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Sitting on my bed in Cape Town, South Africa and knowing that I'll probably never be able to attend his seminar, it's nice to read your folks good experiences.

It's nice to think that something you dream about is in fact something fantastic.

Tufte had a huge impact on me too, around the same timeframe (2001.)

This is super interesting and great timing for me but I can't seem to access the PDF anywhere,

Various links that I have found through google all point to what seems to be an old half used domain...

Any suggestions?

South Africa. Totally illegal.

If caught you you can be stopped and your phone impounded for one week and released only upon payment of a fine.

There was a news report recently indicating that only a very small percentage of these phones are ever recovered from the police which ties in with the stereotype for this kind of behaviour: Porsche SUV, Chanel sunglasses, ten spare phones at home.

Oh god... here I go... as a motorcyclist (sorry) this is something that is utterly frightening.

I'm out there on the road doing my fu-cking damndest to make sure that I'm driving defensively and predictably, kind of just trying to ensure that I see my wife and twi girls that evening.

I'm at standing height next to your window, so I can see right in there while you text and check Facebook whilst piloting a 2 ton machine at upwards of 100kph.

The mind boggles at just how common this is, I'd say one in three on some days. At highway speeds.

It ain't right peeps.

Interesting, a cursory scan through suggests that in groups of friends, the men stay together whilst the women tend to have moved on/away from the group.

I wonder is this has to do with the communication styles of men and women where men focus on shared experience whilst women focus on outwardly shared communication (do things together as opposed to talk about things together.)

So? Some Orcas are fabulous, get used to it.

Interesting, could you point to some other examples or otherwise expand a bit on this please?

I work in the field and I'm currently looking at choosing software, this info might be very important in these decisions.

Qlikview is a BI product. In their day they were very promising upstarts in the industry and they really shot ahead on the back of their in memory cube processing.

It pushed them out ahead of stalwarts like Cognos and Business Objects for a while.

When Microsoft entered the BI landscape they changed the world as we knew it by bundling a fairly decent BI stack right along with MSSQL and native Excel connectors, for free.

Many big names in the enterprise space went for it (and subsequently choked on Sharepoint) but I think this hit Qlikview pretty hard. They didn't have the legacy to withstand that battering that many of the more established BI offerings took during that chapter of the story.

Similar for me. Reddit is what I do when I'm standing in a queue or waiting for something for a few minutes.

I get quite confused when I see people take it so seriously.

I think the real issue here is that it ceases to be cycling and becomes motorcycling.

I just really like to see more of the startup related stuff on HN.

I know that talking about content and your preference of things posted to HN is discouraged but I need to mention that for me personally, it's really helped me in the past to see other people talking about this stuff.

I live in South Africa and there isn't a huge startup scene here.

Checking out HN every couple of days and seeing stuff about other people going through the startup phases played a role in getting me to the point where I believed I could do it.

I failed but even then, I knew that failure wasn't the end. I learned that here. I saw Eric Reis book recommended here and I lurked on several thread where people discussed the trials and tribulations they were going through.

I discovered fakegrimlock here and he showed me the importance of being on fire, why I must burn.

Nice post, thanks.

Howzit bru.

I work at a tech startup in Cape Town (in the data analysis & visualization space.)

In my experience the challenge is that the local market isn't supportive or capable of supporting in some cases, and breaking into the international market with the weak rand is a tough nut to crack when your competitors all have several hundred mil in investment (x 17 for the exchange rate.)

So you sit with a product that fits locally, has some international potential but you can't really get enough sales locally to support an international launch and you kind of end up seeing the end of the runway whilst realizing that you're unlikely to have enough lift to get airborne by the time you reach it.

I'm sure that with enough funding this isn't as much of an embuggerance.

Any investors want to take advantage of the weak Rand? We have good devs and designers here, we speak English and we can get a lot done for about a 20th of what it would cost in the US...

Interesting.

Load times are also noticeably longer on the modern site.

I can jump in here. I lost 16kg on a ketogenic diet.

My gut is a lot happier as evidenced by more regular and better (firm, soft, not runny) bowel movements.

There is a definite smell (breath) associated with ketosis. It varies by person but it is often noticeable.

I asked my wife to track it as it's very hard to notice it yourself and she says that my system produces a slightly metallic smell the isn't objectively bad, just different to normal.

