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Same here. It doesn't happen often, once or twice a month but has been happening since as long as I can remember so I always thought it was actually normal... I do seem to have it more when I'm very stressed.
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sound occurs in my head

What does that mean exactly? Could you describe it? Does it sound like physically outside but you realize by logic that it "didnt happen", or is it clear right away that it's an imaginary sound?
"a document-oriented system that never requires the user to launch or quit an application, nor to "save" their work, would still represent a leap forward today."

Have you looked at iOS or Mac OS X Lion?
Don't completely agree. Building an ecosystem isn't just providing an API, its providing an API that actually works. Facebook might have gotten away with a shoddy API (I've created two social apps) that includes inconsistent data and suspect documentation because it was the only game in town. But with increased competition in social, hopefully Facebook realizes it will lose developer patience if it doesn't improve the overall quality.

Here's to competition and anti-monopolies.
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Are you in the GNOME 3 "design" team by any chance?
How does Amazon have a "strong network effect"? I'd still use it even if none of my friends did; it's not like Facebook (or instant messaging networks, to use the 11-year old example from the article) where my friends not using it would render it useless (or even less useful).

The only things I can think of is that (1) customers will advertise for you by word-of-mouth, and (2) it's cheaper per user the more users you have (economies of scale), but Ben and Jerry's has both of these properties as well and the author says it has "no network effect". It is true that its reviews have a strong network effect, but that's not the part of their business they profit from directly - you can easily just check Amazon for its reviews and then go to Buy.com to actually make the purchase.

Can someone clarify what he might mean when he says Amazon's business has a strong network effect?

I also don't really understand how Amazon has "strong customer lock-in", either. Maybe "weak customer lock-in" would be appropriate, as once you make an account it's easier to order more items, since you don't have to figure out the design of the website and re-enter your credit card and shipping info. Amazon Prime clearly has strong lock-in as you're paying for a one-year subscription in advance, but nowhere near the majority of customers use it (I would assume) and it didn't even exist in when this article was written.
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It seems that you fall prey to the "typical mind fallacy". For example, some people thought imagination was just a metaphor, not something that people actually do. Turns out that people have different capacity of imagination.

I don't experience exploding head syndrome though.

Speaking of atypical mind, sometime I experience my vision become white entirely for a few moment. They are so brief that I am not sure that they occurs or they are just my imagination.
I occasionally experience the same thing during sleep as well - never knew there's a name for it. It used to scare me a lot when I was a kid, but after some time I've learned to control my fear when it happens.

It also seems to be triggered when I'm attacked by ghosts or monsters in nightmares, or when I jump off from a building in dreams - my brain seem to use that to simulate death in dreams. After which I'd either wake up or transition to another dream.
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I thought Designers Don't Read was great (don't let the name fool you). It's basically an art director's take on advertising and design with bits of history and insights thrown in: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1581156650
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I'm hearing drums sometimes. Weird. Or knock on a door.
It's extremely likely that any space faring civilization would have developed weapons capable of their own destruction sooner or later. If they weighed things with such a calculus, then it's extremely likely that they would have wiped themselves out. I think that if we extrapolate from our own development then it's quite clear that high technology without the insight to use it is extinguishing in nature. After all look at us, we've scarcely scratched the surface of what technology can do and our lack of insight is already killing us. However, there is an alternative around that too, if they are ant-like in their social structure, peaceful for their colony and hostile towards alien beings, then their inclination towards violence could survive the curse of high technology. However on the whole, I think that if we ever do manage to make contact with sentient beings then it is extremely likely the contact will be peaceful.

That said, all such postulations are futile, because any such species will be smarter than me and beyond my means to understand.
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Looked though Wikipedia a bit.. apparently this may be related to something quite common call Hypnagogia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

Look under the "Sounds" heading - makes a lot of sense to what I'd experienced. The loud sounds happen when I'm either transitioning from or to sleep.

Jumbled speeches is another thing I'd experienced during such a state - it feels like it makes perfect sense when you're in the state. But if something wakes you up or you're somehow able to summon your conscious thoughts, you'd find the speeches you just heard were just a random stream of words.
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I always wonder about motivation, though. I guess an alien civilization could destroy us by accident, or by not caring about us. But I still can't figure out why they'd do it on purpose. What's the point? Get our resources? If you can travel across interstellar space, you have more than enough empty rocks to mine and stars to get energy from...
I did not complete offcourse but I started reading The Alchemist - really very interesting book to read and the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - completed the first chapter - this is a good book written on personal inward-out change.
I too have this occasionally, never really thought it was odd though, I just get a loud bang which is always accompanied by a flash of white in my vision. I suppose exploding head is an apt name for it :)

I also experience sleep paralysis quite often, does anyone else? I wonder if that's related.
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This year was solely devoted to pleasure reading.

Neal Stephenson's REAMDE was quite good, although I imagine everybody on HN has read it, as Neal is practically a Valley institution.

