AngelList is doing just that.
No, AngelList is to VC as Myspace was to bands in the end - necessary "social proof" to show to the real movers and shakers. "We have 10,000 friends on Myspace, so you should definitely... [
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Here's a few comments on this from game writer and theorist Ian Bogost, titled Doing Things is Okay [
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I use "bespoke" in conversation, and I live on the same side of the Atlantic as Silicon Valley - that is, next to the Pacific. [
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"First reaction was that LA is not an intellectual leader of this country."
We'll ignore Caltech and JPL, I guess. And UCLA. And all those post-war German academics. Aside from the academic establishment, we have various authors, artists,... [
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What tracks for a Hitchhikers Guide party mix?
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Man...why is all the best sound studio stuff on the freaking iWhatever all the dang time!?
I vaguely recall forum posts about audio latency issues on Android making it a pain to write this kind of software. More realistically, it's... [
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I also love cheap, tiny computers, but really disliked netbooks, perhaps because my hands are too large to type on them. I was able to fill that hole in my life with used 12" thinkpads from eBay - cheap, plentiful, indestructible, have nipple... [
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blam, 12th on the leaderboard for mike's word with 17 guesses. i guess 2012 was OK after all. [
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4 months ago
Fuck you, web designers.
You're probably upset it doesn't run on your WebTV? Also, given that this is a pretty audio-video heavy site, that "hi there" is probably from the developers more than the designers.... [
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4 months ago
Connery has/had 4 inches height on Craig. Do not underestimate the value of reach! [
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6 months ago
Also, I wonder where Iain Banks' Culture books fit into this discussion.
Hundreds (thousands?) of pre-computed attacks, responses, counter-responses and so on played out in less than a second, planned by superintelligent computers - so, a... [
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7 months ago
No post about Protomen covers is complete without PAT DANZATAR. Hearing this live & unexpected is one of my more durable concert memories. [
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Other bags similar to Outlier Minimal Backpack?
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Boring rant, but i'd wear a t-shirt that said "A subculture is not a counterculture. A consumer culture is not a subculture. We are not all in this together.... [
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Light Table is not Eclipse, rather it is more like a Smalltalk environment from 20 years ago, for JS and Clojure. This is not a bad thing. [
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If you are a programmer that uses emacs, there's even a handy package to put the table flip on your kill ring. [
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Yeah, haters will find this easy to mock but I really thought (as a non-burner) that it was a really swell video. 100% whimsy, no attitude. I like that ratio.... [
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I like the way this article ended - the quote from Pop feels like a flash of lucidity with a lot of meaning. [
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Get sideways for 1000 EUR
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I have this tucked away for a long weekend project sometime. I think it would be fun to do a series of 6K word stories following the formula but with wildly varying genre.... [
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You can't easily, and the idea isn't the thing that makes it lucrative, the execution is (because the execution is the hard part), though I suppose you could file a patent and sue future offenders for licensing.... [
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And here's some clarification on that post's apparent inaccuracy regarding iOS graphics: http://jstn.cc/post/13829720580 [
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I dry-hop my distilled water, that's how much I love hops. I only drink septuple IPAs. [
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When I switched to a barefoot running style, problems I had related to distance running (numb feet in mile 3) went away. I then, like others in this thread, moved to minimal everyday footwear. My choice was the around-$15-on-amazon Feiyue kung fu... [
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Backstreet Warlocks
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My favorite example of this (or at least most fondly remembered from youth) is a short story in which a chess master turns half his hair white from researching eldritch patterns which he uses to defeat his opponents through madness.... [
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Thinking that this is a tim rogers piece "about" the evils of social games is a mistake. This is a story about tim rogers' reaction to the rise of social games with some exaggerated characters representing Zynga. I think it's classic gonzo... [
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I'm pretty sure America responded to the threat by sitting on the sidelines for 2+ years after the war started, letting the Soviet Union defeat Nazi Germany, and swooping in late in the game to take all the credit.
Let me begin the... [
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Joi Ito named director of MIT Media Lab
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And anyone who thinks it does has lost all perspective on delicious.
You are arguing with a strawman in true metafilter tradition. [
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Buying a $600 cookbook, unless you are a professional chef who actually needs to live in this tiny tiny niche, makes you a snob. You may or may not be a good cook, but you are certainly a snob.
"Buying a nice car, unless you are a... [
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Two years ago
Ignore the following paragraph and play MGS 1-3. No? OK:
I highly recommend the Gametrailers Metal Gear retrospective. Michael Abbot of Brainy Gamer also posted a Metal Gear Primer that I have not reviewed, however his writing is generally... [
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Is it just me or is "is it just me" like nails on chalkboard? Check out my latest book "Beginners: How Common Vernacular Preambles Created a New Kind Of Angst" where I provide disconnected anecdotes that I use to con sort-of-smart... [
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There's a constant battle pitched on this campus between extremely repressed and boring people who have donors and loud parents on their side and slightly less repressed people that just want to show some movies, host some bands, study the humanities... [
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Nope, telling the same tired hipster jokes with dinosaur pictures doesn't make them funny either. I guess we'll move on to the next item on the list - tired hipster jokes with elephant pictures. We'll keep working until we've scraped the last tiny... [
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the contest creators could just as easily pick any modern browser and standardize the contest against it, completely removing the need for a compatibility layer.
Yeah, but they DIDN'T, did they? The point of the contest is still to make... [
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