About 4 years ago, I saw a post about a startup, I think, that was going to revolutionise hiring top talent - or something similar. I think there was a Nigerian among the founders. I haven't been able to find the same again.
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#162There was one motivational type article about how you should “go first” or “be first” when approaching problems in life. Like when making friends or just socially in general. I was looking for it again recently but couldn’t find it.
The matching problem was actually the first algorithm we discussed in my discrete math class
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#163Someone posted a youtube talk about Game Design that's applicable to general product design... I remember it was really good, but couldn't find it anymore
Perhaps this?
Learn product design from game designers: http://www.1bytebeta.com/learn-product-design-fromgame-desig...
But the links seems dead. On the other hand, a DDG search with that title brings up some seemly links:
3 Things Software Product Designers Need To Learn From Game Designers: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/09/10/3-things-softw...
What Game UX Can Teach Designers about Product Design: https://www.toptal.com/designers/ux/game-ux-product-design
edit: Duh, Youtube! Sorry, maybe this?
Designing emotions - what game creation teaches about design? | Piotr Milewski | TEDxGdynia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fYypN4JawY
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
It sure sounds like it, thanks! That blog's been posted often, but with little success: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sappingattention.blog... This thread is quite amusing, I think I'll fav it.
Great blog. The author, incidentally, is a youngish historian named Ben Schmidt. I feel like it's a natural fit with an HN audience given how data-driven his work is, but as you say, it doesn't break through very much. He also created (helped create?) a tool called Bookworm that might be of interest: http://bookworm.culturomics.org
Thanks! The Bookworm link doesn't work right now, but I found this demo video very interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kAlwiXt0bY
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#165I don‘t know if it was HN or not but it could have been here.
Anyway, I read about this concept of a 6 day week (with a 2 day weekend) without losing any productivity.
The key was that the society is going to be split in 3 groups so that every group would have 2 different days off. The overlap for any 2 groups is only 2 days. I find this highly interesting and have since tried to find out more about it.
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#166Wow, great timing. Around a week ago I spent an hour digging through my bookmarks for something I'd found via HN, and I must not have bookmarked. I can't recall what the original post linked to, but in the comments someone discussed their preferred method of organizing their digital notes/journal. They linked to a forum post where someone described the system. It involved using a single folder for all notes, with dif…
Not what you are searching, but I found Notational Velocity (http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/) indispensable for quick note-taking. It is very lightweight, and I have a shortcut bound to it, so I'm always just a shortcut away from writing down notes. Searching for notes is just as fast, and with a flat file structure for data it is easily synchronized across devices.
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#167Someone mentioned a scifi short story with link to online version that I followed & read. The story was about a uploaded-human AI-spaceship that for a time worked as a asteroid miner. After a single overmind takes over 1st the inner planets, then the whole solar system, the protagonist to flee to insterstellar space, but is pursued by an overmind ship. Been trying to find the story/title/author since, with no success…
I found and lost a similar story. There were no mentions of human characters, only programs that were evolving in their own digital space. It was a standard HTML page amongst a collection of other works, not a book.
Lots of Greg Egan work covers such ground, if that helps!
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#168Quite sure I read a paper about graph/code sharing in functional languages and why it's harder than expected. The one paper I didn't save and catalogue... is the one I want to refer to
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#170It was a post or discussion, I think involving Peter Thiel talking about how innovation is in the world of bits not atoms now and that implies some unpleasant things about our society. Closest I could find was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6718654
What about this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5641799 In Tech We Trust? A Debate with Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen [video] (milkeninstitute.org) 74 points by jordn on May 2, 2013 | 39 comments The original video link seems dead, I guess it's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtZbWnIALeE
I think this was probably it (just reached that point in the video where Thiel says the money quote). Thanks.