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by maurycy 18y ago
I guess that rich guys attract girls.
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Reddit no longer counts karma for self-posts(blog.reddit.com)
9 points by maurycy 18y ago|4 comments
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by maurycy 18y ago
Posted already twice: http://searchyc.com/submissions/you+and+your+research
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by maurycy 18y ago
If math's content grows expotentially, it might explain why even one hundred years ago it was much easier to come up with serious work before studying for years. Side note: it is interesting to precise what is the content actually. Besides
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by maurycy 18y ago
I beg to differ. Usability tastes differ a lot. A random mother finds VIm's UI hard. A random hacker finds VIm's UI excellent.
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by maurycy 18y ago
Few notes. The whole discussion whether intelligence is born or made, misses the fact that motivation to work hard for years is unfrequent. Most people give up quickly, and are not able to commit themselves without immediate reward. I easil
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by maurycy 18y ago
Dimension is a cardinality of a base.
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by maurycy 18y ago
Mimic great people.
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by maurycy 18y ago
Their results would be similar: mediocre skills. Just ask yourself how you'd rate someone's skills after summer programming course. (yes, programming; not typography, usability, information architecture, HCI, CSS, just "design")
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by maurycy 18y ago
Isn't it like with hackers? I mean, that only good designers can recognize a good designer?
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by maurycy 18y ago
This secret was already exposed twice: http://searchyc.com/submissions/dark+secret
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Is "discrimination" necessary to explain the sex gap in earnings?(lse.ac.uk)
2 points by maurycy 18y ago|0 comments
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Why productivity fades with age: The crime–genius connection(lse.ac.uk)
2 points by maurycy 18y ago|0 comments
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Pondering the nature of artistic genius, a social scientist finds that creativity has a bottom line(smithsonianmag.com)
15 points by maurycy 18y ago|4 comments
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by maurycy 18y ago
I've never really enjoyed xkcd. The title says "This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix". I think that actually this is funny because you know Unix. Barrier to entry and understand the strips is low, yet gives an unique feeling of being speci
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by maurycy 18y ago
What is kind of insulting to humankind is that we do not realize how we suck at predicting the future.
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by maurycy 18y ago
I use Scribd for finding copyrighted and stolen books. :-) It is way easier to type "Linear Algebra Done Right" in the search, instead of installing some eMule, Napster, or whatever is popular right now for this purpose. (don't know, never
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by maurycy 18y ago
Most people add little value to the society. Please see Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In my opinion, what is education, and the whole welfare state, about is creating the best environment for the high archievers, and not l
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by maurycy 18y ago
Ability to focus on things I really want, and beign free from daily life distractions.
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by maurycy 18y ago
Not that funny if you realize that schools are institutions for indoctrination and for imposing obedience.
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by maurycy 18y ago
Especially accurate comment in context of the recent resignation later ( http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/funny_pages_20/2008/06/stewa... ).
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Mankind’s inner chimpanzee refuses to let go. This matters to everything from economics to law(economist.com)
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Yahoo!, eBay and Amazon: The three survivors(economist.com)
25 points by maurycy 18y ago|5 comments
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by maurycy 18y ago
Reminds me: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg18624973.4...
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Tips for Mastering E-mail Overload(hbswk.hbs.edu)
2 points by maurycy 18y ago|0 comments
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by maurycy 18y ago
Author means ?mail.com or .mail.com, obviously. hpr8923my973n2487382y8mail.com is still available.
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by maurycy 18y ago
Though, the quality is lower.
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http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/186-linkedin-just-wont-le...
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by maurycy 18y ago
Recommended reading: Karl Popper. (There is a very good introduction: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/ )
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If your application is so large, it would be good to ask first if it really needs to be so. We favor small methods, which do only one thing. We favor two pizzas teams, which are small. Why large applications are not considered harmful? You

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