jackchristopher

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Bill Gates' Workflow (2006)(money.cnn.com)
4 points by jackchristopher 17y ago|0 comments
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
Yeah, that's a lot of trouble to get your stuff (possibly) noticed. I'm sick of this expectation. Technology should address this as a problem. Am I really expected to do a blog to be part of "the conversation"? Am I only listened to when I
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
Yeah, the three things I wanted to see in EtherPad was XMPP support, easy embed and email name association.
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Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media (video)(ted.com)
7 points by jackchristopher 17y ago|1 comments
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
To steal a line, nutrition is younger than it seems. We screwed it up fundamentally. This is just another example. This study contradicts the glycemic index theory which claims glucose, specifically rice and potatoes, are the worst carbohyd
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
Here's a 113 day old Where's nickb thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775507 Actually, there's several post like the above one. Here's all (recent) posts with nickb in title: http://searchyc.com/submissions/nickb Nickb tells
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
His last activity was 158 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nickb Wow. My goodness. Is his death confirmed? It wasn't clear from the thread. I'm unsure of who else (from HN) knew him. Can anyone clarify?
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
There are two good old threads on HN about this: Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeeper to release the potentially genocidal AI?: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=195959 My theory on Eliezer Yudkowsky's AI-Box Exper
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
I criticize by creation, not by finding fault. - Michaelangelo From this old but good HN thread on criticism: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=424699
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
Server seems to be melting (for me) at the moment. Here's the Google cached version: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:LSsihXo7tIQJ:putthingsof...
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
His criticism is more about what he sees as the blogosphere's negatives than about blogging in general. But I agree with it. There's immense pressure for people, particularly newbies, to do the kind of blogging he's talking about. In effect
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
Play it now. Here's a Java Web Applet (downloadable too): http://symbolaris.com/applet/Rhythmomachia.html
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
Because there could be value in reimplementing a similar idea in a different way. Whether it's an RSS redo or not, it looks like it could be valuable. People in the comments argued the "notifications" idea can already be done by Gmail folde
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
> mightn't the earth work better when it is warmer? - yters The majority of history has seen a warmer earth. Warmer means life-friendly. I just worry that we fail the transition. The planet earth is currently in the middle of an ice
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
> Saying "I wrote an awesome program recently" ... makes people think your dishonest. Not only that, but it's an insult to my intelligence. That's no biggy to me in itself, but it's not a sign of something good either. To me, a self pr
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
Pertaining to the editor wars. There's a great (long) video about Linus and Linux history from 2001. Watch the whole thing if you can—after the 40 minute mark is especially worth it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVTWCPoUt8w 55 minutes i
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Dale Carnegie's Golden Book [pdf](scribd.com)
2 points by jackchristopher 17y ago|0 comments
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
> I used to have a professor that claimed interpersonal communication fails 95% of the time. Wiio's Laws (my favorites): 1. Communication usually fails, except by accident. 4. The more we communicate, the worse communication succeeds.
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
This seems generally true. Once a measurement of success becomes popular enough, people eventually forget to question it. How many people live thinking money or material wealth is the point in life with no question?
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
The pic isn't new [1][2]. Two anecdotes on Jobs' Furniture: Larry Ellison, "It struck me that there wasn't furniture good enough for Steve in the world. He'd rather have nothing if he couldn't have perfection." Ed Riddle, an early Mac te
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
Just click the above instead. Can Anon84 (or mod) link the original in the title instead? I enjoyed the post, but it'd save people time. Not to be stern but: Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
>where is this place that fears degradation into HN? It may not be on the web at all. Could be mailing lists.
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
Dolphins are supposedly known to gang rape, but I can't find a good source. Best articles on dolphin intelligence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetacean_intelligence And analysis: http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/2009/04/ceta
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
And here are the rest of Wolfram's writing for reference: http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/recent/
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
Good analysis on that: http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/04/intercourse-and-intelligenc...
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What Is Ultimately Possible in Physics?(stephenwolfram.com)
28 points by jackchristopher 17y ago|15 comments
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
Peter Paul Rubens. He showed with paintings how things are supposed to be done. His painting are an avalanche of skill: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Paul_Rubens
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
I find the same thing true. Problem solving is me cycling through questions until I ask the right one. The question I start with is always either too specific or too general to narrow my search. But after enough iterations, the right one tr
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
I mean do more stuff through email, like Posterous and Xobni did. People are comfortable with the interface. I think Google Wave starts in email actually. But they extend it into XMPP. You got me on the money equation. But I'm sure there's
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by jackchristopher 17y ago
> I really think the main problem is not the concept of mailing lists (and email/nntp) generally, but instead, as you suggest, the software that runs it. Making email better is undervalued. Love to see startups help extend it.

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