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by albertsun 14y ago
The downloadable files for this dataset are much larger than anyone would want to download at one go.
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by albertsun 14y ago
It appears some of the people who you can tip on the site actually had the tip jars set up for them without their knowledge. I think this was on HN before about why that isn't cool. http://krisstraub.com/2011/11/20/kachingle-and-the-transg
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by albertsun 14y ago
Probably to pay his tax bill, right?
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by albertsun 14y ago
The effect is still there, it makes scaling up more difficult. There are possible futures where very small teams can run services for very large numbers of people.
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by albertsun 14y ago
The worst part is that laws like these add to the regulatory burden faced by small internet startups to get off the ground. The trickier the legal environment and the amount of rules that a company has to abide by to do business online, the
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by albertsun 14y ago
I remember back 15 years ago or so when I was a kid visiting Chrysler's proving grounds testing facility there were some self-driving mini vans that had robotic drivers. They were driving (I think) on predefined paths and not on the open ro
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by albertsun 14y ago
Hey! If it doesn't go well or you change your mind you can always come back to journalism now. We are all desperate for people who can write good code and most of us aren't formally schooled either.
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by albertsun 14y ago
Going off the last example, what difference does it make if there is a trojan or not? Bender might very well have chosen to buy at $10.10 and sell at $10.15 without any evil foreknowledge to narrow the spread and it would have caused the so
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by albertsun 14y ago
I've seen it at a children's science museum, forget which one. They had a dark box you could look into with some kind of strobe which produced this effect in the box.
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Bravo reality TV show about tech entrepreneurs coming soon(online.wsj.com)
1 points by albertsun 15y ago|0 comments
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by albertsun 15y ago
Err.... Chrome? Google Earth? There are others too.
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by albertsun 15y ago
It seems that the main improvement here is not anything magical about "gamification" but the idea of presenting students with progressively harder algebra problems in which they get to try out new problem solving methods gradually. Unfortun
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by albertsun 15y ago
You actually still would be extremely unlikely to succeed in doing it because of the dual class stock structure. Most of the actual voting power is in the Class B shares which are owned by a family trust which can't sell shares to anyone ou
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by albertsun 15y ago
If the theory doesn't stand in all cases, then it doesn't stand. It should be "in practice".
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Ikea Manual for Building an Urban Neighborhood(theglobeandmail.com)
7 points by albertsun 15y ago|1 comments
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by albertsun 15y ago
I was (somewhat) recently given the Wonderlic test as part of the standard interview procedure for a fairly large US company that does a lot of recruiting on college campuses.
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by albertsun 15y ago
Unfortunately, I don't know anything about them really.
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by albertsun 15y ago
Even better, our open plan office purportedly has active noise canceling systems similar to what are in noise canceling headphones built into the ceiling. This is to dampen noise from elsewhere in the office and keep distractions elsewhere
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by albertsun 15y ago
Write it down on your phone? Or the back of your hand?
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FAPIIS May Be the Worst Government Website We've Ever Seen(sunlightfoundation.com)
2 points by albertsun 15y ago|0 comments
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by albertsun 15y ago
Reminds me of the story of the Automat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat People thought these were going to replace all restaurants too.
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by albertsun 15y ago
Web developers need conscientious objector status when tasked with building features they know are bad for the web.
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by albertsun 15y ago
How is it that weird? It makes perfect sense for global news distributors to source content from small providers. Not saying they did a good job of it here... but the principle is sound.
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by albertsun 15y ago
Why is this a link to Mashable when all the reporting work and original information is from the Wall Street Journal? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020457370457718...
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Javascript track changes for contenteditable (from nytimes.com)(github.com)
5 points by albertsun 15y ago|1 comments
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by albertsun 15y ago
OkCupid is written in C++ http://www.okcupid.com/about/technology
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by albertsun 15y ago
There is exactly one bit of news in this story. "The panel later scheduled a vote for Wednesday, December 21."
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by albertsun 15y ago
My point is that it's really hard to tell if something is a buzzword or is substance. If you didn't have intimate knowledge of modern web development, everything in that sentence could be a meaningless buzzword and you'd have no idea. When
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by albertsun 15y ago
I understand this critique, but I also think there are times where jargon, abstract expressions and acronyms make communication a lot faster and clearer for people who share the same context and domain knowledge. Trouble is, if you don't ha
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by albertsun 15y ago
This is a great illustration of the difference between designing to help your users do what they want to do, and designing to make your users do what you want them to do. I think most of the design changes we've been seeing on Facebook and

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