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by wybo 15y ago
Wonder when someone will create a torrent of this, so it can be stored in a distributed way
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by wybo 15y ago
Also see the now finished LiquidPub project by the university of Trento, Springer, and others, for more ideas and views on peer review in the digital age: http://liquidpub.org/ This paper about journals: http://wiki.liquidpub.org/mediawi
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by wybo 15y ago
You can take the moral high ground. Because laws can be wrong, an breaking wrong laws can be right. Imho the economics of scarcity that is behind copyright is morally problematic. Thus breaking copyright laws could be right under some circu
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by wybo 15y ago
I fully agree with this post. And it would not surprise me if parallels could be found with the so called 'Broken Windows' (no pun intended ;) theory from criminology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory That is, similarly
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by wybo 15y ago
Did this as well about a year ago (after referring many of my classmates), and it works. Getting the remaining referrals through AdWords took a bit more money than $25 though (about $30 for 10 referrals). Maybe could have improved the wordi
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by wybo 15y ago
A very thoughtful article, especially the notion of something being ones true reason, and variance as causal impact, but isn't what he describes as libertarianism with a small 'l', what has been known as the Social Democrat way in Europe fo
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by wybo 15y ago
I'm currently in San Francisco with a H1B at Academia.edu, a reasonably well-funded startup (not that early stage, but still only 5 developers and very much a great startup atmosphere), so it happens. Also, they/we did/do interviews through
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by wybo 15y ago
Some images of the way cities should be built (and can be, as these are from real Dutch cities): http://www.aankoopmakelaargroningen.com/images/websites/56//... http://cache.virtualtourist.com/789252-AMSTERDAM_ZUIDERKERK_... http://hom
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by wybo 15y ago
I am moving into San Francisco from Europe, and exactly in this situation of city versus further out. By Americans SF is probably considered a car-free, and public transportation friendly city, but as an European I am shocked to see that al
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by wybo 15y ago
I wrote this blog-post & essay/paper about HN a couple of weeks back. My finding was that there is not really a best time to post (in general, rather than asking questions) in terms of the number of replies you would get (but I only hav
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by wybo 15y ago
Am a Dutch student currently studying in the UK, and many of these differences are true indeed, and possibly even larger between Dutch and English people than between Germans and the English. 'Thanks', and 'please', are used in Dutch only w
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by wybo 15y ago
Here is some data on this: http://foundation.logilogi.org/2011/5/9/the-best-time-to-pos...
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by wybo 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Especially as ironically enough the post does not seem to have made it to the frontpage, so yours is pretty much the only feedback it received ;) (...guess my post was too academic even for HN users' taste...)
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by wybo 15y ago
Thanks for noting this. I added a link to it from the post.
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Empirical study of HN: Best time to post, and other time-effects(foundation.logilogi.org)
7 points by wybo 15y ago|4 comments
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by wybo 15y ago
While the '!' addition to methods is an useful convention, having both collect, and collect! methods, and for example only a delete method for arrays (which does change the array it is called on), and similar inconsistencies in libraries, c
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by wybo 16y ago
It would be good if the data/information were at least available somewhere, such as through an API. I must admit that as somebody studying social science of the internet, and interested in data in general, I might not be your typical user,
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by wybo 16y ago
I agree with most of this analysis, and it is why, even though iOS/OSX/etc offer great stability, are esthetically pleasing, and well-designed, I won't go the Apple way (I have been using Linux for over a decade now). Zittrain, among others
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by wybo 16y ago
If this had/has an API it would make for a great game-board for MMOG's/on-line-&-offline-games or even strategy-games. Imagine adding textures for units and/or craters (though I'd guess this latter would be banned pretty soon).
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by wybo 16y ago
> But that's not the big point. The big point is that placing the blame externally kills off your ability to solve problems yourself. If all you think about is solving your own problems, in the self-help sense, then placing blame extern
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The Parable of the Languages(realtech.burningbird.net)
2 points by wybo 16y ago|0 comments
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by wybo 16y ago
Indeed, and also: What about trust in pre-purchasing a beta? I mean, Minecraft is a very interesting game as it is, but I'd guess that most people pre-purchasing it (and it is still offered under that description) expect it to be developed
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by wybo 16y ago
Apart from discussing whether Monopoly is a great game (which I think it is not, Funkenschlag, You're Bluffing, Werewolves and Tichu, for example are much better) I do think that automating the transactions, and some of the other more admin
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by wybo 16y ago
Because he received a reference from the Medici's (a very powerful family), and already had done some notable work by that time, if I remember correctly. In any case upper class Italy was a small world at that time, and personal recommendat
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by wybo 16y ago
A thing to note here is that at that time probably almost everyone that mattered in Italy had heard of Leonardo da Vinci's past works. So yes of course he could leave out past achievements. In short I don't think this is good advice to peop
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by wybo 16y ago
Yes, but wheter you like it or not, the government is tinkering with the rest of the economy anyway. So it becomes a choice between anti-startup tinkering, or both pro- and anti-startup tinkering. I prefer the latter, but then I am no VC. (
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by wybo 16y ago
Faking dozens of personas online gives a whole new meaning to the phrase 'we are legion'. Scary indeed.
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New Android Trojan Surfaces in China(threatpost.com)
1 points by wybo 16y ago|0 comments
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by wybo 16y ago
I don't think this sounds that bad, to be honest. Traditionally, and for various reasons, some to do with bargaining-power in the market, some with (good, but patronizing) care for citizens, others with bureaucracy, gave benefits to large,
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Space Music: Did Walkmans Kill Manned Space Exploration?(news.discovery.com)
3 points by wybo 16y ago|1 comments

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