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Study Refutes Niche Theory Spawned by Web

July 2 at 2:21 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Had PowerPoint been around 150 years ago, Thoreau might have warned us to beware not only of enterprises that require new clothes, but also of those that require new paradigms." - maurycy via Bookmarklet

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Algebra Index

July 1 at 6:16 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Good math history. - maurycy via Bookmarklet

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Group Theory - Lagrange's Theorem

July 1 at 5:19 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Very interesting group theory material. - maurycy via Bookmarklet

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Sundial Aeon

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"Carbon Based" - maurycy via Bookmarklet

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Science Journal - WSJ.com

June 28 at 2:32 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"We think our decisions are conscious," said neuroscientist John-Dylan Haynes at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, who is pioneering this research. "But these data show that consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg. This doesn't rule out free will, but it does make it implausible." - maurycy via Bookmarklet

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

June 26 at 12:13 am - Link

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Main Page - MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

June 25 at 5:04 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Stress. The literature on individual psychology, the consensus is that stress has an inverted-U shape relationship with performance—e.g., Jamal (1984). The relationship also slides rightward as individuals adapt to stress. Further, the increase in performance is biased toward quantity and against quality. The results seem to be also supported among groups, see Karau and Kelly (1992). For example, Kruglanski and Webster (1991] report that within a group, deviating opinions are rejected more with time pressure while conforming ones are accepted more. Stress works through several mechanisms in its link to performance:" - maurycy via Bookmarklet

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Sawa-Taxi Sp. z o.o.

June 21 at 4:23 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Elektroniczna Karta Klienta - maurycy via Bookmarklet

Jeremy Zawodny posted an entry on Jeremy Zawodny's blog

I'm Joining Craigslist in July

June 19 at 7:49 am - Link

Gavin, Art, Diana Valerini, Chris Garrett and 115 other people liked this

All the best with the transition and new gig. - Paul Jacobson via twhirl

Congrats! - Ginger Makela

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Seriously one of the most awesome things I've read all day. Welcome to the neighborhood, Jeremy! - DeWitt Clinton

Congrats! - Harvey Simmons

Congratulations! - Atul Arora

Jeremy, that's AWESOME. Congratulations. Looking forward to seeing you more in SF!!! - David Sifry via twhirl

I didn't see anybody predict that! Great news. Should be interesting. - Louis Gray

good luck! - Chris Harris

Congrats. - Russellreno

all the best! - Ron Emrick

Congrats! :) some people were expecting you here on FF... - directeur

Congrats! That seems like a great company to be a part of. - Jeremy Brooks

Wow, that's great news. Congratulations! - Lee Odden via twhirl

Jeremy I'm right there with you! - Randy Carranza

Congrats, Craigslist is a shining star. - Jason Kaneshiro

Congrats, real good choice that I am sure you will enjoy - Fred Grott

@Louis yeah, I was tempted to mess with people and post pics of myself at FriendFeed and various other places, but decided to come clean. [Note: I still think FriendFeed would be an awesome gig too...] - Jeremy Zawodny

Congratulations! - Ernest Prabhakar

Nice move Jeremy - Dennis Howlett via twhirl

wow...that's great. congratulations!!! - don loeb

Congrats, Jeremy - Bret Taylor

Congratulations! Is this a long-term thing or just a casual encounter? - Jim Norris

JZ4CL - Kevin Fox

congrats! good luck with that commute! - Jeremy Toeman

awesome. Great move. - Keith Teare

Congrats and good luck! - John Frost

seems like that would be a great place to be. congratulations. - edythe

Cool! Congrats! - C. K. Sample III via twhirl

very kool....best of luck to ya. - (jeff)isageek

Congrats! - Jeremiah Owyang

that is so friggin AWESOME. damn! - dave mcclure

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Elo rating system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

June 18 at 12:53 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. - maurycy

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Unbelievable Building Collapse

