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madamepsychosis··on The return of heritage fruits and vegetables
On a related note: the UK startup Growington is doing a great job. http://growington.com/
madamepsychosis··on The Pirate Bay Wants You To Really Download A Car
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_scarcity
madamepsychosis··on Ask HN: Who's looking for employment?
I'm Saku, student and self-taught iOS/Ruby on Rails developer and 3D graphics programmer looking for a summer job July-September this year. I live near London, but I'm willing to travel if you help with a visa. (I speak decent German and a little bit of French, willing to learn more.)
madamepsychosis··on Urbanized, a Documentary
I wrote a blog post on the subject, though it's not very polished. http://theimaginaryhackathon.tumblr.com/post/14141908437/sta...
madamepsychosis··on Tell HN: I'll donate 4 hrs tomorrow to a charitable project, continue in 2012
Any London hackers who want to get involved with a charitable project should check out Interactivism. http://simpl.co/interactivism/YP
madamepsychosis··on Suicide
No, not unless you say you're about to kill yourself.
madamepsychosis··on Think you understand Monty Hall? Try the Tuesday boy problem.
Scott Aaronson has a really good article about the anthtopic principle and conditional probability.

http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec17.html

madamepsychosis··on The Power of Mathematics - John Conway [pdf]
And here's a great video of a sphere being turned inside out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO61D9x6lNY
madamepsychosis··on A web video company that is most likely a hoax
Is this a good example of information asymmetry?
madamepsychosis··on Can Anyone Really Create Jobs?
Maybe there's another cause: a huge mismatch between the skills needed and the skills provided by schools. Schools were designed for the industrial era, not the post-industrial era etc. etc. etc....
madamepsychosis··on Entrepreneurs are cocky jerks
*Wife or husband.
madamepsychosis··on Show HN: My first landing page ever created for a mobile app. Feedback?
The design is nice, would be cool if you sped up the page a bit. It's a little slow (maybe that's just for me?). Also, it'd be nice if you made the iPhone picture a higher resolution.

It's obvious what problem your app is trying to solve, but it's not very clear how. The blog doesn't help in explaining this at all. The landing page is interesting and nice-looking, but it could do with some more explanation ("it's X for Y!" wouldn't hurt)

madamepsychosis··on Why UK startups should stop trying to be US startups
Maybe this article is just highlighting one of the effects of the internet. Easier long-distance communication means more people are exposed to foreign language and ideas, especially between technologically literate English speakers. How long did it take for the phrase 'epic win' to spread across the globe?

I'm not sure this guy understands how much of the English-speaking internet is produced by Americans, especially relating to technology. I'm from the UK, and a huge proportion of my media comes from the US (hasn't this been the case for a really long time anyway?) Even programming language tutorials have words like 'awesome'. The Brits aren't faking it, they've adopted that language because they've heard it so often.

It's silly to tell people to stick to one set of social norms because of their place of birth. Every culture is a mishmash. And anyway, the internet is making culture less dependent on geographical location.

madamepsychosis··on Philosophy and Theoretical Computer Science (MIT Course 6.893)
Also mentioned here: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=755
madamepsychosis··on Show HN: Quote Vote, my Android app combining social voting with 140 characters
How did you do user accounts/ authentication? Did you make each user have an account or did you use the phone's ID or something? (Not an Android developer, just curious)
madamepsychosis··on Programmers Survey
Self reported results, right? Not very reliable.

edit: I meant, as in some people choose to respond so the sample is biased.

madamepsychosis··on Show HN: Mp3 vocabulary generator
Cool idea. It'd be nice if you could crawl a dictionary and generate words on a particular topic.
madamepsychosis··on Fluid Simulation for Video Games (part 1 of 10)
http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems/gpugems_ch38.html

^This is another great tutorial for real-time fluid simulation. If anyone's interested, I adapted this method to simulate fire as well. (demo here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIi62cwjqMA)

madamepsychosis··on London riots / UK riots: verified areas
There's a twitter campaign to clean up london, @riotcleanup
madamepsychosis··on Show HN: Two line ruby quine
not sure about fixing the eval part, but reading the source code is usually thought of as cheating. However, that's not what this is doing. It could easily be changed to:

c = "puts('c = ' + c.inspect + '\neval c')" eval c

madamepsychosis··on Is there a new geek anti-intellectualism?
It's more that geeks oppose old institutions having a monopoly on knowledge than that they oppose any sort of knowledge at all. Maybe there's some resistance to the rigid, hierarchical structure of "intellectualism" as well.
madamepsychosis··on The Quora post that killed Bitcoins. Please discuss if his arguments are valid.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that at some point Bitcoin will stop its deflation. Once Bitcoin has mainstream success, if that ever happens, the value of a Bitcoin will stop growing and people will start spending Bitcoin. At some point, the value of a Bitcoin lost through hoarding will equal the value gained by new adapters.
madamepsychosis··on How Facebook pushes updates to the site
I like how their entire development cycle revolves around people getting drunk on weekends.
madamepsychosis··on On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
Whose's to say that the human brain doesn't learn by statistical analysis? The human brain collects data, forms hypotheses and tests them. Just like a statistical machine.
madamepsychosis··on Mark Zuckerberg's new challenge: Eating only what he kills.
/Only/ what he kills? That would be interesting.

This is not the E! of the tech world, flagged for bullshit.

madamepsychosis··on Troll Blasting Strategy
This sounds like unionisation. Not exactly a new idea? On the other hand, maybe the internet can provide alternatives to union.Or has this already been done?
madamepsychosis··on Intuitive explication of Fourier Transformation
well, it requires some independence
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