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by bfung 14y ago
I only do it when someone else is looking at the same screen as me, and there is a lot of text (not watching video together, but reading article). It's like a highlighter to coordinate reading.
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by bfung 14y ago
see below for some translation links, but google translate is pretty bad compared to bing translator in Chinese.
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by bfung 14y ago
"poulet et riz" meant nothing to me until I read your post in chinese... [touche! =P] 雞肉和米飯 is a really odd way of saying chicken and rice... if you google the phrase, the search results don't come up as good as the way native speakers woul
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by bfung 14y ago
I had the same idea, but it looks like Google translate needs a TON of work. For example: English: "I hope you enjoy the rest of the presentations today" http://translate.google.com/#en/zh-TW/I%20hope%20you%20enjoy... Translated into Chi
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by bfung 14y ago
opposite opinion to the submitted article: http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2012/09/analysis-bernanke-...
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by bfung 14y ago
If this were true, we wouldn't really need to conduct the census ( http://www.census.gov/ ), right? Perhaps the NSA has tools like pipl or spokeo to build dossiers, but not that it has every person on file, right now.
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by bfung 14y ago
I haven't used eclipse in awhile, release notes: http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.2-2...
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Why San Francisco is really That Bad: A Manifesto In Parts(whysfreallyisthatbad.com)
13 points by bfung 14y ago|2 comments
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by bfung 14y ago
typo(?): I, <Need To Sign Up?>, pledge to get my Gmail inbox to 10 *UnRead* messages and keep it there.
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The Secret of Pop-Up Restaurants: It's Not Just About Cost(good.is)
2 points by bfung 14y ago|0 comments
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Learn to Solve Problems before Learning to Code
1 points by bfung 14y ago|1 comments
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by bfung 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_Homerdrive - the truckers already have this! =P At least the packages that end up on the doorstep still require human delivery. Normalizing addresses and pin pointing the exact location still isn't qu
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by bfung 14y ago
If the price of iPhones and android based phones were equivalent, then yes, android phones lose overall to iPhones. However, anecdotally and from personal observation (small data size), those who cannot afford iPhones tend to go with androi
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by bfung 14y ago
OPOWER http://opower.com/ http://opowerjobs.com/ San Francisco, CA or Arlington, VA. Full Time We leverage data and behavioral science to change people's energy consumption habits. Help the environment through energy conservation and he
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by bfung 14y ago
"And what's going on in the Android world is there's kind of no adult in charge. And all these handset manufacturers are doing whatever they damn well please. Which means that it's just going to be randomness. It could be let a
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by bfung 15y ago
Some source code is worth a (three) thousand (fourteen) words ... =P
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by bfung 15y ago
OPOWER - Arlington, VA - San Francisco, CA http://opower.com/ http://opowerjobs.com/teams Mostly Full-time. http://jobvite.com/m?3GtsgfwB We're especially, but not limited to, looking for Product Managers and Software Engineers to
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by bfung 15y ago
a monetary payout to stop SOPA doesn't really work in the long run. It promotes the behavior we have today where the most money wins (usually), and doesn't disincentivize future attempts. I agree more with the doodle idea, or that every cl
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by bfung 15y ago
not everyone is familiar with C#, and Nullable<int> conveys better meaning in writing to that kind of audience.
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by bfung 15y ago
30 engineers, 70 lawyers, the probability of being an engineer is 30%. What Jack likes to do is irrelevant. Why can't a lawyer like math and dislike politics (winning a case framed by certain rules is just a puzzle/game to hack)?
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by bfung 15y ago
I think they mean for 2011 (more precisely, Q4 2011), as we don't have data for 2012 yet. This doesn't inspire confidence in the accuracy of the numbers.
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by bfung 15y ago
As someone kindly pointed out, I left off the locations. Positions are available in San Francisco, CA and Arlington, VA USA.
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by bfung 15y ago
OPOWER http://opower.com/ http://opowerjobs.com/ We leverage data and behavioral science to change people's energy consumption habits. Help the environment through energy conservation and help people save money. Java, Rails, Hadoop, sma
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by bfung 15y ago
* write a plugin for photoshop or gimp that will select the arbitrary shreds. Does that exist already?
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by bfung 15y ago
San Francisco, CA or Arlington, VA. Full Time OPOWER http://opower.com/ http://opowerjobs.com/ We leverage data and behavioral science to change people's energy consumption habits. Help the environment through energy conservation and
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by bfung 15y ago
nice hack.
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by bfung 15y ago
checkout an earlier thread! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3089010
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by bfung 15y ago
White people in the upper mid-west are a lot healthier and long lived than whites elsewhere Any sources to back that up? I lived in Chicago for most of my life before moving out to California. I would argue that the (over)large portions
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by bfung 15y ago
Of course there's also the missing shortcut keys. For example, Java projects using an IDE would probably have crtl-space be the most frequently pressed keys (autocomplete).
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by bfung 15y ago
I was about to jump the gun and comment that YC backed a direct competitor to an older YC backed startup. This is the second startup to provide this service, how will it be different than the first? Maybe the approach to tackling this mar

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