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by altay 19y ago
anyone have any suggestions as to how i can make this a little more functional? it's the code for the score ticker on my site, http://www.qtoro.com . (uses the prototype js framework.) it was feeling pretty good til i had to put in thos
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Left-brain/right-brain -- the dancer illusion debunked
27 points by altay 19y ago|11 comments
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by altay 19y ago
Meditation and yoga. Seriously.
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by altay 19y ago
Turning it upside down might introduce some other variables. Check out Einstein on pg. 11 (warning... pdf): http://visionlab.harvard.edu/Members/Olivia/tutorialsDemos/B...
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by altay 19y ago
That's the coolest Necker cube ever. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necker_cube ) But I've never heard of any connection between left/right dominance and this phenomenon ("binocular rivalry"). I suspect it might be BS... In any case, if y
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by altay 19y ago
That's the only downside of Firebug -- a memory leak. It's worst on sites with periodic ajax requests, like Gmail. In general, it's best to leave Firebug disabled by default, and only enable it for specific urls when you need to use it.
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by altay 19y ago
Here's what I want. A social place for self-employed folks to work. Coffee shops these days are full of laptop jockeys. Proprieters hate it when we hog the booths, and we hate it when they charge for wireless. Give me a place catered t
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by altay 19y ago
I prefer Webdings: http://www.zakie.fsnet.co.uk/ChatRoomsStuff/Help/wingdingsfo... Admittedly, there's a bit of a learning curve, but once you've gotten over the hump, it's much more pleasant to code "heart smiley lightning-bolt" than a
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by altay 19y ago
It's still early enough that the "plus internet" strategy gets you pretty far when you're trying to come up with ideas. By "plus internet," I mean, hang out with people who don't have an unhealthy obsession with the internet. Lend them a
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by altay 19y ago
He also talks about a lot of other stuff which is pretty damn mind-blowing. Folks that haven't watched this talk... you should. It really got me thinking in new ways. There's a reason why von Ahn won a MacArthur ("Genius") Grant for his
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by altay 19y ago
Does anyone have any idea how Max could top PayPal with Slide? Flickr -- that other photo-sharing site -- sold for, what, around $30 million? Paypal sold for $1.54 billion .
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by altay 19y ago
That's what everyone says until they try Firebug. I'm not kidding -- I know at least three people who asked me the same question, then came back a week later and said "you're right, this is way better." The interface is far more usable. A
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by altay 19y ago
Here's a great NerdTV interview of Max Levchin: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/guests/#l He did the interview on no sleep, so he's kind of loopy. But that makes it even better. Nothing inspires entrepreneurial solidarity like a crac
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by altay 19y ago
Firebug firebug firebug: http://www.getfirebug.com/ This brilliant Firefox extension is how I learned CSS. Click the "inspect" button, then click any page element, and it'll show you all the CSS rules being applied to that element. It'l
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by altay 19y ago
What's rms do to deserve the downvote? The quote is from that movie, and that movie is brilliant .
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by altay 19y ago
For #3, check out the Exception Notifier plugin: http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/exception_notifier . It'll email you any app errors, along with associated session data and whatnot. For #1, I just rolled my own admin stats with XML
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Video Game Shown to Reduce Stress Hormone Levels(dmwmedia.com)
1 points by altay 19y ago|0 comments
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by altay 19y ago
Yup, here's another inspiring one: http://bnoopy.typepad.com/bnoopy/2004/09/always_take_a_c.htm... Joe Kraus' story of how Excite got funded. Take the cookie!
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by altay 19y ago
You're both right. You need the balls to trust your hunches, to put yourself out there, even when there's limited data. But you also need the balls to throw your previous assumptions out the window, in the face of new data. In the case of
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Ask YC: What was your first computer?
14 points by altay 19y ago|79 comments
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by altay 19y ago
Believe in magic, you honkies. Uh, is that really the word you meant to use, Kevin? =) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honky Good luck, everyone!
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by altay 19y ago
Things like "social network for wine lovers" I think are likely to fail. Actually, Cork'd was acquired back in May! http://hivelogic.com/narrative/articles/corkd-acquired
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by altay 19y ago
"...when searching for specific information on a website, [people] focus only on the parts of the page where they would assume the relevant information could be, i.e. small text and hyperlinks." Hm, perhaps Google's success in advertising i
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by altay 19y ago
26 + BA Biology (neurobio/psychology focus)
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by altay 19y ago
Wow, this is a really cool idea! I'd add some stuff about the API interface to the screencast. To me, that's the most interesting part. FYI, I get a server error when I try the Run Utility example at http://www.utilitymill.com/help/api
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by altay 19y ago
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, in a nutshell, is "language influences thought." The classic debunking example is the urban legend, "Eskimos have over a hundred words for 'snow.'" This is often overextended to imply, "...and so Eskimos must c
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by altay 19y ago
John Resig's book is great. (He's the dude behind the jQuery library, and also a YC alum, FYI.) I'd recommend that, and of course the Definitive Guide. Look for the Rhino.
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by altay 19y ago
Is that a photo of the "ConnectR telepresence unit" or the "Looj gutter-cleaning robot"? =)
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by altay 19y ago
I just ran across this thread randomly -- far too late -- but, yes, I would. In a <cough> concurrent thread, I gave my thoughts on why I'm glad I learned JS first: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46531 Functional JS rocks.
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by altay 19y ago
i agree with both of you, but i agree with tyler more.

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