June 16 at 8:20 pm - Link

ricardo valle, maurycy, Ihar Mahaniok, Shannon Jiménez and 6 other people liked this

amazing how it fell apart when it hit the ground, gotta love their building codes - clarke thomas

Now that's unbelievable (oh wait...). Shame the description is filled with things like "Cats Funny kitten hilarious sparta dance youtube gato katze accident dogs puppy Animation, Blooper, Improv, Parody, Pranks, Series, Short Film, Sketch, Spoof, Stand-up, Video Blog, Evolution robot dance Athletics, Business, Communications, Computer Science,sex Avril Lavigne NYC Street xxx boobs"; makes it look like spam because they're totally irrelevant. - Voyagerfan5761

ah that poor tree.... - Ňicķ

I wonder if they could've kept the building up if they had everyone in the building run to one side... :P - Dan Hsiao

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Done, and Gets Things Smart

June 17 at 1:12 am - Link

Tavi, Vinay | विनय, Michelle Lee, Rich Bragg and 46 other people liked this

Looooong, but great read. I often felt at Google, on the sales side of things, we were so smart that we were stupid. I can't tell you how many meetings I sat through where simple solutions (and, probably, the right solutions!) were ignored because they sounded too simple. And we'd spend a full hour coming up with complicated, convoluted, confusing solutions because that's what smart people do, right? Come up with arcane stuff? Agh. It was all gas. Not throwing anyone under the bus -- I was as guilty as anyone else. - Ginger Makela

100-word version: "You're not as smart as you think you are. You need to find people way smarter and more effective than you. You can't find them with normal interviews. A six-month trial period might work, but what super smart person will stand for that? Your only real hope is that you've bumped into them some time in the past, or maybe you can find them by asking around. Good luck, and also I made up this weird phrase which doesn't help." - ⓞnor

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Ginger, thanks for sharing your experience at Google. - Mike Reynolds

First page down, giving a Like for that. Continuing to read... - Hutch Carpenter

Really great read, and a true take on the types of "smart" out there. Also, I liked this little add-on Steve had in the comments section: "The Dunning-Kruger Effect has a fourth principle that I didn't mention, which is that as your competence increases, your self-evaluation diminishes. The most competent people apparently tend to rate themselves below their skill level. " Interesting thought. - Hutch Carpenter

The core of any good engineering culture is deeply allergic to unnecessary complexity. "Fancy" is a bad word; "complicated" is a really, really bad word. Design doc templates have a section asking you to explain why a simpler solution would work. Half my interviewers (having convinced themselves that I could code) were making sure that I wasn't the type to build giant rickety abominations. But a company like Google is too big for any single generalization to apply. - ⓞnor

ⓞnor: "and also I made up this weird phrase which doesn't help" Ha! :) - Bret Taylor

@nor if you do that for every Steve Yegge post you might have a high-traffic blog on your hands - Jeremy Raines

ⓞnor-notes.blogspot.com - Ginger Makela

@Ginger: I see that everywhere, not only in Sales… :( - Amit Patel

very cool...that is probably why friendfeed is ramping so smoothly and getting intelligent new features vs. another nameless service that is having severe growing pains. - Pokai

That's excellent hiring criteria -- would you hire them for your start-up. I know from experience that you can't really understand how important it is to work with A-players until you work at a company with mainly B-players. - Todd Nemet

I really prefer to work with @-players and ideally ?-players - ⓞnor

What about cos-players? - Jim Norris

And who is super-heroic dude? - Jim Norris

cos-players tend to be irrational unless you get exactly the right angle. - ⓞnor

Question: Why would one of these super-heroic programmers want to work for you rather than launching their own thing? - Adewale Oshineye

Dan should publish a blog with 100-word versions of all of Stevey's posts. I don't have the patience for the long versions. - Jeremy Hylton

I want high quality generic collaborative summarization in general. Not sure how it would work, it's really easy to warp and distort things when boiling them down, and way too easy to take cheap shots at the author (as I did above). - ⓞnor

