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by mburney 16y ago
But how often do you and your family make any meaningful use out of it? A pattern I've seen is that people join, have an active wall for a couple weeks and then they just go back to using sms and email for keeping in touch with each other.
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by mburney 16y ago
I check my facebook account quite often but don't actually use it for anything. Only about 5% of my friends frequently update their status. It is strange how the habit has remained with me despite the content being no longer relevant to my
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by mburney 16y ago
Not sure why this comment was downvoted so much, it does a good job of summarizing an ancient world view which goes against our current scientific one. The ancient idea being that one's virtue is connected to one's vitality. Topics like vir
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Bruce Eckel is writing an open-source Python book(bitbucket.org)
1 points by mburney 16y ago|0 comments
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by mburney 17y ago
I thought this was going to be about working in an American corporate office
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by mburney 17y ago
ConceptDog let's get in touch! My email address is on my profile.
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by mburney 17y ago
I'm from Ottawa but I'm definitely in. Any other Ottawans want to car pool?
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by mburney 17y ago
I'm not sure about that...Sivers seems more like a bad-ass that appears like a good guy.
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by mburney 17y ago
" Money, cars and material things won't suddenly make you happy. " But what about the freedom to work on things that don't make money? This is the true purpose of seeking out "fuck you" money
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by mburney 17y ago
"When I am feeling good, I train a lot. When I feel bad, I don’t bother. I don’t enjoy working to a timetable. Systematic learning would kill me." I really like this approach. I find learning how to write software works the same way for m
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by mburney 17y ago
If you were seldom in bed by 10 and your friends were the same, it is unlikely that high school students today will do any different. Why not propose a solution based on what people generally do rather than telling them what they should d
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by mburney 17y ago
Makes me think of how many times per day I check my facebook page for no reason at all (except that I'm bored or looking for a distraction). I guess facebook really is the new TV. In fact, after seeing the word "facebook" in this thread, I
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by mburney 17y ago
"less than 1% of chats feature a female pervert." This is really disappointing news for most hackers.
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by mburney 17y ago
University is a good way to meet people with similar interests. You may also have a couple professors that inspire you in some way. But the other 80% of it is a waste of time. It's like a job; you could learn things on your own much faster
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by mburney 17y ago
"In reality, good meetings are good and bad meetings are not good". Yeah, because we'd rather read a book of tautologies than some actual points.
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by mburney 17y ago
Some great points here, I've always noticed that sites with "game mechanics" have a tendency to make me addicted, even if the content is mediocre.
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by mburney 17y ago
I liked the article because it conveys the message that most self-help drivel is at the level of a 12 year old. Although I'm not sure that is what the author intended to point out.
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by mburney 17y ago
Certificates are relevant to non-hackers that want to build a career in IT. The companies that care about certificates are most likely companies that hackers wouldn't want to work for. Also it is interesting how the attitude conveyed in thi
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by mburney 17y ago
This article makes me want to move to Japan.
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by mburney 17y ago
I don't understand the criticism here. "It turns out that X" is just another way of asserting that "X" is true. And a writer does not have to justify all of his assertions. An unjustified assertion could merely be just another premise for t
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by mburney 17y ago
He was writing poems and showing an aptitude for languages at a very early age -- I wonder why as a child he was pushed into only doing physics rather than a wide variety of studies? We seem to believe that since physics is the most difficu
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by mburney 17y ago
If we accept this writer's theory, it would be more plausible to say that women desire to get impregnated by jocks (w/ physical strength and social intelligence) but then have their kids raised by geeks (w/ money and abstract intelligence).
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by mburney 17y ago
Since we're doing the ad hominem thing, I'm guessing that you're American, and your wife makes you sleep on the couch? In all seriousness, my point is that the person with the more radical view on how things ought to be done has to lead in
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by mburney 17y ago
Good overall point of view. But the author sounds like he's talking to his mother, not his wife. You have to be authoritative if you're going to undertake something that goes against the norm.
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by mburney 17y ago
In terms of startups, the question to consider is if you need a valuable and rare skill to make a valuable product. I would guess that you need several valuable skills to build and market a great product, but those skills do not necessarily
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by mburney 17y ago
I was reading a recent interview with Albini in which he mentioned that now is the best time in history to be in a band, because the web allows bands to bypass record labels in order to market themselves.
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by mburney 17y ago
IMO one of the great things about exploratory programming is that you don't have to trust your life to your code. It may annoy a lot of users, but the trade off (in being able to explore/experiment) is worth it.
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by mburney 17y ago
This is not a problem for Shakespeare's legacy, since high literature is not meant for only one particular demographic group. Pop music on the other hand is targeted primarily to young people of a particular time and place, which makes it t
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How Journalists Misrepresent Scientific Studies on Weight Loss and Nutrition(bradpilon.com)
1 points by mburney 17y ago|0 comments
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by mburney 17y ago
The more interesting question to me is which age demographic does better with less funding. Web 2.0 companies may be just "features" but the great thing about them is that they require barely any investment. In fact, a young person without

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