aloneinkyoto

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by aloneinkyoto 14y ago
Meetings != Communication (always avoid double negations)
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by aloneinkyoto 15y ago
A more apt comparison would be Antarctica. But even in Antarctica you can go outside and feel the sunshine on your face in the summer. You can't really do that on a space station or on a Mars base. I would personally probably miss the smell
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by aloneinkyoto 15y ago
It always troubles me when people talk about the future and futurism optimistically and without understanding the historical context and why it might be a bad idea. For you that don't know, futurism had its roots in 20th century Italy and w
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by aloneinkyoto 15y ago
I don't think he is talking about "high priority" in the project management sense, rather in the visual or cognitive sense that the presentation of a feature to the user is highly prioritized. His argument is basically that it is more impor
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by aloneinkyoto 15y ago
Yes, but the only feedback provided was that my argument was a straw-man. I.e. they disagreed with the point I was trying to make. And as far as I understand, the social contract on Hacker News implies that you don't down vote if you disagr
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by aloneinkyoto 15y ago
I didn't claim that a sustainable businesses can't do good work. I simply claimed that sustainability is at odds with producing good things. Which is a fairly different claim. Though I can see how the distinction was not perfectly clear in
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by aloneinkyoto 15y ago
Why am I being down voted for this? It is not spam and not intended as flame bait. It is not off topic and it is not pointless humor. It is a serious comment that needs to be debated and not hidden away at the bottom of the page. I am not s
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by aloneinkyoto 15y ago
That something is enjoyable does not make it inherently good (unless you ascribe to Utilitarianism). There are of course other factors beyond pure enjoyment that contribute to the inherent goodness of a thing. You don't need to enjoy a medi
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by aloneinkyoto 15y ago
The point I was trying to make with the McDonalds example was simply that a scalable and successful business model necessarily implies that they are unable to create the "perfect" hamburger. They have practical limitations inherent to their
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by aloneinkyoto 15y ago
This is the paradox of capitalism. Focus on creating something inherently good and it will not be sustainable. Focus on creating something sustainable and profitable and it will most likely not be as inherently good as it could be. Example:
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by aloneinkyoto 15y ago
I have experienced this scenario first hand. It made me quit my otherwise fairly well paid new job.
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by aloneinkyoto 15y ago
I was talking about Facebook the tool, i.e. how it is actually being used by people. Not Facebook the business model, which I agree with you is exactly as you describe, but is something completely different and separate from how it is perce
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by aloneinkyoto 15y ago
But you are profoundly fooling yourself if you believe that that is what Facebook is. If all you want to do is CC a list of people some photos, there are way better tools out there. I think it's pretty obvious that Facebook has been, from t
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by aloneinkyoto 15y ago
That's great! My concerns seems to have been unfounded then. The jury is still out on the new privacy stuff though.
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by aloneinkyoto 15y ago
The macro difference in philosophy between Facebook and Google+ is that Google+ encourages social silos and obscurity (typical characteristics of geek/hacker culture, inherited from American liberalism and Californian utopism), while Facebo
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by aloneinkyoto 15y ago
But that is exactly what is counterproductive about it. Because it forces you to make assumptions about the people you interact with. Have you asked all of your friends wether or not they might find your family photos interesting or not? Do
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by aloneinkyoto 15y ago
Facebook Places is the feature I've been using the most on Facebook since it was introduced. And I can probably say the same thing about the rest of my circle of friends. It is very sad if they are intentionally going to limit such an aweso
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by aloneinkyoto 15y ago
> You know, stuff that actually kinda matters, and can improve people's lives. Are you arguing that social networks don't improve peoples lives?
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by aloneinkyoto 16y ago
The problem with this model is obviously going to be producing the content and I'm surprised Gruber doesn't mention that. Distributing books this way will add a lot of complexity and cost to an already expensive workflow. If this format suc
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by aloneinkyoto 16y ago
The possibility to unify all my communication around common threads makes sense, being able to use it as a replacement for chat & email - as it has properties of both Hey, I think Facebook just launched a very elegant solution for tha
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by aloneinkyoto 16y ago
This solution is utterly stupid. Why do they pay their engineers millions of dollars if they don't even know the basic semantics of the HTTP protocol? Per RFC 2616, the POST method should be used for any context in which a request is non-id
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by aloneinkyoto 16y ago
Does anyone know where I can buy the PINO Digital Kettle Pro in Europe? Amazon refuses to ship it to my address in Sweden.
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by aloneinkyoto 16y ago
I like to call this the post-industrial synchronization psychosis . Our societies irrational desire for order that inevitably leads to total chaos.
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by aloneinkyoto 16y ago
In what way can a programming language be objectively better than another language? I thought they were tools for accomplishing specific goals? It's not like we hold competitions declaring hammers being better hammers than screwdrivers.
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by aloneinkyoto 16y ago
The reason why GDP is still used is because we have a lot of historical GDP data available and it is a fairly simple measure to understand and collect data on. Nor do we have a good enough alternative measure yet. We do have several candida
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by aloneinkyoto 16y ago
Rich man in a ghetto or rich man among friends. Pick one.
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by aloneinkyoto 16y ago
Human development index (HDI) Genuine progress indicator (GPI) Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW) Gross national happiness (GNH) The Gini coefficient Just to name a few. None of which is perfect, but at least better than the GDP w
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by aloneinkyoto 16y ago
> Yes. This is something else virtually every economist will agree on. A statement which only help to make his point about economists being ignorant crocks. GDP is heavily doubted as a good measure of standard of living in all other soc
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by aloneinkyoto 16y ago
- Always show a useful fallback for empty views. Preferably visually distinct and "subordinate" to actual content (e.g. centered gray text instead of left aligned black text). - Try to minimize the impact of destructive actions and try to o
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by aloneinkyoto 16y ago
I was not arguing about relational algebra or theoretical expressivity or logical equivalence or anything like that. I was simply stating that in practice most business problems are easier to model and more flexible to query in the MongoDB

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