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regardless of whether it is the right thing to do, what he is trying to do could be improved by being more like pagerank. i don't have an opinion on whether it is the right thing t…

this is almost pagerank for academic publications, and would probably be improved by being more like pagerank (where it also took into account how often citing papers were cited)

if it is AGPL (notice the A), then you must provide source to to your users, whereas with GPL it's when you distribute the code (can't send precompiled webapp)

they're still useful. they provide a good exercise for the designer, and although it may not be something that can be implemented/will be implemented they can experiment with ideas…

I tried reformatting the original title so it was Interesting thing to think about - good comments in the article.

other species get depressed too, though. got a link about this? i tried searching around but didn't find anything useful.

you can do as i do: for password hint: "none" first elementary school: "root mean square" favorite food: "spiraling out of control" if it's important, like a bank site, there's a w…

that and buffett has been outspoken against quants. he has also been accused of 'being in the right place at the right time' or 'lucky' quite a few times, but this is not the case.…

Eurocentric some? Thanks for the sagan quote, though, and the thoughts about euclid, ramanunjan, siddartha, bodhidharma, proudhon, and the vague admiration for people's names that …

You're onto something, and crash diets/extremes are no good, but there is a lot of value in giving it all up for periods of time. I wish I had opportunities to do this more frequen…

currently have 3 screens, and i thought about adding a 30" (for the continous document, then vertical stack two of the 22" screens next to it), but at the moment i have to turn my …

so far i like everything about it. key points (1) found all the info about the service i was looking for real fast, and my patience level is low for the review my site stuff (2) fa…

look into "INTP" personality type if you haven't already. the way i see it is that between people, we want to communicate ideas. in order to communicate we have to meet at a shared…

found this article interesting for its insight on why some people enjoy meetings for the sake of meetings. summary: Those people who like meetings for sake of meetings: "emotional …

im amused that the highscalability.com domain being linked to is not responding to my web request. timed out too many times. i'll heed ulf's comment and move on. if it's that good,…

in a previous post about marketing, i placed a quote from bill hicks that if your in advertising, kill yourself. i like this guy, though. he's not marketing scum. this leads to my …