One expects to read clear, honest disagreement in regard to a leftist activist on a news site devoted ,at least partially, to startup culture, but that review is a complete joke. This isn't an obligatory challenging, its an ideological hit piece masquerading as a book review. If this sounds like an over the top response to the above comment, this is the bio blurb at the top of the review;
"Mr. Flynn is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia and author of the newly released, Why the Left Hates America: Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation’s Greatness."
Does "Why the left hates america" sound like an unbiased, historically accurate take on anything?
The below response is also dead on, this was completely graceless.
There have been more than a few studies on the way the Washington Times news room works. This is the Moonie owned paper we're talking about here. And while I'm hesitant to beat a dead horse lately about posting and trolls and the subjective nature of what constitutes news for hackers, this doesn't exactly jump out at me as hacker news. It looks like political trolling.
No fan of ESR, in any way but...really? Do you need to crap out your personal opinion on why he's the way he is? Do you know him? Honestly, i don't know you but, do you hangout with the guy?
But how do we convince them that is the case? I agree with you wholeheartedly, but we (or someone) needs to convince these companies that this is something they can afford to lose a little ad revenue on in the short term. Whats more, the companies you listed, especially google, are extremely well connected, I doubt this is shock to them.
Much respect. I didn't see your post further up the tree when I replied. And not to get graphic, but the article didn't quote what the formal definition of 'sex' was for their research.
All three of these are right on target. You can also lump extreme self hatred in those who never manage to come to terms with who they are. That tends to kill the libido.
If someone who saved it can find it there was a post on the designer of SuperMemo a few weeks (I think) ago. It uses a spaced rep algorithm to remember what you're understanding (or not) and schedule information accordingly. Anki and Mnemosyne are 2 opensource versions of the same thing.
If anyone is in Boston, Harvard has a (i believe) monthly seminar put on by the iic-cs and last year around this time Boston dynamic was one of the guests. They're usually fascinating talks.