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by msg 14y ago
This is the whole point of the Stanford Prison Experiment. "I merely played my part"
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by msg 14y ago
Stallman's critique of software, hardware, and services as tools of social control has only become more relevant over the years. Can you imagine his search records being rifled through by a government investigator? Or his Facebook profile b
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by msg 14y ago
You are missing out on a readable book divided into short chapters. It's basically all anecdotes. Easy to intersperse with your other reading.
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by msg 14y ago
If only there was a way to travel autonomously without needing to monitor the environment visually. Back to the drawing board, Google. </>
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by msg 14y ago
Right. If you look at most-helpful ratios for product reviews on Amazon, you will see this. 500/600 helpful floats far above 10/10 helpful.
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by msg 14y ago
The one taking parental leave could be more skilled and qualified, yet be worse for the company. If you believe for instance that 1) it takes 3 months of ramp-up time to do an effective job 2) after 3 months off the job, you need to ramp up
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by msg 14y ago
If you're talking about worth in terms of cash, I would run don't walk away from the PhD. If you're talking about worth in terms of cherished personal values, I would try to figure out if I want to be a scientist or an engineer. If it is a
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by msg 14y ago
I'm sorry I didn't read the whole thread and I know this is late. Why not provide two versions of Delicious Library Inf? One costs $20. It only works/installs correctly if you have the original app. The other one costs $40. It is a standalo
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by msg 14y ago
Gauss? Pascal? Descartes? Russell? Fermat? Knuth? You probably need to take a survey.
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by msg 14y ago
The perhaps unfortunate metaphor the womb implies is that developing in MS tools is like being a defenseless premature baby who needs to be protected from the big bad world until they come to full term and leave the MS environment behind.
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by msg 15y ago
A better question that I always ask, before any other questions in the interview: "Why do you want to work here?" Then I reject any answer that's not somewhat unique to our business. "You could do that anywhere, is there anything specific t
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by msg 15y ago
Key quote: "A lot of people are saying [about Daisey] 'Oh you didn't experience this yourself,'" Wozniak continued, "but in his style of art he's trying to help the audience experience these things. I never expected the show to be real. Th
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by msg 15y ago
One thing I forgot to mention. You can enter the course now and still get a good grade! At least for CS 373, and I think for the other ones, they changed the grading scheme. We have already had three homeworks due and are now on week 4. In
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by msg 15y ago
I'm a programmer. I'm really enjoying CS 373 (Thrun's robots). I haven't done much Python but I haven't found anything too taxing. The lectures are deceptively well-designed, with lots of (asynchronous) interaction. Try a course, you'll see
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by msg 15y ago
I found this response elsewhere in the thread so interesting that I had to say something. PS - The best taqueria IMO is in the outer mission, most the menu is in spanish, and I'm trying to keep it a secret, but yelpers seem to be catching
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by msg 15y ago
202 on my g2. Now we need a leaderboard. Fun though, great to see it!
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by msg 15y ago
Fine, they are "undead" products. I reiterate that the consumer is aware of them as failed experiments, not as "subtle redirections forming the core of a new flagship product". I don't know how many google searches you want me to provide yo
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by msg 15y ago
After Vista, PlaysForSure, Silverlight, Windows Live all killed their brand/device/service? I think the lesson for consumers is that Microsoft has not been able to expand beyond its cash cows (Xbox/Kinect the notable exception). If you goog
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by msg 15y ago
Also on a Mac. I had noticed the DMG for the Google Music Manager opening repeatedly, but I chalked it up to a Finder window being open during a shutdown or reboot. Interesting that you can't stop it. My workflow is the following: 1. Wait f
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by msg 15y ago
Sorry for the lameness of this reference, but I think it covers the essential. If Amazon wanted to open a physical business in Canada, it would require Canadian partners that it might not have or want. "The bottom line: If you are a non-Can
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by msg 15y ago
There are legal reasons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com_controversies#Canadi...
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by msg 15y ago
Did this come off as pseudoscientific to anyone else? It seems to be inviting me to see that the procedure works by personal experience, not to question whether or not it works. If it doesn't seem to work for me, I haven't practiced it enou
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by msg 15y ago
I'm not a zealot for it, but test driven development does shorten the feedback loop in significant ways. You get specific feedback for problems and avoid making the same mistakes twice. When I'm working with code that doesn't have it, runti
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by msg 15y ago
Here are some high-quality sf books you can use to imagine the possibilities of this technology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Light http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_State
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by msg 15y ago
Dave Winer called from three months ago... http://scripting.com/stories/2011/10/27/theJobsBook.html http://scripting.com/stories/2011/11/21/whyJobsChoseIsaacson...
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by msg 15y ago
So who stayed to work for that boss?
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by msg 15y ago
To even claim altruism is to use the adjective to positively light one's ego, no? No. This reductionism has no explanatory power. You might as well say "all egoism boils down to the benefit of the other because personal benefit benefits h
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by msg 15y ago
I hate to break it to you, but there is no Santa Claus, corporations are heavily involved in politics, and Google using their logo for political advocacy does not open up the gates to a new era of corporate political activism. If anything,
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by msg 15y ago
There's a philosophical distinction between suicide and murder and martyrdom. Just like there is between being thrust into a furnace and setting yourself on fire. I actually don't know what it's going to be like to work on Wednesday without
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by msg 15y ago
It's going to be a pretty painful day for HN readers without it. But this might be a good thing. We will have to struggle through a day's worth of a world without HN and be motivated to do something about it. +1 for blackout for me.

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