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by jonmc12 17y ago
They extended apple's dev environment and then built an online iWork suite. They are likely going the 37 signals route until Apple offers them a check they can not refuse.
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by jonmc12 17y ago
Interesting to think that if you are a non-conformist your role in our civilization's survival is to evangelize your new behaviors while trying not to get yourself killed, imprisoned or banned.
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Larry Ellison Interview(youtube.com)
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by jonmc12 17y ago
A few (or even just one) examples of this approach yielding real results would have made this article worth reading. Results are what matter in startups, not applause.
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by jonmc12 17y ago
I guess it depends what you consider important. I moved here recently. I don't disagree with much of what you say - but for me nightlife, social circles, name-dropping, and sycophants are only background elements. What I do think are impo
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by jonmc12 17y ago
"...one, giant, database-in-the-sky, an irresistible target for the malevolent." I'm not sure, but is this such a bad thing if this giant database is open? I mean, the most incentivized and most malevolent of people can already buy my info
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by jonmc12 17y ago
well, they haven't actually started the new contest yet, so the netflix legal dept likely has not put their final stamp of approval.
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Netflix's Impending (But Still Avoidable) Multi-Million Dollar Privacy Blunder(freedom-to-tinker.com)
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by jonmc12 17y ago
The written word was a technology advancement as well. It let stories be retold/copied with more precision than song and dance. One could argue that simply formalizing language in writing stifled human creativity as well. However, its not
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Gourmand: automatically import links into delicious(github.com)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_emission_microscopy
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Introducing Apache Mahout(ibm.com)
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by jonmc12 17y ago
When I can import OPML, do I need Google Reader?
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IPot: Finding Medical Marijuana with iPhone(blogs.wsj.com)
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AI Researcher Ben Geortzel's review of Jeff Hawkins 'On Intelligence' (2004)(goertzel.org)
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by jonmc12 17y ago
So, it looks like computers have a reproductive system now.
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RepRap, a (potentially) self-replicating 3D printer(ligress.wordpress.com)
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by jonmc12 17y ago
I was looking for a web analytics solution recently. I looked at Mixpanel, but it was hard for me to understand what benefits the product had over google analytics other than being real-time. Event tracking / funnel analysis look about the
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Human Brain Processing Speed clocked at less than 60 bits/s using Hicks Law(technologyreview.com)
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Yea, it was a great event! The winning team built a prototype of a Justin.tv type of app in 2 days. I do think it will be sometime before the platform sees any applications that have mainstream adoption. Video may be the first thing that g
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by jonmc12 17y ago
Also known as the 'F-U Number'. Ask yourself how much you need to live the rest of your life the way you want. For me, I don't need much in the way of luxuries, but would want enough money to secure my own interests regardless of whats goi
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Profiles of Singularity University Graduate Studies '09 Students(singularityu.org)
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by jonmc12 17y ago
Thoughtful article. I've always though of 'bottom-up' attention as a sub-conscious process - defining the context of our environment. For instance, the soccer player who knows the rules, the clock state, the position of his teammates on t
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SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder(research.microsoft.com)
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Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python(twistedmatrix.com)
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What is a Crackpot?(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jonmc12 17y ago
I remember finding this article on Digg in April '07. To me it was gospel - I contacted the author thinking for sure someone else had shared his vision and wanted to bring these ideas to all kinds of applications. At the time, not really
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Beyond the Stars, Effective Local Rating Made Simple(thebuzz.at)
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LingPipe is a suite of Java libraries for the linguistic analysis of human language(alias-i.com)
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The Rise Of jQuery(visitmix.com)
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