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Using data to win arguments, lose weight, and get the girl(mediaite.com)
1 points by ashley 17y ago|0 comments
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List of 2009 websites described as food(firmuhment.tumblr.com)
1 points by ashley 17y ago|0 comments
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by ashley 17y ago
Mea culpa, I didn't see that link. This article is not from the official Google blog. It adds screenshots of uploaded files and an interesting link to a rumored early description of the storage system, which makes me wonder where Google i
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GDrive is coming, 1GB free storage(googlesystem.blogspot.com)
42 points by ashley 17y ago|31 comments
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How Internet can make agric markets in developing world more efficient(economist.com)
1 points by ashley 17y ago|0 comments
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by ashley 17y ago
violin(16 yrs), cello(3), piano(5), and miscellaneous bowed string instruments on the shoulder (viola, rebec, vielle). for me, it's Bach and Dvorak to get in my creative sphere
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by ashley 17y ago
Interesting idea, but am not convinced by his argument that being a "predator" is so far removed from risk-taking.
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FB Zuckerberg says age of privacy is over(readwriteweb.com)
2 points by ashley 17y ago|0 comments
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by ashley 17y ago
Just wanted to highlight an interesting thought and see what people thought might be the current trends leading to a NUI: "Altogether, the devices show Microsoft's vision for the future of computing, one that increasingly will rely on a ho
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Microsoft moving towards a Natural User Interface?(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
1 points by ashley 17y ago|1 comments
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Mellon foundation closes grant program that funded open-source software projects(chronicle.com)
2 points by ashley 17y ago|0 comments
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Apple ceding open-source app market to Google?(news.cnet.com)
3 points by ashley 17y ago|1 comments
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Ars Digita Univ: online resources via post-bacc comp sci program (aduni.org)
1 points by ashley 17y ago|0 comments
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by ashley 17y ago
I think of Twitter as a space to move large-scale messages to a broad public, rather than as a social net-working site. Twitter has proven effective in organizing political protests, encouraging feedback loops between companies and clients
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News sites dabble with tool for nudging local officials(nytimes.com)
3 points by ashley 17y ago|0 comments
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Researchers develop tiny autonomous piezoelectric energy harvester(engadget.com)
2 points by ashley 17y ago|0 comments
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Data Explosion Remakes Retailing(nytimes.com)
10 points by ashley 17y ago|0 comments
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by ashley 17y ago
I'm more familiar with St. John's College, as I dreamed of attending had not the cost been so prohibitively high. http://www.sjca.edu/ But the one-track curriculum is based off the trivium and quadrivium of medieval education, where you d
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Twitter 2.0: New API rate change could lead to new apps(readwriteweb.com)
13 points by ashley 17y ago|3 comments
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GIS tech gives communities more services by showing discrimination patterns(miller-mccune.com)
4 points by ashley 17y ago|0 comments
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Higher resolution retinal implants improve artificial vision for the blind(news.stanford.edu)
2 points by ashley 17y ago|0 comments
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by ashley 17y ago
Thank you for sharing your story! I wasn't actively discouraged like you, but my family also enforced rigid notions of what "proper girls" did. I'm so glad you're now doing what you love.
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by ashley 17y ago
Thanks to everyone for sharing their stories! This is really great to read, and it's even better that there's no cookie-cutter way into programming. I guess I had too much of an attitude that this is like grad school in a basic science or
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by ashley 17y ago
http://common-lisp.net/project/boston-lisp/ I think these guys would be better suited to answer your question. Neil Van Dyke runs the listserv. I read that a company, ITA, sponsors the monthly Boston Lisp meet-up, and browsing their web
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by ashley 17y ago
I'm particularly encouraged by all the stories of people getting into programming much later in life. I'm a freshly minted graduate, and it's cool to see the career changes.
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by ashley 17y ago
To paraphrase one of the Senecas (can't remember whether the elder or younger), "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity."
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Do Computers Understand Art?(physorg.com)
1 points by ashley 17y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How did you get started in hacking/programming?
45 points by ashley 17y ago|89 comments
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by ashley 17y ago
A similar idea is that of "nudges" as developed by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. Nudges are ways to create a framework of choice that is structured in a way to encourage people to make the "optimal" choice anyway. It requires a bit of
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by ashley 17y ago
When you say, "my family helped me get that money...I feel like I shouldnt risk their money," do you mean that your family helped to co-sign your loan or act as guarantors? If that is the case, then no, you really should pay off the debt.

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