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by zatara 15y ago
tl;dr: Blanton's diagnosis is right, but there might be better alternative treatments. I read the article and the books. While I have never been able to fully implement it, there is something in radical honesty that rings very true to me. I
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by zatara 15y ago
I think you nailed it quite well, it is not about WHAT he did, but HOW he did it. Disruption was his way of doing things. And it matches quite well his "Think Different" heros, all of them were disrupters.
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How I Overcame Bipolar II (and Saved My Own Life)(forbes.com)
128 points by zatara 15y ago|44 comments
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by zatara 15y ago
Does this apply to patents as well?
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by zatara 15y ago
Is the Brazilian detail relevant? Or maybe it is is more difficult to sue Vostu over there.
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by zatara 15y ago
"It is as it is" is a better way to say that there is no fucking reason... The Zen/Tolle approach always sounded better to me, but can anyone really say or do anything that will make the sick one feel better for more than a couple of minute
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Twitching (hacker ethos by Mark Twight, trainer for the movie 300)(gymjones.com)
2 points by zatara 15y ago|0 comments
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by zatara 15y ago
Best of both worlds: www.livescribe.com
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by zatara 16y ago
How is that different from the US or Europe some 100 years ago? These are all fixable problems, and it really doesn't take that long (check Germany between the 2 World Wars).
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by zatara 16y ago
I think countries like Brazil are much more of a threat in terms of innovation than China or India. They have lots of natural resources, fewer people to feed and a culture that embraces creativity and innovation as much as the US. There is
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by zatara 16y ago
On a Mac, you can try Vitamin R ( http://www.publicspace.net/Vitamin-R/ ). Very active development, works well with Things and Omnifocus.
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by zatara 16y ago
So HP is trying to redeem itself from the huge blunder with Woz some 30 years ago!
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by zatara 16y ago
Is it better now? I have tested it before but it was too buggy for serious loading (PhD thesis), although I liked very much the interface and features.
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by zatara 16y ago
I have been through all the apps mentioned here and settled on Sente (www.thirdstreetsoftware.com). Very powerful, does all the biblio/citation thing if you need it, as well as the visualization part that Papers does. It is not as polished
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by zatara 16y ago
Steve did much more than just sitting on a calligraphy class, from the moulded plastic design used in the Apple II through to significant inputs in the original Macintosh. All that happened much before Ive was at Apple, though I agree that
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by zatara 16y ago
I mostly agree with you, though you should be also opened to the possibility that not even Jobs would be able to do with Apple in the next 10 years what He did in the past 10 years.
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by zatara 16y ago
I think you're right on. Ive and Jobs share a similar background (in design, if you consider the calligraphy story) and Ive's personality has been really ingrained in the latest Apple creations. Besides, Apple has already all the structure
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by zatara 16y ago
I'm more on the mechanical side of CAE and would kill for a professional FEA package for the Mac (eg. Ansys, MSC, Abaqus et al).
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by zatara 16y ago
I did't know about it, but edited the title to correct it. It is still remarkable since OneNote is part of MS Office, maybe there is more to come?
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by zatara 16y ago
Yet, it still feels like a "hell-freezes-over" kind of scenario, no? [EDIT] Considering that OneNote is part of Office, a major cash-maker for Microsoft.
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by zatara 16y ago
Besides the major CAD/CAM/CAE softwares, OneNote was the only software I really missed after moving to Mac/iphone. It is great for note-taking in general and made by one of the most innovative teams at Microsoft.
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Microsoft releases first (major) app for iphone (OneNote)(office.microsoft.com)
10 points by zatara 16y ago|16 comments
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by zatara 16y ago
This is a sad day, I wish all the best to Steve and his family. Maybe this is not the best place to ask, but does anyone know about Steve's eating habits? I know he was a frutarian at a certain point and then changed to fish/vegan (particul
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by zatara 16y ago
I have no problems changing my mind when proved wrong, but there are facts that cannot be ignored. It is very difficult (and definitely not advisable) to stereotype individuals, but certain qualities can be easily attributed to groups of pe
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by zatara 16y ago
You certainly show a level of maturity that is not common among typical hunters. I understand that you enjoy the process of hunting, not only the result, and I can sympathize with that. Thanks for augmenting my perspective on the subject.
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by zatara 16y ago
So, according to your definition of fairness, we should for example nuke Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia et al., as terrorists show no mercy with our women and children, so why should we bother? Or maybe Microsoft was just right to use its
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by zatara 16y ago
If you are into hunting, I think you should make things fair for both sides. Leave the gun at home and try something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o
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by zatara 16y ago
I had the same curiosity when I started graduate studies. This book helped a lot, it goes through this and many other academic/technical issues, giving a good insight on the "non-spoken" rules of the game and how scientists actually think.
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by zatara 16y ago
I guess you misunderstood Locke1689, he referred to a lot of, um... code!
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by zatara 16y ago
This reminds me a lot what I used to do before and it inevitably led to burnout and disaster. So I will be straightforward with you, STOP trying to fix yourself like you were one of the problems you like to hack on. You already have a very

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