jeremyx

Fair enough. Yes there is massive disruption and potential for more, but it's a fallacy to think that power lies in the hands of individuals.

The myth that "...a single person can build something on his or her laptop, instantly reach billions of people, and create a movement if he can convince others to believe in the idea." just helps concentrate power into the entities with the most processing power. Who's networks are needed to reach all those people?

Jaron Lanier puts it a bit more eloquently than I do: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/fixing-the-...

...keep telling yourself that.

I assume this is from the recent NYT article about the intense seven minute workout. The order of the exercises is important because it shifts from upper to lower body. You're supposed to do each one as intense as you can and rest for 10 seconds between. The research suggest this type of high intensity interval workout has the same effects as long moderate intensity workouts...very cool and thanks.

My son started doing this and was fumbling with timing on his watch. I'll have him use this now.

Ballsy to lead with an article about porn. I'm glad you did because I know they must face scaling challenges that only a handful of services have to deal with, but rarely do I see articles about how they overcome the challenges. Thanks.

Thanks. This is the only article on the blog? I was actually intrigued by the site and was wondering if anyone on HN has used this service as a dev or a client....

What is the association with this site toptal.com? Has anyone here ever worked with them before?

The post was mostly about dropping the Tweetdeck apps and just a brief mention of dropping FB.

There is something more than that. There are many beautiful things, but flowers in particular seem to stand out as something that is recognized for their beauty regardless of culture, time or place. In the same way that people the world over, independent of one another, come up with the same conclusions about geometry and mathematics...

What is more interesting to me, is the fact that flowers are beautiful and bees and people seem to universally recognize this. There is a sophisticated information exchange going with respect to how flowers evolved to attract pollinators. Co-evolution with information exchange across species. See David Deutsch's 'The Beginning of Infinity' for a fascinating discussion on objective beauty...

Qt is the shit. Anyone know of any frameworks that are actually competitive for C++ cross-platform development? (I have not run into any...it seems that QT is the clear leader.)

But, the author has not explained why you get such elegant and complex results as a result of removing the constraints of time and space.

Evolution selects traits which will spread throughout the population most easily. This does not imply that they are "better", more complex, or elegent. (Think of all the terrible memes that have a hold right now for example). Adding time alone does not improve the outcome.

I think the author needs to look a bit more into emergence. See Kauffman: http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kauffman06/kauffman06_index....

This article, (and many others), has a tone that some people ("geeks" in this case) are like another species of human origin that only the most skilled manager has learned to tame.

According to this article, they hate bureaucracy, filling out time-sheets and want flexible working hours. I guess I'm a geek in need of special management.

Who really believes this crap?

If you are using a good web application framework, you'll be creating classes and engaging in standard OOP. The framework should abstract away the "webness" of the application.

See ASP.NET, GWT, RoR, etc.

I'd rather put my faith in someone else managing the hardware and IT overhead rather than in me doing it.

Setting up and maintaining a RAID backup solution at home, and actually using it is very hard.

Once nice thing about cloud services where users store data is that it's transparent that they're backing up local data. They're just using the service.

Since these are not in C++11, we'll have to wait 10 years...

I cannot read this because the writing is soooo bad. If this is your job application, I will not consider hiring you.