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by altay 19y ago
David Heinemeier Hansson listens to Jewel ?!
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by altay 19y ago
oh, of course! i just assumed that 'love your family and be nice to others around you' goes without saying. =)
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by altay 19y ago
oil painting. taught me to look at the world in a whole different way. and inspired me to change my major. (i'm not saying this to win points with PG. i actually find hacking pretty different from painting.) more generally, stretch out i
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by altay 19y ago
No way. Didn't someone figure out cold fusion in his kitchen sink? ;)
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by altay 19y ago
synthetic biology. here's a fascinating TED talk from craig venter. (if you haven't heard of him, he was instrumental in the human genome project.) http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/6 the part that was new to me was the idea of
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by altay 19y ago
i can't believe i've gotten to the bottom of this thread, and no one has mentioned this. first of all, you can't look at kiva.org and tell me that software can't make a difference in the world. second of all... - measured in dollars, the bi
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by altay 19y ago
eric, one of the shoutfit guys, recently changed his occupation on linkedin to Hiker at Appalachian Trail (Health, Wellness and Fitness industry). sounds like pretty much the coolest job ever. =)
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by altay 19y ago
that's definitely true. though part of what i like about it is the idea of two people using a computer together. the internet is so bizarre in that it connects you to others who are far away, but simultaneously isolates you from folks who
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by altay 19y ago
definitely. another friend suggested a facebook app that helps you find drugs. i have some sketchy friends.
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by altay 19y ago
wow, according to that page, the nokia 1100 is the world best-selling handset. 200 million sold. (cf. 50M razrs, 110M ipods, 115M ps2s) i'm guessing it's cause of the flashlight. ;)
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by altay 19y ago
prson is like my friend's idea -- an online marketplace for the contract killing industry. connect hits and hitmen. =P
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by altay 19y ago
a social network for couples. my married friends complain that they feel like hermits, because it's hard to meet other couples to hang out with. you'd have a shared profile, which is matched with other local couples with similar tastes i
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by altay 19y ago
this isn't a startup, but i want it: a flashlight on my cell phone. i'm always using my phone's screen as a flashlight in the dark, but it's not very bright and drains the battery. they've got those tiny, efficient, mega-powerful LED flash
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by altay 19y ago
vim. if you're hacking rails in vim, make sure to check out the rails.vim plugin ( http://rails.vim.tpope.net/ ). it rocks. also, for general-purpose web dev, use the matchit plugin ( http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=39 )
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by altay 19y ago
Sociology's gonna get a lot more interesting -- and more math-like -- in the coming next few years, now that we can quantify mass behavior and social interactions.
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by altay 19y ago
In Surely You're Joking... , there's a great story about Richard Feynman's experiences with lucid dreaming (though I'm not sure he uses that phrase). It's what inspired me to try. Got it to work twice. Both experiences were during afte
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by altay 19y ago
Amazon has invested in at least one startup: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/25/amazon-invests-in-shelf... Whether or not it's a good startup is another question.
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by altay 19y ago
I'm fond of the 3rd dimension, too. Without it, life would just be so... flat.
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by altay 19y ago
So sad. I was obsessed with Alex for a while. If you've never heard of Alex the parrot or the things he can do, check out this video of him with Alan Alda (3rd from the top): http://www.pbs.org/saf/1201/video/watchonline.htm Once, I got
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Mark Cuban has officially jumped the shark.(blogmaverick.com)
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by altay 19y ago
whoa, small world. baratunde uses my email-management software. this is probably a bad day to tell him we're gonna limit it to 5 emails a day and axe the 'export' function...
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by altay 19y ago
http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html Reasons #2, 7, 8, 14, 16, and 18. ;-)
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by altay 19y ago
Sadly, I was kidding. Does sound like a fun project, though. Hey, that's quite a vision of the future: your Roomba gets you drunk, and your AutoBot drives you home.
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by altay 19y ago
I started one of those YC-funded companies that "crawled off somewhere and died." After that happened, I spent a couple of months staring at walls, feeling sorry for myself. During that time, I listened to everything at venturevoice.com, r
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by altay 19y ago
Actually, I hacked my Roomba to bring me gin & tonics.
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by altay 19y ago
i heard through the grapevine that zed shaw, the dude who wrote mongrel, is down on it and isn't actively developing it anymore. hopefully someone else will pick up the slack, but i'm afraid that 95% of the folks using ruby+rails are know-
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by altay 19y ago
I think "holographic" is a bit of a misnomer. But that's splitting hairs -- it's still frikkin' dope. That said, they've had a holographic video display sitting in the basement of the MIT Media Lab for close to two decades. I never unders
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by altay 19y ago
I'm starting to suspect that both these companies are run by a bunch of 12-year-olds.
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by altay 19y ago
I forget who said this (Paul Buchheit, maybe?), but it made a lot of sense to me: don't listen to your users, watch your users. Figure out what they're trying to accomplish -- via usability testing and analytics -- and use that to infor
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by altay 19y ago
You know, it is on my profile. At least, I filled out the "email" input box. But that doesn't actually show up on my profile. I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug. Either way, you can find me at aguvench on gmail.

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