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by mlinsey 18y ago
I wonder how much fault lies with the bureaucracy of large companies and how much lies with the acquired team suddenly transitioning from an environment where they are poor and must fight to survive to an environment where they are (at lest
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Because of the nature of the e-ink display, (it pushes physical ink blobs to and from the surface of the screen), the unit does not use any power if you are not turning pages and not using the wireless connection.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
This is called "Braess' Paradox" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess'_paradox
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Agreed with your first point but couldn't disagree more about your second. I can't see why you would think that talented, driven kids getting to know like-minded people who are passionate about their field would be a bad thing. I'm sure t
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Out of curiosity, what would this list have looked like before Sarbanes-Oxley? Everyone always says about how that made it more difficult to go public.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Maybe because startups are small enough and therefore simple enough (in terms of variables affecting success) for something like this to work, but large public companies wouldn't be. But really I'd be skeptical about data in this first batc
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I agree with you, but this is also why Cuill's enormous marketing push this week was such a bad idea, even though it was executed brilliantly. (what's the last startup that you remember that had an article about it in the New York Times on
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by mlinsey 18y ago
The article seems to indicate that this is something being done by Microsoft Research (MSR). In that case, there's no telling when it will be done, or if it is, whether it will even be used for a commercial version of Windows. MSR works mo
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Part of writing great code that, as a hacker, one can be proud of, is to understand the purpose of the code. Otherwise, there's no way to tell whether the code is great. To a large extent, yes. At the same time, a piece of code can be el
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by mlinsey 18y ago
" it's also the reason why Firefox gained so much ground against Internet Explorer. It wasn't that smarter people work on Firefox--it's that more people worked on only the things they cared about, solving problems for themselves. The best
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Technically, a "Theory of Everything" in physics is just a theory that relates the four known forces in the universe: gravity, electromagnatism, strong nuclear, and weak nuclear. The latter three (I believe) have already been unified. It'
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by mlinsey 18y ago
just go to www.new.facebook.com and see for yourself.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Why does this matter in a discussion of whether you need to take out loans for a car? Surely you're not suggesting that people should take out loans for gas ?
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Then I guess we'd better hope that ntoshev was right!
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Probably true, but it's good to see MS being open about their research, since google often isn't.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Not really.
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The top 200 most cited works in Computer Science (list)(citeseer.ist.psu.edu)
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I think you were dead-on with your assessment right up until your last paragraph where you say that Facebook doesn't want to be anything more than a brief time-waster. I think they very clearly do want to be something much bigger, given
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I don't agree at all with your first point. The internet is just a communication tool, albeit far more powerful than ones that have come before it. This means that it can be used to build religious organizations or proselytize just as easil
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I usually stay away from caffeine entirely (occasionally a Coca-Cola but that's it) except when I really go into crunch mode, when I'll drink 2-3 Bawls or Starbucks Doubleshot Espresso cans to get through an all-night-and-into-the-morning m
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Keep in mind I'm looking at this from a mainstream consumer angle, not a hacker angle. This also means I have a much, much longer definition of "new". The way I see it, the main killer apps for computers throughout the 1980s and 1990s were
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by mlinsey 18y ago
And also how there are fewer and fewer killer desktop applications out there - doesn't matter what OS you have when everything new and exciting is on the web, so you may as well choose the one that gives you the nicest experience.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
You can't "prove" global warming in the sense that you prove other scientific theories, because you can't set up a controlled experiment in which you have one planet just like the Earth be subjected to massive carbon emissions and leave ano
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Why Abundance is Good: A Reply to Nick Carr's "Is Google making us stupid?"(britannica.com)
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by mlinsey 18y ago
You're using the word "philosophy" in it's everyday sense. My life philosophy might be to take risks, live it to the fullest, and enjoy ice cream, because ice cream is nice. Those are extra-scientific statements. Philosophy, the discipline
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I don't see how. I presume mice only register changes in position, and not changes in orientation. That's all you can measure with a ball so I presume that's all that is measured with optical mice. So if you were for instance to hold the
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Agreed with the rest of the replies here about Marx and Freud, but what's with the detraction of Hegel because he's "hard to read"? Lisp is pretty hard to read too when you've only read C-style syntax before. And I think you can most defini
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by mlinsey 18y ago
For number (6), I've been thinking about something in a similar area but a different take. The whole journal system itself is broken. My university's Math & CS library dropped its subscriptions to several journals a few years ago beca
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Well, okay, I will of course concede that there were personal computers before the Apple II (although at the time it came out, the Apple I was probably the closest thing to a working computer, as opposed to a kit that you could use to build
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I disagree - Apple was pushing the entire idea of a Personal Computer before that market existed. Microsoft's big break was when they were called upon by IBM to provide the OS for IBM's competitor to Apple. Had not Apple taken IBM by surp

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