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by zipdog 16y ago
I had the same experience with hotels, internet in China: much better access from internet in a hotel than others were saying.
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by zipdog 16y ago
This security was the roadblock used in Tunisia to stop the ISP (ie govt) from using the vast number of passwords it had intercepted.
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by zipdog 16y ago
I don't know about Nav's rule #1: avoid odd numbers. Studies have looked at meeting efficiency and number of participants and found that 8 is the number of death, with other even numbers not so great either. To avoid politics, keep the grou
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by zipdog 16y ago
I agree that it's not easy for some. I watched a group of intelligent people who'd forgotten all their high school math try and learn programming for 9 weeks and it was unproductive. Math builds abstraction upon abstraction, and programming
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by zipdog 16y ago
In the 15thC a Welshman took the throne of England (Henry VII) and brought a lot of fellow countrymen into court with him, so they needn't have been poorer immigrants
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by zipdog 16y ago
Interesting point. I was reading a sociologist (Simmel) talk about the rise of individualism leading to the abstraction of other people: coming to think of them as all just 'friends' rather than seperate individuals we relate to differently
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by zipdog 16y ago
Some nice papers there, and I clearly am not up on my classic Viz papers. NB If you want a dense, difficult, crazy even but (perhaps) ultimately rewarding paper you could try: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v7n2/araya.html The au
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by zipdog 16y ago
From the article: "Typographers can point to no studies or any other evidence proving that single spaces improve readability." ...So, there's absolutely no evidence, yet everyone who doesn't agree is 'certainly' wrong...
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by zipdog 16y ago
There seems to be a bunch of problems with them making a definitive statement about internet business based on this research. First, the Nielson list doesn't include data from two of the G8: Japan and Canada. It also doesn't include China,
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by zipdog 16y ago
I think it's possible to reach this situation without a cover-up culture. Survey feedback can easily drift upwards: as a few people start scoring 'great' more often than necessary, everyone else needs to start scoring average workers as gre
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by zipdog 16y ago
I find it's worth extending the mental environment into the workspace around the machine too. The ideal for my was a coworker whose office looked like something from Arabian Nights (in a very pleasant and artistic way) with just the barest
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by zipdog 16y ago
I still like the premise, although I feel that Python has become far less esoteric while still retaining the favourite for a large number of quality programmers. And I can't think offhand of any newer languages that have taken it's place (m
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by zipdog 16y ago
Jimmy Wales has been asked this a few times (probably a lot more than that), and their independence is more vauable than the money they would get from such sponsorship.
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by zipdog 16y ago
The big problem with this idea (other than the fact that the wikipedia fundraising model isn't broken at all), is that it's asking Wikipedia to use it's hard-earned clout and prestige to "improve the world" in an area that is not part of it
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by zipdog 16y ago
Great timing: I was just wondering how to program a PowerShot to take intermittent shots while mounted on the dashboard of the car (to make a short film of a long road trip).
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by zipdog 16y ago
Thanks for the link, I missed the earlier post
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by zipdog 16y ago
The description: On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstratio
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1968, Douglas Engelbart gives the Mother of All Tech Demos(youtube.com)
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by zipdog 16y ago
I'm a part-time history scholar but Rome is not my focus. However I'd throw the following dates into the mix: 264 BC (start of the Punic Wars) Roman Republic controls the Italian peninsula (as far north as Pisa) and is militarily aggressive
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by zipdog 16y ago
One huge value: Targeted advertising. The FB scripts can tell your sexual orientation from your post content. I imagine they know a lot more than that too.
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by zipdog 16y ago
There was an idea called the Memex in 1946 that was an inspiration for subsequent hypertext ideas. And a Belgian in the 1920s had a "steampunk" web, but it built more on the idea of inter-text referencing (like most encyclopedias use). Ted
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by zipdog 16y ago
FYI: Its possible to get a FB account without a "real" email address. ie Use a one-time address like 10 minute mail. I've had an account for about 2 years with this method, never been a problem
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by zipdog 16y ago
> Peter Rez ... calculated the risk of getting cancer from a single scan at about 1 in 30 million His odds were for a single flight, but I wonder if the scanner radiation has a cumulative effect? Surviving a plane flight has no impact o
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by zipdog 16y ago
...but how does one represent eleven in this system?
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by zipdog 16y ago
I think the emergence of the two-party system in winner takes all voting is due as much to the gambit of the voters: if there's a perception that party A is strongest and party B second strongest, then a vote for party C is essentialy 'wast
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by zipdog 16y ago
The article talks about "reach, engagement, and monetization" as essential properties. What's interesting in Zynga's case, I think, is how it conflates reach and engagement. The techniques it uses for engagement and the techniques for reach
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by zipdog 16y ago
"The Diamond Age" or anything else by Neal Stephenson.
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by zipdog 16y ago
I generally hear about Iridium as a second-generation success. The fact that the company that currently owns it is looking at putting up a new network (at a cost of perhaps $3 billion) shows that the idea wasn't a foolish one. But like some
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by zipdog 16y ago
I feel for your situation, 'cos coding for me is actually more like 50% writing code and 50% daydreaming/browsing/whatever. Coding is a creative task. Typically though I'll think of an excellent shortcut/solution after an hour of staring in
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by zipdog 16y ago
I think they are playing on sunk costs as much $0.60 not feeling like really spending money. If you've already bid a couple of times on an item, it makes sense to bid a few more at the end. I can see how it could get addicting, and in that

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