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@mediajunkie that's why long tail is a better name than power law for scale-free distributions as it emphasises the interesting end
| kevinmarks @jonl overamplification is an issue - by default brains react to repetition, hence the famous for being famous feedback loop |
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| kevinmarks @kathysierra this 1999 douglas adams essay (which I keep citing) sums it up well: http://tinyurl.com/2xdra |
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| kevinmarks @kathysierra deciding whom to trust is what most of our brains are for. expertise is one parameter, but beware of over-simplification |
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| kevinmarks I love that Big E won't hand over the empanadas until they have them heated to perfection in an oven |
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| kevinmarks empanadas and coffee, then Wall*E, then finish off Saturns Children in the garden |
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| kevinmarks @bbum cheap dry ice means you can try out my boys' experiments: http://tinyurl.com/5tnrlp |
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| kevinmarks I think the chap setting off huge starbust rockets in the park behind our house just got arrested |
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| kevinmarks picking apricots from our tree and blending them into a smoothie - yum |
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| kevinmarks @timoreilly An OS is a collection of APIs, the net is a collection of specs. APIs are like suits, specs are like t-shirts http://is.gd/M0c |
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| kevinmarks @timoreilly the internet is not an OS, that is its strength - composable subsystems, built on agreement and multiple implementations |
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| kevinmarks @carnage4life because every video is copyright, but few are porn? |
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| kevinmarks @patphelan tomorrow's agenda is flags, bbq, beer and fireworks as far as I can tell |
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| kevinmarks @dhowell electrical signals in a cable travel around a third the speed of light. Particle accelerators get small masses close to lightspeed. |
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| kevinmarks @dalmaer sounds like an idea - when conferences require a planning horizon 3x the web dev one, its tricky |
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| kevinmarks @missrogue you should have picked a poodle - no shedding |
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| kevinmarks @veronica when you put your mac to sleep, leave it still until the light starts pulsing. if you move it too quickly you stop it saving state |
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| kevinmarks @atariboy come to think of it, a ☁☠☝★⚡✌❆ style cursing generator would be a good feature for Comic Life |
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| kevinmarks @nitin how do you know 'db is not ready for prime time' ? - I thought this was science, not random assertions... |
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| kevinmarks @atariboy how about ☁☠☝★⚡✌❆ instead of [EXPLETIVE DELETED] |
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