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by rudiger 15y ago
I interpreted "extremely normal in all respects" as meaning he's someone you wouldn't mind working with. You see, a lot of theoretical physicists are brilliant but have very difficult personalities.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Given the Zynga fiasco, is this a good or bad time to launch a startup about donating early-stage equity?
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by rudiger 15y ago
What evidence is there the main determinant of whether you are in the top 1% is whether your father was? And that other determinants like education are relatively insignificant? Beyond this, maybe the focus should be less about getting in t
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by rudiger 15y ago
Literally millions of Chinese workers at Foxconn and other companies are supplying the world with iPhones. It's not just Apple with its thousands of employees making and selling these phones.
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by rudiger 15y ago
SICP doesn't introduce assignment until two hundred pages in.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Which, if any, of these books are worth buying?
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by rudiger 15y ago
Aaron Greenspan's constant attacks of other people read like the theories of a deliberate Jewish conspiracy to advance the interest of Jews at the expense of other people. In other words, complete nonsense.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Why do designers always get so butthurt by these crowd-sourced design competitions? If you don't like spec work, don't do it.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Maybe there's a technical reason for this? It's possible that the handling of parcel packages is different and is helped by a minimum thickness.
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by rudiger 15y ago
What is the relevance of the traffic numbers? (Not trolling, I'm just wondering what I'm missing.)
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by rudiger 15y ago
You never actually know the coin's true odds, so you still have to flip it an average of 3 times.
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by rudiger 15y ago
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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by rudiger 15y ago
This is just typical Techcrunch kingmaking, no different than any other popular news source leveraging its position of influence.
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by rudiger 15y ago
C-x C-c -- Exit and kill Emacs
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by rudiger 15y ago
Sharing music is inherently social.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Why isn't Siri on iOS 5 for the iPhone 4?
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by rudiger 15y ago
I suspect that null-terminated byte strings are important in some non-trivial, non-obvious way.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Regarding your last point, while the ideas of Smalltalk and especially Lisp are influential, C may have just as much a claim to influence. Both Lisp and C are beautiful abstractions, the assembly languages of two abstract machines. While Li
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by rudiger 15y ago
Between the speaker and the 3.5 inch screen, I believe there is some sort of logical fallacy in Dustin Curtis' reasoning: the existing design is X, then we figure out some justification for X.
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by rudiger 15y ago
A lot of traffic runs through Akamai. Google can mine that data and use it in their core product, the search engine.
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by rudiger 15y ago
But... Spotify is the parasite and the record labels are the host.
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by rudiger 15y ago
I'd like to read the story behind getting the hall.com domain, as well as the 'hall' Facebook and Twitter handles.
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by rudiger 15y ago
I want a bigger screen :( It's hard to read books on the iPhone, but it's easy on 3.7-4.0" phones, even when they have less pixels.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Didn't they switch to http://lal.com ?
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by rudiger 15y ago
Well, debt doesn't seem to be in a cycle. It just keeps getting bigger! :D
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by rudiger 15y ago
I think a Facebook search engine would be Google's worst nightmare. Nothing else directly challenges their top-line revenue.
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by rudiger 15y ago
How is the Kindle Fire not a tablet?
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by rudiger 15y ago
Seafood? Who eats dolphin or nautilus?
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by rudiger 15y ago
I didn't attend YCNYC, but the afterparty was fun.
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by rudiger 15y ago
You're dividing minutes per month by the total population of the USA (appx. 300 million) to get "avg. American," but I'm sure Facebook has more unique users than Tumblr. So the disparity in time spent on site per person probably isn't so mu

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