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by SandB0x 16y ago
This is useful, but pretty standard undergrad material. There are more interesting OCW courses, such as Street Fighting Mathematics: This course teaches the art of guessing results and solving problems without doing a proof or an exact cal
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Graduate tax proposed to replace UK university tuiton fees(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by SandB0x 16y ago|0 comments
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Well, truth is stranger than fiction: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/02/apple_glove_patent/ Edit: And it looks like someone's beaten me to the joke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bL8PB_w0-8
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by SandB0x 16y ago
They'll announce the iGlove, which will fix your faulty left hand.
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Ask HN: Is there a front page ranking bug?
2 points by SandB0x 16y ago|2 comments
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by SandB0x 16y ago
How did this drop off the front page all of a sudden? One minute it was top, the next it's #35. I'm not really bothered, but this looks like a bug.
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by SandB0x 16y ago
You could become a gigolo who fixes ladies' computers.
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I'm coming down there(asofterworld.com)
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Ask HN: Should some re-submissions go back on the Newest list?
2 points by SandB0x 16y ago|0 comments
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Cooperative Grasping and Transport using Quadrotors(youtube.com)
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701.
by SandB0x 16y ago
I found 46 how can i find my son 55 how can i get my son back very sad.
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by SandB0x 16y ago
It's a huge mess of contractors, sub-contractors and consultancies. Enormous companies or consortia bid for these projects, government ministers have no freaking idea about software or technology so hire consultants to consult about hiring
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What kinds of software development are in high demand? (Greg Kuperberg)(stackoverflow.com)
25 points by SandB0x 16y ago|6 comments
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Six years on, Benjaman Kyle is no nearer to answering the question: who am I?(guardian.co.uk)
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Sneakers (Film, 1992)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by SandB0x 16y ago|1 comments
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Practise standing over a bed or a couch. This greatly speeds up the ball recovery process, allowing you to iterate faster with far less frustration!
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AppleCare: The iPhone 4 Update Won't Solve the Antenna Problem(gizmodo.com)
2 points by SandB0x 16y ago|1 comments
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YouTube Leanback(youtube.com)
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Have the bite mark come out of the first 'C'. Seems a touch Apple-ish when I think about it, but you've already got a bit of that going on: http://www.cultofmac.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/apple-... Shoot me an email if you like. I
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Hmm, mostly agnostic eh? Looks like a startup could shake things up here. Let's bootstrap a new religion! http://god.ly has a nice ring to it.
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by SandB0x 16y ago
No screen can render all colours properly, and from what I've read the AMOLED screen on the Nexus One has a far larger colour gamut.
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Remember: Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.
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Simplicity(stuffthathappens.com)
1 points by SandB0x 16y ago|0 comments
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Second example of funky italics I've seen today. You want to use asterisks :) See: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Symbian, Palm (HP), Microsoft, even BlackBerry. In the long run it doesn't look like these guys stand a chance any more, does it?
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by SandB0x 16y ago
It's a vicious cycle. Next time there's a new Microsoft product people will be more wary of buying in ("Is it worth the risk? What if they scrap it like the Kin?"), leading to fewer sales, making another failure more likely.
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Learn about typography. This will start to change how you think. A fantastic and accessible starting point is: "Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type Works", by Erik Spiekermann http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stop-Stealing-Sheep-Find-Works/dp
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by SandB0x 16y ago
"6pm: The score stands at 34-34. In order to stay upright and keep their strength, John Isner and Nicolas Mahut have now started eating members of the audience. They trudge back to the baseline, gnawing on thigh-bones and sucking intestines
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by SandB0x 16y ago
Drawing or sculpture. Dance. Calligraphy. Magic tricks.
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by SandB0x 16y ago
There's also a great "Locals and Tourists" version, which colour codes the points accordingly: http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/7215762420915863...

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