tybris

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by tybris 17y ago
Because at the end of the 20th century, anything seemed possible. As it turns out in the 21th century, it is.
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by tybris 17y ago
Who decides what's useful and not? Perhaps the future will adapt to exploit the skills of gamers and those who never pursued these "fake" achievements will be useless. I'm not a gamer, but I could think of a number of ways how to make human
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by tybris 17y ago
So much damned money that someone apparently bought the rights to the ancient word "corruption" and prevents people from using it. It's bad for business.
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by tybris 17y ago
> Imagine what Amazon could have done if they had Research budget of Microsoft of Google. I find that hard since much of Amazon's business culture and innovation comes out of frugality. Being a low margin business, Amazon had to become
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by tybris 17y ago
Not many people have mastered the skill of simple writing.
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by tybris 17y ago
Nonsense. Programmers aren't artists, they're engineers. The difference is progress. Whereas art hasn't come a long way since Rembrandt and Mozart, engineering has. Open Source is just the stuff that's easy and has already been done. Progre
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by tybris 17y ago
I have a grudge against written philosophy. The meaning of words is subjective. It is defined by what relations you draw in your brains when you read or hear that word. This not only makes words quite unimportant, they turn your mind into a
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by tybris 17y ago
That would disincentivize work.
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by tybris 17y ago
This is just how science really works; constantly correcting all sorts of silly errors. The odd part here is that one institution is named the authority and is expected to make strong assertions. This just doesn't work in science. Reputatio
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by tybris 17y ago
> tldr: fiction The title says "Talking to god". You didn't seriously expect...?
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by tybris 17y ago
S3 is meant as a storage system and very reliable in storing bits, but not serving them. CloudFront is meant as a CDN and very reliable in serving bits.
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by tybris 17y ago
If find Google Apps for your Domain to be a good Gmail alternative ;-).
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by tybris 17y ago
I don't use it because it is Gmail. I don't want more distractions.
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by tybris 17y ago
That's a brilliant rumour.
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by tybris 17y ago
VC just needs to get out of its parents basement and spread out more. Why not open offices at major universities?
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by tybris 17y ago
I mostly find it disruptive of my attention. Gmail is work. Facebook is play. I'll keep 'm separate, thank you.
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by tybris 17y ago
> This is a case where Microsoft was trying to react to the situation on the ground, rather than create the situation on the ground (like a Google). Hey, that's exactly what Google is doing in social networking.
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by tybris 17y ago
I, for one, welcome our existing American overlords. but more seriously, I'm not that sure the 21th century will be decided by population size. The level of American consumption is already unsustainable.
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by tybris 17y ago
No word from them yet. They normally strip query arguments. Hopefully they'll make an exception for versioning.
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by tybris 17y ago
Trade-off, trade-off, trade-off.
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by tybris 17y ago
A placebo should do the trick.
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by tybris 17y ago
Good chalk education took a while to develop, same with slides education.
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by tybris 17y ago
To be honest, if Windows NT had lived up to its promise it would have been the greatest OS of all time.
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by tybris 17y ago
> It's easy to imagine that because the links that form between various individuals in a society are not governed by any overarching rules, they must have a random structure. I don't find that easy to imagine at all. Social systems a
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by tybris 17y ago
YouTube isn't exactly a success either. It's unlikely they'll ever have a positive return on their investment.
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by tybris 17y ago
Common view for CDNs. Identifying client locations by DNS resolver is really inaccurate.
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by tybris 17y ago
In the end it's not the Chinese people who suffer at the hands of their government, but the West.
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by tybris 17y ago
As Jeff Bezos likes to say: Frugality breeds innovation. The availability of money changes how you go about doing business, but not your chances of success. In my experience Seattle entrepreneurs are much more focussed on building a serious
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by tybris 17y ago
Cooks make food. Musicians make music. Just because you can't record food on a CD doesn't mean musicians are special and should make millions without working for it. The only ones I'm the slightest bit worried about are writers.
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by tybris 17y ago
Eyes: ... SEO ... Bill Gates Mind: Bill Gates is worth 40-50 billion, doesn't care about revenue Mind: Bill Gates is known world-wide, doesn't need promotion Mind: Bill Gates' blog received widespread media attention Mind: What could this b

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