Gibbon

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Wiki Growth over Time as a Force-Directed Network Layout(infosthetics.com)
7 points by Gibbon 17y ago|1 comments
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Melanin/Hair Based DIY Solar Panels(hackaday.com)
4 points by Gibbon 17y ago|1 comments
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Offline Wikipedia(jsomers.net)
27 points by Gibbon 17y ago|14 comments
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by Gibbon 17y ago
This is what I said the first time YikeBike was posted on HN: "tiny wheelbase + forward centre of gravity + unexpected obstacle = faceplant."
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by Gibbon 17y ago
No mention in the article that you can just do a "define keyword" in google and get the definition from a couple dozen dictionaries and in any language.
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by Gibbon 17y ago
I actually had to check.. I haven't rebooted my server on Slicehost since I got the account, so it's been up 357 days.
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Ted: A Leap From Space [video](blog.ted.com)
1 points by Gibbon 17y ago|0 comments
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by Gibbon 17y ago
Because your paying customers like newspapers but want the convenience of a website?
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by Gibbon 17y ago
From Canada's profit 100 list: Avg founder age: 43 62 have started multiple firms 3 firms on avg. Avg workweek 58 hours Graduate degrees 27 Sole founders 37 Co-founders 48 Female 6 Avg 5-yr growth rate: 2506%
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by Gibbon 17y ago
The gamma in OS X has not been changed to "Microsoft's Standard" but rather to the standard used for the majority of the world's images and video. A gamma correction of 2.2 is necessary for NTSC video and is more or less equivalent to the g
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by Gibbon 17y ago
The NYTimes example is by Khoi Vinh ( http://www.subtraction.com/ ). He's certainly no design slouch, particularly when it comes to grid based layouts. NYTimes is an enormously complex site. Given the ridiculous number of priorities they ha
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The Architecture and Ambition of Craigslist(blog.topix.com)
1 points by Gibbon 17y ago|0 comments
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by Gibbon 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=428776 as one example.
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by Gibbon 17y ago
"Don't make something unless it's both necessary and useful; But if it's both necessary and useful, don't hesitate to make it beautiful." - Shaker Dictum. It's entirely possible that Craigslist is successful on account of its ugliness. It's
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by Gibbon 17y ago
"who cares." -Hackers -Musicians -Apple Fans -Behringer Customers -Behringer Haters -Behringer Competitors -IP Lawyers -Copyright Crusaders and so on. Lots of Hacker News users are musicians. Lots of musicians are hackers. Lots of them own
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by Gibbon 17y ago
There's also a follow-up to the article covering Behringer's notorious IP thefts over the years. http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/09/06/on-behringers-track...
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Please Make Me Think: Are High-Tech Usability Priorities Backwards?(designbyfire.com)
3 points by Gibbon 17y ago|0 comments
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Behringer's Clone of Apple's Homepage(createdigitalmusic.com)
17 points by Gibbon 17y ago|9 comments
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by Gibbon 17y ago
tiny wheelbase + forward centre of gravity + unexpected obstacle = faceplant.
170.
by Gibbon 17y ago
The average age of founders is not 25.. I suggest you revisit your assumptions.
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BlindSearch : And the Results are In (Blind Search Engine Comparison)(delicategeniusblog.com)
2 points by Gibbon 17y ago|0 comments
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by Gibbon 17y ago
I removed mashable from my rss reader a couple months ago. Endless inane articles about twitter. Like a junkie rambling on about the wonders of his new found drug.
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by Gibbon 17y ago
"Fastest-growing company in the world" by what metric? RIM is no. 43 on the profit 100 list of Canada's fastest growing companies. At the no. 1 spot, Allegro Mobile has grown nearly 9000% in five years. ( http://www.allegrowireless.com/ )
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by Gibbon 17y ago
I'm in Canada and, a few months ago, on a whim, we went on a road trip to Pittsburgh. Great town! Clean, friendly people, great food.. From what I saw of the general culture of the place, It would make a great startup location.
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by Gibbon 17y ago
I set 52 national records, tied a world record and won a category at the nationals in model aircraft competitions when I was 15. Two of the records were set at a contest on a sat and I won the nationals at another contest on sunday.. the tw
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by Gibbon 17y ago
Google trends is next to useless for this kind of thing. All I see is a ratio of the peak volume vs. a baseline "normal" traffic volume. Looking at quantcast and compete.. they went from zero to roughly 500k visitors a month in less than tw
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by Gibbon 17y ago
The graphic is complete and totally wrong. The coca-cola script logo has been refined and extended numerous times over the years and they also use the sans-serif "Coke" logo on many of their products. Add in all the other brands, sub-brands
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by Gibbon 17y ago
The Dos Equis ads never fail to amuse me on account of the alleged college application essay I read sometime in the early days of the web. EDIT: Apparently written, in 1990, by musician and author, Hugh Gallagher, as a satiric personal essa
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by Gibbon 17y ago
Carpenter, Cabinet Maker, Machinist, Welder, Luthier or other instrument maker.. take your pick, although it doesn't really count since I already do, or have done all of those.
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by Gibbon 17y ago
I'm not sure that the "largest" companies are even relevant in a discussion about the valley since the larger companies all tend to be outliers in one way or another. About 10% of the INC 500 are based in California. Higher than anywhere el

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