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Mindless: The new neuroskeptics(newyorker.com)
7 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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Ronald Coase Passes away(law.uchicago.edu)
1 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
Ok, so let’s take this iteration of what he is supposed to be saying. “If you have an accent that is so strong that very few people understand you and nobody feels like listening to you then it is bad”. That is very anti-climactic, definite
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by npalli 13y ago
It is interesting that you bring up examples of these Irish/English plays, to me these are societies that turned static and frozen after the initial dynamism went away and irrelevant affiliations dominated. Around the time my fair lady
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by npalli 13y ago
Grove not being the founder of Intel is a very pedantic point. He was there since day one of the company and had the biggest influence on Intel’s domination of the industry since it was startup (more than anyone else in the company’s histor
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by npalli 13y ago
Ok. So when Groupon and Uber are expanding abroad with investor capital, is someone checking if their accent fits with the local population? Their entire international expansion has been funded by external investors not their own capital.
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by npalli 13y ago
Would PG (or his predecessor silicon valley VC) have made the same comment about strong accents 30 years ago? I don’t think so. For one, the diffusion of Americanisms (idioms, accent etc.) were weaker and founders had stronger accents. It w
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Man and Superman(newyorker.com)
66 points by npalli 13y ago|75 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
Fascinating views. The privacy angle is quite in line with what is already happening. With the recent Snowden affair there has been a huge brouhaha about privacy etc. but if you look at “private” information that financial and retail compan
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by npalli 13y ago
It looks like the response was written when Jobs was still around. I doubt Woz would sound so belligerent now. In any case, if you watch some of Job’s old videos and biographical material, it was clear he knew coding. There was some mainfra
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by npalli 13y ago
It is interesting that you mention amazon. The Internet 1.0 version would be amazon.com consisting of a bunch of programmers who would hook into the digital infrastructure of manufacturers, logistics providers and customers. Then by applyi
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by npalli 13y ago
It might be useful to look at the history of this bits vs atoms idea. During internet 1.0 era, about 20 years back, the prevailing idea was the everything was becoming bits and the winners will be those who will manage the bits instead of b
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by npalli 13y ago
1. You couldn't just lease hardware by the hour like AWS. So you had to put a lot of money buying hardware from companies like Sun. Also for the same dollar amount you would get a far smaller box in '90s compared to today. 2. No g
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Apple’s new ads make the company look lame(slate.com)
31 points by npalli 13y ago|43 comments
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Steve Ballmer and the art of Monopoly(newyorker.com)
5 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
I took this last time (for the first few weeks). It is a very applied course. The autograder for the exercises is terrific, it will pinpoint the space time complexity of individual parts of your program so you can fine tune your data struct
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On the symmetry between Apple and Google - Paul Krugman(krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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Boys will not be Boys - That's an order(blogs.the-american-interest.com)
1 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft needs a new CEO who probably doesn’t exist(arstechnica.com)
39 points by npalli 13y ago|41 comments
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Microsoft CEO Ballmer to retire in 12 months(streetinsider.com)
4 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
Thanks for the detailed comment. As you might imagine, I think the killer feature of D3 is the binding of data to the DOM and all the awesome manipulation that is possible (via CSS/javascript/jquery etc.). It also happens to scale
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by npalli 13y ago
What is your specific use case for using Canvas along with D3?
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Complexity and the 10,000 hour rule - Gladwell(newyorker.com)
6 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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Is advertising the only way to change the web(blog.thinkup.com)
2 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
This behavior is the unfortunate effect of modernization and move into cities. India, is predominantly a rural society. Like many traditional socities in asia, morality is enforced by concepts of honor/shame/loss of face. So, you
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Sometimes 1000 heads aren't better than one - against collective intelligence(bloomberg.com)
4 points by npalli 13y ago|1 comments
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by npalli 13y ago
Tesla and SpaceX are great but I'm not aware of fundamental engineering principles they have overthrown. This is a strange religious argument you are making here. The logical conclusion to your attitude is that there is no engineering
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by npalli 13y ago
No, his attitude is entirely appropriate. Learn your basics before you try to reinvent stuff. As Alan Kay keeps reminding us, the programming community doesn't really learn anything that is done in the past and is doomed to keep reinve
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by npalli 13y ago
Well atleast the guy training others in the opening picture needs to :-). He is mixing cases in javascript (defined TXT and doing txt.toLowerCase()). Perhaps an HTML dude who is doing javascript.
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Reinventing Life Science Startups - Steve Blank(steveblank.com)
5 points by npalli 13y ago|0 comments

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