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by TravisLS 14y ago
1. Not yet, although it's a pretty commonly requested feature, so we'll likely include it soon. 2. Again, not yet. What features would you like to see in an API? 3. The main difference is the social value. I can easily make annotations and
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by TravisLS 14y ago
Hi HN folks, I've been on this site for some years now and watched many others post their projects and get great feedback. This is my latest endeavor. I thought it would appeal nicely to the HN crowd who read heavily online. Let me know wha
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Show HN: Annotary - Highlight Web Pages, Share Your Notes(annotary.com)
15 points by TravisLS 14y ago|7 comments
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by TravisLS 14y ago
I have to say, having been both a bike messenger and programmer for several years each, that there are some very alluring aspects to the bike messenger lifestyle. It's serene and meditative, you work outdoors, it's really energizing. The fa
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by TravisLS 14y ago
Cool project. I've officially made an exception to my rule of never signing up for email lists ever ever ever. Looking forward to my first issue.
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The Rules of Storytelling According to Pixar(io9.com)
230 points by TravisLS 14y ago|59 comments
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by TravisLS 15y ago
Indeed. I would argue that the state of campaign finance is such that only special interest groups have the influence required with congress to pass or kill anything. When 100% of your time is dedicated to raising money, you only ever talk
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by TravisLS 15y ago
This is somewhat circular. The government's influence over all these industries is partially a product of the fact that these industries finance the campaigns of the representatives. Representatives without sufficient capital to finance the
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by TravisLS 15y ago
Interesting. I thought the most compelling part of the talk was his interpretation of the purpose for doing math and how we've failed to educate toward that purpose. I assume you're referring to his assertion that deep understanding of by-h
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by TravisLS 15y ago
Indeed. Conrad Wolfram has a great Ted talk on this very subject: http://www.ted.com/talks/conrad_wolfram_teaching_kids_real_m...
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by TravisLS 15y ago
I'll always regret not seeing a shuttle launch. I went once and it was cancelled due to poor weather. Hopefully NASA will replace it with something equally spectacular, or perhaps I'll just have to wait and enjoy a private launch (from on-b
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by TravisLS 15y ago
It's kind of cringe-worthy that a copyright from 1935 isn't public domain, regardless of the circumstances of its issue.
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by TravisLS 15y ago
I've been trying to find this quotation from Neil Degrasse Tyson but haven't been successful. It's one of my favorite perspectives on NASA's budget (and specifically the the importance of lavish, public, manned missions). Paraphrased: Inves
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by TravisLS 15y ago
Or, more importantly, you need to be able to tell them apart when they're not side-by-side at all, shown 3 days apart. I thought that was the author's point, but the solution seems to have the same problem.
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by TravisLS 15y ago
This made me laugh out loud in the middle of a meeting (thanks), but it also raises a great point. In order to truly make programming accessible to everyone, I think you'd either need to train everyone to think like programmers (shudder), o
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by TravisLS 15y ago
Precisely. Just because all the 25-year-olds are proving themselves by working on ad clicks today doesn't mean tomorrow's Elon Musk isn't among them. A generation of kids cutting their teeth on smaller, more approachable products is going t
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by TravisLS 15y ago
This post has kind of a linkbait title, given that the actual content is pretty insightful. The 99.5% comment is really referring to the social media experts missing the bigger point. tl;dr social media isn't just a tactic to dabble in, bec
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by TravisLS 15y ago
I don't really fault them for copying other people. That's a pretty decent strategy for the market leader to take. Deals is a fantastic way to monetize their competitive advantage (the massive database of social profiles and friendship conn
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by TravisLS 15y ago
There's an interesting side effect of this system which I think means that it would have lessened impact on the policies implemented by the elected officials. As in his example, pretend the Kitten party appeals to 10% of the electorate dist
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by TravisLS 16y ago
There was an excellent episode of Radiolab about this subject. If you have the time or inclination to listen to an hour long podcast, I highly recommend "Words": http://www.radiolab.org/2010/aug/09/
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by TravisLS 16y ago
How handy. Thanks for putting this together and instantly shortening my to-do list.
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Don't understand what the product is? Ask a woman(physorg.com)
3 points by TravisLS 16y ago|0 comments
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by TravisLS 16y ago
Community-driven support offers benefits beyond cost savings, for one, it allows users to get faster responses. Your email probably can't provide answers every hour, but a vibrant support community will. Additionally, it gives you a way to
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Designing the World's Smallest Legible Screen Font(blog.makezine.com)
2 points by TravisLS 16y ago|0 comments
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by TravisLS 16y ago
In fairness, I get the feeling the TSA doesn't actually think any of these bottles of liquid are explosives, since they just throw them in the public terminal trash cans. If they did treat every water bottle as an explosive, then yes, this
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by TravisLS 16y ago
I've used one of these in New York for a year or so, and while they stand up well to the wind, there are other design considerations where they're oddly lacking. For instance, on the compact version, the handle is much to small, making it u
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by TravisLS 16y ago
Allow me to add another reason: If you use your real identity frequently to post insightful and interesting commentary, then it will overshadow anything less seemly you may have posted under your real name at some other point in your life.
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by TravisLS 16y ago
This patent is filed February 1990, issued October 1993 - wouldn't that make it expired? Or am I naive?
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Psychologist shows why we 'choke' under pressure -- and how to avoid it(physorg.com)
8 points by TravisLS 16y ago|3 comments
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Saying "RSS Is Dead" Is Dead, Saying "RSS Is Not Dead" Is Not(techcrunch.com)
1 points by TravisLS 16y ago|0 comments

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