The original 'Starship Troopers' by Ray Bradbury was also a good read, and easy to miss if you're into more modern science fiction.
I've worked on a few projects over the years and finally had one that I was proud to call a startup. We got into a top incubator program and busted our butts for a really long time. We had a set of willing investors, a rock solid MVP evolving to a real product and a launch event that was the talk of the town. We did everything right, asked good questions and were personable as hell. And in the end, I departed from the venture due to team fit issues. No matter how much I want to point fingers, I know I was also another source of the problems. I guess what I learned from this situation is -- deal with your shit early. I knew there were problems, but our team swept these issues under the "I'm going to work hard and sleep on the floor" rug and by the time we were ready to talk about them, they were at an unforgivable stage. Startups are intense and I was OK with that.. but the minute I stopped having fun, I stopped being productive. I also started to sacrifice my own activities to make the startup work and when I eventually did get burned out, I was feeling pretty bummed overall. A better balance and celebrating more team wins could have definitely helped.
"A little history of the world" by E.H. Gombrich. I've never been too enthusiastic about History in general, but I couldn't put this book down until finished.
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In addition to the map tiles, OSM has an unbeatable advantage over any proprietery solution - you can take advantage of raw data and do whatever you can think of. For example, you can write your own route finding solution, tweak it whatever you like and potentially find new unexplored ways to existing problems (which I did for social based routing project in Eastern Europe). Needles to say - none of that is possible with the proprietary providers like Google.
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Social games has been doing this for 2+ years already, with JSON log files scraped into various databases and viewed using web tools for everything from A/B test impressions to virality to monetization to error logging (especially useful when you can't get the error to reproduce locally).
Feels like a speeding locomotive rushing through my brain, while you're fully aware of the roaring fury of it and yet totally paralyzed. I can't even open my eyes. When I was 17 I'd get them quite often. One time in that period, my experience could have been described as paranormal. My eyes somehow opened, and the "energy" tore through of my body in a green light that swirled and floated throughout my bedroom. That particular type of experience only happened that one time.
In the bible this is referred to as the sound of the river Jordan - its considered a spiritual experience. I used to get it in deep meditation. Blew my mind.
My choice is "Hackers and Painters" in Chinese edition, though it is first pressed in 2004.
Is it necessary to be books published in 2011? If not, Calculus Made Easy is the best book I read in 2011.
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Not tech related, but I loved Devil in the White City by Larson and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Pirsig.

Also, I reread Rework about 3 times this year. Always a good and quick read.
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It's about a "resident humanist" at a research institution who makes an improbable bet with a computer scientist/AI researcher. For people in tech, it's a fantastic read.
It is not just a difference in syntax, it is about the core. While all those programming languages are great in their respective areas, Scheme is directly based on the lambda calculus and as such it defines a minimal amount of primitives/constructions, on top of which you can build almost any other concept from scratch. This is great for a person learning the ropes.
I've read a lot of books this year, some have already been mentioned (eg. Gawande, Gombrich). I've been devouring the Game of Thrones books since summer, and as no one has mentioned it yet, I'll point it out.
I started listening to audio books very recently, so some of these books might be old to you.

* Predictably Irrational - How Humans behave and why.

* 4 hour work week - About how to earn money to live not live to earn money

* Made to stick - How to convey ideas in a way others will remember

* Lean Startup - How to build products using continuous innovation

* Guerrilla Marketing - Basic Marketing principles in 30 days

* Rework - Myth Buster for Internet/Tech companies

* Outsider Edge - Condensed History and reasoning for success of self-made billionaires

* Linus Torvalds - Just for Fun - About Linus Torvalds

Ebooks ( haven't finished reading yet, but they are great so far )

* Getting thing Done - Management principle for knowledge workers by David Allen

* Agile Development - Building Rails apps using agile methodology

I can't believe I've finished 8 books in 2011, long live audio books.
Read the original post again. An MVP Rails app can be built in fourteen days by an experienced dev/designer duo, no problem.

But startups aren't just web companies. The idea could be a physical product that requires prototyping, for example, and that's not getting done in two weeks of part-time work.
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Did you mean Robert Heinlein? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers
You are of course referring to the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which governs claims on celestial bodies by the ratified signatory nations. It affects states that are party to the treaty. The US and 99 other nations have agreed not to claim ownership of celestial bodies. The treaty has no bearing whatsoever on what private individuals, corporations, and non-signatory nations may do, nor does it prescribe violation of the treaty as a criminal act as you claim.

For those in the future finding this comment, here is an article arguing why even for the nations who signed it it was bad law that has hobbled the exploration of space and expansion of the human species onto other worlds.

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Interoperability between services is bound to be the next big thing. Nice job, guys!
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Because there is better? Nokia's had python forever on their phones, and now QML (declarative + javascript).
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I'd say it's a tie between 2 books by Jonathan Safran Foer:

"Everything is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close".
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. It's a really good book for starting entrepreneurs.
Other than the Google logo in the bottom left hand corner, Google has done a great job of taking the back seat on development. You can pretty much make a map that looks like it's completely void of the Google family.

When creating a mapping application, it's extremely important to stay away from that. There's no point to creating an application that's just a styled Google map. There has to be a point to having your application centered around a map. I think a drawback of using Google maps (or any of the mapping services) is that it's so familiar to people. A lot of people might assume that the application your building is just a Google growth. Fortunately, Google has a good deal of features built into the API to keep that from happening. You can pretty much design what your map will look like down to the most seemingly superfluous of details.

Mapping applications are so awesome because of how interactive and driven by visual exploration they are. I think there will be a lot more of them doing things that we don't expect to see in the future.

One last note: Any TileMill developers out there? What would your advice be for someone who is making a mapping application/considering moving over from gmap?
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"Devices and Desires" by KJ Parker: An interesting fantasy book that is centered around an engineer---his unique take on complex human situations might appeal to the more analytical amongst us.
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