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by korch 17y ago
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned. -- Bruce Ediger With that said, we all know an intuitive interface when we see one. It's just too difficult to separate an enormously complex and highly context-
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by korch 17y ago
As a long time reader of the WSJ, it definitely has become a Fox-ish paper under Murdoch. What's tragic is that right now the investing public's need for objective, non-politicized, long-term financial information has never been higher, but
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by korch 17y ago
pavel_lishiin++ for linking the old school, now forgotten PLIF web comic—it was very prescient!
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by korch 17y ago
Kick ass! I really like the minimalist, modal single-page UI. Obviously a lot of thought has gone into it. This is one of the first sites I've seen that actually feels more like an application than a web page. I'd love to see this trend cat
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by korch 17y ago
As a non-academic who regularly reads papers in math, physics and economics, I can't wait for the day when all the rent-seeking academic journal publishing houses are forced out of the market and are prevented from further ruining academia
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by korch 17y ago
If you're of the mathematical school that thinks the best way to learn any math field is to walk through the history of how we got here, then I'd recommend the recent book "The Lady Tasting Tea". It traces through the history of the great m
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by korch 17y ago
I've always wanted to break into CL's space due to their utter disregard for the garden of web APIs growing up around them. They could be doing so much more with their service for the community, and I don't mean going the big time corporate
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by korch 17y ago
You can use polynomial time factoring to prove P = NP. Which means you have simultaneously solved a ton of outstanding optimization problems in science and engineering, and would allow for the creation of AI, clean renewable energy and prac
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by korch 17y ago
That's really neat to know. I really like that idea of defining a static service, similar to DNS, for looking up a user's "transient web" data. Do you have a link to your paper? I'd love to read it.
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by korch 17y ago
Isn't this the exact opposite of our favorite over-hyped buzzword: "The Cloud"? Instead of accessing all your data via freemium 3rd party hosts, you keep your own data, and those 3rd parties pubsub to/from your server. I like this idea sinc
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by korch 17y ago
We know the NSA told AT&T and the telcos to give them access to tap the Internet backbones many years ago, so how do we know the NSA or even the CIA hasn't had a similar secret agreement in place with Google? In-Q-Tel, the CIA's Silicon
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by korch 17y ago
When I was 18 and decided to first try programming, I picked assembly to start with since I had read somewhere that all other languages could themselves be written in terms of assembly. The book I learned assembly from was Randy Hyde's onli
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by korch 17y ago
As American education has become more mass-market and managed like businesses, I think what is being taught is more watered down in terms of knowledge. I once was hanging out with a few professors and one remarked "if my current students ha
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by korch 17y ago
“It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.” --Eddie Cantor
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by korch 17y ago
As a transplant to California for 2 years now, grimly apocalyptic articles like this make me question staying. Thanks kevbin for framing California's Boom & Bust problem as actually defining the state through history. Perhaps being able
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by korch 17y ago
I second recommending the Monroe Institute audio guides. I nabbed them off BitTorrent years ago, and I play a few of them on an iPod shuffle while falling asleep. It's worth seeing past the New Age (rhymes with "sewage") stigma--the point i
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by korch 17y ago
What possible downside is there?
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by korch 17y ago
They are definitely not 2 continuous hours of LDing, and more like the same time length you experienced. I'm just guesstimating how much total time was spent in multiple 20-30 minute LDs over the course of sleeping one night. For me LDs are
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by korch 17y ago
Forgot to add one thing--if you're curious what it's like to practice and learn in lucid dreams, then watch the scifi movie Dark City and look for the scenes where he's remembering being taught by the Doctor--the experience is almost exactl
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by korch 17y ago
A decade ago I picked up a copy of the La Berge book that Ferris mentions. I highly recommend it as it seems to be the canonical book on the topic since La Berge was credited with being first to medically prove in a lab that lucid dreaming
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by korch 17y ago
It's funny that "The National Association of Staredown Professionals" mentioned at the bottom of the article is a real organization. I wonder what their meetings are like?
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by korch 17y ago
I detest PHP, and have been lucky enough to mostly avoid working with it. But I'm currently leading the development to convert an 80k line PHP app to Rails, and I'm absolutely shocked at how fundamentally flawed PHP code is from the perspec
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by korch 17y ago
This advice is all wrong. The real key to success is to show a photo of yourself in front of your uber-expensive sports car, which is parked in front of your grand mansion, and somehow mention your net worth is more than seven, preferably e
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by korch 17y ago
Apache does too much. Whatever happened to the Unix dictum to "do one thing well"? I think this is actually a good reason for switching to Nginx whenever possible, where the conf files are tiny enough to be readable by mortals.
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by korch 17y ago
I'd love to work on a generalized recommendation engine. After spending a fair amount of time tinkering on the Netflix prize, I now see countless sites and apps are in need of generalized recommendations--on the scale of being another layer
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by korch 17y ago
Stillwell knows what he's talking about. In his fantastic book "Mathematics: A History" he makes the point that calculus is taught entirely backwards from its historical development, and he says that approach ruins most undergrads in truly
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by korch 17y ago
"Meetings suck." Preaching to the choir a bit? I'm not impressed. Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM|Microsoft|flavor du jour. No hacker every got shot down for saying meetings suck.
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by korch 17y ago
I highly respect what this guy is doing, even though I don't yet have the guts to live like this myself. As Tyler Durden said, "the things you own end up owning you." The best I can do is smugly re-read Thoreau while sitting in a Starbucks
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by korch 17y ago
I would be interested hearing about the cost/benefit analysis from YC funded groups after they have been funded and/or moved on. The only way to move beyond subjective and hypothetical judgements like we're making is (obviously) to measure
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by korch 17y ago
So let me get this straight--if you make it through the gauntlet of rather arbitrary, hype-driven judgements, you get a whopping $10k and you have to move to the Bay, which has among the highest real estate and cost of living in the country

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