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by mkn 17y ago
Kids need adults to show them how to play? Holy crap, what are we coming to? From the article, it sounds like we're coming to, indeed are in, a first-world industrial and information economy where we've learned that children's natural lev
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by mkn 17y ago
This is dated May 21, 2009. Is this here because it was prescient and we're seeing exactly what was described in the article? Or is it here to show how wrong this guy was? These aren't smart-mouthed internet questions. I really don't know w
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No Mars — or Anywhere Else — Without More Money(wired.com)
9 points by mkn 17y ago|0 comments
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by mkn 17y ago
I think the difficulty lies in the multiple meanings of 'programmer.' My interest in programming stems from wanting to use them to solve problems, not from theoretical interest in how computers work. Most of my colleagues in the UW engineer
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by mkn 17y ago
I coined the following inversion to highlight the inherently manipulative use of the no-I-in-team saw: There may be no 'I' in 'team,' but you can't spell 'team' without 'me.' Am I the only one who sees the no-I-in-team chestnut as obviously
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by mkn 17y ago
On the one hand, this seems like a clever bit of lateral thinking with tangible benefits, so it makes me happy. On the other hand, a lateral move had to be found to ditch a...wait for it... patent absurdity , so I'm a little miffed that the
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by mkn 17y ago
Karma be damned! Video in article is best watched while drunk.
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Ask HN: How are you handling functional testing in the browser?
1 points by mkn 17y ago|1 comments
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by mkn 17y ago
I guess it all depends: seen them in tabular format ? you know they're great : have you seen them abused ? you think you know : have you thought about it ? you think you know : get the gist from this ? good
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by mkn 17y ago
While I understand your exasperation, the first 3 of the 5 statements you listed were directed at getting debt to support or retract some unjustified and repugnant accusations about my purported beliefs. I make no apologies for vigorously
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by mkn 17y ago
The fact that you accept the possibility that those people at the party and stadiums are masking their misery with beer and baseball says more about yourself than it does about the author. You seem to agree, but don't want to come right ou
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by mkn 17y ago
Go to a party. Listen to the laughter, that brittle-tongued voice that says fun on the surface and fear underneath. Feel the tension, feel the pressure. Nobody really relaxes. They are faking it....These are not people who are at peace wit
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by mkn 17y ago
The interesting thing, to me, is that this effect could serve as an explanation for the phenomenon described yesterday in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=580209 . Namely, the independent study technique might naturally encourage this
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Dear Fellow Rubyists(dyepot-teapot.com)
41 points by mkn 17y ago|53 comments
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by mkn 17y ago
An interesting point, but I think there are some other subtleties here that are going unnoticed. If we look at this from the standpoint of transactional analysis (and contextualize this narrative from the airline employee's point of view),
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by mkn 18y ago
First off, this isn't Digg or Reddit. Snarky, shallow, one-line summaries are generally not welcome here. Second, your stupid summary is not supported by the text of the article. people [sic] are irrational and make stupid decisions. Ther
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by mkn 18y ago
"Our emissions are boiling the planet, and most of our energy use is unnecessary." What's "unnecessary"? Energy drives modern technology, from your desk to your home to your doctor's office. Sure, if you don't care about quality of life,
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by mkn 18y ago
They use the term 'discover,' I would presume, because it's the most technically accurate term for what they do. As near as I can tell, as a relative layperson, mathematicians look at the existing state of mathematics, embodied in proven th
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by mkn 18y ago
While this piece is a bit light, I thought it might provoke discussion since it represents a real unmet need that is being griped about in the wild.
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Many Restaurants Remain Oblivious to Mobile Web(boingboing.net)
3 points by mkn 18y ago|3 comments
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by mkn 18y ago
It's America's rights to protect it's land, but it's not America's right to be paranoid about Islam forever. I regret that I have but 8 karma points to give. Islam, like all religious faiths, is predicated on the notion that rational thou
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by mkn 18y ago
Ah, the despicable grant-money trope rears its ugly head again. Fine and fair enough, we all agree that research takes money. But I would really like to see, from people who run this one up the flagpole, substantive evidence indicating that
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by mkn 18y ago
There's actually a wonderful insight into human evolutionary psychology here. We've evolved to discount the future. We are finite beings and all of our eggs are in one basket. For a large part of our biological history, performing beneficia
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by mkn 18y ago
"Philip Greenspun Writes About the Singularity," or, "How to Do It Wrong!" What would you call people who pay $25,000 for a nine-week course of study with a collection of Silicon Valley optimists? “Singularly Stupid”? Name calling. This
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by mkn 18y ago
To me, that article was an amazing technical achievement. The author went on for three pages about police seeking the right to jam cell phone signals, and not once did they mention the ramifications for the ability of the populace to hold t
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by mkn 18y ago
First, only your post is a waste of time. (Zing!) But seriously, that all depends on what your goals are when you come here, how you use the site, and whether or not the site meets your goals . Second, some meta-advice about the "Trollish
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by mkn 18y ago
Actually, straw bales burn very poorly. When locked away behind a layer of stucco, even more poorly. Ditto for mildew. The earthquake resistance, pest resistance, and insulating qualities of straw bale construction are mind-blowing.
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by mkn 18y ago
If your rovers were small enough, you might be able to make a gun-launched or gun-assisted scheme work. If you could engineer your probe/launch vehicle to withstand 20 Gs, for example, a linear acceleration at that level would get you to Ma
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by mkn 18y ago
Reason is not like a rider atop a horse. Instead, each person’s mind contains a panoply of instincts, strategies, intuitions, emotions, memories and habits, which vie for supremacy. I can't express how badly I want this meme to take hold!
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by mkn 18y ago
In this New Yorker article: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_... , there's a discussion about a novel cancer therapy for which this microscope is well-suited. The idea is that, when cancer metastasizes, that eac

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