jkkramer

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by jkkramer 19y ago
You and the article are talking about different things. Looking nice doesn't matter much for getting funded. But it does if you want a balanced life outside of your startup. What are you going to do when your startup is successful and you'r
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by jkkramer 19y ago
An interesting counterpoint -- or at least, a tempering perspective -- is the story that made the rounds recently about a consultant who was called in to fix an unstable Linux kernel driver: The company programmer was slavishly fixing each
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IE8 Beta Released(microsoft.com)
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by jkkramer 19y ago
I'd start by coming up with a project, a goal. What are your interests? Gaming, sports, cooking, art? Decide to make something web-based that pertains to whatever interests you have. Doesn't matter if you're reinventing the wheel. Now, star
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by jkkramer 19y ago
"And that select group appears to be getting smaller and more exclusive by the day." Did I miss something or did he provide no evidence of this? I don't see any data about what the distribution looked like in the past. How do we know divers
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by jkkramer 19y ago
"Their health had almost nothing to do with what they were eating" -- It's good to be young, isn't it? As you get older, the effects of what you put into your body become more immediate, even when you exercise. Still, most diet advice is us
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by jkkramer 19y ago
Google's mission statement is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." The New York Times, on the other hand, is about _creating_ information. They also maintain a big archive, but that's not thei
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by jkkramer 19y ago
"All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo ..." and a multi-million dollar home in Southern California to put them in.
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by jkkramer 19y ago
I read about a condition recently that was like the opposite of autism: people with it were extremely socially adept. Sounds like this kid has it. Can't find a link at the moment; maybe someone else has read about it?
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by jkkramer 19y ago
Consciousness is not an experience of something. It's the experience itself. So it doesn't have qualities--it IS qualities. It's not red, it's what it's like to see red. It's the immediate (no intermediary) subjective happenings of your con
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by jkkramer 19y ago
I would submit that to properly define something, you have to understand it. Since consciousness is not understood, it has no definition. Talk about consciousness isn't hot air; it's an effort to understand. Science tends to be inductive: w
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A meticulously-crafted post made to look confidently ignorant, written by an intelligent person is no different from a confidently ignorant post written by a confidently ignorant person. They both spur argumentative (i.e., non-substantive)