The front page would be empty until people started upvoting from the new page.
Comments would be ranked purely reverse-chronological until people started voting.
It'd be less disruptive to the front of the site than another revisiting of 'Erlang sure is interesting'. Past threads would slowly be mined for re-karma as they were re-submitted and found in google searches.
The best blogs for me, are those that are not for the great hacker public, but for smaller audiences. Blogs about mathematics, data mining, computer vision, and so on. Coding Horror, Spolsky and the alike only talk about generalities and aren't really useful to me.
It's like porn! You might not be able to define intelligence but you know it when you see it.
Noam Chomsky points out we know English automatically, not through having been taught rules.
Similarly, I don't know have any references and artificial intelligence nor do I know exactly how does their search system works (well, I know page rank but I know they've done lots of work beyond it). But I can tell they're semi-intelligent by experiencing the semi-intelligence of their searching system. So they are an artificial intelligence company whether they say it or not, whether they know it or not, simply by the fact that what they create operates semi-intelligently to me.
Yes, I know exactly what you mean. It's intensely demotivating - all I can advise is a supportive partner and friends, and occasional professional help.
I'm not sure if that's what you mean, but if you think BG would give most of his fortune just to get recognition and attention... I think that's really unfair with him.
Agree! I think this is yet another article that is spreading the fallacy that a "one man startup" is bound for failure.
This person (although intelligent) is not being nearly self-reflective enough in realizing his actual faults... e.g. he didn't release early, he didn't test the market, basically, he turned his business into a "science fair project."
I think the root cause of this bad outcome for him is his failure to truly understand his own limitations and finding a way to get leverage to compensate for it (e.g. hiring a salesman). THIS DOES NOT MEAN that just by getting a co-founder, all of this would have been solved! No! It just means that you need to understand the basics of business!
I experimented with lucid dreaming a few years ago, and did it for many times. I saw myself in mirrors and also in my own image of I myself sleeping somewhere. My own image was always wrong in some way, and the memories of some of those images are still completely creepy many years after the dreaming happened (I still have goose bumps for the memory of the image of one of these specific dreams... quite crazy really since it wasn't a very bad image that you wouldn't see in a bad horror movie for example).
That is what I thought. But not how it is playing out when applying for jobs that put me as the worst one (from my perspective anyway). Perhaps other factors are at play.
