sammyo

Ba da, bing.

This is a joke, right?

s/twitter/email/g and you have an early 90's commentary.

The sizzle? ;-)

Now that is just a marvelous restatement of the canonical optimization principle!

And it's free!

Grey Lensman by E.E. 'Doc' Smith

I still believe that a radical (slightly mad) scientist tucked away in his garage lab will come up with the Inertialess Drive and we will all be off the planet at will.

More pragmatically I doubt I could get through this book now and it would be just old hat to anyone post Star Wars.

"billions and billions"

-Carl Sagan

Lie liberally.

Be sure to implement an oust_trolls method.

Wow, just about perfect... sixth photo down, it seems to be in his bedroom. And there is a Home build CPU 'ring',yow!

Watch the video.

It's good.

I have significant issues with the core argument, but mostly due to it's naïveté.

It does not address the issue that there are numerous, hmm, micro-languages. Say one invented spontaneously between twins that only the twins and say a couple grad students (maybe) will ever be fluent. The twins language may be incredible but it is useless to order a big mac.

Can two autistic folk each with their own totally valid non-verbal language ever communicate?

The world is getting so specialized, perhaps with tools some very smart folks cut off due to neurological, er differences, will become dynamic members of the greater society.

I really liked the view down the slinky, good thing that it was not a full 9 minutes of just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. just that. (wow, doesn't it feel good typing just that ;-)

Hmm, continuing this thread is just wrong...

Observing just the length of this thread, my initial thought is that pg has executed quite an exceptional troll himself...

From the corpspeak website:

Next Media's research focus spans the linear and interactive media spectrum from television, broadband, and gaming to combinations of traditional media forms or emerging media forms too new to have a name. The group partners with product groups within Microsoft and select outside content partners such as museums, and public broadcasting to develop conceptual and working prototypes which best demonstrate the functionality or vision for media that can anchor new businesses, services and consumer experiences.

(Thus my guess is a fullscreen handheld device with gesture input that runs Outlook, IE and Excel ;-) (but photosynth does seen quite cool)

I think it also varies by events. An exciting project that's nearing crunch time can get me running on just a few hours, the eyes snap open at 6:15 and life is fun (or...) til 2am. But don't try to keep running at that pace more than a few weeks if that long.

I so almost distroyed my keyboard with coffee.

Well except I read that there was an emacs macro that business folks at Amazon used for years. Hmm, maybe if there's an ArcEmacs rewrite?

Didn't have one for several years and got out of the habit for awhile. There is some great drama and comedy and if you keep it to 2-4 hours a week I think it's as valid as any other entertainment. The only reality show that's not crap is Project Runway, all the contestants are real entrepreneurs, and just enough non-stupid-ass-silly stuff slips past the producers.

Got beta invites?

YC dotted?

Only if it's really really really what every user that would EVER use the web page will want.

I would actually like it if IMDB put focus in their search box, when I'm looking up a director of photography or such, I'm just impatience and would like to go, type, enter, read. The extra click to type is annoying. But I still don't know if they should actually implement that as I have not done a real analysis of how the broad community uses the site.

So reimplementing Maya or Photoshop is a bad idea?

Well you'll be late to the table for Web 3.0 then... ;-)

Born Standing Up by Steve Martin, wry observations on growing up to become really really creative. It makes me less sad that I left magic tricks behind me.

Note the differential between discovery and engineering. OMG, Paul, think long engagment, at least until the crazy creative part of Arc is wrapped up... ;-)

Women lurv engineers, there has always been great engineering by married men. The great discoverys come 'out of the blue' by someone essentially sitting around for five or six years thinking about some crazy assed idea like time slowing down the faster you run, that no one would ever think worth while. Until it changes the world.

I thought the graphics were fine, but I was confused about the purpose at first. Seed it with a wide range of interesting stuff, I almost found something interesting (not the armpit licking) and the map mashup was good, but wrong city for tonight. I'd work on seeding, filtering and showing connections before I'd worry about the 'sheen'.

Hmm, a points system for new things, how cool/hard/prestigous and and points for doing one. But then be careful to moderate dangerous options. Hmmm, yea, lost an arm, but whoa I got a lot of points... Don't wanna see that comment in your forum, eh?

Now we got a horse race. Arc vs perl6 - first company to do a million dollar month with an [arc|p6] codebase. Any handicaping?

But trying to optimize multiple variables becomes an excercise in game theory. That is a value of each metric's benefit needs to be added for each 'player', the programmer, management, qa, the customer... This becomes an equation that I for one will wait on the Singularity to resolve.

> (Did I miss any? ;-)

Yep, the Duke Nukem Forever rewrite is waiting for Arc.