Maybe you haven't noticed how "quantum" is being thrown around these days, check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_healing and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mysticism
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Facebook Employees Explain Struggling To Care About Company's Unethical Practices When Gig So Cushy
Where is the "In SV we're supposed to be innovators, why aren't we leading the way towards a more equal society?" narrative grounded?
"I find it interesting that it really did basically take a year of real time (and maybe 2 months of hacking time) before the implementation was in a shape where I would've thought about publishing it. And there's no way I'd put that amount of time into a project like this up front. Usually these projects are active for a couple of weekends before getting abandoned; fun parts are done but all the hard work of making it really usable remains."
"In this case people were eager to use even the incredibly crude early versions, so I got over that hump very quickly. And at that point every incremental improvement to the site was affecting tens, hundreds, or thousands of people. This is of course always more motivating than working on polishing the perfect piece of software that nobody is using."
"There were many architectural and design decisions done along the way that I ended up deeply regretting, and which cost me lots of time later on. But without all those early shortcuts there would've been no implementation at all. Easily the best example of Worse is Better that I've been personally involved with."
How it looks: http://terra.snellman.net/game/4pLeague_S3_D3L3_G6/max-row=3...
The Terra Mystica board game: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/120677/terra-mystica
On github: https://github.com/jsnell/terra-mystica/
Abstract: Entrepreneurship is risky. We study the risk facing a well-documented and important class of entrepreneurs, those backed by venture capital. Using a dynamic program, we calculate the certainty-equivalent of the differences between the cash rewards that entrepreneurs actually received over the past 20 years and the cash that entrepreneurs would have received from a risk-free salaried job. The payoff to a venture-backed entrepreneur comprises a below-market salary and a share of the equity value of the company when it goes public or is acquired. We fi nd that the typical venture-backed entrepreneur received an average of $5.8 million in exit cash. Almost three-quarters of entrepreneurs receive nothing at exit and a few receive over a billion dollars. Because of the extreme dispersion of payo ffs, an entrepreneur with a coecient of relative risk aversion of two places a certainty-equivalent value only slightly greater than zero on the distribution of outcomes she faces at the time of her company's launch.
[ ] the language name sounds too much like
clojure, closure, clozure, clojurescript or clojureclrIn certain ways, it's similar to Dojo (http://dojotoolkit.org/) or YUI (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/)
* Bigger Stronger Faster - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkL1T-CZPfs
I was particularly fond of this one:
http://www.rohitab.com/cgi-telnet
Don't miss the screenshots there :D
(I've got no relationship with them)
I stumble on good problems with no obvious answers frequently, and my take is that approaching them with the mindset of "hey, what if...?" is what is really uncommon. Not hard, children do it all the time.
What's hard? Keeping that mindset of "what if...?" alive over the years! :)
And again, thanks for releasing Campher on the Sao Paulo Perl Workshop, nothing beats "hearing it from the horse's mouth" ! :)
From the little context provided by his reply, and his reply only, he could could just as well be a literate camera thief hanging out here on HN and using stolencamerafinder.com to upgrade himself from just a thief to a thief + stalker! And the sentence would still be correct as-is! :)
I take it as "you wanted to nitpick to my nitpicking". Fine, heh, I'm just as guilty of nitpicking, but I see it like this: from the ridiculously easy to come by counter-example above, your nitpicking is not standing on solid ground.
Happy nitpicking! ;)