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by arrel 11y ago
I believe the equation used on the page is wrong. It states projected winnings as 1/2 x $2 + 1/4 * $4 + ... But you only have a 1/4 chance of winning $2, since have the time you get a heads on first flip, you also get a head
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by arrel 12y ago
To sum up: No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
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by arrel 12y ago
This is the magic if market dynamics. If a business fraudulently takes advantage of this they will not build up a customer base, paypal will shut down their account, and money will be refunded. PayPal is taking most of the risk so that busi
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Mac and Cheese Maze Mystery Resolved(krazydad.com)
74 points by arrel 12y ago|13 comments
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Testing a New Way to Discover and Buy Products on Facebook(facebook.com)
39 points by arrel 12y ago|21 comments
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by arrel 12y ago
That sounds like the reason Apple refused to use a hardware button to trigger the camera shutter, but thankfully they caved on that one and I can take a photo without having to guess where I'm tapping the screen. I'd rather see co
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by arrel 12y ago
The engineering world would be a much better place if more people built beautiful, easy to use GUIs on top of the confusing command line apps we all rely on. I switched to Tower for git a couple years ago, and seeing people struggle with di
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Patatap Playfully Combines Sound and Visuals(thefoxisblack.com)
1 points by arrel 13y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Headquarters Evacuated(mercurynews.com)
5 points by arrel 13y ago|0 comments
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by arrel 13y ago
I get the same problem, and I use my calendar as a weapon against it. If you have three things you need to do, pick one and block a time off on the calendar to focus on it and ignore the other two. After that it's the calendar telling
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Americans Use Their Phones Every Waking Hour(priceonomics.com)
1 points by arrel 13y ago|0 comments
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Facebook apps were down(apps.facebook.com)
4 points by arrel 13y ago|0 comments
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The Best Web 2.0 App Survey(survey.io)
1 points by arrel 13y ago|0 comments
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Rackspace Cloud Sites DDoS'd(status.rackspace.com)
2 points by arrel 14y ago|0 comments
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Heroku finally supports Resque correctly(devcenter.heroku.com)
2 points by arrel 14y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Connect was down(facebook.com)
113 points by arrel 14y ago|54 comments
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Why We Have to Go Back to a 40-Hour Work Week to Keep Our Sanity(alternet.org)
4 points by arrel 14y ago|1 comments
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by arrel 14y ago
San Francisco, full time Soldsie - Full stack rails engineer We have a small team working on a new form of social commerce that actually works for our customers. We're growing fast, and looking for someone to take over the tech lead positio
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by arrel 14y ago
Alfred can do that if you're on a Mac. http://alfredapp.com/
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by arrel 14y ago
I usually have a hard time ignoring the Joneses and feeling content with what I have, and I don't think that's a necessarily bad thing. Those who accomplish the most, from Thomas Edison to Bill Clinton, often do so because of this drive t
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Google Acquires Social Marketer Wildfire(techcrunch.com)
3 points by arrel 14y ago|0 comments
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by arrel 14y ago
Let's not mistake entertaining with fluffy. If you want benchmarks, redis.io already has that pretty well covered. Everything I've read about redis made me think of it as either a database or a replacement for memcache, but it's be helpful
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Redis is Like a Party On Your Server(blog.togo.io)
14 points by arrel 14y ago|5 comments
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by arrel 14y ago
I'd guess the higher ups at Twitter have run the cost benefit in their head (and probably many spreadsheets) plenty of times, and in most cases spending your limited resource on disaster recovery preparation just isn't worth it. Their site
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Dear Entrepreneurs, please don’t sell your company(3founders.com)
3 points by arrel 14y ago|0 comments
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by arrel 15y ago
It's hard to agree with this as vigorously as I want. Every year I look back at where I was the year before and realize I was terrible back then, and when I look back at today in twelve months I'll realize that what I'm working on right n
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by arrel 15y ago
I think this misses the point for getting software into congress - it has to be something they want to use, not just something we want them to use. These are awesome ideas, but once we get into the "force your legislature to start using
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by arrel 15y ago
From my friend Evan Smith, who's a lawyer and couldn't be bothered to sign up for HN: I believe the author is slightly incorrect. First off, there is no "optimal" slip angle for all situations. Putting on your physics hat for a second, th
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by arrel 15y ago
It's definitely possible to design a great product with a very manual design process, but you can also write a great novel using pen and paper. Computers make a lot of things a lot easier, and you should leverage them when they make sense.
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by arrel 15y ago
Once you involve a photocopier in your "sketching" process you've officially jumped the shark. I am a big advocate of sketching wireframes before moving to the computer, but that means paper, ball point pen, and a minute or less per sketch.

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