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by akd 18y ago
The bar for the product is certainly low. The bar for adoption is a much tougher challenge... hopefully Anyvite figures out a way to handle it.
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by akd 18y ago
thanks! I will check these out.
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by akd 18y ago
Great marketing sense by this developer.
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Best introductory statistics book to develop intuitive grasp of topic?
5 points by akd 18y ago|2 comments
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by akd 18y ago
This article reminded me to go buy some Google ads. I just allocated $20 for them and we'll see how it turns out.
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by akd 18y ago
Find a safe place to park and sleep in your car. You can freshen up with some deodorant in the morning and stay 2 days. If you need to take a shower at a motel, you can usually slip a 20 to the front desk person and do so.
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by akd 18y ago
Yes but good public schools have that too.
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by akd 18y ago
Hey, I didn't mean to chase you out of HN :)
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by akd 18y ago
Yes I'm sure it's "reasonably straightforward" to build a dialysis machine in a couple of hours, racing against a dying baby.
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by akd 18y ago
The trick is the almost-invisible edit as they zoom into the underside view of the cola-stained rug.
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by akd 18y ago
Dude, you've got to let it go. If you don't, it will eat at you until there's nothing left. You're evidently a talented and creative person -- find a more constructive outlet for your energies.
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by akd 18y ago
You blame the post for being wordy and complex and then you post something like this...
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by akd 18y ago
Craigslist deliberately forces you to interact within your local sphere. It may suck if you're on the border of two of their regions, but it helps them keep a local focus. They could easily implement nationwide search.
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by akd 18y ago
Computer people put a high value on precision because a single semicolon is the difference between a working Linux kernel and a jumble of compile-time errors.
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by akd 18y ago
You can reduce the time it takes someone to do something, without knowing how long it takes them to do. That's what I'm working on right now. If you make everyone's computer 100% faster, you know that you're delivering a net benefit, even i
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by akd 18y ago
I hope you don't work for NASA :)
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by akd 18y ago
You're saying that last.fm has a 15 second response time?
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by akd 18y ago
"fine art"?
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by akd 18y ago
You can't really google a bird to figure out that it's a magpie (yet), but one does wonder what the point of being able to identify it is. I'd hope that they're learning more concepts in science than rote memorization which is a debunked ed
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by akd 18y ago
What makes these "traps" so bad? I think smart people getting into medicine is a good thing. I think academics make valuable contributions to the world. I think that one of the two US presidential candidates is materially better than the ot
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by akd 18y ago
You can tell this a really educated guy. He's a restaurant reviewer but he draws vocabulary from chemistry, talking about the "dual valency" of a noun.
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by akd 18y ago
But Internet escapism is in large part a rejection of these long-evolved customs. The people who flock to places like /b/ want a place where everything goes. Sure, there will be the equivalent of "private buildings" on the Internet, but the
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by akd 18y ago
What's with all the MSM coverage of 4chan lately? Why, of all Internet communities, does the New York Times write about its filthiest cesspool?
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by akd 18y ago
The terminology sounds quackish but I think they might be on to something -- if you do the same exact thing every day for your whole life, maybe one day you snap and can't do it anymore. If this is true, I would expect it to affect baseball
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by akd 18y ago
So does this mean it's time to buy a Sprint phone (or even iPhone, if the ruling applies to all carriers) in California on a long-term contract and then break it immediately? Before they change policies?
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by akd 18y ago
Nice visualization, but I think the New York Times' version is easier to follow visually because of the fewer colors. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/02/23/movies/2008022...
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by akd 18y ago
I don't think of any good faith contract as being un-American. I wouldn't sign one, but I think the response to companies requiring one shouldn't be to ban them, but to let them lose all the great talent through market mechanisms.
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by akd 18y ago
For a site like bird-cage.com, perhaps a bird cage manufacturer so they can have a direct sales presence online instead of selling only through pet shops.
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by akd 18y ago
If you're writing lower-level network stuff working inside a VM can often create subtle timing issues (and conceal others) that need to be debugged on host OSs.
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by akd 18y ago
shudder I have a password which requires letters and numbers, requires a mix of case, and needs a capital letter. It also doesn't accept anything based on a word -- the password "Poopio123!" was rejected for being based on the word "opio.

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