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by limist 15y ago
Thanks for both the links and the advice - this is making more sense. It would be fantastic if someone - maybe you, since you've got a high-level 10,000' view down to the on-the-ground detailed experience - could consolidate this into an ar
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by limist 15y ago
Very informative and well-written post, thank you. Nice evolution of the MLK quote. What I'm wondering next is, What is the practical take-away for startups and relatively small efforts that are looking to scale? Regardless of tools-stack
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Occupy Wall Street Spreads Beyond NYC - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic(theatlantic.com)
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Report on the fourth conference on artificial general intelligence | KurzweilAI(kurzweilai.net)
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by limist 15y ago
Excellent. The book has a hacker's dedication too: "Dedicated to Brian Kernighan, who has taught us all so much; and to prisoners of conscience everywhere."
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Updated US immigration rules: H1-B can work for own company(washingtonpost.com)
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Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas(news.rpi.edu)
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by limist 15y ago
If the general topic of boosting your Python-fu interests you, be sure to check out this StackOverflow page: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2573135/python-progressio... And its HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18904
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by limist 15y ago
Your point is actually part of the article - the finiteness of physical, social, and mental resources constrained and will constrain possible paths and futures. While the author mostly hints at what could be next, his closing focus on human
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by limist 15y ago
If you're looking for a REST framework for Django, be sure to see this table: http://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/api/ At this point (mid-2011) Django-Tastypie is the clear winner by its number of authors, updated codebase, documentatio
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by limist 15y ago
It seems safe to say that Y Combinator's expectancy* as an investor is currently unsurpassed - no private investor, mutual fund, hedge fund, VC, etc. I've ever heard of comes close. Congratulations! * expectancy = (probability of win * ave
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Cellphone Radiation May Cause Cancer, Advisory Panel Says(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by limist 15y ago
Fascinating. And furthermore, smart people may be at a major disadvantage with this game; as Bertrand Russell said, "The trouble with this world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." Put another way, ov
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by limist 16y ago
A 50/50 split can work for the (very) small subset of cases where two people of comparable skill and commitment start building something from scratch (nothin' but a half-baked idea) together, with no prior investment/work/IP, no domain expe
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by limist 16y ago
Take any one of those four traits and consider its opposite, e.g. individualism vs. group/tribal orientation. Individualism confers strengths most Westerners know and prize: freedom of expression, of employment, some degree of class/social
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by limist 16y ago
A shorter version would be: Americans are generally individualist Protestant technologist capitalists. Like any other culture these defining traits bring inherent strengths, and unavoidable weaknesses. On a different note, Does anyone know
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by limist 16y ago
That speaks volumes about the interviewer(s) and their company. Did no one look at your resume before speaking with you?? If not, that's inexcusably inefficient.
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by limist 16y ago
Previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1370847 Certainly worth re-thinking nonetheless.
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Living LIGO: The "Big Dog" in the Envelope(stuver.blogspot.com)
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USA Inc.(businessweek.com)
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MIT 6.851 Advanced Data Structures(ocw.mit.edu)
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by limist 16y ago
I didn't know the author's gender until the end. Nice to see a woman pointing out misandry.
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by limist 16y ago
The OCW page for 6.001/SICP has complete lecture notes, which are useful supplements to the book, especially with additional diagrams: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
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by limist 16y ago
I was thinking the same, and then was surprised to find that there isn't yet a good free transcription service, likely because there isn't yet a good open-source solution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition_in_Linux Dragon pr
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by limist 16y ago
This is already looking to be a worthy successor to the book Founders at Work , with a greater focus on practical and usable advice for entrepreneurs (instead of anecdotes and war stories). The B2B advice from Sean Murphy, for example, is
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On Getting Traction, by Gabriel Weinberg(tractionbook.com)
77 points by limist 16y ago|9 comments
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by limist 16y ago
For anyone who grew up with 80's and 90's computers and software, there could hardly be a funnier recap of those wild-West early days than this book. Besides the humor, and admonitions against arrogant stupidity (yah, redundant), In Search
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Forged in the Stars - a love letter to NASA(loe.org)
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by limist 16y ago
I believe the quote is from sci-fi master Arthur C. Clarke: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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by limist 16y ago
From the title I thought this would link to code: some sort of OSS library/abstraction-layer for providing common game mechanics. Is there anything like that yet, in any language?

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