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Here's an (IMO better) article on the subject: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/07/07/the-epic-story-of-conta... It's largely a summary and expansion of ideas from The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Eco
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Absolutely this. Even if it's not an expensive college, at least one in a city with a lively tech community. That way even if you're not getting much from the college you've still got like-minded people nearby, and colleges aren't usually t
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I think about things like this sometimes when I hear people say they want to change the world. What they mean is that they want to change the world in a way that they can imagine, but the law of unintended consequences won't let you off tha
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Well, as we saw with iOS, inconsistent policies and favouritism don't necessarily kill a platform. I think this is a big deal because the law of demand is a big deal. What the Facebook/Heroku partnership means is that if I'm some 19 year ol
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Honestly, good on them. This mobile patent crap is so ludicrous and out of hand. I'm glad that even though Google has to play by the same stupid rules as everyone else, at least they get the chance to remind everyone "you know this is a big
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I'm curious about something. The website's in English (with no French translation), even though presumably all the people involved speak French. Is this a common in the French startup scene? I remember seeing a video from TCFRecipes that wa
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Huh, fascinating. My dilettante translation of the French Wikipedia entry: "The statute of Jeune Enterprise Innovante (JEI), created in the 2004 budget bill, applies to small to medium businesses (in the EU, that means <250 employees, &
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Thanks. Back up now and looks great.
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Seems to be down. I'm curious... nodejs problems? SSL?
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I hate to be the lone voice crying out for science, but has anyone actually ever seen any evidence that the "uberman" sleep schedule is possible? Has anyone ever done it successfully for a long period of time and written about it? Have any
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That's exactly why I'm a programmer, and why I've always had trouble with math. I won't say I only learn by example, but I need something tangible. Something I can pick up, squash, twist and break until I can feel what it's made of. Even if
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I'm very interested in this idea; I don't think I've ever heard it before. Can you explain further?
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This reminds me of a story that I wish I could find again. It was in the Reader's Digest Young Peoples' Annual from sometime in the 60s. I read it in the 90s, so some of the advice ("don't go dutch too often") was truly perplexing, but this
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In a way I think that's the point. Siegler is so out of control at this point that he does the one thing TC has always done: if you can't figure it out, light a bomb under it and see what falls off. Will it still be the old TC? Is this just
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I think that's the problem. It's very tempting to abstract gender out of the picture by talking about the vacuity of sales staff in general, but gender is involved. There is an established narrative of women as pretty but useless, and the
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Well, as the old saying goes, perfect is the enemy of good. I agree that doing all of those things sounds like an awful lot of time and energy, but I guarantee you could implement my first suggestion with an investment of only a few hours (
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This is really cool - I wish there was something like this happening near me. I know it's impolite to say this, but I hope you understand it's coming from a good place: your website is awful. That may not seem important but a first impressi
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I wonder if Seth (or indeed pg, or Ken Robinson, or any of the others who've written similar critiques of industrial-era education) have any alternatives in mind? I agree that teaching kids to sit in neat rows has outlived its usefulness, b
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With failure, I think it's important to remember that the universe has no continuity. In the grand scheme of things, there's no plan, no story - just a sequence of events. If you flip a coin a million times and it comes up tails every time,
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QB64: A QBASIC compiler that runs on modern machines(qb64.net)
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This isn't really going to move the tongue farther from the cheek, but here goes: Why not a mail-order spouse programme for founders? Surely there must be a lot of Americans, especially with the financial crisis, who would be willing to tak
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Not at all - I understand. One of the most important skills to have as a programmer is choosing the right tool for the right job. That's not to say Java can't do what you want, but you might find it's better designed for tackling large abst
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There are some really neat resources that have come out in the past little while to help beginner programmers. I would recommend http://www.codecademy.com or http://learnpythonthehardway.org - both excellent resources that teach in diff
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I suppose so, and there are examples of massive fallout from the public finding out about internal decisions; Elop's Nokia memo springs to mind. Is it as simple as transparency to your friends, opacity elsewhere though? My first thought is
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It seems like in most communication decisions, being secretive loses you a lot more through misunderstandings and missed opportunities than you gain from control. At least, I've seen a lot of articles written asserting this, and my own expe
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I really enjoyed this article. I'm not actually convinced that the answer is a fear of not being understood by others, but it's very close or the writing wouldn't resonate the way it does. The problem is that I know lots of people who could
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It's funny because I was just reading Gladwell's Outliers and his section on culture and airline crashes seems particularly relevant here. Here's a quote analysing the Korean Air flight 801 crash: """ FIRST OFFICER: Don't you think it rains
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I've been doing some sketching lately and I highly recommend it. It's the root of a lot of visual art, so you get to learn a lot of the important art things (perspective, lighting/shading, how utterly and completely your eyes lie to you abo
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http://notifo.com/hackernews The process is actually relatively painless and still seems to work.
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I did something similar to this a while ago, but I had issues because the UUIDs of the disk images were all the same, so VirtualBox couldn't recognise all of them at once. Not sure if Microsoft's fixed that yet, but if not the magic words t

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