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by sz 16y ago
"Charles I. Andersen Music Company" Would CIA really do this?
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by sz 16y ago
I'd like to see Socrates' take on this.
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by sz 16y ago
The rest of the site is good too. "Time makes things worse" I liked particularly.
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by sz 16y ago
Approach it like they do in psychological studies: given their initial consent, deceive them if you like, but give a debriefing afterwards.
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by sz 16y ago
How was Surface a success where Wave wasn't?
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by sz 16y ago
Wolfram Alpha already does an impressive job of synthesizing nice presentations of information from masses of data. I wonder if by allowing citizen data upload via such a "civic mobile app" they could become much more useful.
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by sz 16y ago
#3 is my favorite thing about Google. On some level it makes me feel better about handing over personal data when the company doesn't act asshole-ish.
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by sz 16y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
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by sz 16y ago
Are we talking about the same kinds of "logic puzzles"? I'm referring to e.g. stuff in Mensa books.
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by sz 16y ago
Do real math. Not this fake logic puzzle BS.
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Chris Kraft (NASA) lecture at MIT(youtube.com)
3 points by sz 16y ago|0 comments
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by sz 16y ago
There's a pg essay on this: http://www.paulgraham.com/goodart.html
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by sz 16y ago
Even worse is our definition of temperature... it should really be the reciprocal. The thermodynamic definition is: 1/T = dS/dE where S is entropy and E is energy dS/dE has a nice intuitive ring to it "if I put a small amount of energy int
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by sz 16y ago
So why do comments have actual downvotes and not just flags?
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by sz 16y ago
What it was intended for -- to replace email and IM. Problem was that it didn't integrate with existing stuff, the real time typing actually made it unsuitable to replace email since the other side can replay everything, and other people e
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by sz 16y ago
Not unless you have a specific use case to address. In my experience the average user is pretty unimaginative about applications of general computing tools.
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by sz 16y ago
Mathematica 8
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by sz 16y ago
Inconsolata isn't mentioned but is great too.
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by sz 16y ago
PCs are going to be like trucks: http://video.allthingsd.com/video/d8-steve-jobs-on-the-iphon...
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by sz 16y ago
Grand unified theory, AI, sustained extraterrestrial presence, human longevity, energy, education reform, ... Big things tend to really be bunches of little things.
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by sz 16y ago
Apple, pay attention. This thing rocks. I love the integration with Readability and Instapaper.
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by sz 16y ago
The tone of your comment got you downvoted into oblivion but that was my reaction too. Just seems like whining about image.
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by sz 16y ago
TIL pdf is not a purely representational document format.
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by sz 16y ago
I don't have as much experience as others here (~2 years) but I can tell you that it definitely changes the way you think, not just about engineering problems but life situations too, and the change is not something you might predict from t
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by sz 16y ago
Was it the actual algebra you learned that helped you code these things? Or just the mental discipline of sitting down until the problem is solved?
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by sz 16y ago
Doesn't topology past a certain basic level rely on algebra pretty heavily?
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Socially Aware Cloud Storage(w3.org)
1 points by sz 16y ago|0 comments
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by sz 16y ago
Io's layout is still my favorite: http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/io/docs/reference/
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by sz 16y ago
Ah. Sorry for the misleading title then.
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by sz 16y ago
I just got the email to apply 3 hours ago. I would be surprised if they put out the application without notifying their own mailing list.

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