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Patent Trolls - Posner(becker-posner-blog.com)
2 points by irickt 13y ago|0 comments
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by irickt 13y ago
While I agree with the sentiment, this is less manifesto and more guerilla marketing to bring eyeballs to their products.
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by irickt 13y ago
For example, newspapers and magazines.
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"Nicole Wong, dubbed by many as the US’s first chief privacy officer"
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by irickt 13y ago
It reviews research on specifically what makes cities innovative.
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by irickt 13y ago
In the East poets are sometimes thrown in prison – a sort of compliment, since it suggests the author has done something at least as real as theft or rape or revolution. Here poets are allowed to publish anything at all – a sort of punishm
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by irickt 13y ago
Here's a worthy contender: https://github.com/rvagg/morkdown Open source, Node.js and Chrome based, Github flavored.
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For a 300 lb tent load that's putting roughly 1000 lb tension on each tie (though they don't show any pictures of how much it sags to allow a better estimate of the angle). Not good for the trees and not comfortable to consider th
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Do More By Planning Less: The Power of the Anti-Plan(calnewport.com)
3 points by irickt 13y ago|0 comments
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The Edge answers, edited to tweets. Original source: http://edge.org/annual-question/q2013 Edit: Not quite blogspam because it is a useful summary that is not available on the original site. It would added more value with links to the ans
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by irickt 13y ago
In Tech We Trust? A Debate with Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen [video] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5641799
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by irickt 13y ago
Direct link: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/11/artificial-in...
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by irickt 13y ago
The biggest risk to Bitcoin is that it will become the Myspace of currencies as its many future competitors come along.
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by irickt 13y ago
Maybe it should be called MetaQ?
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by irickt 14y ago
And the ancestors of female fleas shaped flea penises. Rather unremarkable result, and link baiting by the Smithsonian Magazine!
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by irickt 14y ago
Previously, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5579047
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by irickt 14y ago
Thanks for posting these. The third link in particular applies a very similar approach to the inverted pendulum example, in depth and with clarity. I also note the modest concluding paragraph for comparison to the grand claims of the OP. "F
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Virtual currencies - Mining digital gold(economist.com)
8 points by irickt 14y ago|0 comments
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Really? It's not about the language. It's about the runtime.
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"performant" Performs well how exactly? I've gotten over the fact that "it's not a word". This is how new (useless) words enter the lexicon.
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by irickt 14y ago
In the style of Dr. Seuss, Raganwald begins to derive arithmetic from logic using functional Coffeescript. Fun!
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by irickt 14y ago
It's also about driving writers to Google+.
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by irickt 14y ago
The proposal seems to be a joke. For example, this video review of the existing theories is hand-wavy and totally "blond" (sorry). https://www.microryza.com/projects/crowdsourcing-humor-using... If this was serious she would at least ment
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by irickt 14y ago
By the way, BitPay is recruiting node.js developers.
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Kurzweil and homunculism(nybooks.com)
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Clean syntax. Minimum excess download. Use it if you want to deliver your js in one bundle.
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by irickt 14y ago
If a version of hexagonal targeted java then it would be "hexagonal.java". But .coffee and .js target the same "binary" so .js is the correct designation. It's about the runtime not the language.
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by irickt 14y ago
Please explain the anti-pattern you see and the pattern your prefer.
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Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5237977
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by irickt 14y ago
The OP likens the technique to DCI, which is contrasted to MVC by the inventor of both techniques in this article: http://www.artima.com/articles/dci_vision.html

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