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Announcing the Winners of the Apps Against Abuse Technology Challenge (whitehouse.gov)
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by _corbett 15y ago
I've used SimpleGeo since I met Joe Stump at Foo Camp. I was talking about my early stage iPhone app, Kliq which needed reverse geo coding and a few other basic location features. He suggested SimpleGeo and I got started quickly–though each
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by _corbett 15y ago
very beautiful, felt voyeuristic reading it though–private Jobs public eulogy.
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by _corbett 15y ago
Yea I'm confused. Seems the UI of the iPhone SDK might have changed but nothing else? SSO's been around for awhile, etc.
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Paper: Spotify – Large Scale, Low Latency, P2P Music-on-Demand Streaming(csc.kth.se)
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by _corbett 15y ago
guess this will be more exciting when they actually have the application live :-)
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by _corbett 15y ago
I live in Switzerland, most people I know speak at minimum three languages fluently, and a huge proportion 4 or 5.
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NASA will accept applications in the fall of 2011 for class of 2013(astronauts.nasa.gov)
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by _corbett 15y ago
So I’m more optimistic; the basic conflict human vs. vacuum may yet be won as private companies rightly take interest in the final frontier-c.f. SpaceX and their amazing ambitions. Also, if the powers that be are listening: sign me up for t
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Tevatron shutdown cocktail–just in time for Friday night(quantumdiaries.org)
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by _corbett 15y ago
I was at an Akamai presentation the other day in which the salesperson claimed "100% reliability" of their services "not 99%, not 99.9% but 100%".
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by _corbett 15y ago
echoing the excitement for the international expansion.
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by _corbett 15y ago
hey-so in my interpretation the basic thesis of this document is that MIT's culture doesn't really support "burnout prevention and recovery" which rings true to me. I never experienced burnout at MIT but yea my intuition about avoiding it i
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by _corbett 15y ago
this is very accurate, even if you don't come in like this, you come out of MIT with this view. 5 years later I've never escaped the "MIT VIEW: Increase intensity. Maximum intensity = maximum productivity. If you find yourself relaxed and w
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So a neutrino runs into a tachyon in a bar….(cosmicrays.wordpress.com)
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Kliq, making Facebook events better.(youtube.com)
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by _corbett 15y ago
my tattoo means something to me (a stylized hydrogen atom; I'm a physicist) but it also has multiple meanings and is first and foremost an aesthetic decision.
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by _corbett 15y ago
you should see some of the code that smart, hardworking and logical people end up writing in the sciences because they are 10 years behind in programming education and experience. then the next generation of PhD students rolls in and rinse,
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by _corbett 15y ago
There aren't enough good programmers. Period. In fact there also aren't enough programmers, period.
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by _corbett 15y ago
I completely disagree with this, programming is a fundamental skill in a variety of careers and can be used as a tool to teach how to think. It isn't an either-or proposition, incorporating programming exercises into any science oriented cl
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by _corbett 15y ago
I'm always skeptical of people who contend that teenagers/children are happier without seemingly any data other than their personal rose-colored memories. I personally have grown happier every year since age 6 or so (prior to that I don't r
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by _corbett 15y ago
I worked for a year at a company and training two people to do my job from a stack of my personal notebooks and insider knowledge was a nightmare. After that I decided to keep a personal wiki which was easily searchable. Having gone the .tx
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by _corbett 15y ago
Arabic is terrific and difficult. I studied it for years, including moving twice to the Middle East but in just a few months of study was better at German than at Arabic simply because of the cognates. It's definitely worth the effort thoug
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by _corbett 15y ago
my co-founder and I don't pair program per se but we both are familiar with each other's main domain and often switch (front end/back end) when the other is stuck or frustrated. this works pretty well, I've found, and has the added bonus th
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by _corbett 15y ago
Ah, I saw this talk from a live stream! Really felt your pain but I think the audience was sympathetic. I took it as a good lesson to have a demo-fallback which also works offline, although admittedly that's not as realistic.
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by _corbett 15y ago
I'll try to come!
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by _corbett 16y ago
I do this myself... at first as a side effect as I work on any number of machines and sync my entire home directory. but I got used to being able to roll back to a recent version even if I somehow screwed up committing (has saved me a coupl
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by _corbett 16y ago
nice work!
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by _corbett 16y ago
thanks, glad I'm not alone :-).
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by _corbett 16y ago
RT @sacca @corbett_inc Totally fair point. To the people downvoting this comment: The whole culture of booth babes and strippers really does put people off, and it happens at a lot of trade shows etc. Literally any time one brings up a pr

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