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by mathewsanders 8y ago
This article is such a mess. It’s talking about 1950’s 80’s and early 2000’s (with reference to “but 15 years on”) so is basically generalizing half a century in a few paragraphs. Across all these periods of time large parts of Manhattan ha
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by mathewsanders 8y ago
Your math anecdote resonated with me, but with Chemistry instead. I was a Chemistry/CompSci major. I only did a Bachelors degree, but for Chemistry I never really had to study or memorize much because I could generally figure out just
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by mathewsanders 8y ago
Every couple years I’ll go read Magic Inc by Bret Viktor (not a book, just online: http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/ ) and I always find it refreshing reminder to think about how we can design technology to help us rather
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by mathewsanders 8y ago
I adopted a one year old stray cat and after a few indoor attempts he seeemed to be okay wearing a harness but trying to get him to go outside was impossible. He REALLY prefers to be inside. I do have a small 15x15ft balcony with some plant
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by mathewsanders 8y ago
Near the beginning of my career (~15 years ago) I was working at an agency for a lottery operator that was allowed to start online gaming and buying tickets for the physical lottery online. They had a really great public mission about “resp
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by mathewsanders 8y ago
I’m in the same place with my personal laptop, however I did use a work-issued 15” with touchbar for a couple months before changing jobs and I actually liked the touchbar shortcuts for Xcode because it exposed stuff that for some reason I’
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by mathewsanders 8y ago
It’s been a while since I read ‘On Intelligence’ but I think I remember it containing a pretty good primer of his ideas, and references to open source implementation of his predictive algorithm with the invitation to apply it to specific do
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Loran-C(en.wikipedia.org)
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some people seem pretty pleased with its benefits: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/behold-the-power-of-coco...
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by mathewsanders 8y ago
Everyone’s probably read it by now, but second part of Seveneves there’s a lot of great non-rocket systems for getting stuff into space (like skyhook also mentioned in Wikipedia article) there’s one part of the story where a bolo-type setup
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by mathewsanders 8y ago
I was lucky enough to live across the street from a great independent video store[1] and part of the fun was spending 30 mins or so browsing the shelves for 3 DVDs for the week. When checking out I’d often get some good advice from whoever
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by mathewsanders 8y ago
My first job in the US ~2011 was in design team at monster.com. One of the engineers had made a SVN repository for all our design specs and had cooked up a simple intranet page where the latest version of a design could always be shared by
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by mathewsanders 8y ago
There was a plot line in The Three Body Problem where aliens sabotaged particle physics experiments to limit human technological advancement while they were making the journey to earth. Amazing series and even friends that don’t enjoy scien
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by mathewsanders 8y ago
When I was 16 (1997) a photographer friend of my parents gave me his old Canon AE-1 (I think released in 1980 or 81) it’s shutter wasn’t working and I took it into the local Canon center where they fixed the shutter, replaced light seal on
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by mathewsanders 8y ago
> [Hacker News] is an amazing community, built off an early version of Reddit, and run by Y-Combinator (which incubated Reddit way back when) I just scanned wikipedia, first version of reddit was from 2005, and first version of hacker ne
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by mathewsanders 9y ago
I read it as 250k x 0.0004 / 100 (which equals 1)
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by mathewsanders 9y ago
The best job I’ve ever had (most satisfying and interesting, and also good compensation) was a company where everyone in the digital department (a mix of about 150 engineers, QA, designers) were given the same fixed salary. Additionally, pe
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by mathewsanders 9y ago
I’ll see if I can find the source, but I remember reading an article that talked about how in some eastern cultures (Japan) hearing voices wasn’t considered a negative/psychotic problem and instead was considered a neutral-positive exp
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by mathewsanders 9y ago
I’m in 800 sq ft apartment + cat and I would love a robot that vacuumes, but I have a mix of hard floors and high-ish pile rug which last time I checked roombas etc weren’t versatile enough to handle both. My cat also HATES the sound of the
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by mathewsanders 9y ago
I had an interesting experience once when I regained consciousness after fainting. My first memory of that experience was a cacophony of noises, specific images, and what I can only describe as colored static. Then, over what subjectively f
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by mathewsanders 9y ago
New Zealand has the consumer guarantees act that requires companies to provide repairs or replacements for goods for a reasonable duration. https://www.govt.nz/browse/consumer-rights-and-complaints/co... I used th
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by mathewsanders 9y ago
I pre-ordered the Echo so have been using it for a long time too. Interestingly for me I’ve found it’s gotten dramatically worse over the last two or so months for simple commands that I use basically every day (turning off lights, setting
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by mathewsanders 9y ago
Here’s a well written, and quick reflection on Saucedrop: a hot sauce subscription service that had sales for 2 years. I’ve read a lot of post mortums on tech start ups, but can’t remember many for subscription service. I’m not a hot sauce
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Sunset notes from subscription service side project(medium.com)
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I love the Blindsight series... had no idea they were available with Creative Commons license! Another fiction that uses blindsight as part of the story is 'As She Climbed Across The Table' it has been a long time since I read it,
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by mathewsanders 10y ago
For a speculative look at how a global network of flying cars might play out 'Too Like The Lightening'[1] was a pretty enjoyable read for me last year. One of the consequences was that global borders essentially become worthless,
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by mathewsanders 10y ago
He mentions early in the talk about how some people working in VR/AR make a comparison that they're building the tech from 'Snowcrash' which he calls out as wrong model for thinking about VR. A while later he describes a
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by mathewsanders 10y ago
Coincidentally I had this open in a browser tab: https://xkcd.com/256/ (map of online communities in spring 2007 showing Facebook still smaller than LJ)
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And the industrial design was fantastic. I remember a kid coming to high school with this walkman ( http://www.walkman-archive.com/gadgets/walkman_sony_05_701c_... ) after his Dad had visited Japan, I was amazed that it
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by mathewsanders 10y ago
Large scale e-ink always seemed like a good medium for digital signage because it works in bright light. A friend's wife works at the United Nations, and a couple years ago I got invited to have a drink at their bar, I was really looki

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