jamesbkel

Mostly agreed (just speaking for myself) on your #1. Could not agree more on #2-4.

Still, I'm a bit uncertain how Circles will pan out once G+ gains traction, but it's without a doubt more manageable than FB.

Not in a web device/timeframe combination to give this a proper look, but definitely like what I briefly had a chance to read. Already saved to revisit later.

For anyone else that enjoyed this and is not aware of Parallel Sets: http://eagereyes.org/parallel-sets

Personally, I've found few good real-world use cases for PSets. But I've found it to be helpful for experimenting, even though I rarely use it for any end-product charts.

[edit: One last thing before I'm out of range. I'm sure most folks interested in this are familiar, but if not... BumpCharts: http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/2005/07/in_praise_... ]

Agreed. I've more or less stopped buying any new iOS apps. Having had an iPhone for just under three years now, I've basically found a solution for anything I care about using my phone for. However, I've noticed that I regularly hear about a "great new app" from newer iOS users, but it turns out to be some recycled version of an app/game I already have.

My only-slightly-educated guess based off what I've read on this (read a few mentions of this story over the past week) is that while the child-sized trachea wouldn't just stop working/become disconnected, most likely there would be a later adult-sized replacement.

Not to be a jerk, but if you're going to start offering opinions on evolution, at least get it right and not refer to the "Homo sapien" species.... it's the "Homo sapiens" species. Again, not trying to give you hard time, but at least for me, that stuck out like a sore thumb.

Agreed. I definitely have more than 1GB of email, but asking one would need/use that amount of storage is a perfectly legit question.

I'm not sure if it's simply coincidence, but I've noticed that while most new ATMs (in the US) are swipe only, it seems that on ATMs that allow deposits the machine retains the card. I'm not sure if there's a reason the card is retained for deposits. I also could just be tricking myself with anecdotal evidence, but I've definitely seen new ATMs side by side with a swipe withdrawal-only and a retaining withdrawal-and-deposit.

I was OK with the MS deal, but now I am seriously reconsidering paying for my Sype #. I still use facebook on occasion for purely trivial/social reasons: birthday parties, holidays, checking to see if there are any random friends who serendipitously now live in the city I'm visiting for business. But I use Skype professionally... even the off chance that these accounts would eventually be linked (i.e. "You talked to XXX on Skype, you should be FB friends!") makes me very uncomfortable.

Taza chocolate, perhaps? Great stuff.

While I agree with your general sentiment (I love living in Cambridge, right between MIT and Harvard), it would be a mistake to get too wrapped up in tech and ignore what has historically and still is arguably Boston's greatest resource: teaching hospitals/medicine.

>"I do agree that it's important not to fetishize leadership and never to forget the team gets much credit too, but over the years my estimation of the importance of true leadership has been going consistently up, not down."

Agreed. I've worked with some great teams, but if there's not clear leadership (and specifically, good communication) things fall apart. I understand that certain decisions need to be made by the founders, but when there is no good communication and they are pivoting like an elementary school basketball player, it doesn't turn out well.

I agree that it reeks of BS, but I had never heard of this. Thanks for the link.

Indeed, this is exactly my case: 10-100's GB of data distilled down to 1GB output at most, including extra diagnostics which are not always needed.

One possible advantage for Amazon could be, at least in my use case, that I may be inclined to spin up instances for less-CPU-intensive tasks. Also, being able to rely on the widely available remote access from EC2 is convenient.

I suppose if it gets me spending more time on their CPU cycles, they've picked up business. Interested to see where this policy leads.

Well, technically you (the consumer) should be recording your Amazon purchases and paying the state your self-calculated sales tax. So, the rate does not change, only the responsibility for ensuring it is paid.

That said, almost no one bothers doing so, so in theory the rate would go up. However the rate would not be the "tax rate" but instead the "rate of taxes owed which are ultimately paid".

I agree, it seems silly not to pull the local stuff immediately. Of course, that doesn't exactly align with Google's goal of getting you to their site.

I'm not a regular Safari user, so I'm not 100% if this is true. But if I recall Safari doesn't return search results alongside the "most frequented sites" in autocomplete.

Maybe pulling up likely searches from Google adds some time than the locally-stored list of frequented sites.

