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by ANH 14y ago
My sisters went to non-MIT schools in Boston. While visiting as a curious high school student, I decided to go wander the MIT campus. All I have to do to be inspired is remember the sights I saw through all the open doorways.
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by ANH 14y ago
The National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance in Pittsburgh is the office where the FBI Agent who posed as a member of the carding community worked when he helped take down Max Ray Vision, née Butler.
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by ANH 14y ago
I share doubts about whether their "unlimited" truly means unlimited, but I am also dubious of the "nationwide" claim. Don't zoom in too close on their coverage map or those vast swaths of comforting green (strong signal, yeah!) dissolve in
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by ANH 14y ago
Similar scenario happened where I was working one summer. The printer in the office I was borrowing started printing porn while I was out. "I swear it wasn't me!" Not sure if they identified the guilty party.
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by ANH 14y ago
Makes me wonder what Amazon is doing to commoditize its complements, i.e. what it's doing to improve high speed internet access. There are a lot of people in my vicinity who have no option faster than a wireless 3Mbps connection capped at a
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by ANH 14y ago
Point of interest: In one of the press conferences yesterday they said they're planning to push an update to the rover's software soon after they get the X-band antenna deployed (which should have happened already).
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by ANH 14y ago
Perhaps what the parent was getting at is that other companies seem more risk averse. Google isn't afraid to fail in public. I can't remember the last truly exciting thing I heard about from BMW or Mercedes that was being tested in the real
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by ANH 14y ago
I'm a pre-Yahoo Flickr Pro user, and the most annoying thing for me is needing a Yahoo account. Every week or couple of weeks I'm presented with a Yahoo login popup that 1) is inconsistent with the Flickr UI and 2) prevents me from being ab
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by ANH 14y ago
The first application that comes to my mind is improving the quality of photos in real estate listings. Half the time it looks like they were taken by a camera phone circa 1995 by someone who was skipping from room to room.
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by ANH 14y ago
I work remotely, but make it into the office every couple of weeks. I had already worked with this team for two years prior to making this arrangement, so the managers and I know each other well. However, it does seem the new folks on the t
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by ANH 14y ago
I lived in Taos, NM for about a year and never heard the eponymous Hum. Recalling the recent Hacker News item about anechoic chambers, it wouldn't surprise me if it has something to do with how quiet the place is. On more than one occasion
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by ANH 14y ago
This is great. I'll never forget the day I bit into a shard of metal in my pizza in high school.
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by ANH 14y ago
Technically, it was the orbiter's engines that could be shut down. "Space shuttle" is used to refer to the whole assemblage of orbiter, solid rocket boosters (which cannot be shut down), and external fuel tank.
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by ANH 14y ago
In the press conference about an hour ago, I think I heard Gwynne Shotwell (President, SpaceX) say Russia offers a seat for $63M, whereas SpaceX will be offering NASA Dragon launches in the $30M range. A Dragon holds seven astronauts.
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by ANH 14y ago
Exactly. I got excited about this when I heard about it a few months back because I was in the middle of developing something that uses data from the PDS, but 1) the prize money was tiny compared to the effort and 2) TopCoder claims ownersh
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by ANH 15y ago
There are institutions, e.g. pension funds, that only invest in equities that provide a dividend. By offering a dividend, Apple is making its stock more widely available => more buyers => more shareholder value.
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by ANH 15y ago
The most recent Econ Talk ( http://www.econtalk.org/ ) is an interview with a former Goldman quant who said that Goldman's culture changed "markedly" for the worse when it went public. Before that, Goldman's partners had a huge incentive to
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by ANH 15y ago
I'm a Steam user and I'd probably buy one. I don't own any consoles, and I don't own a Windows machine. I'm tired of booting from OS X into Windows to play Windows-only titles. I'd much rather have an unobtrusive box in the corner that can
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by ANH 15y ago
See the recent case of the woman who won against Honda in small claims court for advertising inaccurate mileage: http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2012/02/woman-wins-honda-hyb... Of course, Honda plans to appeal, so...
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by ANH 15y ago
It's clear from the article that she loves writing and story, not to mention the quality of the people working in the industry and BioWare in particular. I would not describe her overall engagement with the work as "indifferent".
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by ANH 15y ago
Jeff has added a link. Thanks, Jeff!
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by ANH 15y ago
Missed that one. Too busy reading Hacker N -- I mean, writing code. And the meme-ification only makes me feel slightly better about it. I mean, what's it cost Jeff to give a little credit?
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by ANH 15y ago
Sorry, off-topic, but as a fan it really bugs me that graphic halfway down appears taken without attribution from Hyperbole and a Half. http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/
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by ANH 15y ago
Good stuff. Started playing it, wasn't sure at first, then started working and was immediately in that other place where things get done . But now I'm reading Hacker News.
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by ANH 15y ago
My limited experience has been almost exactly the opposite of that. I think my conversion rate from FB has been significantly better because my software is niche and it's been easier for me to target on FB. But my Google Keyword-Fu could us
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by ANH 15y ago
In my experience with these minutiae, there is usually additional hidden overhead. Not only do I have a client that requires time recorded daily in 15-minute increments, but they are locked into a system (Deltek) that is incompatible with G
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by ANH 15y ago
Direct link to Rolf-Dieter Klein's site: http://www.rdklein.de/ Says there's an iOS version awaiting approval.
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by ANH 15y ago
In fairness to you, I'd guess you, too, would code like a demon with such a short and hard deadline. I've watched previous of his codestreams and strange crap does happen, but instead of sitting and thinking for ten minutes, he codes and re
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by ANH 15y ago
May get downvoted for pedantry, but the spelling error in the first paragraph on that page drives home the OP's point. There are so many ways to undermine yourself as an indie dev.
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by ANH 15y ago
If right next to the $4.00 coffee there was a large selection of free but low quality caffeinated beverages, I'm pretty sure some folks would spend a lot more time before deciding to buy. And the chemical addiction thing probably short circ

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