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by bherms 16y ago
I read his book "The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason". I thought it was incredibly well written and presented some awesome points in favor of doing away with religion (however, I'm obviously biased as an atheist).
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by bherms 16y ago
Feynman was a fascinating and brilliant man. I've been reading a lot about him online, watching some videos on youtube, and reading through his quotes. I definitely need to pick up some of his books. I'll check out From Heaven Lake too.
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Ask HN: Good books?
181 points by bherms 16y ago|167 comments
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by bherms 16y ago
Will be applying soon. You guys sound like an awesome company and I'd love to join you and contribute my own awesomeness :)
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by bherms 16y ago
I'm not a fan of this approach, or the "we're like x meets y meets z" (mashup of services), but I can see the value in giving unfamiliar listeners familiar reference points. As long as you can easily field the followup questions -- you can
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by bherms 16y ago
Basically his 'one stop shop' is a website version of the browser favorites toolbar, only where the links take you to a shittier version of your favorite site with no userbase.
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by bherms 16y ago
That's actually a free icon from a Twitter icon pack. I've seen it in a few roundups. Nice that he's using a creative commons artistic twitter rendition icon as his mascot.
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by bherms 16y ago
Thanks for the subscribe! If there's every any suggestions you have or questions, let me know and I'll do my best to address it. I hope you enjoy reading it!
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by bherms 16y ago
updated with custom domain. is it cool to still use posterous though?
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by bherms 16y ago
Thanks for the advice! Care to elaborate a bit? I have a handful of domains right now, including the domain for the name of the software. Would you recommend using the domain of the name of the software I'm working on, or should I use my
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Tell HN: Started a blog to track attempt of starting a startup
7 points by bherms 16y ago|9 comments
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by bherms 16y ago
If you ever get the chance the lay in one, you'll be hooked. I just have the standard single nest + slap strap pro and it's amazing. The hammock packs down to the size of a softball and you can just clip them onto a backpack or anything,
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by bherms 16y ago
I read in my hammock. http://Eaglesnestoutfittersinc.com has the worlds best hammock. Bought one in 2002 and might say it's the best thing I've ever purchased. I can toss it up almost anywhere in a matter of seconds, kick back and read
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by bherms 16y ago
Good points and I agree with you to an extent. However, large corporations that aren't upgrading probably aren't encouraging, nor do they want, their workers to be visiting cutting edge sites. Usually the computers/browsers are used for co
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by bherms 16y ago
This is what we do too, but this isn't going to kill IE6. It's not a problem that sites support it, it's a problem that large companies and non-techies don't want to or know how to upgrade. What I do for all my sites is add http://pushup
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by bherms 16y ago
Wow, that is pretty awesome. Not bad.
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by bherms 16y ago
Pretty cool how easy it is to deploy, but I wonder how much work went into the app first. Deploying with Heroku is always simple due to the pure git workflow (ie: git push and you're done).
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by bherms 16y ago
Sometimes I wish Indianapolis had a bigger tech community, but realistically, being one of a few startups may play in my favor in the future. Hopefully we start to see more and more startups popping up throughout the country instead of jus
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by bherms 16y ago
Well in this instance, with the new TV, the high price is just there to balance the research costs and low amount of production. As they start to leverage the new technology and churn out more of these, the Bose TV (and others using these
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by bherms 16y ago
In my experience with Bose, they make great sounding equipment for the average user and they do this by making bass more prominent than it should be to "fool" users into thinking it's good. It's still better than a lot of stuff, and the si
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by bherms 16y ago
Sad to see them go, but this might be a good lesson for several people out there who go into startups with the "make product now, worry about revenue model later" mentality. While that can be successful in many cases, there is a downside a
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by bherms 16y ago
In psychology class we studied various effects on learning (eg: environment, state of mind, etc). One thing that I remember learning was that sleep caused the brain to retain information better, so they recommended napping after studying a
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Enter Sprint 4G App Challenge(appchallenge.sprint.com)
1 points by bherms 16y ago|1 comments
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by bherms 16y ago
How much interest is there in following something like this? I've had some startup ideas I've been mulling around with for years and finally decided to jump in head first. One thought that crossed my mind was writing a blog detailing my p
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by bherms 16y ago
I think this is more related to the Dunning-Kruger effect, where incompetent people are very confident in their competence (inversely, competent people are not confident). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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by bherms 16y ago
If you use Firefox, I highly recommend the SenSEO plugin ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9403/ ). This comes in handy big time for me almost every day in addition to this SEO cheat sheet from SEOmoz ( http://www.seomoz.org
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by bherms 16y ago
Summary: Alcohol can be a bad thing (excess), or a good thing (moderation), depending on how you look at it.
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by bherms 16y ago
I love stack overflow, I love the idea, etc. What I don't like, and what I think is the real problem, which the author gets at, is that the site is becoming more and more fragmented. Programming is a very broad topic and it drives me NUTS
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by bherms 16y ago
Me too, but I found a torrent for it. I then later found it in a software bin somewhere for like $4.99 a few years ago and bought it a second time.
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by bherms 16y ago
I think a lot of the classic games are classics because they're universal and appeal to human natures desire to solve puzzles and best challenges. Games like Tetris will never get old because they're simple, easy to pick up, but you can al

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