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there's also google translate to help out

How about a startup where one can dial a 1-800 number from Japan and get someone in ,say, Europe, who is also bored, and the two can rant to each other about how bad things are , a…

>> Takes me back to the good old days when Kiko was killed by Google Calendar What would happen if someone were to try a startup doing what Kiko did ? or for that matter, repeating…

aren't these the 8 reasons people stop being Javascript programmers and become vacuum cleaner salesmen or something ?

nooo !! that's why research into the hover-skateboard stopped !!

oooh !! 8 Mill !! I'd like that ..

you'll need yahoo ids to see the images ? will it be shut down, like flickr ?

Subcultures are genes mixing and matching and exploring corners. Sentience burdens us with the ability to understand connotations of 'status', 'outcast' etc, but otherwise nature i…

> The gooey nougat of the hikikomori phenomenon is, it's sort of a quiet rebellion against the complicated and restrictive social protocols that are part and parcel of being Japane…

if plain english could handle big O, we'd probably be programming in it ?

division of labour is passe. It's a thorn people have forgotten to remove

!!!!! Don't give them ideas !!!!!

zen robotics

>> was an Indian mathematician and autodidact who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, inf…

you're confusing talent with skill

>> . The positive-sum “win-win” outcomes that Technocrats seek exist, and they’re all over the place, but they never come without risk. Once the company decides that creative risks…

ordered the JoC 1 on monday : )

>> Why are programmers granted such high status and wealth in our society for living in a self-created self-indulgent intellectual world of constant escapism We know the specifics …

has anyone seen him talking about a Tim Gallwey video ? Kathy Sierra mentioned one of Alan Kay's talks called 'doing with images makes symbols'... I'm trying to find this one ..

also, John Gall's Systemantics - First Principles - : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics 'Once a system is set up to solve some problem, the system itself is new entity whic…

$100 worth of education, that will remain seared into the brain ? you should get a paper out of it and sell the technique it to retailers ... i see a lot of kahneman/ariely pattern…

peaks at bhutan too. they have a Happiness Index too

> In my experience, the programming industry doesn't tolerate people like that good observation :) business doesn't work like that. the industry is always on the lookout for people…