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by RK 17y ago
http://istwitterdown.com/
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by RK 17y ago
College is a lot more applied, and brute studying and memorization will get you nowhere. You need to hang out with more pre-meds. I agree with your sentiment, but disagree with your conclusion, unfortunately. Pre-meds and especially med s
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by RK 17y ago
You can see a clear spike in submissions right around US Thanksgiving.
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Android Market past 20k apps (raw stats)(androlib.com)
2 points by RK 17y ago|2 comments
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by RK 17y ago
Sometimes I have the feeling that some of his submissions are subtle experiments.
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by RK 17y ago
That's also the story behind the name of "Blondie24", the AI checkers bot. They started with some handle like Jedi123, but no one would play them online... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blondie24
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by RK 17y ago
I have a friend who works as a copywriter, and I have to say that it sounds like a shitty job. My friend talks excitedly about the pinnacle of copywriting being "direct mailing", which we all know as pre-email spamming. I think the appeal i
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by RK 17y ago
From an architectural point of view, because EC2 will terminate instances whose bid price becomes lower than the Spot Price, you'll want to regularly checkpoint work in progress Are they saying that they will kill your instances or kill t
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by RK 17y ago
Like the Kill-A-Watt? http://www.p3international.com/products/special/P4400/P4400-...
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by RK 17y ago
In case you were like me and had no idea what "high street shops" were: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Street
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by RK 17y ago
I know next to nothing about geographical data / cartography, but it would be nice to have these in SVG, like in this how to from Flowing Data: http://flowingdata.com/2009/11/12/how-to-make-a-us-county-th...
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What on earth is happening with "Russia's GPS"?(brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com)
1 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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by RK 17y ago
The comedy bit Matt mentions is by Lewis Black talking about the street in Houston with two Starbucks across from each other. It now has three (sort of): http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2009_479001...
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The Google Phone "Is a Certainty"(gizmodo.com)
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by RK 17y ago
One of my relatives works in the petroleum exploration industry as a consultant. He told me that on a recent stint in Moscow he came across a real, physical software black market. He said that they basically told him they could get him anyt
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by RK 17y ago
[Jolicloud] allows me to install new apps without the hassle of Ubuntu. Believe me, I was running Ubuntu before and app install and maintenance is a headache. I find this to be a bewildering comment. Unless you are trying to install some
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by RK 17y ago
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100+
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Poll: How many legitimate emails do you receive daily?
7 points by RK 17y ago|10 comments
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by RK 17y ago
Did you read the article? That was the whole point of the article. For example: Returnees run into trouble when they “look Indian but think American,” It was specifically talking about people who had spent lots of time outside of India (i
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by RK 17y ago
Probably because when you are trying to startup you need to live that minimalist lifestyle, at least in a business sense. Think about the term ramen profitability. Also pg wrote an article about getting rid of "stuff" at one point. http://
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Designed by Consumers - Screenless Laptops(pcworld.com)
2 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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Progopedia - a Wikipedia for programming languages(progopedia.com)
2 points by RK 17y ago|1 comments
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by RK 17y ago
How do we know what to do, and how do know if we'll like it? The obvious answer is that we do and like whatever the TV tells us to do and like. I'm not certain that's the best answer though. I really like a lot of what Paul Buchheit has d
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by RK 17y ago
From the article: Americans spend more money each month on their wireless bills than people in any other country.
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by RK 17y ago
I have never understood the educational purpose of tenure for pre-university level teachers. It just seems like a symptom of teacher unions holding the system hostage.
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by RK 17y ago
For my long-term learning goals, I wrote a quick python script to randomly select a daily study topic from my list. I'm also considering using spaced repetition for reviewing what I've already covered.

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