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by DanielN 15y ago
Chinese government is dominated by engineers for the same reason that US government is dominated by lawyers, Japanese government is dominated by businessmen and French government is dominated by doctors and teachers. These are the most eas
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by DanielN 15y ago
My guess is you will get some emails directly from this post, but I would also recommend you check you HN office hours ( http://hnofficehours.com/ ) it's basically what you're asking for but for the exchange part.
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by DanielN 15y ago
I'm sorry guys I must be missing something here. I figure that this video and transcript must have some deeper meaning than what I'm grokking from it as it is currently the top story with a whopping ~500 points. To my knowledge, cultural h
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by DanielN 16y ago
I apologize for that. This is pretty far from my area of expertice. I guess a more appropriate titled would be "more efficient than a traditional combustion engine". Either way thanks for improving my understanding of the system.
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Wave Disk Engine Could Be 3.5 Times More Efficient Than Combustion Engines(nextbigfuture.com)
78 points by DanielN 16y ago|39 comments
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by DanielN 16y ago
After viewing this video I logged into Khan academy to check out the practice tracking features highlighted in the video. Mainly I wanted to see the categorical branching of subjects that they showed. Its a pretty amazing idea and execution
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by DanielN 16y ago
I think you may be confusing viral marketing for a pyramid scheme. Given, pyramid schemes are a form of viral marketing, but exponential growth through sharing is necessary without being sufficient. In this case it works out fine for both
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by DanielN 16y ago
This is pretty off topic but it interested me so I thought I would share: This video more than anything got me interested in socialcam (of which I had never heard of before), so I did a little reading and decided to sign up for updates to t
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by DanielN 16y ago
Oh, if only this were true. In fact, the exact opposite is a serious concern for the spread of the internet in the third world. A key characteristic used in defining genocide is the use of popular media to carry out orders. I don't mean t
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by DanielN 16y ago
Yep, as I understand it at least, it's the standard for self posts (no url). It makes it easier to differentiate.
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by DanielN 16y ago
Hm. I don't mean to start a political argument but I'm not sure I agree with this sentiment. I completely see how starting a company can be justified as helping people by providing jobs. But I don't know how reasonable it is to say that
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How Can Programming Ability Be Used to Help People in Poverty(programmers.stackexchange.com)
2 points by DanielN 16y ago|2 comments
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by DanielN 16y ago
It was on Reddit earlier. That may be where the confusion is coming from.
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by DanielN 16y ago
Feature request: Notify me when I enter a location that uses the service. It's just as easy to forget about punch cards on your phone as it is to forget about them in your wallet. This looks like a great product. I can't wait for you to ex
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by DanielN 16y ago
Well, given I have a very limited understanding of their business model, but I would think qik being the main system for video calling on Android would have some effect on them. But again, I have every limited understanding of this so it m
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by DanielN 16y ago
So maybe someone can enlighten me on this: Isn't the biggest winner in this deal not Skype, but in fact Apple Facetime?
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by DanielN 16y ago
That's the point. You build up traction in the surrounding area to break into the campuses where there is competition. (again this is just speculation)
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by DanielN 16y ago
They pretty clearly are in some form of stealth mode. My guess, from looking at their site is that they have some competitors. Go through the schools enabled and there are some pretty glaring omissions. Quite a few very large state schoo
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by DanielN 16y ago
This is what I was thinking. I don't know about Japanese, but sentence structure in mandarin is pretty much reversed from what it is in romance languages. And so much of character meaning is based on context that outside of common phrases
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by DanielN 16y ago
Have you guy's explored at all how difficult mandarin translations will be? If it is possible this would be a huge market for you.
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by DanielN 16y ago
I disagree. There is a comment higher up suggesting that this app could change the way people live their lives. I read this and it occurred to me that this was likely true. With the caveats if they market it correctly, if they handle comp
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by DanielN 16y ago
Can anyone explain to me how they get user screen resolutions?
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by DanielN 16y ago
My recommendation would be that asking for advice in this form is not productive. This is talked about in "Art of the Start". He essentially says that when you present a new idea to people in mass everyone is just going to tell you why it
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by DanielN 16y ago
Because I'm an idiot and meant conspicuous. I'll be editing that now.
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by DanielN 16y ago
Seems to comply pretty well with this http://www.vincos.it/world-map-of-social-networks/ Notice the conspicuous absence of China, Russia and Brazil.
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by DanielN 16y ago
No offense to Stallman, but isn't it the definition of anti-social to be at a dinner table and proceed to play with everyone else's utensils disregarding their desire to use them for, you know, eating?
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by DanielN 16y ago
Isn't that what Hulu is to some extent. I guess it's different forms of media (tv vs. movies) so one could convince themselves that they don't compete, but this seems in the same vain to me.
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by DanielN 16y ago
I can't really fathom why anyone would care what his reasons are. He wants to give away several billion to improve education and eradicate disease and poverty, and beyond that reasons really shouldn't matter. Carnegie's philosophy on wealt
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by DanielN 16y ago
Thanks, that is exactly what I was looking for. I'm somewhat surprised this isn't a larger topic in web design. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places.
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by DanielN 16y ago
Not meaning to be obnoxious but do you, or anyone else, have any suggested reading material on this and similar topics as they apply to web development? Thanks.

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