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darien

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About darien

27, Web Analyst for Conde Nast and sometimes Reddit.

the best way to encourage (or to have) new ideas isn't to fetishise the "spark of genius", to retreat to a mountain cabin in order to "be creative", or to blabber interminably about "blue-sky", "out-of-the-box" thinking. Rather, it's to expand the range of your possible next moves - the perimeter of your potential - by exposing yourself to as much serendipity, as much argument and conversation, as many rival and related ideas as possible; to borrow, to repurpose, to recombine. This is one way of explaining the creativity generated by cities, by Europe's 17th-century coffee-houses, and by the internet. Good ideas happen in networks; in one rather brain-bending sense, you could even say that "good ideas are networks". Or as Johnson also puts it: "Chance favours the connected mind." (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/oct/19/steven-johnson-good-ideas)

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    Comment #6143975

    maybe he wants to leak. Don't judge.

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    Comment #6140769

    A part of me doesn't want to believe this story.

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    I like the part where it says "the secret unlock code was set to 00000000." Some things never change.

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    Comment #5157368

    Reminds me of the theory that men stopped wearing hats because of cars. http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/05/04/152011840/who-k...

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    Comment #4768570

    I think it's an alluring idea for match making. But what's to stop OKCupid from releasing this same feature for their audience in less than 3 days. I assure you that their engineer…

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    Comment #4750074

    Federal District Judge Christine Arguello denied the existence of a constitutional right to a secret ballot. http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_21601455/federal-j...

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    Comment #4717941

    http://www.bevelity.com/

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    Comment #4717935

    This is a Japanese site that uses similar technology. http://www.3dcg-arts.net/art/polygon/1679/full

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    Comment #4717918

    http://p3d.in/ is another one.

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    Comment #4711024

    I just want to be cautious. My cofounder and I are working on the video and application in time for the deadline but since we're in New Jersey there's a high probability of power a…

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    Comment #4693364

    This is a modified version of Google's 'WebGL Globe' library. I've created a couple of these myself for Reddit http://www.webgl.com/2012/09/webgl-globe-visualization-reddi... http:…

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    Comment #4600050

    To compete in the growing Tag Management Market. Adobe offers a Tag Management service and there are many other paid premium versions. Tag Management is a tool for digital marketer…

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    Comment #4593555

    Inside the Delancey Station (next to the Williamsburg Bridge - Manhattan Side) there is a huge underground open area which served as a small train yard up until the 60's/70s. This …

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    Comment #4586499

    http://www.webgl.com has a decent collection of demos (full disclosure: self plug)

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    Comment #4571009

    Look into 'fail fast' as a concept. Facebook claims to take fail fast to the extreme.

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    Keep in mind that facebook's engineering philosophy is to push new code out every single day. This means that there is little to no QA on code push. Every engineer takes responsibi…

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    Comment #4532751

    Use a proxy to view U.S materials http://www.proxylists.net/

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    I think the TSA officially pretends that things like the the 2011 Moscow bombings don't happen.... at least they don't happen to the U.S... therefore it's not a real concern. http:…

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    I think it will be interesting when certain classes of people reject the idea of being privately recording without their permission and will simply refuse to hold a conversations o…

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    Comment #4470703

    Yea, that's David Carr's voice (the NYTimes writer). He's kind of a skeptical luddite, but I have immense respect for him. He's one of the central figure in the NYTimes documentary…