I have Muslim friends and during Ramadaan there is a noticeable smell which is subjectively bad from some of them.

A friend who works as a nurse in a very low income area says that she can detect someone who isn't eating normally by the smell - very important to spot if that person is also pregnant.

It's a long way of saying: yes there is a smell, it varies by person.

...and it will get worse.

That is why free speech proponents defend it so vehemently.

Because it is a slippery slope and any ground you give up - that becomes the new normal.

>And most people don't believe in hanging out with people they don't like.

Then they shouldn't do that.

>why can't the SJW's and their ilk who came late to the party go find their own place?

Because their cause is evangelical in nature.

Were it just kept to Tumblr then they wouldn't have much with which to stoke the fires.

SJW's are specifically about pointing out to others where they are wrong/insensitive/racist/sexist/ableist/etc.. if they just kept to themselves then who would they persecute with their 'justice'?

>There are complications about the origin of both concepts

Are you suggesting that my race and gender are ...'problematic?'

This has nothing to do with Nazis, please get a grip.

Fascism is a clearly defined concept, and there are many examples other than Nazism. In point of fact: it is not necessary to invoke Nazism in order to define fascism.

The kind of autocratic and intolerant behaviour that you suggest is clearly reminiscent of fascism.

Anyway, I have seen the arguments you raise before and I don't really see that we'll arrive at any kind of agreement here.

>they need to kickban all the hate frothing racists and misogynists and clamp down hard on "free speech"

This sounds dangerously like fascism IMHO.

What is wrong with being white and male?

Why is she paying?

They offered to waive those monies if she dropped the appeal.

She is dropping the appeal and paying.

Weird lady.

> I had neither the time nor resources to talk with reporters or journalists. Kleiner reportedly had four full-time PR people plus their defense lawyer arguing their points and providing information and their perspective to the press in real-time during the trial. Their efforts contributed to online aggression against me personally, and even toward my family, leading to what is now viewed as the one of the largest trolling attacks in history.

I find it spectacularly weird that she thinks the reddit backlash against her was orchestrated by a PR firm.

Just so spectacularly weird.

Find an organism that passes through the passage and a way to track that.

Hitch your wagon to something living that will be able to find a way.

I agree with you to a certain extent.

I also very much enjoyed his thoughts on privacy/anonymity and the multi-faceted nature of human personalities.

You can find some quotes here: http://observer.com/2011/10/4chans-moot-facebook-and-google-...

Those concepts are more important in my opinion, to the gestating human identity that we will all be part of via technological evolution.

Just chiming in here, but it seems that your version of the feminist agenda puts little or no responsibility on women to actually choose.

It's all everyone else's fault.

Life isn't easy and difficult choices are a part of growing up, but, going against the grain brings with it a certain exhilaration. There is satisfaction and growth in proving ones worth for ones self.

I'm not saying it's fair but then again, fairness is pretty rare and that is a truth that touches everyone.

> Of course! Especially with the "naturally" part. Biological differences in pertinent cognitive abilities, while they certainly exist, have never been shown to be too big (certainly not big enough to be the major cause for observed differences in representation). It is certainly logical to believe that most observed differences are mostly explained by social causes.

Huh?

Are you saying that you truly believe that everyone is the best at everything?

Are you being sarcastic?

I am not a smart man.

It is slowly dawning on me that I am missing some not so subtle sarcasm.

Ha! I have always been jealous of the people who got firstname.lastname@gmail.com but now I see that privilege has a price.

I have a very common first name / last name combo (it's awful, it's not 'John Smith' but frankly it may as well be.)

I worked at a large corporate where there were four people who shared that combo.

We constantly got each others email and meeting requests.

One of them wouldn't have any of it but the other two and myself got to the point where we'd forward an email with a comment like: "Hey, your wife isn't able to fetch the baby from creche this afternoon, see below."

In a weird way I kind of miss it.

>This is a dangerous line of thinking. If women are naturally better at certain things, it is not a stretch to imagine that they would be naturally worse at certain things.

Does anyone truly believe that this is not the case? People are different, sets of people differ along various, sometimes similar parameters.

>This could impede our quest to bring about gender equality.

It really shouldn't though. Differing from one subset of people should not impact your rights as a human being. 'Gender equality' doesn't mean that everyone should be 'the same' but rather that everyone should have equal rights.

Am I not getting this?