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by neilk 14y ago
They said it didn't rely on the JOBS act.
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Choosing the best technology for my website(branch.com)
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by neilk 14y ago
He's proposing to change it so it works like Etherpad. That would have to replace every single byte in storage and all the previous versions. Think about it.
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by neilk 14y ago
Every now and then a designer comes along and says they're going to fix Wikipedia. And those of us who've tried either are polite or roll our eyes.... However, this person has some legitimately great ideas. I love how the design is far more
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by neilk 14y ago
Overturned conventional thinking? Friedman? Maybe his conclusions seem unconventional (or at least, mildly inhuman) because Friedman always oversimplifies with the view from the boardroom. Never the street. Otherwise your formula could well
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by neilk 14y ago
This is from 2003. It's not entirely outdated, but it is rather quaint. The author foresees a future where everyone has to use personal certificates to communicate, which has various pros and cons - while enabling commerce, it could be the
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by neilk 14y ago
I doubt this is easily possible, with Tor as designed. Maybe you could establish a blacklist of CP sites, and that could be applied at the entry and exit nodes of the Tor network. This blacklist would have to be public and checked by many t
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by neilk 14y ago
I haven't cruised .onion sites in a long while, but I just tried and I didn't come across anything bad by accident. I don't even understand your assertion that you can end up on any .onion site by mistake, since the URLs are impenetrable.
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by neilk 14y ago
Does this alter the trend towards mobile? Maybe not in terms of the kind of device you use - it might still be a tablet or a phone-like device - but in terms of data delivered over mobile telephony networks? Perhaps part of the reason that
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by neilk 14y ago
I am not a specialist, but as far as I know, Chomsky's argument here was that the existence of recursion showed that a Markov approach had to be wrong. Surely a similar argument can be made for statistical approaches? There is no way to rep
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by neilk 14y ago
> I suspect that a 36 hour week is a better rule. :-) According to a lot of sources, including Tom DeMarco's PeopleWare, 35 hours a week is the only sustainable pace for intellectual work. Plus or minus a few hours, maybe. But that was
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by neilk 14y ago
How are native Americans and African-Americans immigrants? I said I wasn't sure what the author was trying to prove, but I do have a rather good guess.
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by neilk 14y ago
Your source fiddled with the PISA numbers for the USA to exclude all students of non-European descent. I'm not sure what s/he was trying to prove. This post breaks results down by income segment and suggests that if you exclude poverty, the
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by neilk 14y ago
Site is down or slow - Google's text-only cache: http://bit.ly/QkRSGU
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by neilk 14y ago
> If it makes you feel any better, facebook has a similar level of information about you and they haven't done much harm with it. How do you know?
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by neilk 14y ago
I've worked at both Yahoo and Google. I've never worked with Marissa directly but I think your opinion of her is pretty much correct. The biggest risk I see is that there is a huge difference in her role. At Google she stood atop a pyramid
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by neilk 14y ago
Arguably they are, but they are delegating all the management. When you invest your money or even put it in a bank, you are pooling your resources with others to accomplish things. If you pay taxes, you're doing the same thing. Your questio
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by neilk 14y ago
I think we overestimate what the media can really do. The public always wants them to lead the charge, but traditionally, they've rarely done so. They've always trailed behind activists, politicians, and social movements. And to some extent
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by neilk 14y ago
You realize that's pretty much how the Soviets would describe their own interventions in other countries? Oh yeah, we helped set up a leader friendly to the cause of righteousness, supplied him with advisors, gave him weapons or gave him ac
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by neilk 14y ago
DMC explicitly mentioned Yammer as one of the things that some of his former co-workers had done. (He neglects to consider all the things his other colleagues have done which failed, classic survivorship bias, but that's not my point.) My p
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by neilk 14y ago
Wow, I sure do hope he finally does that one thing that nobody, absolutely nobody can deny is important -- something as big as, say, a Twitter knockoff for the enterprise. Then he'll never have any nagging doubts about himself ever again. H
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by neilk 14y ago
Hey, there's a monument right on Montgomery & Market in San Francisco celebrating California's achieving statehood in 1850. It reads: "The Unity of Our Empire Hangs on the Decision of This Day". And here's a graphic from 1898 which prou
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Why the future doesn't feel like the future(ribbonfarm.com)
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by neilk 14y ago
Do we know that virtuous intent is what separates those who apply versus those who don't? That might just be measuring the stability, resources, and values of the family. I can easily see how a kid with a supportive family can do well, even
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by neilk 14y ago
Haskell. While I've sung its praises on HN before, I am just a novice. I've gotten deep enough to see how great it is, but not far enough to write anything nontrivial.
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by neilk 14y ago
It's still true if you enlarge your conception of decoration a bit. For the most part, curated art shows exist as 'life adornment' for the privileged. Bask in the glow of talented or beautiful people, chew on a few radical ideas, but above
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by neilk 14y ago
AirBnb allows you to constrain a search to properties that have Internet, Wireless Internet, and Breakfast. Do a search, then look on the right side of the page for the "Amenities" widget (you have to scroll all the way down). You could als
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by neilk 14y ago
> There's tons of decent programmers out there, and 99% of them won't get famous or found a sustainable business. I think we read this article differently. His point is that, programming-wise, it doesn't take a lot to make a successful
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> a kind of literary mountaintop-removal exercise This metaphor is brilliant... hyperbolic with a sense of literary culture and heavy engineering at the same time. A little bit like something Neal Stephenson would write!
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by neilk 14y ago
I wanted to agree with you, but then I realized: Snow Crash is basically the Tarantino approach applied to cyberpunk. The violence and bad-assitude is way, way over the top, but has a cutting, satirical intelligence to it. Eventually your i

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