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Reading Online(readingonline.org)
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Writing hack: Ventilated Prose « A Programmers Place(vanemden.wordpress.com)
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Should automobile software be open-sourced?(collisiondetection.net)
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by mad44 17y ago
Sorry I may be too dense. But, what is the point of failure, if not to learn a lesson and succeed eventually. He seems to be saying the only time he did not fail (he got a raise) was when he did not enjoy the experience, it was too incremen
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by mad44 17y ago
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v427/n6972/full/427297a... How one intuitive physicist rescued a team from fruitless research. Quote from Freeman Dyson: In desperation I asked Fermi whether he was not impressed by the agreement betwe
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George Whitesides: A lab the size of a postage stamp (video)(ted.com)
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You should approach the radical novelty with a blank mind, instead of analogies(cs.utexas.edu)
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Foldit: new computer game enabling you to contribute to scientific research(fold.it)
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by mad44 17y ago
I like this one: Bonus: RSS faces death as filtered content recommendation systems on social services emerge. They, along with most real-time startups, struggle to find a revenue model (in 2010). People almost get enjoyment out of claiming
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Seven Computer Science Game-Changers from the 2000’s, and Seven More to Come (xconomy.com)
22 points by mad44 17y ago|3 comments
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Secret history of Silicon Valley(youtube.com)
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Open Decision-Making(home.pacbell.net)
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Startup Company Culture(home.pacbell.net)
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by mad44 17y ago
Bonus quote from Lamport, and I will stop, I promise. (Although I can give several similar quotes from Dijkstra also.) Math is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your writing is; mathematical rigor has proved a solid foundation for
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by mad44 17y ago
Writing is difficult for two reasons: (i) writing requires thought and thinking is difficult, and (ii) the physical act of putting thoughts into words is difficult. There’s not much you can do about (i), but there’s a straightforward soluti
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by mad44 17y ago
I think this quote sums things up "Writing is nature's way of telling us how lousy our thinking is" Leslie Lamport Lamport is a renowned distributed systems researcher, inventor of Paxos, and creator of LaTeX.
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by mad44 17y ago
I bet it will only take a day to solve this. Several groups are planning to data mine using Twitter to solve the problem.
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by mad44 17y ago
Wow, that sounds very exotic, but it turns out it is practical. Who knew? This project is much more distributed and interesting than the SETI. I will keep an eye on this project.
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by mad44 17y ago
Shooter, how did you find this Dr. House? You neglected to talk about this. And I think this is an important piece of information that can benefit us trying to get a resolution for our own mystery illnesses. How do you go about hunting a go
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by mad44 17y ago
Why did you despise him as a teacher? Too demanding, too harsh? Or did he not care? Just out of curiosity.
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by mad44 17y ago
I had Seth's blog on my Google Reader RSS for maybe 3 months. It seemed interesting and novel at first. Then, it started looking vacuous and empty. I dropped the feed. I checked the link to see if something changed in my perception/assessme
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by mad44 17y ago
Boy, it seems like your post hit a nerve. On the other hand (no pun intended), we look forward to buying Apple's tablet... Go figure.
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by mad44 17y ago
Does anyone know of an emacs counterpart to this? (I am an emacs guy.) Thank you.
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I had listened to a talk by him at the Columbia University (from Columbia's iTunes page). It was a lot of fun. Here is a link to another talk by him (maybe the same one): http://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/item/92y_podcast_rememb...
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by mad44 17y ago
Dijkstra made the "THE operating system". THE was the first multiprogramming operating system beating IBM to the punch. The THE system apparently introduced the first forms of software-based memory segmentation (the Electrologica X8 did not
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by mad44 17y ago
Wow! How did it feel the first time you used it? The reason I am asking is, I am having problems with ADHD but I haven't tried any medication yet. What you said sounds very promising. I cannot ever imagine myself planning for the next day a
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by mad44 17y ago
Years ago, when I was a phd student, I had been to the psychologist at the university health center because I was unable to concentrate on anything. I had filled the ADHD diagnosis survey they gave me beforehand, and I was convinced I had A
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by mad44 17y ago
I would not want to use the products "done" by you.
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Working on embedded systems and sensor/actuator networks should satisfy both the virtual and physical aspects of engineering/hacking.
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by mad44 17y ago
carbon emacs

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