blakeross

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by blakeross 6y ago
This is definitely pre-2009, I built this at Stanford w/ the others and I was only at Stanford until around 2005. (But they may have continued updating it given the Firefox version number referenced.)
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by blakeross 8y ago
No, but I'm bummed they didn't steal the name "Pricks"!
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by blakeross 8y ago
Biannual reshare of a pilot I wrote for a TV parody of Theranos: http://www.blakeross.com/pricks.pdf :)
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by blakeross 9y ago
Hah good memory! I guess I'll resurrect it for the trial :)
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by blakeross 10y ago
I know lots of platforms-of-the-month come through HN, and it's hard to filter the signal from the noise...just wanted to add another voice that Exponent is indeed awesome. Built by one of the sharpest (and most humble) teams in the va
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by blakeross 10y ago
My semi-annual plug for the parody television show I wrote about Theranos last year: http://www.pricks.com
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by blakeross 10y ago
"One of the most useful lessons I learned from working at Facebook had nothing to do with technology: Doubt the media. Always doubt the media." ( https://medium.com/@blakeross/don-t-outsource-your-thinking-...
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by blakeross 10y ago
Hm I guess I didn't make that clear. Doriane is just another friend of mine, not my mother.
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by blakeross 10y ago
I haven't.
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by blakeross 10y ago
Whatever you want to believe about semantics (which I addressed in the article), the Exeter neurologists did see a difference in the man's MRI scans versus the control group. Sure, we can call that a "variability in human ability&
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by blakeross 10y ago
I drink socially. It seems to have pretty typical effects -- less social inhibition and so forth. Why do you ask?
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by blakeross 10y ago
I'd like to. I just don't know how I'd even begin. It's like telling me to start working out my third arm.
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by blakeross 10y ago
I would be curious to see how the HN community scores on this aphantasia survey embedded in the BBC article: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34039054 . Perhaps there's a connection between programmers and this condi
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by blakeross 10y ago
That's one of the FAQ's in the piece: 8. Do you dream? No, or I don’t recall them. I’ve had a couple dreams but there was no visual or sensory component to them. When I woke up, I just knew a list of “plot points” about things tha
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by blakeross 10y ago
Really?! That is fascinating to me. I am 100% language on the inside.
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by blakeross 10y ago
Meditating has never done anything for me visually. I thought the idea of "visualizing" while you meditate was just a figure of speech. I haven't tried psychedelic drugs. Maybe I should start.
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by blakeross 10y ago
I think I've stored basic information as to color degree, like "X is very dark blue" and "Y is light blue." I'd have to actually see the objects to settle a close contest. Trial and error for matching colors. T
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by blakeross 10y ago
I'm the author of this post, happy to answer any questions. About me: I was formerly a director of product at FB and a founder of Firefox. My YC startup became FB's first acquisition. I'm focusing more on creative writing the
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by blakeross 10y ago
This is great, I hadn't heard of it before.
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by blakeross 10y ago
I appreciate it. You can't sell a script for a show to the show itself. In fact, the staff isn't even allowed to read it for legal reasons (if they happen to conceive a similar idea, they're worried you'll sue them later
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by blakeross 10y ago
Thank you! Currently it's a hobby; my background is in tech. This is the second script I've written. The first was a fake premiere for S3 of Silicon Valley ( http://bit.ly/1LOZZpT ).
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by blakeross 10y ago
Here's a television parody I wrote about Theranos that ends right where this story begins... http://pricks.com
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by blakeross 11y ago
He was seeing a number of psychiatrists, and 41 doctors total, in part because he thought he was going blind and that the blindness would destroy his career. But doctors thought that problem was psychosomatic ( http://www.bloomber
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by blakeross 11y ago
Yeah, I'm aware of this. But I don't think this prevents the germanwings outcome (which was, indeed, orchestrated by the "completely insane pilot" you mention). The person plotting to commandeer the cockpit always has th
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by blakeross 11y ago
I appreciate that. I've been working in tech since I was a kid and have been transitioning over to writing recently. It's been an interesting shift because it doesn't offer the same kind of motivating fuel (up-and-to-the-righ
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by blakeross 11y ago
Well, I did say at the end: "For as much money and time as we’ve wasted on printer-powered air security, only one innovation has prevented another 9/11: Locked, reinforced cockpit doors." I agree that it's generally thea
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by blakeross 11y ago
Thanks. And, I agree: https://twitter.com/blakeross/status/706191059185872896 Usually I go in the other direction and redefine bland, e.g. https://medium.com/@blakeross/don-t-outsource-your-th
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by blakeross 11y ago
For context, this is a TV show I wrote as a Theranos parody. Didn't realize someone would submit it standalone (but thanks empressplay!)
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by blakeross 11y ago
I wrote a parody of Theranos as a TV pilot that is increasingly becoming true: http://www.pricks.com/ (I'm sharing this here because the Hacker News community seemed to enjoy my Season 3 premiere of Silicon Valley [ ht
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by blakeross 11y ago
Facebook's PR team did zero outreach on the professional services page. It was live for a month before a Social Media Manager at Acodez IT Solutions stumbled on it and blogged about it.

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