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by thunk 16y ago
I've never understood that argument. Whatever time you may save on monthly upkeep is lost many times over on daily (or at least, hopefully, weekly) washing and brushing and pony tailing, etc. I rebuzz my head about once every two or three w
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by thunk 16y ago
Given that we tend to prefer low-to-no maintenance grooming choices, I'm surprised more hackers don't shave (or closely buzz) their heads: 1) You can do it yourself. Never pay for another hair cut. 2) You don't need shampoo or conditioner.
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On Iteration(informit.com)
1 points by thunk 16y ago|0 comments
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Quo Vadis, Cons?(axisofeval.blogspot.com)
4 points by thunk 16y ago|1 comments
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Notation as a Tool of Thought(jsoftware.com)
6 points by thunk 16y ago|0 comments
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by thunk 16y ago
I found this little slide deck while trying to figure out what semantic microblogging is: http://www.slideshare.net/bengee/semantic-microblogging-pres...
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by thunk 16y ago
> It's also acknowledging that our thinking is partly shaped by our terms. Good point, but sounds like Sapir-Whorf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
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by thunk 16y ago
It seems to me that making research more open and searchable would mitigate some of these problems. The system-gaming and badly calibrated incentives smell like the kind of distortions closed social systems tend to introduce.
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by thunk 16y ago
There's one he forgot: if you drink enough of it you get drunk.
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by thunk 16y ago
You even had to run unapproved software on the 2000 iMac! How far we've come.
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by thunk 16y ago
Gotcha. And an influx of new and experimental Lisps is always welcome.
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by thunk 16y ago
It's odd that he dismisses most existing Lisps, then advises the reader to create their own. I wasn't sure if he meant it pedagogically or pragmatically or both.
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by thunk 16y ago
I don't know. OnLive can't scale very well as is. A liberal estimate would be four game instances per server, which means 250,000 servers for a million players. But if you're spreading that around, especially on players' machines that aren'
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by thunk 16y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y
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by thunk 16y ago
You should try having "a few" ideas and "whipping them up". It's changed my whole perspective.
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by thunk 16y ago
He could be arguing in his spare time .
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by thunk 16y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, just that it's a little disingenuous to publicly call someone out without providing your methods or your results.
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by thunk 16y ago
> I think the record speaks for itself. There's something about the way you phrased this that makes me think you were gunning for pg. It would be nice if you included the complete breakdown, as well as your criteria for determining te
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by thunk 16y ago
I wonder if you could eventually sell cycles back to OnLive, since you aren't doing the heavy lifting on your machine ... Maybe offset the cost of the service? Or maybe OnLive could do an ElectricSheep-like screensaver for distributed proce
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by thunk 16y ago
Oh yeah, that's why the phrase "irreducibly complex" popped into my mind. Whoops. Just to be clear, I definitely wasn't referring to the intelligent design argument. I meant the phrase strictly in the "make everything as simple as possi
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by thunk 16y ago
> But the larger consequence is that if you’re smart the world doesn’t seem very complicated. This might seem obvious, but the obvious thought is rather different. The obvious thought is: The world doesn’t seem complicated to smart peo
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by thunk 16y ago
Now that's thinking outside the ... oh, wait.
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by thunk 16y ago
Original emacs manual cover: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/its-cover.png
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by thunk 16y ago
"Hacker News - Hovering Over the Shark"
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by thunk 16y ago
That's all wrong. It's an ethics-free [1] arms race right now. If they want us to see their ads, they have to make us want to see their ads . That's all there is to it. Pleas to ethics'll work about as well as file-sharing lawsuits. [1] "E
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by thunk 16y ago
I'm wondering if there's a way to crowdsource this with cellphones. I realize it's a little out there, but there are thousands and thousands of microphones already blanketing every urban area ... edit: Google informs me of http://www.noi
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by thunk 16y ago
_Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X_[1] by Aaron Hillegass is really great. It's not an iPhone book, but there's enough similarity that it'd still be a really valuable read. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Cocoa-Programming-Mac-COCOA-PROGRAMMIN...
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by thunk 16y ago
Then how come the difference between the shasum's of "feedburner" and "flotilla" contains the date of JFK's death on Numa's Calendar? Huh? We're on to you, Twitterati!
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by thunk 16y ago
You should become a Segway gang and wear black hoodies that say "Hacker Angels" in green Terminus.
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by thunk 16y ago
It's fascinating and inspiring and exciting to watch this "hackers all the way down" ecosystem grow. What'll it be like in five years? In ten?

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