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by lg 18y ago
maybe you could do that in the US, where the threat of lawsuits might keep people honest. but i wouldn't risk it. seems like the problem this essay is pointing out is that the laws aren't fine-grained enough to distinguish between industri
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by lg 18y ago
I think Japan's problem wasn't population, it was credit. The banks got government license to grow the economy, so they threw it at their well-connected keiretsu friends who wasted it on bad business ideas. After the crash, everyone got "
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by lg 18y ago
the obsessive "apple fanboys" i know don't know much about technology. so i'd say it's half good products, and half marketing. apple's the only company that creates a personification of their product as a marketing tool. it's a great tri
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by lg 18y ago
i don't think the world will ever learn mandarin en masse if that entails learning thousands of characters. that said, if the chinese embrace an alphabet (at least for communication with foreigners), pinyin/bopomofo could become the standa
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by lg 18y ago
well, you have to ask why some of them took it up. but once that initial tribe did, they could've spread their way of life by conquest, since agriculture generally supports bigger populations than hunting. that newfound power might answer
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by lg 19y ago
Mint is an attempt to improve Ubuntu with a somewhat-friendlier UI and software that people actually use, i.e. mplayer. I think Ubuntu's problem isn't geekiness so much as ideology (and maybe there are legal issues with including things lik
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by lg 19y ago
maybe nothing, but he's not talking to the grunts, he's talking to the management (or city) that hires and trains them. an unfriendly reputation can really damage you. maybe new york is too big to care, but i know people who routinely avo
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by lg 19y ago
http://www.tekes.fi/eng/publications/innovative_service.pdf i'm not sure if this is the paper, but this one explains what they mean by "customer experience design". the little table on page 12 mentions radical innovations like making som
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by lg 19y ago
is it inconsistent? i'm in the same boat: used to waste a lot of time, now buckling down to get something done, and i'll waste time again once i'm filthy rich.
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by lg 19y ago
i sent a message to a friend about moving to boston, and got a boston real estate ad a couple pageviews later. I also get programming job ads (i'm graduating this year). But yeah, there's usually a girl with a come-hither gaze.
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by lg 19y ago
maybe he's subtly alleging that they didn't do much in the way of solving it.
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by lg 19y ago
wow, this guy made it to TED? I saw him give this talk at penn, where he argued that we should never "maximize" (spend a lot of time researching) any decision, even seemingly important ones. The example he gave was a professional tennis p
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by lg 19y ago
94 cd 73 ls 64 sudo 30 nano 21 java 13 gawk 13 echo 11 ps 11 killall 8 clojure java surprised me.
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by lg 19y ago
Must be a location thing. I'm in NJ and I hear a lot of the graduating seniors getting offers in the 50-60 range aound here. 80 is a great offer. And most of these guys consider a bittorrent client in java to be big and scary, so someone
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by lg 19y ago
you'd figure they can get more money (from angels/vc's) before they launch if what they've got so far is impressive.
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by lg 19y ago
have you tried the latest mzscheme? i remember you were running arc on v352, the libraries have changed a lot since then, so maybe the gc did too... iirc there's a patch on anarki or someplace to make it work.
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by lg 19y ago
the ai checks players' hotkeyed groups? i hope this doesn't spark another korean war.
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by lg 19y ago
no investors. russia is like pg's example of pittsburgh in that essay about making a silicon valley. although, there are rich people in russia, but they don't know tech; they get rich from crime (drugs), oil, or knowing the right people i
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by lg 19y ago
I'm interested in this myself, if only for coolness as SwellJoe mentioned. The comments on there mentioned CouchDB, does anyone know if it's worth using yet?
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by lg 19y ago
within philosophy's "core areas" (epistemology/metaphysics/ethics) and popular subtopics (philosophy of mind/science), there's a lot of really great work (and really smart people) to learn from. You see many intricate, well-thought-out argu
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by lg 19y ago
A grad student I know said he might work at his friends' very secret startup this summer. All he said is that it'll revolutionize the music business, it has the full support of several record companies, they got half a million from vc's ju
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by lg 19y ago
Mouni Sadhu (kind of a new-age crackpot, but a very to-the-point and convincing writer) wrote about this in his book Samadhi, which I think was published in the 50s. He talked about starting off restricting small aspects of your behavior (
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by lg 19y ago
from my experience (quitting drinking), you can hack willpower with mantras. reminding yourself of something every morning and night, in a motivational way, keeps it alive as a goal over the months-long slog. the tricky part is forcing y
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by lg 19y ago
it must be a joke. i looked back at nickb's posts and he mentioned depending on textmate?! no way a vi user would betray the brotherhood, even in puppet form.
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by lg 19y ago
I think the four-hour workday is an interesting idea. I'm still in school but I worked at a real estate development office for a summer, and most of those jobs could've been done in four hours a day if people didn't get away with being so
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by lg 19y ago
> The reactions like this to Graham's pieces make a good case for learning and using rhetoric. No. It's hard to dig out somebody's argument when it's surrounded by self-deprecating rhetorical armor. Presumably pg wants the argument fr
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by lg 19y ago
I think I get it. Well, maybe killing yourself with a robot is no different from shooting yourself with a really elaborate gun. But somewhere in that elaborateness is a line to be crossed; otherwise convincing someone else to kill you wou
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by lg 19y ago
robert virding (of "hello, robert" erlang movie fame) released "lisp-flavoured erlang" recently. Haven't played with it yet... http://groups.google.com/group/erlang-questions/browse_threa...
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by lg 19y ago
Ah, the Jobsian theory of restaurants.
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by lg 19y ago
By the way, this isn't true for chemists. My roommate's a chem major and has interned all over the place; the scientists he works with apparently had little trouble finding jobs (here in NJ, anyway). Of course, their research centers on p

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