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by pmichaud 17y ago
Essentially, the author (who is Indian) says that to break the ceiling for Indians, those Indians who made it against the odds formed a network to help other Indians coming in behind them. This allowed them to stake their claim in the valle
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I am really excited about this. This technology would've changed my life as a child, and it still potentially can. Every few years I need to have surgery to replace the bone around my crushed skull (mostly in my eye socket area. Right now t
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Bad maybe, but there is something powerful about the inconsistent reward when posting then waiting to see how much karma the comment gathered. It's addictive in the same sense that checking e-mail is addictive.
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That was pretty amazing. The end is a real "ah ha" moment.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I'm paying $80 right now for DSL and I'd love to pay a little more for gigabit. Probably not $200 though.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I've been accutely aware of this as my reader base has expanded over the last several months to several thousand readers and 10s of thousands of page views. My goal is to stay honest and still be willing to make a fool of myself. The main d
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by pmichaud 17y ago
This goes through historical examples of when machinery that automated jobs did not actually, over the long term, create job loss. His position is that that will be the case forever... but he doesn't actually prove it. I think his assumptio
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Completely outrageous, and completely unsurprising.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I want to be able to see the automagic stuff in the windows, like the doctype and the javascript framework inclusion. I feel disoriented without it, and I don't think I trust the software to do it the way I want it done -- being able to see
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by pmichaud 17y ago
No one except the physically fit, expert public speakers.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I guess it's fair enough. Homeschooling worked for my older son. If he had been forced to go to school he'd probably be an under educated cog at 18, instead of holding a Bachelor's and having the freedom to travel.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
This guy is making a name for himself and he's in his early 20s. What have you done? Maybe arrogance is underrated.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Curio and easter eggs from specific levels in the game, not advice about how to design good levels. Pity.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Another reason it's alright to blog for free is that if you build something worthwhile, you get fringe benefits like recognition and introductions to bigger players.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Your point is well taken, but here's another perspective, from a person who consumes a moderate amount of games, and actually produces games as well. I see every new game as a chance to be inspired by the artistry that goes into them. Of co
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by pmichaud 17y ago
They do segment. There are games for kids, casual games, social games, everything. I think in the more or less "core" demographic though, and they produce more games than I have time to play.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
As someone who sort of kind of keeps up, it's actually pretty true, there have been a WHOLE bunch of goods games lately, and I don't think I'll ever catch up.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
But of course we "scientists" know that weakly held opinions are what science is all about.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I think the minimum wage argument was weak, but he's basically right: young people have a whole bunch of problems to look forward to.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
This story gave me goosebumps--imagine the depth of joy he felt when he was finally able to get through to someone. Blows my mind.
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Tell me about it, we don't even have a movement. We're 50 years behind homosexuals in terms of rights and social acceptance. At least we're not killed for it.
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Brain Hack: Stop Procrastinating with "Push Motivation"(petermichaud.com)
19 points by pmichaud 17y ago|6 comments
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Summary: A particle (probably a proton) was detected hitting the atmosphere at nearly the speed of light, which is kind of impossible or at least implausible, and they can't figure out how it happened or where it came from. My question is:
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Johnny had a commercial dispute with a friend of mine. Short version is that my friend is an amazing designer, one of Johnny's guys ripped my friend off, and Johnny ended up selling my friend's stolen design on his t-shirts. In the end, Joh
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by pmichaud 17y ago
The point he made, which I think was central to the piece, was that our math education system specifically is totally broken. He makes that point very, very well. If you want to read just that, start reading around the "Who is to blame?" se
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by pmichaud 17y ago
Cute article. One nitpick--newspapers did not put the interesting parts above the folder in order to entice people to read the rest. They put it there to entice impulse buys, and they couldn't care less if it gets read. Websites are fundame
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by pmichaud 17y ago
This is an important case to watch, and I think the precedent set will have compounding effects in the future, either leading to a more or less transparent government, depending on which way it falls.
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This is an important truth. On a related note, I (and I suspect many other hackers) have a billion cute little applications I've written over the years that do very specific things in exactly the way I want them done. The interesting thing
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by pmichaud 17y ago
I'm not imagining it, I tell that joke, and to the right audience it's quite funny. Of course, most people don't think it's funny at all, so maybe it's a special brand of dweeb that appreciates it, and maybe that's a dubious honor 8)
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by pmichaud 17y ago
This is kind of outrageous. I sort of look at ajaxian as a reliable and interesting source of info on webdev, but now I'm totally turned off. I'll make it a point to not visit. Shame on them.

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