DodgyEggplant

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by DodgyEggplant 10y ago
Do you think that YC, startups, and VCs should seek viable models to support wildlife and animals?
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by DodgyEggplant 10y ago
+ 1000 For the animals welfare. The animals that can't blog, tweet, or complain. Wildlife preservation and care for animals is as important as other common non-profit and foundations goals, but often neglected
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Google codejam registration open(code.google.com)
1 points by DodgyEggplant 10y ago|0 comments
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Whatsapp vulnerability sidesteps message encryption(thestack.com)
3 points by DodgyEggplant 10y ago|1 comments
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by DodgyEggplant 10y ago
A 250 years study found that immigrants and their descendants founded 100% of any U.S. business
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by DodgyEggplant 10y ago
Interaction. It's what one does, and what the environment does and how the interaction goes. What ever you do in the wrong environment, will not help, and vice versa.
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by DodgyEggplant 10y ago
After years with Python, it's still a mystery to me how the same constructs are so intuitive and readable in Python (think it acceptable that they are less in C++, Java or javascript etc, even Ruby)
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Ask HN: Is there any proven model that eliminates corruption?
8 points by DodgyEggplant 10y ago|13 comments
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by DodgyEggplant 10y ago
From a personal friend who is an organic farmer: (a) organic food is hard to do in large fields, since the plants can easily catch anything, and the farmer looses the entire crop.It happens much more than non organic. So the farmer must use
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by DodgyEggplant 10y ago
What about climate change [1], and using less fossil fuels? We need the opposite - less first class, less business class seats, less private jets, to maximise the people who can travel per the same quantity of fuel. A typical passengers air
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by DodgyEggplant 10y ago
This is a correct description of the current situation. But maybe we never explored it? Many fields which were not considered good investment opportunities, are now bringing nice returns.
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by DodgyEggplant 10y ago
This is an area where the startups and disrupting efforts completely fail. We read and learn from so many blog posts about "startup X is shutting down" - but what about species? Would be nice to see wildlife and animals as priorit
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by DodgyEggplant 10y ago
(1) This is a clever implementation. Maybe with a mobile camera it can be even more convenient to use? (2) True knowledge work requires breaks, and can not be measured with simple metrics like "boss watch what on screen" or "
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The FCC Just Caved in to Republican Demands That It Halt Work on Major Issues(motherboard.vice.com)
53 points by DodgyEggplant 10y ago|35 comments
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by DodgyEggplant 10y ago
"sex" >> Sorry that current Microsoft Concept Graph doesn't contain this instance.
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Shocking Illustrations Reveal How Animals Feel by Switching Them with Humans(facebook.com)
1 points by DodgyEggplant 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Scripts to auto install a complete django web server on Ubuntu VPS
1 points by DodgyEggplant 10y ago|0 comments
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by DodgyEggplant 10y ago
Great reminder for the early lessons on social media, which didn't really changed since: http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/group_enem...
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by DodgyEggplant 10y ago
This is great of course, but then again - it feels like human is the only species on this planet. We really have to start to think as an echo system, especially with technology.
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by DodgyEggplant 10y ago
This article reminds an always missing in the startup "change the world" culture: animals and wild life. There is almost no investment, innovations, startups etc in this direction. The poor animals can't blog.
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Scripts to auto-install a django site on your own VPS(Ubuntu,MySQL,Apache,Nginx)(github.com)
1 points by DodgyEggplant 11y ago|0 comments
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Auto install a complete django website on a clean slate Ubuntu VPS(github.com)
3 points by DodgyEggplant 11y ago|0 comments
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The django “polls” tutorial with Git & deployment to a real website(github.com)
2 points by DodgyEggplant 11y ago|0 comments
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by DodgyEggplant 11y ago
Also: auto-install a matching development & deployment local website on OSX or Ubuntu Desktop ,and the polls tutorial with git & deployment to a real website. [OSX https://github.com/Aviah/one-click-django-dev-o
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A set of scripts to auto-install a complete single-server django website(github.com)
1 points by DodgyEggplant 11y ago|1 comments
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by DodgyEggplant 11y ago
Hi Sam! Would you consider to add preserving wild life and animals to YC https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/ ? After all, animals also live here with us, humans. And we need them too. Maybe startups and innovation can help
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Financial scams in China nabbed at least 24B in 2015(qz.com)
5 points by DodgyEggplant 11y ago|0 comments
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The most viewed business of software talks of all time(thebln.com)
1 points by DodgyEggplant 11y ago|0 comments
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by DodgyEggplant 11y ago
It's digg all over again
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by DodgyEggplant 11y ago
Notably, copyrights owners still didn't solve the "not available in your country" issue. A lot of people WANT to pay, but can't, since there is no legal option to pay for the content in their country

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