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No, I do not believe in a strict order imposed by the hierarchy. My view, which I've come to through studying both Maslow's Hierarchy and Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegrat…

The "Chinese mother" approach to raising children is based around motivations at the second-highest level of Maslow's hierarchy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maslow%27s_Hierar…

>Some sort of ethnic autonomy that says Indian rule of India is better regardless of the lot of the common man? I'm surprised you find this hard to understand. People throughout hi…

It's not that interesting, but my sleep habits have been pretty poor in 2010. My resolution for 2011 is to be in bed by 1AM every single day, and to be up at 8AM on every non-weeke…

Ah, that makes things clearer - thanks. > What I'd like to know is how you can guarantee that all garbage is eventually collected in a system like this. Me too. If you can't guaran…

Could anyone explain the "self-healing" algorithm in simplistic terms? From what I gathered, when they compact a page of memory, moving all the objects within it to different locat…

He gave a TED talk recently which covers these ideas: http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_com...

That's really neat. Bravo! I've hit a roadblock in my attempt to install the proper Clojure SLIME environment in Emacs. I've got clojure-mode, SLIME, swank-clojure, and leiningen i…

"Today, he was deep in his own personal maelstrom of defensiveness and hostility. His head was frequently down; in fact his whole posture betrayed his unhappiness. He frequently hi…

Is Arc a success on the same scale as Viaweb or Y Combinator? In the academic sense ("was it a design that influenced others?") I think the answer is yes. pg's essays about Arc and…

"If we believe something about the world, we are more likely to passively accept as truth any information that confirms our beliefs, and actively dismiss information that doesn’t."…

This appears to be the book, on Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/7846856/Generatingfunctionology-H-...

I'm trying to understand the lesson behind this result. I don't think it's the obvious, well-understood fact that biological systems have massive, redundant parallelism, whereas ou…

>The whole system is built so that everything mostly works, most of the time, usually recovers, and it doesn't matter much whether this cell dies or that mitochondria malfunctions.…

Here's another way to look at it: not only do they get their employees to spend 20% of their time working on their own cool stuff for Google, they have ex-employees spending 100% o…

"If" is one of my favorite inspiring poems. Here's a great video version of it: http://www.vimeo.com/1305608

I like studying all sorts of different things, even if it's not deemed the best route to success these days. I don't usually do what I'm supposed to do, anyway.

And here is the code for it: http://github.com/richhickey/clojure/blob/270185aba54cef1d8c...

Nice. It's not nearly as awesome, but here's my Sudoku solver in Clojure: http://github.com/vishsingh/lisp-toronto/blob/80ea008e80976d...

Agreed.. Anyone running a startup should have this article on their desk at all times.

An engine that scans forum posts for factors like "emoticon content", builds a network of who replies to whom, and uses that information to establish a hierarchy of social status a…

The Toronto Lisp users' group will meet there at 6PM today. Come on out! I'm giving a little demo of the language Factor - it should be fun.

No kidding! Take a look at this code I wrote for adding a node onto a binary tree: http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=addtobinarytreescre... It is shown compared to the analo…