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by xiaoma 11y ago
If you click on "past" under the article title at the top of the page, it will show you several previous discussions.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
He was a pretty argumentative guy, but he was right about so much. He genuinely put his heart into what he believed in. Without him (and Lessig), SOPA easily could have gone the other way. He didn't deserve what the justice system did
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by xiaoma 11y ago
As soon as the model were public it would be useless. The first thing an aspiring criminal or terrorist would do would be study the model and then do whatever necessary to make his or her own threat score low.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
I think videos are horrible for learning things like Math, CS, languages, psychology, economics, etc. But they're great for learning how to use an IDE, graphic design, music, athletic movements, etc.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
I've never thought much of this argument since I first heard it over a decade ago. Kurzweil and Dennet both took it apart pretty convincingly.
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Gabriel Weinberg: Ways to Sell Your Ideas and Scale (podcast)(jamesaltucher.com)
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Very cool, Justin. It would be amazing if you guys open-sourced a Raphael.js killer.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Nothing in this comment shows anything in the essay that was "wrong". Since market demand is created by people wanting things, it's overwhelmingly unlikely that productivity increases "will put most humans out of work&qu
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by xiaoma 11y ago
It's hard to tell if Ezra is willfully misinterpreting the essay or just didn't get it. Most concerning are: 1) In the entire long-winded complaint, there isn't even a mention of the primary thrust of PG's essay—while so
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by xiaoma 11y ago
I just finished reading The Masters of Doom and really got the impression that working more hours made Carmack more productive than nearly everyone else in the field.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
The thing I would add to your comment is that inequality in productivity is increasing. And this is actually is good reason for increasing inequality of wealth distribution. Rent-seeking, tax avoidance, buying political influence, monopol
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by xiaoma 11y ago
The thing that worries me about this is that I don't see anything mentioned about different sizes. Hats aren't all one size. Glasses aren't all one size. I have an unfortunately large skull and "one size fits all" h
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Yeah but in 1997 people were making six figures after learning HTML and CSS. The entry level bar is so much higher in 2015 that it's difficult to even compare. This feels more like the solo game programming boom of the late 80s and ear
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Baidu's Baike is a truly gigantic wiki. Often whole articles from the Chinese version of Wikipedia show up there, but Baike is actually much larger. I agree that blocking the international internet is harmful to innovation and the econ
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by xiaoma 11y ago
The biggest problem with this blog post is its assumption that there are "shields" to begin with. Whatever I'm doing there's always a possibility of something better out there. Rather than throw up "shields"
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by xiaoma 11y ago
especially given some of their behavior in the last couple of years...
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by xiaoma 11y ago
10-15ms is good enough of a ping for an FPS. That's fantastic!
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Until the speed of light starts increasing, latency will always be an issue for thin clients. Fun experiment: Try ssh-ing into a web host or a school account. Peruse a few directories and open a few files in VI. Type in a paragraph of text.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Another variable I once saw was options (subject to board approval) in the offer letter and then several months later an approval of the options grant that had to be signed. In this second document, there was a clause saying they could fi
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by xiaoma 11y ago
> part of paying my own way through college That's getting a lot harder to do in the US these days.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
It does seem like you've somewhat oddly-defined the word. Would you also apply it to a chess player who has even material and two passed pawns 35 moves into a game? That would be a strategic position of advantage. Or how about a Roman
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by xiaoma 11y ago
I mostly lived off of cornflakes, coconut water, occasional fruits and a weekly chicken binge (or other food from a Chinese butcher shop) when I was becoming a programmer. It took very little time and cost less than a third of what Soylent
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by xiaoma 11y ago
If a professional hockey player thought checking made the game needlessly violent, that wouldn't mean they could stop checking and remain competitive in the game they loved. The pragmatic option would be to keep playing the game, check
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by xiaoma 11y ago
There's no need to be rude. I believe the article was about the rising costs to society that come from expecting everyone to get their post-secondary education through formal schooling to get a job. The truth is, a university really is
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by xiaoma 11y ago
I and most of my friends had a dislike for the general regimentation and bullshit of university life. It definitely gets better as you meet more and more like-minded people and there are some great aspects, but the system is pretty ridiculo
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Mostly I've worked on documents with under 500 rows. Excel is a much snappier UX all around than Google spreadsheets (which I wouldn't use for over 200k rows either).
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by xiaoma 11y ago
There are some minor differences in stroke order by region, but the basic rules are always the same (e.g. top before bottom, left before right, etc). It's genuinely hard to read people's writing if the stroke order is off. If you
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by xiaoma 11y ago
Dapps are extremely interesting and I agree that most people are completely ignorant of the potential. I don't think they'll make anything obsolete though. They'll just carve out an interesting new niche (which, depending o
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by xiaoma 11y ago
What's worse is when the app is similar to a carbon-copy of the website but actually worse because it messes up content sizing in ipad portrait view. Looking at you, Coursera.
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by xiaoma 11y ago
No. Web standards can't make native apps obsolete. They can't do it on the desktop and they can't do it on a mobile device. Certain things are better done as web apps, other things are much better native. Some quick examples

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