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by visakanv 13y ago
Yup. A football player who dashes into space and makes a cross to another player who will be in open space is making tonnes of calculations in his head about moving bodies, acceleration, etc- but he isn't, either. He's internalize
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by visakanv 13y ago
the devil really is in the details, though, and it's worth seeing what these details are!
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by visakanv 13y ago
"What I really found surprising was the (apparent) naivety from the perspective of both writers." Singaporean here. I'm guessing that it's mostly a rhetorical device rather than genuine ignorance. Sometimes you want to g
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by visakanv 13y ago
"Dear Mr Cherian George, 1. We refer to your 10 December commentary, “Online freedom: time to revise the Singapore report card”. 2. The Breakfast Network was asked to register because it had ceased to be a personal blog or we
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Twitter Turns Ugly Over PR Person's Idiotic Tweet(mashable.com)
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by visakanv 13y ago
Ah! I think we are much in angreement then; I misinterpreted what you meant by selfishness. ThanK you for taking the time to clarify, I appreciate it. It's so interesting to see how different people interpret these terms so differently
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by visakanv 13y ago
Thanks for getting back to me. EDIT: I realize I conflated "people moving to Singapore" with "majority of US expats moving to Singapore." Thanks for catching that, my bad. -- I guess I'm curious about your use of th
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by visakanv 13y ago
Agreed, but the title should be "Post-mortem of my first talk" or "What I learned from my first talk" rather than "How to give a talk", imho. Otherwise it's just misleading and disrespectful to readers. Ma
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by visakanv 13y ago
Alas, it will. Hope is never enough.
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by visakanv 13y ago
^and many if not all of them do just that, yes.
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by visakanv 13y ago
This bothered me deeply, and so I had to take it apart, point by point. 1: Singapore is not right for "someone like Sivers" 2: People move to Singapore because they're narrowly selfish 3: Singapore is communitarian, not liber
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by visakanv 13y ago
Does anybody on HN actually take LinkedIn seriously? I created an account out of curiosity in the past, got sick of it and deleted it. I revived it a couple of years later, but generally don't bother with it. Your thoughts?
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by visakanv 13y ago
Obviously satire.
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by visakanv 13y ago
I suppose it makes you feel more involved, rather than just watching a bunch of cool cutscenes that you have nothing to do with (common in stylish Japanese RPGs like Devil May Cry, etc)
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by visakanv 13y ago
Your questions are a little too vague; what sort of affiliate program are you looking for? What sort of software are you selling, to whom, in what context, for what purpose? Without those details, any solution anybody presents you is going
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by visakanv 13y ago
I can be a prick, too. I think it happens when I start getting carried away with communicating to others that I am right about something, rather than actually being sensitive to the context of the conversation.
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by visakanv 13y ago
Yup, you got exactly what I was trying to say. Logic is the system of reasoning, the "weighing scale". Emotions are what give the objects weight. So we could both arrive at different conlusions despite having identical logical rea
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by visakanv 13y ago
I relate to this. I remember when I first had internet access as a kid, I'd go to GameFAQs and websites about SimCity and Red Alert- and I was so blown away at this amazing access I had to hundreds of internet strangers who were intere
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by visakanv 13y ago
"The personality of the United States changes periodically. Sometimes we're generous and inspiring. Other times we're total dicks. It's a complicated country. But no one thing defines the personality of the United States
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by visakanv 13y ago
I just want to quickly talk about the main problem I've noticed people having when having personal conflicts and arguments (especially noticeable on MBTI forums, with the "logical thinkers" going up against the "emotiona
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by visakanv 13y ago
I know very little about it too, but I think advances in video game visuals have shown that it's really just a matter of time. Check out Uncharted 3's real-time dynamic water effects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by visakanv 13y ago
They were wasting their resources long before he showed up; he picked the fight because of that.
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by visakanv 13y ago
Thanks for the reccomendations! I've heard so much about Akira Kurosawa. Gotta check him out.
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by visakanv 13y ago
This is great stuff that I think everybody should check out, whatever your field- it's just generally interesting. Insights can be useful metaphors for presentation, direction, writing, project management... Relevant link: The use of l
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by visakanv 13y ago
I highly recommend deactivating for a month, just to experience the difference. It's phenomenal. If you choose to reconnect, you'll look at everything differently. It's just amazing, you have to try it.
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by visakanv 13y ago
As a marketing guy, I can't help but wonder if anybody's ever attempted to engineer such a situation. It's not hard to imagine. Get someone to take the fall, or create a fake account. Come up with a nasty comment that is not
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by visakanv 13y ago
There's totally a parallel between this and the video game music of Mario, Zelda and Final Fantasy- they could only play 2-3 notes at once, so they had to work with those constraints. The music couldn't be too complex, so every no
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by visakanv 13y ago
Agreed with your reasoning within your framework. But I'm a little skeptical of the utility of this framework for thinking about learning. Why do we test people without communication, when most of what they're going to be doing th
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by visakanv 13y ago
In which case I think the flaw is with the test, not the student. Why does a kid need to memorize something that he can get on-the-fly expert answers from? Why memorize something you can look up? =\
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by visakanv 13y ago
I'd suggest that they do what we do when we don't have the resources we need in the 'real world'- figure out some way to collaborate with others!

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