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by lkozma 16y ago
This is straight out of Borges' "emporium": http://www.multicians.org/thvv/borges-animals.html
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by lkozma 17y ago
You are right, I don't think it was an ad hominem, besides you made a valid point about Posterous. I just read the wiki stuff today and couldn't resist.
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by lkozma 17y ago
"Our minds use the principle of perspective to provide the third dimension." Totally agree with the author. Actually our minds use a whole set of cues besides perspective to estimate the third dimension and stereopsis (used in "3d" movies)
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by lkozma 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
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by lkozma 17y ago
"This is why no animal has evolved wheels" instead animals evolved brains and hands that invent and build wheels. Nice way to jump out of the supposed limitation of hill-climbing algorithm.
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by lkozma 17y ago
It was somewhere in the blog of Sun's former CEO: "all technology ultimately becomes a fashion item. It has happened to timekeeping, it is definitely happening to computers and telecom"
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by lkozma 17y ago
In that case there would still be different possible ways to enter it. "without dashes and spaces" makes it unambiguous. Again, I'm not claiming it's usable, but sometimes interface design can be counter-intuitive.
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by lkozma 17y ago
Let me play devil's advocate here. Users who are not tech-savvy or those who are new to using credit cards online might be afraid at each step that they do something wrong. -Enter credit card! -Uhm, I wonder if it means with spaces or with
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The Snowclones Database(snowclones.org)
18 points by lkozma 17y ago|0 comments
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by lkozma 17y ago
Yeah, I like the outline of your product idea. Looking forward to trying it out.
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by lkozma 17y ago
Their idea reminded of a similar concept I heard once: open source scientific papers. It works like this: you put up the .tex source, the data files, the R, Octave, etc. scripts, and if people download and run the scripts, they get the exac
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by lkozma 17y ago
I didn't read the full article, but I'm curious: how did they explain to the pigeons that there was a reward behind exactly one door.
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by lkozma 17y ago
Or if a trait is a composite effect of 'sub-traits' from both parents. It is inherited in its parts, but neither parents have the whole trait. What I mean: your dad has A, your mom has B, and AB leads to the successful trait.
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by lkozma 17y ago
Since the debt is in dollars and not in gold, this does not matter. I never heared that national debt would be updated to reflect inflation. And I don't think WW2 debt was ever paid in any dollars. It's interest was paid in 1945 dollars, th
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by lkozma 17y ago
My limited understanding is that national debt is not supposed to be paid off, actually attempting to do that is often a catastrophic move. If the interest is paid year to year, exponential growth of the economy takes care of things eventua
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by lkozma 17y ago
I do the same, but at the highest point of the day. This results in higher peaks, and lower lows (when I can actually fall asleep).
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by lkozma 17y ago
I totally disagree with this point, I think it is inherently violent and I think you also contradict yourself. Let me explain: - You are saying that you'd prefer if there were fewer languages, in order to be able to exchange ideas with peop
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by lkozma 17y ago
While I agree 99% with you, here's a story that happened to me: I was about the go to a summer school on computer science research and the organizers have set up a mailing list in advance. People generally wrote friendly introductory messag
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by lkozma 17y ago
Just like with biological species, the moment when the last (or even last few members) die is just a symbolic event, most of the diversity is lost much earlier. (It is a small subset of language/folklore/traditions/etc. one person can keep
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by lkozma 17y ago
See my above comment. I think it is used properly here and "cracker" is superfluous ...
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by lkozma 17y ago
Actually the meaning hasn't really changed at all. The original "hackers" broke into computers and networks to play pranks on their collegues in the AI lab. Later "hackers" hacked the phone system to make free long distance calls. I find Pa
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Log map of the universe(astro.princeton.edu)
4 points by lkozma 17y ago|0 comments
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by lkozma 17y ago
Quintura used to be very similar.
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by lkozma 17y ago
Again, I'm not saying you should do anything differently, I'm just trying to understand if open source makes sense for pure web apps.
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by lkozma 17y ago
Thanks for the answer, I agree with all your points. I'm just saying that still, there is a small technical difference from open source desktop software: technically, in this case, I can not verify that the source code you release is exactl
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by lkozma 17y ago
Great project, congratulations. I am still curious about one aspect: why do you realease the source code? (same question for browsershots).. I think for such a service the vast majority is not interested in the backend code and those who ar
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by lkozma 17y ago
I have a slightly off-topic question: What is a simple (and legal) way to monetize a high pagerank website? The article mentions that it is very difficult to reach to PR 6, yet I found that my personal page has PR 6, without having consciou
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by lkozma 17y ago
I lived and worked in Finland for a few years, ..., I had three choices: - not do anything, in which case I agreed with the pre-filled tax return - sign it and send it in, ...
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by lkozma 17y ago
But does this work after you become aware of it?
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by lkozma 17y ago
I find Tufte's "Envisioning Information" the most valuable (missing from the list).

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