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A Prairie Home Companion is a radio show that is broadcast every weekend on public radio and is then rebroadcast seemingly whenever you turn on your car. It is hosted by an old man named Garrison Keillor and is a recording of a live show performed in his home state of Minnesota and also...

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Jaco, 26

“My style is like a country bumpkin.”

Sep 5, 2014 ∙ Downtown, Oakland

#bumpkin

thegendercritic

Gender is a hierarchy. Gender is oppression.

terfosaurus-rex

funny how dudes that don’t even question suffrage don’t realize they are recycling the same boring ass arguments as anti-suffrage males from back in the day

I'd like to write a song about hairdos

#hairdos

#youtellhim

cameronmoll

Craig Mod, who convincingly argues that app development (and their success) is often completely senseless, drops this astounding wisdom on readers about halfway through the article:

The first pass should be ugly, the ugliest. Any brain cycle spent on pretty is self deception. If pretty is the…

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dfkoz

I discovered the Stack Overflow Data Explorer this morning, which allows you to query the entire catalogue of Stack Overflow posts. After playing with it, I decided to figure out which Wikipedia articles have been linked to most often by Stack users over the past two years.

Over a two-year...

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Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 13 Notes Essay

Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 13 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely.

Class 13 Notes Essay— You Are Not A Lottery Ticket

I. The Question of Luck

A. Nature of the Problem

The biggest philosophical question underlying startups is how much luck is involved when they succeed. As important as the luck vs. skill question is, however, it’s very hard to get a good handle on. Statistical tools are meaningless if you have a sample size of one. It would be great if you could run experiments. Start Facebook 1,000 times under identical conditions. If it works 1,000 out of 1,000 times, you’d conclude it was skill. If it worked just 1 time, you’d conclude it was just luck. But obviously these experiments are impossible.

The first cut at the luck vs. skill question is thus almost just a bias that one can have. Some people gravitate toward explaining things as lucky. Others are inclined to find a greater degree of skill. It depends on which narrative you buy. The internal narrative is that talented people got together, worked hard, and made things work. The external narrative chalks things up to right place, right time. You can change your mind about all this, but it’s tough to have a really principled, well-reasoned view on way or the other.

.bat country

Playing Angry Birds on a second generation iPad with a cracked screen, I found the sullen hacker that was my guide in Las Vegas. He looked like a brony with a gluten allergy.

"Come on," I barked, "get up." He looked over the swollen lids of his eyes. He seemed to want to say something but got distracted by the scream of a bird he flicked across the screen.

"What's the WIFI password in this dump?" I asked.

"Guest123" the brony mumbled.

"Seriously? I'm at a hotel hosting a major tech conference with a password like that? I wouldn't connect to that hornet's nest with my worst enemy's Blackberry."

I snatched the iPad from his hands. His swollen, greasy fingers didn't have a chance to challenge me. I opened Safari and was greeted with a hundred tabs of ads for shitty apps. "Jesus." I thought, "I asked for a hacker and they send this noob."

#batcountry #hacker #hn

kingjamesprogramming

Correspondingly, (car z) is defined to be the Saviour of the world.

laughingsquid

Getty Dubs, Stock Videos Augmented With Hilarious Dubbed Sound

dbareactions

When the last guy tells me, “I back up the databases myself each morning."

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