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by mtraven 13y ago
Nothing stops a party barge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv9Wblb3zJo
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Lisp is for Stupid People(omniorthogonal.blogspot.com)
13 points by mtraven 13y ago|8 comments
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by mtraven 13y ago
How many other software products have entire groups and conferences dedicated to tracking and mitigating the problems they cause? http://www.eusprig.org/
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by mtraven 13y ago
Not yet, they said it would be released in late October. Paper is here: http://nlp.stanford.edu/~socherr/EMNLP2013_RNTN.pdf
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by mtraven 13y ago
http://www.web.ca/~tslee/ No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart, by Tom Slee ...shows why individual choice fails to give us what we want, and why we need to rely on collective action rather than individual choice to take
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AppUrl tries to bring URL-based deep linking to mobile apps(techcrunch.com)
1 points by mtraven 13y ago|0 comments
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by mtraven 13y ago
Now I'm wondering if there is a difference between call-by-value girls and call-by-reference girls.
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Google hosts fundraising lunch for climate denier Inhofe. Pretty damn evil.(sfchronicle.com)
2 points by mtraven 13y ago|0 comments
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by mtraven 13y ago
Well, I guess it is safe to say that the Stasi would have sucked up and stored zettabytes if they had the capability to do so. So, the implication that the NSA is much worse than the Stasi is wrong. But they don't seem to be any bett
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by mtraven 13y ago
Engelbart not only had amazing vision, he had the ability to turn it into working demos. And he was able to inspire others (at PARC most notably) to work in the same way. His mouse is now everywhere of course, but his more important ideas,
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by mtraven 13y ago
Don't think he was ever actually a member of PARC, although his ideas and collaborators certainly inhabited the place.
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by mtraven 13y ago
Not sure that the Media Lab was that cheap, but it did innovate in funding in a big way (by creating industry consortia in sectors that were not accustomed to funding research, like newspapers).
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by mtraven 13y ago
> The magic companies of the last century are the ones who could do both, allowing people to have side projects that don't immediately show commercial promise. Bell Labs was a lot like this. So was PARC. And Google to some degree. T
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by mtraven 13y ago
Jaimie Heywood started his own drug research pipeline to try to cure his brother's ALS. That failed, but the effort has inspired a number of other unconventional research efforts. http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_hey
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by mtraven 13y ago
The "Special Agents O’Brien and Bloom" kind of gave it away.
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Stiglitz: Google and Apple are free riders(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by mtraven 13y ago|0 comments
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by mtraven 13y ago
I guess Don Draper was involved in the marketing.
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by mtraven 14y ago
Mercurial is like a git designed for humans. Basically the same design (distributed, branching and merging is very easy) but with slightly higher-level command line options that removes some of the rough edges. I kind of wish it had won ove
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by mtraven 14y ago
If you're selling something illegal, for instance? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)
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by mtraven 14y ago
Mendeley was not a direct threat to Elsevier's business. They aren't a publisher. PLoS (and PLoS's model) is more of a direct threat. Fortunately they are a non-profit which I think makes them immune from takeover.
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by mtraven 14y ago
According to their site the assisted-opening knives are legal in all states, whereas switchblades aren't, so there must be some meaningful distinction (unless the law just hasn't caught up yet).
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by mtraven 14y ago
Gad, can we keep vacuous Dilbert-grade business babble out of here please? "The future of business lies in the shift from a culture of management to that of leadership and it begins with you." Thanks! Happy to know that!
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by mtraven 14y ago
This probably isn't the place to have a debate on Latour, but let me just say that it is possible to read him unsympathetically (as Sokal does) or sympathetically, to try to understand the viewpoint he is trying to get across. I've found it
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by mtraven 14y ago
I agree, Latour has always been about bridging those worlds, in his own unique way. Here's his reply to those who misunderstand him as somehow denying reality: http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/70-DO-YOU-BEL... And, next week
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by mtraven 14y ago
Wow, all that trendy toilet-paper-roll data graphics, and not a single mention of what Symbolics actually did. For that, look here: http://www.smbx.org/
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by mtraven 14y ago
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/571
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by mtraven 14y ago
This seems relevant: http://www.jehsmith.com/1/2013/02/eefin-and-hambone-or-what-... What gives the appearance of some monopoly on genius to the sort of cultural output that is housed in museums and Lincoln Plaza and so on is just this: t
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by mtraven 14y ago
The author seems to be something of a rightwing crank (see his writings on diversity for example), which of course does not invalidate anything purely technical he writes on statistics, but it certainly lowers my confidence in anything he s
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by mtraven 14y ago
I think this is the only MLA style that is tied to the offerings of a single commercial entity. That seems weird to me. Does Twitter own the idea of a tweet or has it escaped into the general culture?
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by mtraven 14y ago
That might win the prize for most ignorant comment ever on HN. While you can level a number of criticisms at Chomsky, lack of mathematical rigor is not one of them. I would assume people here were If anything, Chomsky is guilty of over-reli

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