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by nbashaw 16y ago
I don't think IQ has much to do with success. I've met a lot of brilliant people who can't finish projects, speak up, know when to back down, etc. I think success is more about discipline, moral courage, and hard work than it is about how s
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Learn From Your Mistakes (In 5 Minutes)(nbashaw.tumblr.com)
8 points by nbashaw 16y ago|2 comments
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Science's 8 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries: Progress Report(popularmechanics.com)
1 points by nbashaw 16y ago|0 comments
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by nbashaw 16y ago
In short, agile, user-centered design tends to ignore the aesthetic, intangible, ambient qualities that good experiences are all about. This is an interesting statement. It sheds light on the fact that different internet sub-cultures valu
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by nbashaw 16y ago
It's important to separate concerns, and I think there are three main things people are complaining about: 1) quality of submissions 2) quality of comments 3) quality of community It's the second and third that I think have declined. It's n
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by nbashaw 16y ago
Great story! Someone should make an eBay for startups. Does anyone know if one already exists?
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by nbashaw 16y ago
Can you link to the flying car prototypes that you're referring to?
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by nbashaw 16y ago
I'm particularly interested in this claim: "For the Kindle to be the "iPod of reading," it would have had to have been preceded by a "Napster of reading." And, of course, it wasn't. Which probably tells you something about the difference b
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Why the Kindle is No iPod [2007](roughtype.com)
1 points by nbashaw 16y ago|1 comments
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I think the biggest challenge is teacher knowledge. There just aren't many people in middle/high school classrooms that know anything about programming. Scratch does look really cool for lower grades. I was more thinking of teaching actual
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Ask HN: How Could Schools Teach Programming?
7 points by nbashaw 16y ago|4 comments
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by nbashaw 16y ago
She's talking about personal motivation, not market timing.
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Taking notes definitely helps. The problem is I always forget to revisit them. That's exactly why me and some friends built thoughtback.com. It's a micro-journaling tool with mac and web apps that automatically re-exposes you to your though
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Facebook: worth 50 billion?(techcrunch.com)
2 points by nbashaw 16y ago|0 comments
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by nbashaw 16y ago
I can't wait for NFC to become standard on smartphones. Think of how many apps are going to get better because of it. There's the obvious winners like Bump and Square, but I can't wait to be able to open locked doors, send files, share link
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by nbashaw 16y ago
Definitely true - I didn't think about access to proprietary databases or the excellent libraries. I wonder if universities will have to go even deeper than they currently are to compete with the internet, or if the proprietary databases an
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by nbashaw 16y ago
What is college, really? It's some combination of access to three things: information, feedback, and certification. The internet totally took care of the information problem. It's no longer the role of a university to provide access, but to
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by nbashaw 16y ago
Adams has a point about using pool in schools to teach the correlation between effort and effectiveness. His experiment might have interesting side effects. Number of hours spent practicing isn't the only variable that affects skill - it ma
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by nbashaw 16y ago
The one argument that swayed me towards Eric Ries: "great and crap are subjective terms"
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I'd like this discussion a lot more if it weren't framed as a clash of two sides. In a debate you're trying to win, but we're looking for the truth. Like Eric says in the video, there's a lot that they agree on. Sure, conflict is superficia