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Comment · 13 years ago
It is "Nurture over Nature" approach. From wiki about Laszlo Polgar, father of Polgar sisters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r :

>He is interested in the proper method of rearing children, believing that "geniuses are made, not born".

>He home-schooled their three daughters, primarily in chess, and all three went on to become strong players. An early result was Susan's winning the Budapest Chess Championship for girls under 11 at the age of four. Also his daughter, Judit, could defeat him at chess when she was just five.

Judit became the best female chess player ever and was the youngest GM back then when she was 15.

Comment · 13 years ago
For me the biggest problem wouldn't be noise and distraction, but the lack of privacy.
Comment · 13 years ago
WordPress Expert, Twitter Expert, Internet Evangelist - I have seen those in RL.
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Comment · 13 years ago
There was similar thread on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6204867

>This is because under the Verisign GRS, name servers for second level domains also get entries created. So, you can create a Whois entry for an arbitrarily named server, like ycombinator.com.paulgraham.have.mychildren.com, and it will show up. I haven't been involved in Whois and tld stuff in a while, but back in the day, these host Whois records were allowed because the gtld servers needed glue for domain names - after all, if your domain name is ycombinator.com and your name server is ns1.ycombinator.com, how can a resolver recurse to find that, unless te gtld servers also have an A record for that label/object? So, you could just go create arbitrary A records at the gtld level, which would cause a corresponding Whois entry to be created. Hilarity for all involved.

Comment · 13 years ago
Why didnt OP link to original article?
Comment · 13 years ago
This whole analysis is bad and sensationalistic. His observation is based on 1 search term. In order to make right conclusion someone should analyze at least tens of thousands (or even hundred of thousands) search terms. He also analyzed 1st page results only. He didnt even try to see what sets apart 1st page results from 2nd/3rd/4th. He points to single factor, totally disregarding other factors and their relative importance as part of whole algorithm.
Comment · 13 years ago

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