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by mindviews 11y ago
Clearly the author didn't find the results from the paper you pointed to particularly compelling. It's listed as reference 136 and mentioned several times. The last of which, "In the absence of more precise knowledge of the
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by mindviews 13y ago
There is already some crowdsourcing of patent research being done like at http://www.articleonepartners.com/ which essentially offers monetary rewards for the top contributions of prior-art or whatever the particular study
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by mindviews 15y ago
It gives you time for genuine discovery. Burn out, if you've ever experienced it, is not about exhaustion. It comes from forcing yourself in one direction so long that you forget all of the other things that are fulfilling to you. It tak
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by mindviews 16y ago
Let me grab two key excerpts from the article (one from the beginning and one from the end) and reverse the order in which they appear. > Taken individually, members of the New Elite are isolated from mainstream America as a result of l
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by mindviews 16y ago
Thanks - this one works for me.
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by mindviews 16y ago
Does HN have guidelines for submitting links that are behind a paywall? I ask because I don't have a WSJ account and couldn't read the linked article - then realized I can't remember the last time I got stuck at a paywall dead end on HN.
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by mindviews 16y ago
I've read both "Experience and Nature" and "How We Think" and can recommend both. "How We Think" was published first and is shorter - would make for a good introduction to Dewey. "Experience and Nature" is longer and has more weight but i
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by mindviews 16y ago
Given that philosophy as practiced in academia is as much about creating arguments as about the ideas themselves, I suggest "The Philosopher's Toolkit" as a useful reference. For what I'll call "hard philosophy" I put my votes for books by
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by mindviews 16y ago
If you're willing to put in a little work learning some design principles, that will help you out enormously when it comes to deciding which logo is best for your product. Whether you buy an inexpensive one off the web or create one yourse
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by mindviews 16y ago
Knuth played a joke and "announced" iTeX. http://search.twitter.com/search?q=knuth
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by mindviews 16y ago
And if you're looking for a good doorway into the .NET blogging community (well, maybe it's more of a firehose): http://www.alvinashcraft.com/
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by mindviews 16y ago
No, this looks like the Underpants Gnomes formulation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_(South_Park)
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by mindviews 16y ago
I'm in the same area - I'm sure between Caltech, JPL, and places like Idealab there should be some more of us around. I'll organize a local meetup if we can get a few more people - if you're from the area and interested, reply here or se
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by mindviews 17y ago
If this really fits in the budget profile that gets approved, then it seems reasonable to me. (All of the following thoughts are dependent on that condition!) That gives us essentially a period of time for Shuttle to overlap commercial hum
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by mindviews 17y ago
Agreed - this also matches my anecdotal observations and much of what I've read over the last 2 years. What I can't decide is if in the US this is more driven by a major structural change in the economy (i.e. capitalism's creative destructi
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by mindviews 17y ago
Here are a few basic thoughts given some physics and geometry arguments. First off, the ring-shadow would be seasonal. On the northern Summer Solstice, the ring-shadow would fall on the southern hemisphere to the fullest extent. Near the
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by mindviews 17y ago
The exit for the 5 North from the 110 freeway is a left exit with a wicked left turn. This means that a) people unfamiliar with the area don't know to be in the left lane to make the exit and b) because of the sharp left turn, everyone has
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by mindviews 17y ago
I like to use separate files for organization during development and then merge and minify for deployment. Just make sure you have an automated process because you don't want to make mistakes doing it by hand.
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by mindviews 17y ago
A reason. What's the need that isn't being met? I think the existing industry has a lot of the basics covered - wired and wireless communication in many locations. Improvements in coverage and performance seem mostly incremental and not d
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by mindviews 17y ago
I think "cooperative" might be a little closer to the idea than "generous" - has more of a sense of both parties coming out ahead. Good observations and analysis.
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by mindviews 17y ago
I bet the spike has to do with the changes in the FTC rules for robocalls. As of Sept 1st, pre-recorded calls require the telemarketers to have written consent from consumers or face a fine of up to $16,000 per call. I started hearing abo
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by mindviews 18y ago
Something to keep an eye on in general - a raw food diet is used and promoted in anorexia circles and can be cover for an underlying eating disorder. It can be hard on this diet to eat enough calories to be healthy. The "legitimacy" of th
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by mindviews 18y ago
For Twitter (the service) I'd vote $100M to $1B. For Twitter (the company) which could build and/or partner up with other services I'd vote $1B+. (my actual vote above)
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by mindviews 18y ago
On the flip side, a company like Get Satisfaction that is pushing for open dialog on support issues should be perfectly comfortable eating their own dog food here. 37Signals made what I believe to be a legitimate public complaint, Get Sati
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by mindviews 18y ago
Exclusivity is necessary for a community to maintain its character. I don’t have a problem with making it clear what the HN community interests are. Also, technical != elitist. I think the community is much more interested in maintaining
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by mindviews 18y ago
I think it’s smart business because when your customer base is huge you don’t know everything that will be needed ahead of time. All those people out there trying to solve problems will find the pain points and need solutions - that’s the
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by mindviews 18y ago
IE would be the poster-child for leveraging the OS. The products that leverage the OS seem to be the free ones, now - so I guess that hits a price/performance sweet spot. What else is there besides IE that falls in this category? Media P
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by mindviews 18y ago
Didn't look like he pointed out any bugs - but that's not really the main point of a code review. It's all well and good for the compiler to understand the code and have it execute properly, but is it human-readable? Or maintainable? Hav
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by mindviews 18y ago
> So, Why would anyone go for asp.net? The .NET development environment. Visual Studio is dead simple to install and use. Add-ins have been easy to install, too. (I'm looking at you, Eclipse!) The .NET Framework has great breadth and
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by mindviews 18y ago
Yes, the launch is the real cost driver for space economics. Launch costs alone are in the neighborhood of $10,000/kg for large American providers and somewhat less in other providers/countries. I believe no one has come close to the $1,0

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