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Teach yourself free market economics in two hours(blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
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The announcement on the Google blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/introducing-our-googl...
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Google Fiber for Communities, Launch(fiberforcommunities.com)
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Global cooling underway(opinion.financialpost.com)
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Cory Doctorow: Reports of blogging's death have been greatly exaggerated(guardian.co.uk)
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And not just clever, witty, and progressive, but an honorable man, repaying very large debts even when not legally required: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain#Financial_troubles
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by limist 16y ago
I see two aspects to the 3rd rule: one, pick a problem that isn't currently popular with most people in your field - it may be so in the future, thus you need to think ahead, OR, you need to look at a "solved" problem that really isn't, som
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by limist 16y ago
Wonderful article, as it gives more reason to smile in appreciation on the next flight. Human hubris, stubbornness and over-reliance on intuition add to the article's lessons in physics and biology.
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Conkeror: The Best Web Browser (For Emacs Users)(broadcast.oreilly.com)
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Is the iPad the New Guillotine?(kurzweilai.net)
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Ray Kurzweil: How to Predict the Future(inc.com)
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College: Big Investment, Paltry Return(finance.yahoo.com)
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by limist 16y ago
Or the 22/7 people...
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Hayek's Road to Serfdom: Despotism Then and Now(mises.org)
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Gandalf: A Palantir is a dangerous tool! Saruman: Why should we fear to use it? Gandalf: They are NOT all accounted for. We don't know who may be watching-
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Oh, and I forgot to mention YSlow - as far as I can tell, that Firefox plugin was available years before anything else like it (e.g. Chrome's performance profiler). Not only did it work and work well, but the Yahoo! devs released lots of d
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by limist 16y ago
Yahoo and their development team in particular deserve kudos much more often than they seem to get. PR-wise, they get elbowed out by Google, FB, etc. when in fact their open-source tools like YUI are often very well made, well tested (if i
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Save $9,330 a Year by Riding Transit(cleantechnica.com)
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A doubling of solar cell efficiency would change a lot; paired with cheap, scalable storage, it would change everything. ;)
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Researchers clear major hurdle in road to high-efficiency solar cells(rdmag.com)
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by limist 16y ago
Compare the performance of ≈30 programming languages using ≈12 flawed benchmarks and ≈1100 programs It's fascinating (code) reading, and for the most part, decently organized too. Includes common languages, and some more recent ones and
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The Computer Language Benchmarks Game - 30 languages, 1100+ programs(shootout.alioth.debian.org)
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Yes, here's one of Ericsson's landmark papers on the topic, 1993: http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracti...
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by limist 16y ago
Yes, and unlike singing, programming can be comfortably done for more than 2 hours a day, without much risk of long-term body/voice damage. :)
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"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." - Alan Kay This news is yet another data point that developers will need to hack concurrency sooner than later, as a core skill in one's professional repertoire.
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Thank you! Much appreciated.
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Ask HN: Does someone know this recent site/app?
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The Collective Intelligence Genome(sloanreview.mit.edu)
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Considered more as a thought-experiment (where it is an interesting question, regardless of author's opinions), this could really use a decision tree.
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Travel hack: How to pack over 40kg of luggage with you on no-frills airlines(fluentin3months.com)
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