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by sfk 18y ago
Competent people are perpetually looking for change and new ways to express themselves. However, they are looking for meaningful change, not for the kind of pseudo-change that marketing buffoons like Seth Godin thrive on.
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by sfk 18y ago
Why is Seth Godin's stream of consciousness posted here so frequently? What he writes is not coherent, not noteworthy in any way and is below the level of an average comment on HN.
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by sfk 18y ago
It is strange that up to now there have been virtually no comments about privacy issues in this thread. It is clear to me that for a company in the advertising business the prime reason to release a browser is to improve data mining. If, sa
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by sfk 18y ago
Well said. I got the impression in this thread that some AI researchers are trying to beat physics into shape so that it would support certain views favorable to AI. [This is not to say that those researchers are unintelligent, just that a
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by sfk 18y ago
God does not play dice? Are you saying that you can figure out radioactive decay? From [ http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/how3.html ] "But hidden variables aren't the way our universe works—it really is random, right down to its gnarly, suba
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by sfk 18y ago
Personally, I find the design very elegant. I would hate to see changes (apart from the font color issue, if some readers have problems with that).
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by sfk 18y ago
I don't understand two things: a) If the film school is a college, couldn't your roommate get expelled for cheating? b) Would not the college own the IP anyway?
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by sfk 18y ago
The first LISP interpreters were indeed flawed, see the 1995 footnote in Mc Carthy's famous paper. This is not uncommon when inventing something new. Do you blame Edison for not using wolfram in his first light bulb?
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by sfk 18y ago
Apple is repackaging standard Intel hardware and a modified FreeBSD. The result is sold as a boutique product. I fail to see either the genius or the revolution.
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by sfk 18y ago
Mike Cox is a known Usenet troll. Please do not feed.
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by sfk 18y ago
Starbucks does not make superior products. The core product, coffee, is absolutely horrible. When you order an espresso you'll taste that the coffee they use is cheap over-roasted junk provided by the lowest bidder. I agree though that - li
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by sfk 18y ago
A lot on that page is written in a highly polemic style, a good example is the 2004 March 16 entry. I wouldn't call him naive, but his general political attitude does seem overly hawkish.
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by sfk 18y ago
Difficult without context. It could be a joke about academic jealousy. EDIT: Forget that, I agree with the Marxist comment.
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by sfk 18y ago
The title of the list is a gross misnomer. Half of the people on the list are political activists of some sort. Take Barenboim. Why is he an intellectual? He is a fantastic pianist, a (IMHO) mediocre conductor and an activist for peace in t
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by sfk 19y ago
Mod the parent up! For serious discussions, mailing lists and Usenet are far superior to _any_ web forum. I certainly would not mind reading this site in a newsreader.
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by sfk 19y ago
I do not see anything particularly cheap in what they are selling. I have three PCs assembled from "cheap" components that run fine for over 8 years. I haven't seen recent Apple products, but the original iMac was a piece of overpriced chea