That said, I'm purely speculating here.

One thing to bear in mind is that energy production is MUCH more efficient when done at scale (i.e. power plant) than having lots of little power plants (i.e. internal combustion engines).

There's still the issue of transporting the energy, but the waste/consumption to output ratio definitely favors generating power at large scale.

[edit: Another thought. I'm not sure about this and can't find a quick reference, but I would guess that scrubbing the emissions at a coal plant can be done more effectively than at the per-internal combustion engine level.]

That is a truly ridiculous chart. Another sign that it's complete BS is they describe the growth as "exponential" yet the trendline appears linear and the axis is not logarithmic.

I think the author is conflating "exponential" with "really fast".

The article makes a decent (if rather convoluted) point. However, the advertisements and "buy our clothing" section really push it over the edge for me. (in case you haven't seen the site, I'm referring to the content of what is listed above, not the fact there are ads)

Not only was it distracting, I can no longer take this article seriously.

I believe he's referring to this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657135

Of course, wouldn't that also mean that on days that you commute to work you're paying income tax in MA plus the above-average NH property tax?

This is very good for learning (and then using) knowledge quickly/in a short time frame. This is basically how I worked when at university.

However, my siblings don't work this way... they take a long time and work quite hard when it comes to learning. That is not to say that they are slow or unintelligent. In retrospect I envy them a bit. I can put on the illusion of being brilliant since I can pick something up in a few minutes... but ask me a year from now and I'll probably need to repeat that process. However, they are in medicine, so as ghshephard suggested, the effectiveness of this technique could vary widely by domain. If you take a long time to carefully understand the fundamentals of the human body, you probably won't need to learn too much more about it later. Not to say that you won't need to keep on up current practices, but you also don't need to deal with the "API for kidney function" changing anytime soon.

Also, I agree with the connection/analog process for quick learning and application, but you can only stack so many analogies before you're living in your own self-constructed world.

It would be helpful to have an actual GPA. I'm really not sure what a GPA between A and A+ even means. At my university there was no +/- distinction.

Not directly related to jailbreaking, but this link on the sidebar of the OP is interesting. Published 2 days prior to iOS5 announcement. Depending on how you look at it 6-8 of the "must download first" apps are now part of iOS5.

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/06/04/10-apps-you-should-install-fi...

Same here, also used PkgBackup to sync to Dropbox. Although I expect that will still be around since it also supports syncing non-App Store applications and settings.

I had been using this a few months ago, but I kept running into formatting issues when the article arrived on the kindle. Particularly with advertisements. I don't necessarily need ads removed (but that's nice), but often an ad would be completely mangled. Not only was it unintelligible, it would also be several times larger/more obtrusive than the original. But, it sounds like maybe they've fixed some of those issues.

I'll have to do a comparison tonight - if either Klip.me has improved or the readability send-to-kindle does a better job I will be very happy.

Interesting take, hadn't thought of that at all.

Something along those lines would definitely be boon to AAPL or others penetrating that sort of market. However, we all know the software on smartphones are if not trivially, at least often manipulated. This may be able to skim a little of the market, but if I had a business where I couldn't trust camera phone now, I wouldn't trust this technique against even a slightly educated and motivated individual.

Agreed, my first thoughts too. This is ripe for abuse.

I honestly would be less concerned about "legit" or "publicly known" use (concerts, sports, political event etc.) since it would lead to public dissent towards of the offending performer/venue. Not saying it wouldn't be used, but there would be a significant PR liability if they imposed sanctions on photography.

If I were a criminal, first thing I would do is get a few of those IR transmitters to wear on my ski mask.

I think this boils to down to definition of working hard. For a lot of my friends, that would mean "working more at the same thing".

I've been in the same situation as described in the OP, but I would call it "working hard at something new". That may entail more work, but man, once you nail it, that's a great feeling. You're not going to get that when you go from 100 support tickets/day to 1000 or even 10,000 - or something similarly routine.

Often, once I actually explain what I was doing during that 120hr week or all-nighter my friends typically respond: "Oh, that's pretty cool. I wish I did stuff like that."

I'm not saying friend and family aren't important, but I think this quote from the OP sums it up:

>However, sometimes I do get caught up in chasing my dreams and forget to make time for friends and family.