Is that a bad thing? - j1m

ⓞnor, use a wiki. Also, i know an infinite number of rational cos-players. Take 60º for example. - John Lam

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Javascript Super Mario Kart

June 17 at 3:34 am - via Reshare - Link

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time waster - Adrian

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Greg Coffey, wizard of Oz

June 17 at 7:10 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Greg Coffey is the star trader at the GLG hedge fund group. Last week he walked away from $250m in shares to set up his own operation" - maurycy

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My Tea on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

June 13 at 12:04 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Good morning dear Selma :)) - Papak

Good morning be ruye mahet madar! <3 - Selma

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The top ten things that math probability says about the real world

June 10 at 4:59 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"In an old joke, two men are running, pursued by a grizzly bear. One turns to the other and says "why are we running -- we can't outrun the bear!". The other replies: "I don't need to outrun the bear, I just need to outrun you!"." - maurycy

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Google Spending $250k/month On Outdoor Ads In Russia

June 6 at 3:05 pm - Link

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Report: Women Increasingly Choosing Dead-End Careers Over Dead-End Relationships | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

May 27 at 4:31 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

COLLEGE PARK, MD—According to a report published Monday in The Journal Of Gender Studies, many American women are bucking centuries of traditional gender roles by placing stunted, emotionally unfulfilling relationships on hold in order to pursue mind-numbing careers devoid of any upward mobility. - maurycy

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Edward Shils - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

May 26 at 3:23 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Edward Shils (1 July 1911 ~ 23 January 1995) was a Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology at the University of Chicago and one of the world's most influential sociologists." - maurycy

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Robert K. Merton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

May 26 at 3:22 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Robert King Merton (July 4, 1910 – February 23, 2003, born Meyer R. Schkolnick to immigrant parents) was a distinguished American sociologist perhaps best known for having coined the phrase "self-fulfilling prophecy." He also coined many other phrases that have gone into everyday use, such as "role model" and "unintended consequences". He spent most of his career teaching at Columbia University, where he attained the rank of University Professor." - maurycy

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Karl Mannheim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

May 26 at 3:20 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Karl Mannheim (Mannheim Károly the original writing of his name March 27, 1893, Budapest – January 9, 1947, London) was a Jewish Hungarian-born sociologist, influential in the first half of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of classical sociology. Mannheim rates as a founder of the sociology of knowledge." - maurycy

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C. Wright Mills - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

May 26 at 3:20 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916, Waco, Texas – March 20, 1962, West Nyack, New York) was an American sociologist. Mills is best remembered for studying the structure of power in the U.S. in his book The Power Elite. Mills was concerned with the responsibilities of intellectuals in post-World War II society, and advocated relevance and engagement over disinterested academic observation, as a "public intelligence apparatus" in challenging the policies of the institutional elites in the "Three" (the economic, political and military)." - maurycy

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michaelwales.com » Let the Public Fix Twitter

May 26 at 1:40 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Interesting concept, and nice page. :-) - maurycy

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George Soros: The economy’s doomed - Times Online

May 25 at 2:34 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"“I think it’s going to be pretty bad,” he confirms. “You have a housing bubble in the UK. Household debts are higher than in the US. The banking and financial industry is much bigger as a proportion of the economy in this country, and that’s been badly affected. Also, taxation of foreigners has come at the wrong time, so there is a small exodus. You face higher prices for food and energy, and the budget allows little room for fiscal growth.”" - maurycy

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http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~carlis/books.html

May 25 at 12:48 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

List of CS books by a CS prof - maurycy

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“I finally tried out some wikis. I'm unimpressed. Google Sites and PBWiki seem like they might be ok, but Google doesn't offer custom domains and pb charges $100/mo!”

