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by blogimus 16y ago
That car data plot is an example of a multidimensional parallel graph. Too bad he didn't go into more depth on this since he showcased this visual representation in his blog post. Some more info you get your feet wet is here: http://filer.
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by blogimus 16y ago
To me, the thing that makes Hacker News, well, Hacker News is that the site is really simple, from a technology contraption point of view. It is controlled and shaped and molded (and whatever other verb you want to use) by us users (countin
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by blogimus 16y ago
I disagree. I really don't see what is broken with Hacker News (and I've been here for a while too).
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by blogimus 16y ago
I've got two kids under 10 and I've got mixed feelings on networking sites for kids this young. On the one hand, they will have the opportunity to get familiar with the technology they will spend the rest of their lives using. On the other
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Togetherville, social networking for kids 6 - 10(togetherville.com)
12 points by blogimus 16y ago|9 comments
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by blogimus 16y ago
I don't think the skeleton has the guts to walk into a bar.
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'Artificial life' breakthrough announced by scientists(news.bbc.co.uk)
280 points by blogimus 16y ago|92 comments
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by blogimus 16y ago
I first heard about index funds from "The Motley Fool Radio Show." Figuring I have the choice of dedicating at least a good chunk of my free time to understanding financial markets and trading stocks, or just dropping my money into index fu
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by blogimus 16y ago
Spencer Trask & Co. will be holding a startup competition starting in July that will award the winner $25,000 to locate a business in that part of the city I can imagine that 25K going really fast once you pull up out of your apartmen
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Template Meta-Programming and Compiler Issues(staticallytyped.wordpress.com)
1 points by blogimus 16y ago|0 comments
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by blogimus 16y ago
I struggle to think of somebody I know personally who couldn't do their job from anywhere in the world, if only they had the courage to demand it. I have a friend who is going to college and paying for it with housekeeping. She could alwa
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by blogimus 16y ago
I really wonder what would have become of Steve Jobs if he didn't have that opportunity to stand on the shoulders of Steve Wozniak.
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by blogimus 16y ago
There are ALWAYS going to be polarizing issues and periodic political turmoil of some variant and degree. A leading point of merit selection (appointment) is stability and an independent leg of the three legs of federal government from the
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by blogimus 16y ago
Add to that A blood-stained dagger was found with Liang and his body sustained several knife cuts. So he stabbed himself and then threw his body off the ledge?
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by blogimus 16y ago
You want the supreme court to be less insulated from the influence of lobbyists?
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by blogimus 16y ago
At the very bottom of the page: Warning: This document was written 15 years ago and is probably not relevant for today’s product managers. I present it here merely as an example of a useful training document.
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Spherical Cows Help to Dump Metabolism Law(uvm.edu)
3 points by blogimus 16y ago|0 comments
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by blogimus 16y ago
And no fatal crashes since the last fatal crash in 1951, before they had any jet airliners.
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The Facebook Privacy Wars Heat Up(theatlantic.com)
4 points by blogimus 16y ago|1 comments
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by blogimus 16y ago
Good idea. I'll try it when I get back home.
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by blogimus 16y ago
Yes, and they tend not to utilize them.
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Ask HN Is Verizon blocking access to Hacker News?
1 points by blogimus 16y ago|5 comments
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by blogimus 16y ago
And funny enough, I don't miss not having a modem on my macbook, not in the least. I also have a thinkpad which I never use the modem either, and my now long in the tooth Palm TX which doesn't have one (yeah, its a PDA, so we normally don't
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by blogimus 16y ago
He also explained (on Peachy Keen) that if you add some sugar (being hygroscopic) to the fruit (making a sugar syrup), the sugar will help hold some of the water in the cell walls helping to reduce the size of the ice crystals.
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by blogimus 16y ago
We can argue back and forth as to how aliens could think. You are assuming that logic follows the way humans think. I'm not saying there is no reason, I'm saying that we have a single data point for intelligent life, here, on Earth. Why sho
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by blogimus 16y ago
Why would you go through the effort and uncertainty of hunting wildlife when you can just saunter down to the local grocery store and pick up prepared meat? Why go to the store to buy bottled water when you can get clean fresh water from yo
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by blogimus 16y ago
We used Babylon 5 characters on one network, but kept getting "duplicate name exists on network" when we got to "Zathras"
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by blogimus 17y ago
Perhaps the same way that Blockbuster CEO, Jim Keyes, was baffled by the success of Netflix, by drinking his own bathwater (hubris and willful blindness to alternative ideas). http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=280425
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by blogimus 17y ago
I think it might be more like Duloc.
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by blogimus 17y ago
Which government are you talking about?

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