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by bhousel 16y ago
Quora is 6 months away from turning into Yahoo! Answers.
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Your profile says that you know Ruby on Rails, so I'd recommend just installing Redmine on a spare or dev server.
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Article is really light on details.. But they mention that they are basing their intelligence metric on an organism's Kolmogorov complexity. It sounds to me like they are quantifying randomness, not intelligence.
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Rewrites happen, so stop thinking about it(blog.wekeroad.com)
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I've thought about this too. Amazon sold millions of Kindles this past holiday shopping season.. Why? I personally know 6 people who got Kindles or Nooks in the last month. It would be interesting to know what contributed to their 'over
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Thanks! I'm going to try to just support all the books that are lendable. But to your point - I've found that there is a surprising amount of romance/erotica novels on Amazon Kindle. I have my crawlers doing common searches, and it turn
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Haha, yeah it's not a surprise.. I didn't know they were creating their own site - I thought they wanted to just keep it as Facebook group. But by the time they launched, I was well into it, so I decided that I may as well finish what I st
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Wow, this is great news for my weekend startup, Booklends. I think that the 'try before you buy' model will work great for eBooks. So I'm creating a website http://www.booklends.com to let Kindle users borrow and lend books with other u
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Ten Bucks(philbaumann.com)
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related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2140283 tl;dr: Law schools are liars.
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Defining a defect(runningahospital.blogspot.com)
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Reminders of Art Buchwald: Why duopolies don't work(runningahospital.blogspot.com)
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you can pick both
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Thanks for the quick response!
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Hmm. This would be perfect for a project I'm doing involving Amazon, except that they rewrite my amazon affiliate tag with their own... :-/
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Clickable: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/01/are_law_schools_lying...
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Are Law Schools Lying To Their Applicants?
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Neat: "PS - There's a secret message embedded within the SES "hero graphic" on the AWS home page! Can you figure out what it says?" Link to the image: http://awsmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/ses_hero_lg.png
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Beautifying the World’s Information(blog.trailmeme.com)
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The Autodidact and Khan Academy(practicaltheory.org)
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Build Your Own Cloud Chamber(kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com)
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Project X-Ray(en.wikipedia.org)
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Radars versus Dashboards: A Life/Death Choice(blog.trailmeme.com)
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This story is especially timely for me - I'm building a website http://www.booklends.com that will let Kindle and Nook owners lend books to each other easily. It's kinda my weekend startup right now. I'm hoping to have the site ready en
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"...at a level high enough to hold a job down..." Don't you think you're setting the bar a bit low?
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Haha, you don't have to agree! It's important to read that blog with a critical eye, even more so as it's laced with such strong opinion. I'm also not surprised that it's auto-killed.
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I agree.. I would submit more of The Last Psychiatrist to HN, but lately it's been auto killed by the new submission filter. The Last Psychiatrist reminds me a lot of Gary Brecher's War Nerd blog. Both offer a raw cut-through-the-BS point
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Also worth reading is The Last Psychiatrist's response to the Chinese mothers article: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/01/why_chinese_mothers_a...
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What Can a Well Drafted Contract Do For Your Company?(iplawforstartups.com)
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Exactly.. At least the last 3 or 4 White House Press Secretaries made that same salary "joke" upon leaving the position and returning back to their high paying private sector media jobs.

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