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by sz 16y ago
http://xkcd.com/609/
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by sz 16y ago
Ads are where their revenue comes from directly, but other products play a supporting role.
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by sz 16y ago
Marissa Meyer has a funny story on this: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1526
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by sz 16y ago
Correlation between monitor size/number and productivity Though I struggle to think of how they might incorporate blowing stuff up, shooting things, and robots into hacker myths.
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by sz 16y ago
Haskell (omitted) probably comes in somewhere at the top :)
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by sz 16y ago
Consider finishing your degree but with a different concentration, like statistics (always useful), or physics (awesome).
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All the world is a DOM. The rise of Identity Based Programming.(possibility.com)
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Is it really as miserable as PhD Comics makes it seem?
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by sz 16y ago
I found this article a more lucid overview of the situation: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100831/full/467016a.html
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Check this out: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100819/full/news.2010.420.ht... http://gulfblog.uga.edu/
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by sz 16y ago
Wow, who designed that site? It's so pretty.
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by sz 16y ago
It's even easier to do all of this to yourself.
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by sz 16y ago
So is an iPhone scripting environment now allowed?
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by sz 16y ago
They probably do something like: if a search term returns a high density of SafeSearch-flagged top results, then don't autocomplete.
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by sz 16y ago
It's [edit: not exactly] SafeSearch: Q: If an offensive or lewd word is a fraction of my query, will Google push these results in front of me as I type? A: As always, we provide options to filter the content you see in search. You can choos
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Do you have data to support this?
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by sz 16y ago
Great post but arrgh, use this to read it: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
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by sz 16y ago
> TeX really needs to be ported to browsers FTFY Seriously though, browsers need better typography in general. http://nitens.org/taraborelli/latex
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by sz 16y ago
This + REST = CLI for the Web
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Wikipedia lets you create books(en.wikipedia.org)
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What does this have to do with Zen?
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Add a duck.
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by sz 16y ago
Check out http://www.yourxiv.com
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That was my first thought. Myspace Music is dead, it's not really about Facebook.
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"a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor"
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by sz 16y ago
Not true—in the case of a punctured torus (like the shirt with joined sleeves), it's not like a sack at all! It can still be turned inside-out, but it's a little trickier to visualize. You can imagine the hole stretching until you have a p
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by sz 16y ago
What kind of background are you speaking from? I see you do applied AI research, in what capacity?
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Maybe there should be a link to this on the post and reply forms, at least for newer accounts.
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On the other hand, if someone has been lying all their life, if they're ever going to tell the truth, it's going to be on their deathbed. This idea actually appears in our legal system: in court, hearsay (Person X testifies that they heard
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by sz 16y ago
Interesting how the answers to "what will I wish I'd have done now in 5 years?" and "what will I wish I'd have done now on my deathbed?" can be so different. The second one is better, I think. With the first, you never stop.

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