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by mtraven 14y ago
Promote the guy to sales, he's clearly a closer.
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by mtraven 14y ago
$ howdoi turing $ howdoi solve the halting problem $ howdoi find the holy grail I could do this all day.
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by mtraven 14y ago
Very nice. I like the -l feature but wish the link could appear with the normal answer, doesn't seem to be a way to do that.
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by mtraven 14y ago
See SPARQL and the semantic web, though I think the xkcd cartoon is the better response.
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by mtraven 14y ago
The discrete nature of MIDI and its purported effect on music is one of the main example complaints in You Are Not a Gadget , and one of the easier ones to evaluate. Has the richness of music been decreased since the MIDI standard was prom
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by mtraven 14y ago
It's actually an indictment of our programming tools that they require one to hold so much of the design context in one's head. If they were better (more expressive, easier to interact with) they would help to solve the problems rather than
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Metapatent(google.com)
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Occupy Sandy hacks Amazon Gift Registry (in a good way)(theatlantic.com)
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by mtraven 14y ago
Well, I agree that he is about 80% wrong, but I don't think he's a charlatan -- I'm pretty sure he's sincere in his beliefs.
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by mtraven 14y ago
This is pretty much Jaron Lanier's argument in You Are Not a Gadget (reviewed here: http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2010/02/review-you-are-no... ). They both have a point; systems which reduce human relations to very simpleminded datab
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by mtraven 14y ago
Nice but it's been done before: http://www.powersof10.com/ and by Charles and Ray Eames, no less.
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by mtraven 14y ago
He gives the game away in the second sentence: > But greed, in fact, prompts capitalists to seek government guarantees and subsidies that denature and stultify the works of entrepreneurs. Yes, that is how real, as opposed to theoretical
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by mtraven 14y ago
The antidote to Landsburg's naive (and quite unoriginal) approach to voting: Valdis Krebs' "It's the Conversations, Stupid" http://www.orgnet.com/PoliticalConversations.pdf Or for a mental exercise, figure out for yourself what is wrong w
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by mtraven 14y ago
Hackers may be interested in the story of Jaimie Heywood, who when his brother was diagnosed with ALS started his own garage-biotech company to try to find a cure. Sadly the brother died but the effort lives on and Jaimie went on to start P
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Who you calling "coder", coder?(omniorthogonal.blogspot.com)
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by mtraven 14y ago
Eclipse always struck me as kind of Junoesque.
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Bruce Sterling talks about Alan Turing(wired.com)
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by mtraven 14y ago
Here's a somewhat parallel effort by esr, where he attacks anti-torture activists because they don't adhere to some arbitry rules that he pulled out of his ass. The real evildoers, by the time he is done, are not the torture advocates and
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by mtraven 14y ago
> "Yes, yes, repression, anti-gay prejudice, I know all right-thinking people are supposed to be horrified by such things" You know, the academic jargon about "white male privilege" is kind of cliched, but this quote could serve as the
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by mtraven 14y ago
I wasted a moment clicking on the link only to get a server error page...I guess there are a lot of people wasting moments checking out why they should not be wasting moments.
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by mtraven 14y ago
There is a difference between learning a craft and learning something that is intellectually deep, profound, and significant. The underlying theory behind SICP is that computing is an important and fundamental way of thinking, comprable to
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by mtraven 14y ago
Some earlier efforts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Earth
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by mtraven 14y ago
Here's an Android app that looks kind of similar (but not half as pretty): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.amimetic.ha...
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by mtraven 14y ago
"Social" is here to stay, because it's baked into what it means to be human. "Social software" in its current form will hopefully be replaced by stuff that's much better, since FB/G+ etc still do a piss-poor job of capturing the richness o
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by mtraven 14y ago
Here's a start: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1342192419/pulse-sensor-... CPAPs aren't exactly super hi-tech either, and since they are fairly noninvasive as medical tech goes I can easily imagine some people experimenting with home
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by mtraven 14y ago
I call that "plumbing", since it's basically just getting different sizes and shapes of pipes to connect. But "meat grinding" is good too.
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by mtraven 14y ago
Or, "nobody lives there anymore, it's too crowded"
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by mtraven 14y ago
And here I thought it was going to say something about gang tattoos.
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by mtraven 15y ago
Not a very good UI if it requires a Hacker News story to let me know about it.
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Running Common Lisp on Heroku(github.com)
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