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by bfung 16y ago
http://piratedate.com/ , idea already implemented.
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Lists: Ranking Economic Data(calculatedriskblog.com)
1 points by bfung 16y ago|0 comments
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by bfung 16y ago
"What's wrong with me?..." How to beat procrastination: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2185174 Perhaps you feel that your idea doesn't help someone else, even if it is interesting to yourself (hence it's easy to do work for others).
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by bfung 16y ago
"Attack of the Personal Clones" expansion would have to include Bill Gates... ;)
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Why Is Chinese Web Design So Bad?(thinkvitamin.com)
7 points by bfung 16y ago|4 comments
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by bfung 16y ago
and oddly, there's a smiley face denoting Good/Bad/Neutral Energy policies??? So to have good energy policies, drink lots of beer, participate in a gang, drive real fast, be rich, pack a lot of people in a small area, and reuse public build
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by bfung 16y ago
How are these puzzles hypothetical? They look better written in specification than specs in the real world: (selected few and summarized...) Hoppity Hop! Input: filename as arg from command prompt, file contains a number Output:
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by bfung 16y ago
If only tahoe snow fell in chicago, that would be so nice... =P An easy solution would be to overnight all the pizza's in the freezer... but I assert that there will still be regional taste differences. I've visited the bay area quite a bit
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by bfung 16y ago
It looks like there's a lot of bias in the data as well. Notice, of the 5 pizza places, that the top 3 are SF based when the test is suppose to be Chicago style pizza... (the other question to SF'ers... do you really know what snow is! =P
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by bfung 16y ago
From the movie: Cobb: What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient... highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that
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by bfung 16y ago
Some more thoughts... Travelling: Go somewhere you don't speak the language, and where they won't be good at English. Don't do the tourist locations. Find out how other people live their daily lives and reflect upon it. Perhaps you will
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by bfung 16y ago
Actions speak louder than words: http://readersupportednews.org/julian-assange-petition
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by bfung 16y ago
+1. I had thought homepreneur was some new way of selling houses or people at home employing other people, like maids/cleaners/coooks...
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by bfung 16y ago
seems like there's still a lot of work todo, and a lot of room for growth. A survey of how people use their ipads, coincidentally from today: http://www.businessinsider.com/ipad-survey
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by bfung 16y ago
also: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-largest-single-loan-given... filter by "Barclays" to confirm the number. Note the amount is in millions. the data is downloadable on scribd in pdf here: http://www.businessinsider.com/check-out-w
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Federal Loan Data Disclosure(graphicsweb.wsj.com)
1 points by bfung 16y ago|1 comments
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by bfung 16y ago
If school's sole purpose is to create academic machines out of the students, I would not have a comment. But life is more than that; we DO have to deal with other people. Being 'smarter' should also mean becoming better socially aware as
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by bfung 16y ago
it doesn't matter if characters are repeated. Let's assume ascii characters, so 'A' = 65 in decimal. If you make an array, T[], where T[65] = 1 if 'A' exists and 0 if 'A' didn't exist in the first string, you can run through the 2nd strin
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by bfung 16y ago
The dis-incentive to retire earlier will leave that person in the job market, and younger people will find it harder to get into the market. I have no proof, but I think this will lead to lower quality of goods in the long run, since the y
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by bfung 16y ago
easier to keep count: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AsoY_yr0BJCVdFhNVi1... go ahead and add stuff, let me know if permissions are set incorrectly.
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by bfung 16y ago
I second the question. If the wind is blowing at 20 mph, the rain is going hitting the person from the side. It's not enough to solve the inverted umbrella problem when the main purpose of the umbrella is to shield a person from rain.
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by bfung 16y ago
In an attempt to solve, took bigrams from http://blog.afterthedeadline.com/2010/07/20/after-the-deadli... and ended up these top 10 entries: Schindler's List 33 president's plan 32 Microsoft's Xbox 26 yesterday's post 17 boats
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by bfung 16y ago
The Price Is Right article mentioned in this article is pretty awesome also: http://www.esquire.com/features/impossible/price-is-right-pe...
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by bfung 16y ago
I taught myself programming in QBASIC in third grade (gasp, 20 years ago) and my favorite languages now are ocaml and haskell. Doing ruby, python, java, and c#/vb.net at work, all production code. It's the concepts, not the language. ;)
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by bfung 16y ago
who gets the money? =P Why wouldn't I just put that list of videos on my own blog to generate revenue? I think my point is that it's not enough to just make something that's already been done (a website of a list of stuff...). Your soluti
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by bfung 16y ago
I've seen some posts about wikitorrents the past few days; finally went to see the site. Perhaps the amount of unique page views (especially on that page) is a side effect of ycombinator brand and timing of events and investors trying to s
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Inside Seventh Generation's Firing of Founder Jeffrey Hollender(fastcompany.com)
1 points by bfung 16y ago|0 comments
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by bfung 16y ago
my mistake.
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by bfung 16y ago
The 2nd link provide does a "by the numbers reported" reports. It's like high schoolers in chemistry class trying to get an A on lab work; who hasn't fudged the numbers before? The Fortune article digs a bit deeper: PathNet was such servi
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by bfung 16y ago
HP wasn't the first. In the 90s, there was Lucent Technologies, aka Bell Labs (Unix, C, C++, vi, plan9...): http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/tag/carly-fiorina/ http://www.finnov-fp7.eu/publications/finnov-discussion-pape... (disclosure: my

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