That's one reason I subscribe. Anyway, there seems to be a growing body of evidence contrary to Chomsky's universal grammar–see Dan Everett for some more, e.g. It's interesting to
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by ihodes 16y ago
Depending on how much you trust them, they could liberally delete comments, or knock them way down in their weighing. Of course, you run the risk of pissing people off. Concurrently, you could use the votes (esp negative) of the users track
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by ihodes 16y ago
Idea: track the upvotes/downvotes/flags of users and compare them to your upvotes/downvotes/flags (and maybe other respected users). If there are striking similarities, take a closer look. If things still look good (observe comments, submis
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Mobile Opportunities: not in the apps(communities-dominate.blogs.com)
1 points by ihodes 16y ago|2 comments
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by ihodes 16y ago
I think people get tired of linking this. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by ihodes 16y ago
Earlier that may have been a worry, but I think it's pretty clear by now that's it's only helped. It's entirely possible to write comprehensive, complicated, programs in Clojure, using no Java. There are, too, many Clojure libs that either
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by ihodes 16y ago
Interesting perspective. Definitely read the comments on this article.
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America's Most Important Algorithm(blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
1 points by ihodes 16y ago|0 comments
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Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Traders(theatlantic.com)
1 points by ihodes 16y ago|1 comments
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by ihodes 16y ago
I do understand that argument; that much is clear (and I was not!). However, I think one would have to be dishonest with oneself if one didn't think the valuation was overinflated.
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by ihodes 16y ago
Very cool news. However, I see something like this and I wonder: "wow, Facebook is valued at over 10 times this purchase price (which is already inflated by virtue of it being a purchasing price)." I don't know what to draw from that; intui
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by ihodes 16y ago
This is posted on every comment like this, but I'll oblige: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything tha
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by ihodes 16y ago
You can reply without being offensive. You could also save time by not prefacing some of your sentences with insults. Come on, uncool. Additionally, the article you linked says (among other pros and cons) Some countries, including So
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by ihodes 16y ago
Dropbox is on Amazon. You're paying for the kickass desktop/mobile app. Sure, I wish it was less, or that you could get more than 100GB…but this isn't a replacement.
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by ihodes 16y ago
Thanks. Living only for today is living For a fraction of your life. This is what I've seen, too. Today's great, but tomorrow always can be better. I live every day, and I want to live for the rest of them.
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by ihodes 16y ago
I can't deny the sound logic of your first statement. (see: tautology) Reasons include anecdotes, cuteness of the sentiment, and others. If you want to defend it, do. Don't strawman my arguments, though. You live all of the future and the p
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by ihodes 16y ago
It does sound cliché. And, respectfully, I think it's just as wrong [Edit: not wrong, but maybe shortsighted. Then again, if what I say in the following paragraphs doesn't change your view in the slightest, then more power to you: my view i
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by ihodes 16y ago
AMD just began supporting OdenCL, but (of course; it's an NVIDIA thing) don't support CUDU.
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by ihodes 16y ago
I'm clearly in the minority here, but damn if some of this doesn't seem very cool. Especially for the middle/high-school crowd, and college kids, who are friends, generally, with people geographically close to one another. If they sort out
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by ihodes 16y ago
Phone GPS, in my experience, really doesn't. It is inaccurate, oftentimes 100ft off, and certainly drains battery faster than just about anything else. What part of it works, on a phone, for applications such as these? Or were you just sayi

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