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by zach 18y ago
That we are living in a book. Note that the popular plot device of being trapped in one (or more) books survived intact as being trapped in the TV and being trapped in a virtual reality game. If you watch kid's cartoon series, you know tha
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by zach 18y ago
I think this may be the simplest explanation for why geeks often have any particular quality, this one included: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=204240
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by zach 18y ago
I agree. And really, this is supposed to be how Google tackles that issue: to maintain a high-perk atmosphere. Google's atmosphere is similar to America's regulated airline era, where fares were set by a government body. Being unable to c
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by zach 18y ago
So people basically see rich people as doing what they themselves would do if they had lots more income appear magically. Yeah, so, turns out that's not how it happens. And yet, that would seem to be the cause of many popular misunderstand
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by zach 18y ago
I would say that you should have a good toolbox of simple practical techniques that you understand at the level that you can re-implement and combine at will. Because that's what I would love to see in a candidate, speaking as a ten-year g
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by zach 18y ago
Good idea; too early.
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by zach 18y ago
Invented by Gordon Bell? (see bottom-right of page) http://research.microsoft.com/%7Egbell/
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by zach 18y ago
It looks as if they're done with it if they're satisfied at this point. What would they announce in the future, that it made its first complete working replicated copy, oh, but more complete than last time?
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by zach 18y ago
> Those lucky enough to win the H-1B lottery will be allowed to work in the U.S., but the rest will be turned away. Sounds good to me; who wants unlucky employees anyway? They're always having stuff fall on them. I say we keep letting
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by zach 18y ago
The concept of a "web OS" makes only slightly more sense than that of an "email OS."
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by zach 18y ago
My shorthand for the singularity is that it's whenever AI becomes as relevant as we thought it was going to be. It is really a brilliant rhetorical device to discuss technology. Similarly though, you could say that pneumatic tubes are stil
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by zach 18y ago
If you want the opposite extreme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_communication
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by zach 18y ago
And a guy on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire's Movie Week made a cool $250,000 just by knowing about that plot device from Office Space: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5monB4fIzy8 It looks like he was excited to get that question.
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by zach 18y ago
It's better than sending the bits in the actual email. If you can revoke access to the attachment immediately after sending it, that's an improvement. I'm guessing ninety-something percent of mistaken emails with attachments are noticed wi
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by zach 18y ago
Someone on the Joel forum recently lamented the lack of decent prebuilt web app templates: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.632032.... I quite agree. Open Designs: http://www.opendesigns.org/ has bazillions of blog
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by zach 18y ago
This is what YouTube used to style their box headers until maybe a year and a half ago. Note that if you're using it to make a vertically compact title box, you'll have to do even more CSS funny business. That's because the rounded-corner
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by zach 18y ago
A weird thing: the Borders in Pasadena is about the same size as any other yet it unfailingly has the books I want to read. Followed by Westwood, Santa Monica and Hollywood. Interestingly, Moleskine (which is totally "stuff white people li
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by zach 18y ago
I can't decide what this means. Is it that we give kids pills for anything so now we have a pill for nothing? Or just that, indeed, parents lie to kids so thoroughly that it has taken on a physical manifestation? In any case, I have a fre
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by zach 18y ago
Professions you might want a rockstar for: Programmer, salesman, designer, ice road trucker. Ones you don't: Drawbridge operator, actuary, forklift driver, mortician.
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Lies We Tell Kids, Now in a Pill Bottle: Introducing Obecalp(nytimes.com)
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by zach 18y ago
I'm only speaking about the experience, not the people themselves. If you want to learn how to live workfree (I think that may actually be a thing) in the US, being homeless on the streets of Santa Monica would teach you a lot. But if I w
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by zach 18y ago
Let me be gentle about this. I think Craig is primarily looking for someone with the skills to practice dedicated work. Homelessness develops one's skills in different areas. I don't think working long hours in ag country would be a good
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by zach 18y ago
And uses it to, um, make interior design accessible to everyone. Just like we all secretly dream to do.
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by zach 18y ago
What a relief to have an alternative to Lua. For games I would appreciate Lua's incremental GC, of course. But far better to have something tiny that you can add on to than something big you have to rip things out of!
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by zach 18y ago
Those are the new early adopters. Services that appeal to the blogerati and their particular quirks get endless free publicity. Services aimed at everybody have a much higher hurdle to getting that kind of publicity, and forget entirely ab
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by zach 18y ago
I always get a kick out of Patri's work, but it raises the question, why are countries so reluctant to sell or trade territory? Even if it's universally considered short-sighted, well, governments do a lot of short-sighted things. What
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by zach 18y ago
Coincidentally, Nathan Myhrvold independently conceived of BulletBall three years ago in a roundtable with 7 PhD's. Boy, were they surprised when they tried to file for the patent. I guess it was an invention whose time had come.
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by zach 18y ago
I had an idea for "manual overclocking" once. It would be a crank sticking out of the front of a PC that you could turn to overclock your processor when you really needed it. Mostly it was a therapy for waiting on slow processes. No, I d
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by zach 18y ago
Stanford's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders podcast is a good one. Each is about an hour long, so it helps that you have lots of time: http://edcorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html
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by zach 18y ago
Hey, me too. I was at Carpenter Avenue in the valley. Didn't go all the way to Walter Reed but I did enjoy the HG classes. It was a real "wealth effect" of intelligence. LAUSD seems to be very proactive.

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