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by nochiel 16y ago
"What has complexity theory done recently that is of practical importance?" It is probably worth noting that "practical importance" is probably the least useful measure of the value of pure research. In fact, historically, applications eme
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by nochiel 16y ago
It's not developer profitability per se but the appearance of developer profitability (among other things) that I think he was trying to get at. He says, "Developers complain, not without merit, that the iTunes App Store is rigged toward l
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by nochiel 16y ago
"Gruber seems to make the assertion that a platform only has worth based on its exclusive 'killer apps'. He goes wrong there and never really recovers. Android's strength is not its suite apps, it's its flexibility." It is baffling how you
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by nochiel 16y ago
Congratulations and thank you for building the site. It is beautiful and works well. You probably should have posted this instead of your first comment (that first comment is of a type that tends to get down-voted very quickly around here
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by nochiel 16y ago
This is wonderful. They've been tweeting these interviews for a while now, and I have found them uniformly excellent. If you are a writer you do yourself a terrible disservice if you miss a single one.
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by nochiel 16y ago
Jay is a master of making one word flower multiple meanings. In "So appalled", he delivers the punch line, "Not only am I fly, but I'm f*in not playin' " The way he makes "playin'" sound like "plane" and "plain" is characteristic of his wh
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by nochiel 16y ago
Thanks for that. Related to your reference was a link to "Fallacies of definition" which I think might also be a feature of this article.
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by nochiel 16y ago
I find it mildly annoying when writers co-opt words for their own [marketing] purposes and then redefine those self-same words in order to validate their point. I am quite sure this is a logical fallacy of some kind. I'm just not smart en
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by nochiel 16y ago
"To be a best-writing author, you don’t need to win a Pulitzer. You need to have experiences that make good stories, and you need to be yourself on paper." This definition bothers me. He's creating a false dichotomy between literary techni
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by nochiel 16y ago
Not to belabour the point or be pedantic but as far as I am aware, "Lip service" implies a lack of conviction not elaboration. http://www.google.com/dictionary?aq=f&oq=&langpair=e...
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A Rubyist's development environment(sirupsen.com)
1 points by nochiel 16y ago|0 comments
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by nochiel 16y ago
Aha! Consider me educated. -1 for a stupid question is perfectly justified. (I naively assumed you used "interstitial" to mean "occupying an intervening space," which would not have made sense.)
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by nochiel 16y ago
"The interstitial pop-up" Surely you meant the "intermittent" pop-up.
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by nochiel 16y ago
"His SEO knowledge lends his conclusion credibility." No. What lends a conclusion of profitablity credibility is numbers that make sense and not much else.
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by nochiel 16y ago
Actually, if you had read the article to the end, or in a different location, you might have noticed and remembered where the article says: "None of which is to suggest that these techniques...will turn a grade-A slacker into a grade-A stud
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The secret of "The Secret"(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by nochiel 16y ago|0 comments
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SwiftRiver: Curating in an Age of Information Overload(whiteafrican.com)
2 points by nochiel 16y ago|0 comments
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by nochiel 16y ago
In absolute terms, women constitute the largest segment of the market. That alone should be sufficient reason to have more women participating in or founding start-ups. It stands to reason that their intuitive insights, understanding and
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Android Dev Says Admob Pays Very Well(engadget.com)
2 points by nochiel 16y ago|0 comments
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GDC Europe: Tencent's Bo Wang On Building An Online Gaming Powerhouse (gamasutra.com)
1 points by nochiel 16y ago|0 comments
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by nochiel 16y ago
"Kenya's startup scene is light years ahead..." I'd like to know what you're basing that assertion on. I contend that Kenya's tech scene is woefully primitive. Ushahidi is one example but it is hardly a model for success or sustainable bus
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by nochiel 16y ago
Ambitious but perhaps slightly naive? If Oracle have decided that they want to build the best Solaris engineering team then it's only a matter of time before they actually do. The best engineers gravitate towards the hardest problems, the
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Linux Is A Time Killer(mostlymaths.net)
4 points by nochiel 16y ago|16 comments
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The Meaning of Mad Men(time.com)
1 points by nochiel 16y ago|0 comments
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The Ultimate Explanation of Inception(thelastpsychiatrist.com)
11 points by nochiel 16y ago|0 comments
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The Politically Incorrect Guide To Ending Poverty(theatlantic.com)
67 points by nochiel 16y ago|35 comments
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by nochiel 16y ago
"I know that somewhere in the wide world there must be a heartbreaking work of staggering genius..." Works of genius that emerge from an openly (freely?) mod-able environment are not hard to find or point out: Consider "Team Fortress", a Q
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Thought Experiment: If Oracle Bought Every [Important] Open Source Company.(computerworlduk.com)
2 points by nochiel 16y ago|0 comments
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Why SSDs Will Not Replace HDDs.(enterprisestorageforum.com)
5 points by nochiel 16y ago|2 comments
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Dan Simmons, "The Fifth Heart" (A new existentialist Sherlock Holmes adventure) (dansimmons.com)
2 points by nochiel 16y ago|0 comments

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