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by isamuel 17y ago
Anyone who enjoys this will enjoy "Put This On," a collaboration between "the Sound of Young America guy" and "the You Look Nice Today guy." It's a video series (season 1 is about to launch, & there's already a pilot available) and tum
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by isamuel 17y ago
What is this new graph supposed to illustrate? I understand that by calling it "pesky" you're speaking in a sort of code, which is meant to signify factual victory on a disputed point. But you're right: the charts show exactly the same thin
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by isamuel 17y ago
The one thing that I wish Lose It! and similar weight-tracking apps did is report a moving average. This is crucial to Walker's "Hacker Diet"---otherwise progress looks random rather than, as a (say) ten-day moving average would reveal, ste
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by isamuel 17y ago
Strongly agreed. "First, you'll need to login." Actually, first, I need to be told what this app does.
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by isamuel 17y ago
I agree with the thrust of what you write. But this is wrong: "Philosophy requires no 'givens', which is to say it is a valid field without requiring you to make any assumptions to partake in it." In 1748, David Hume explained why this isn
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by isamuel 17y ago
Forget Twitterizing it. Randallize it: http://xkcd.com/610/
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by isamuel 17y ago
Makes sense. Apple's in a market with a lot of young, well-educated customers. Those people tend to favor action on climate change. Moreover, it's not as if Apple's business depends on greenhouse gas emissions to the extent that, say, autom
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by isamuel 17y ago
I'm confused. Institutions which prefer people educated at elite universities aren't "maintaining a polite fiction." They're using a proxy for quality. They'd admit as much. It's imperfect, and they'd admit that too, but I don't get the "an
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by isamuel 17y ago
And that's why you should never talk to the police. Really. Ever. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4097602514885833865 http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/07/why_you_should...
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"In contrast there is a layer of garbage and grime everywhere in New York City." Only for certain unusual values of "everywhere." Even in Manhattan, certain neighborhoods are very clean; venture out into Brooklyn, where far more New Yorkers
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by isamuel 17y ago
This is one of my favorite metaphors. For those of you with an interest in analytical philosophy (and, really, if you thought this wikipedia link sounded interesting, you probably do have such an interest), Ronald Dworkin's upcoming book i
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by isamuel 17y ago
Given that Roombas are programmed in Lisp, how long before someone ports the Roomba AI to Lego?
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by isamuel 17y ago
This is probably true. But if the purpose of Wave is to be "Collaboration Tool for Large Corporations to Share TPS Reports," isn't it doomed with most hackers anyway? Who would want to write programs for that?
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The phrase originally meant easy to learn with diminishing returns after a certain point, for exactly the reasons you suggest. However, the phrase "steep" implies something hard to do, so the phrase gradually lost that meaning and gained t
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by isamuel 17y ago
It's ironic but probably inevitable that the central advice of this article (basically: "work like crazy on your startup, stop obsesssing on the app") has been greeted with cries to see their first app, second app, video accompanying the ap
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by isamuel 17y ago
This story is about a guy who was too optimistic about his business prospects. Fair enough; it's not good to be unrealistically optimistic. But it's (often) far worse to underestimate your chances of success than to overestimate them. The w
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by isamuel 17y ago
This is pretty damning stuff. In a well-functioning media environment, it would be sufficient to seriously damage the credibility of the pollster involved (Strategic Vision), or at least shift the burden to them to explain their behavior. I
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Court’s Steroid Ruling Pumps Up Computer Privacy(wired.com)
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Agreed. Plus, if you build something that you would still use even if no one else did, you're guaranteeing that at least one person wants to use what you're making. Doing otherwise is surprisingly common, judging by some of the products out