May 25 at 3:10 am - Link

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The others were all too confusing to me. Also, it took me like half an hour to sign up for PB wiki because they require email verification (why?) but their email took a long time to arrive. - Paul Buchheit

I use Google Sites with a custom domain (within Google Apps FYD), so I can access my wiki at sites.mydomain.com/whichsite . When it comes to wikis and hosting in general, I think you're best to find a decent/cheap web host to start with (a hard thing to find, these days) and upload your choice of wiki or CMS software - that way you're not tied down to a particular pairing. And hey. if worst comes to worst, couldn't you just piggyback something on the friendfeed servers somewhere? - Slippy Lane

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"email verification (why?)" Perhaps so that when you e.g. lose your password they can safely send it to you, and they won't send it to someone else because e.g. you entered johndoe2@gmail.com instead of johndoe3@gmail.com, and the other john doe is someone else? Not sure... - Philipp Lenssen

A local install of mediawiki is one of the best things that's happened to our company. VERY useful as an internal KB. - Jeremy Felt

I need a simple Wiki for a client project with documentation. Which is best? Mediawiki looks OK. We need something dirt simple. - David Risley

David, we use mediawiki, works well for us with the WYSIWYG editor for the non-technical users (wiki text is intimidating to some people). - ben bloch

We've had good results using Google Sites and Wetpaint for dead simple (no markup knowledge required) wikis. But each wiki has its drawbacks, as Paul has noted. We've picked ones that we can work with. - Todd Mundt

Thanks, Todd. But, we most definitely need the wiki locally hosted. - David Risley

Sorry David, I missed that you were looking only for a locally hosted option. I've heard good things about SocialText. - Todd Mundt

Check out wikidot - best wiki farm system out there - David Bausola via twhirl

um, how Google Sites don't offer custom domains? did you try Google Apps? - Ihar Mahaniok

wetpaint is pretty nice, if you don't need/want to host it on your own server...via feedalizr - acedanger

I wrote the Wala wiki, which is a self-contained Perl script that you just drop on a server and start using. http://walawiki.org/ - Brent Newhall

Hey Paul, I know the folks over at PBwiki, but they never got back to me on nonprofit pricing...so I set up my own using Twiki. The result is at http://www.wealthcamp.info/ -- it's running a on a standard LAMP server. It took about an hour to set up, has WYSIWYG editing, user accounts... in other words, it works great. Plus it's nice that it's free. Overall, the setup could be a bit easier (they need to get closer to Wordpress's 5 minute setup than 1 hour), but once it's up and running, it works like a charm. - Erica Douglass

Have you tried wetpaint.com they just got more vc!! - kazi

I'm considering to use the one which is included in Trac as it is easily extensible, written in python and Trac itself looks good... - Daniel Hartmann

I didn't realize that Google Sites could use a custom domain -- I had clicked around for a bit and didn't see any mention of it. That may be the way to go. As for self hosting the software, I have no interest in that. Keeping up with security updates and other administrative activities is a waste of time. (this is a personal project btw, not something for ff) - Paul Buchheit

As someone else mentioned, Wikidot is nice. I have a couple wikis set up there while I work on a localized Mediawiki on a private site. - Batona

Why not just self host a wiki? It's really not that complicated to set up and should take less than one hour... - Ian Holton

You missed an important point: What do you need in a wiki? For a pretty good comparison there's http://www.wikimatrix.org/ - Cristian Vat

Why not self host a wiki? Because you'll forever have to maintain it, upgrade it, migrate it to new hardware, reset its user's passwords and explain how to work around its formatting bugs. That takes a lot more than one hour and will require your attention at random times for as long as you feel responsible for what you've created. If you have the hardware available and a sysadmin with spare time on his hands go for it. Otherwise, Google sites, pbwiki, wet paint or backpack it. - John Murray

Paul, try http://wikispot.org. They run (python) in a branch off Moinmoin called Sycamore, which i've used for three years, at http://ROCwiki.org and now too at http://ant-hill.org. - John Lam

