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by sopooneo 14y ago
I have a feeling that for the coming year or so, these visualizations will be overused in much the same way animated web site intros were in the late 90's. Because right now they are still new enough that the casual viewer will inevitably b
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by sopooneo 14y ago
A lot of physics quackery comes from engineers.* Their knowledge of advance physics is generally nowhere near that of a physics PhD, but their title lends them credibility to many people. * I have not found the reverse to be true.
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by sopooneo 14y ago
I am convinced that when computing comes in force to the third world, it will not be through donated/subsidized laptops, but through phones. I bet that in 100 years, the famous hacker that rose to great power from the slums will have cut hi
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by sopooneo 14y ago
Which relates to a question I had about this bike when I first read about it. The article admits it has a shorter lifespan than a traditional bike, but why? How do you know it's no good any longer? Does it just get hard to pedal after n day
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by sopooneo 14y ago
I second on the "moody". I've never seen it written about, but, even apart from alertness, caffeine makes me extremely emotional. Bouncing happy to sad in ways I otherwise wouldn't. And at high levels, I blaze with inspiration... with ideas
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by sopooneo 14y ago
Yes. The first step to success is repeated failure. It's okay. If you can accept that it will happen then you can get it out of the way and be ready to succeed.
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by sopooneo 14y ago
I'm with you for the first part, but "50% less" seems to me both clear and strictly equivalent with "half as much". What am I missing?
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by sopooneo 14y ago
The non-semantic aspect of it is baffling to me. As I was learning web development, I read all over the place how class names should be descriptive. Otherwise you end with something a lot like the inline styling that CSS first helped us ge
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by sopooneo 14y ago
If their fathers were first cousins, wouldn't that make them second cousins?
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by sopooneo 14y ago
Yes, but it is a problem that is true to different extents depending on the word. The origins of Ries's philosophy may justify his use of "lean", but if that was not the case, I think it would have been better and possible to find a word
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by sopooneo 14y ago
I take a issue with a lot of the points in this article but agree pretty strongly that Ries should have picked a different name than "lean". If you continually have to clarify that you don't mean something else (cheap in this case) then you
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by sopooneo 14y ago
I'm sort of with you, though I've read quite a bit at this point and interacted with a number of APIs of varying degrees of "RESTfulness". The biggest question I wish the various tutorials would address is: why is REST a good idea? Why is t
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by sopooneo 14y ago
I looked up "half duplex" out of interest, and it fit closely enough what I imagined it meant. But the first article I found says that cell phones are full duplex. However I've found they have a threshhold volume under which they don't send
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by sopooneo 14y ago
You make me realize that with people who can write well, I'll lean towards preferring email communication, with those who can't, I'll prefer phone. And by "write well" I don't mean having perfect grammar or spelling. I mean having clarity o
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by sopooneo 14y ago
I hypothesize that the point of all these obtrusive measures in the name of security is not really to prevent terrorism. Instead it is so that when the inevitable happens, wherever and however, the masses will not riot. They will instead
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by sopooneo 14y ago
The desire to want to just "make it" seems deeply wrong-headed to me. Granted, I don't own a company so this may be one of the many times that I am wrong, but it seems like a pretty important characteristic would be having a particular prod
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by sopooneo 14y ago
If it was truly great stuff, I would be okay with that. As many others have pointed out, spending inordinate amounts of time researching every possession might not make for a great life. But why not let someone else do it for us? If one per
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by sopooneo 14y ago
I feel like the lack of manufacturing jobs in the US is very much still an unsolved problem.
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by sopooneo 14y ago
I agree with you. But I think the argument against this is that the elements will be slightly larger than they need to be on the full size iPad and you are thus not making the most of the available space.
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by sopooneo 14y ago
For us it was specifically because they didn't want people opening the door remotely. They wanted you to be local.
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by sopooneo 14y ago
or c) change the system and lower your personal success but it's worth it because in aggregate you've helped the world more than you've hurt yourself.
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by sopooneo 14y ago
I am glad it is possible for you, and truly impressed. But for some people it would be a matter or organizing 28 hours into a 24 hour day, and still not sleeping. When I did my tiny startup years ago it was every waking second of every day.
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by sopooneo 14y ago
How do you type quotes? I stumbled on the fact that my keyboard's "minus" key outputs an equals sign, but quotes I can't get. I grew up on the C64, not this one.
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by sopooneo 14y ago
At some level I think you have to do both. Either by explicit drilling or frequent use, you end up memorizing a lot of formulas anyway. And for the longer ones, it takes too long to derive from first principles every time, so whichever way
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by sopooneo 14y ago
But is it plain text? If it is, then we can make an argument that html documents are as well.
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by sopooneo 14y ago
Thank you. So during that long pause Aldrin was soaking up the scenery and thereby gaining "aesthetic bliss"? If that is the case, "smuggled" just seems a strange word choice. If that's not it, I guess I'm just being dense because I don't g
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by sopooneo 14y ago
Can someone clue me in. "They brought back little—841 pounds of old rocks, Aldrin's smuggled aesthetic bliss". What is meant by "aesthetic bliss"? Is that a reference to something?
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by sopooneo 14y ago
On a horribly tangential side-note, if given the chance, have a stay at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, where they actually hammered all this stuff out. It is of another era, and you can feel the weight of that e
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by sopooneo 14y ago
"It is not a “Microsoft business” (Microsoft businesses generate $5B+ a year in PROFIT). The Windows business makes $11.4B in PROFIT every year." Isn't Windows a subset of Microsoft's business? If so, how can a part of the business generate
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by sopooneo 14y ago
Others often claim that the current public education system is a direct descendant of a system set up specifically to create docile factory workers.

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