nochiel

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by nochiel 15y ago
Just because an individual is browsing HN does not mean the individual is procrastinating. Please consult a dictionary for an accurate definition of the term.
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This tech bubble is different(businessweek.com)
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The Way You Learned Math Is So Old School(npr.org)
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by nochiel 16y ago
"The African says: what's electricity?" That should read "The Africa says, ' What electricity?'" We certainly know what electricity is; we've heard of it and understand its usefulness; we even use it almost daily. However, as you aptly no
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by nochiel 16y ago
"Wow!...It seems obvious now..." What a vigorous hand-wave! How, pray tell is it obvious?
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by nochiel 16y ago
I am aware of the serious debate on the issue. But that's sort of the point I am trying to make: One approach seeks to recognise individual genius for what it is: the gift of a singular person; another approach seeks to discount those a
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by nochiel 16y ago
Well. I am in favour of personality cults. I'm an ardent believer in personal responsibility. Personality cults encourage us to focus on our own performance and perfecting our own skills. So If I'm "falling for the personality cult right
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by nochiel 16y ago
"You've fallen for it. Ives is the designer, not Jobs. Woz was the technological wizard, not Jobs." I don't think I've fallen for anything (in fact, I made strong mention of Ives with respect to industrial design). Being able to conceive g
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by nochiel 16y ago
"I'm extremely uneasy reading things that make any individual such an icon...Please can we let this personality cult dissipate..." Personality cults are much more important than you realise. The post-modernist approach seems to be to downp
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by nochiel 16y ago
Here's a relevant article by MarkCC (PhD, Google), on "The Glorious Horror of TECO". http://scientopia.org/blogs/goodmath/2010/11/30/the-glorious...
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by nochiel 16y ago
> Nokia was close to launching N9? Where does that information come from? The post is written by former Nokia exec, Tomi Ahonen. It might be reasonable to assume he had/has insider information that the public is not privy to.
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Nokia Autopsy on MeeGo(communities-dominate.blogs.com)
4 points by nochiel 16y ago|2 comments
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Nokia’s Elop fears mobile duopoly, but it is already here(itwriting.com)
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by nochiel 16y ago
> You're confusing "quality literature" with "books people like to read." I'm not confusing anything. The comment I responded to stated that "books have become commodities. They no longer compete on quality but rather with cost." Assum
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by nochiel 16y ago
> They no longer compete on quality but rather with cost. I'm not certain that books ever competed on quality. A cursory glance at the NY Times best-seller list of the past few years seems to indicate that quality isn't a [major] fac
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The end of the betseller (by J. Konrath)(jakonrath.blogspot.com)
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by nochiel 16y ago
"Math textbooks are not cheap." Actually, they are free . I am a graduate student in Mathematics and there is no book, on any level of mathematics that I have been unable to find for free download. Places like www.avaxhome.ws and old.pdfc
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American culture has mostly become one vast infomercial. (news.stanford.edu)
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VX Modulators in an absolute environment (or The Best Thread Ever)(reddit.com)
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David Foster Wallace (Commencement speech, Kenyon College, 2005)(moreintelligentlife.com)
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by nochiel 16y ago
The single-page version of the article is http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2010/12/the-haza... (My apologies for not linking to it in the first place)
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The hazards of nerd supremacy: The case of Wikileaks (by Jaron Lanier)(theatlantic.com)
4 points by nochiel 16y ago|2 comments
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Minecraft's botched beta and the importance of picking your audience(blog.crazyegg.com)
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by nochiel 16y ago
I feel it is instructive that we remember Tim O'Reilly's incisive piece titled "Piracy is progressive taxation"[0]. It makes little sense to claim that an author/musician is losing money through piracy when the likelihood is that the [major
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The answer to "Will you mentor me?" is...No.(pindancing.blogspot.com)
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Apple Loses Its iPhone Game Guru (kotaku.com)
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A taxonomy for the suppression of dissent(lemire.me)
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Some internet-use tracking firms ready to reveal what they know about you(online.wsj.com)
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by nochiel 16y ago
To be fair, in the article he qualifies his title by saying that, "I think that complexity theory is on the verge of major breakthroughs of all kinds...potentially major advances across the entire spectrum of theory .(emphasis mine throu
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by nochiel 16y ago
"Wikileaks is pursuing a remarkably old-school method of releasing these, with the whole centralized distribution point." Please could you clarify what you mean. According to cablegate.wikileaks.org the distribution is being done via torre

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