A fairly comprehensive rundown of wiki farms - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W... ..Oh, and there's Zoho too, of course. - Slippy Lane

Paul, did you look at Deki Wiki by MindTouch? - Mike Doeff

Paul, actually your pricing is wrong for PBwiki as well. PBwiki is ~$100/year for the full business edition and the first 3 users are free. - Tom Kuegler

Tom, It's $100/mo if you want a custom domain: https://paulbuchheit.pbwiki.co... - Paul Buchheit

I am going have to agree with Mike, Deki Wiki is the way to go. Especially if you want integration with third party apps. - Steve Spalding

Have you tried http://wik.is ? - israel

I'm just playing around with social text right now which is free for up to 5 users, offers options to print to pdf/html (not that you couldn't do that manually anyway) and an offline mode. They are expensive if you want to start using the enterprise hosted version, but they are well supported. I'll have to try Deki Wiki! - Phil Ashman

I found the wiki I built in Google Sites to be almost perfect for writing my novel, and the world-building needed to support the story. - Bill Bittner

I'm going to look into using Google Sites now that I find I can use it for my domain; could be useful. - Benjamin Golub

We use Atlassian's Confluence at the office - Jeff Quinton

What do you mean "please stop helping now" ... ? :-D - Slippy Lane

Take a look at MindTouch, www.mindtouch.com and more importantly the arch should be appealing to you: http://mindtouch.com/Technlogy Also, here's a good explanation in the words of Mike Shaver from Mozilla too: http://www.ddj.com/web-develop... , I think the Shelfari example Marshall mentions here will also be of interest to you: http://www.readwriteweb.com/ar... - Roebot

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Inside AdSense: Introducing third-party ads on the Google content network

May 25 at 3:54 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"The Google content network now accepts display ads served from qualified third-party vendors. Third-party ad serving has been a longstanding request from top brand AdWords advertisers who use third parties to create and manage their online campaigns. Initially, we will be only accepting third-party ads in English, but we hope to expand to other languages soon. Making the Google content network more accessible to large brand advertisers also benefits AdSense publishers and end users. Third-party ad serving will introduce a greater variety of advertising into the Google content network, increase the inventory of quality display ads competing to show on AdSense publisher sites, and offer more engaging ads for end users. In the long run, we believe the increased inventory and ad competition will result in increased revenue for many AdSense publishers." - maurycy

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Easy way to reset your sleep cycle: Stop eating | Parenting Squad

May 25 at 2:26 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"The neat thing about this second clock is that it can override the main clock ... and you should just flip into that new time zone in one day" - maurycy

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The Wealth Report - WSJ.com : The Homeless Billionaire

May 25 at 12:24 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"When I first met Nicolas Berggruen, I was struck by two things. First, he was a multi-billionaire I’d never heard of — the most interesting kind. Second, he didn’t own a home. “I stay in hotels,” he told me." - maurycy

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FriendFeed Blog: Another great FriendFeeder!

May 23 at 5:57 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"That's why we're excited to announce that Casey Maloney Rosales Muller has joined FriendFeed! In addition to being an extremely capable engineer, Casey also brings academic experience from the MIT and NYU media labs, and very practical experience as the co-founder of the social music startup Jamglue. Although he just started this week, Casey has already contributed several features and improvements to FriendFeed rooms, which we launched yesterday. Today he added the much requested "character count" feature to Twitter-back." - Paul Buchheit

Welcome Casey... you're resume sounds cool! Already posting features and improvements to prod environment in first week - that's impressive! quick learner! thanks for the cool stuff...keep it coming! Nice hire there Paul! :-) - Susan Beebe

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Welcome! - Shey

Casey, make smthng for Twitter's company too : ) - Erhan Erdogan

wow, not a Xoogler? - Ihar Mahaniok

Hi Casey, welcome to the office! - Jess Lee

Woo, Twitter-back character count! Been waiting weeks for that! Thanks Casey! - Voyagerfan5761