boredguy8

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by boredguy8 14y ago
Donald Sobol is probably, apart from my parents, a big reason I have a mind that works. R.I.P. Encyclopedia Brown. Your 25¢ per day + expenses brought justice to those who had little other hope. And bravo for expensing an occasional sundae
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by boredguy8 14y ago
Wow that live stream update is a nightmare - I keep trying to read what's happened and things get pushed down almost immediately. A clickable (or w/e) "18 new posts" would make it usable.
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by boredguy8 14y ago
For what it's worth, I use Cardio Trainer for tracking + social sharing. Friends "cheer" me on via Facebook, and I can progress my workouts using a myriad of tools they have. It's unclear what this does beyond that. For what it's worth, if
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by boredguy8 14y ago
Yes, thanks. I found a few other recordings this time searching Google ( http://town.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/011894_harp_ITH.html ), so who knows why it failed before.
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by boredguy8 14y ago
salon.com used to have T.S. Eliot reading "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" but the web page that references the audio ( http://www.salon.com/2000/10/05/eliot/ ) no longer has a link to the audio. One of those sad losses to website rede
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by boredguy8 14y ago
Why do you have blind spots in the first place? http://www.caranddriver.com/features/how-to-adjust-your-mirr... "The paper advocates adjusting the mirrors so far outward that the viewing angle of the side mirrors just overlaps that of the
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by boredguy8 14y ago
[edit: content removed as the site is back up] HNed, it appears. Google's Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by boredguy8 14y ago
But that depends on who you think Kickstarter is ultimately serving. I'm pretty sure Kickstarter cares more about the funders than the products that get displayed. This seems patently true, though obviously they need some people to post pro
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by boredguy8 14y ago
As a consumer of Kickstarter projects, I don't see why I care that they hide their unfunded (I wouldn't call them 'failed') projects. I can't contribute to them AND those projects don't hurt me anyway: if they don't get funding, I don't los
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by boredguy8 14y ago
There are more subtle ways of gaming ruining your life, as well: slowly losing the drive to do anything more than what's necessary to pay the cable bill, rent, and the gaming subscription. Slowly the only friends you have are people you kno
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Howdy, I'm the CAPTCHA standing in your way(mcsweeneys.net)
1 points by boredguy8 14y ago|0 comments
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by boredguy8 14y ago
Inter-rater reliability is super important for tests like this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-rater_reliability The gist is: you can't simply mark one person as "asian" and assume that categorization is correct. In that respect, the
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"Walden: a Game" - living deliberately 'as a part of nature'(mediabistro.com)
1 points by boredguy8 14y ago|0 comments
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by boredguy8 14y ago
GW2 is probably an attempt at that, but the problem with "work smarter" is the Internet. I remember the early, early days of EverQuest. I had little directional notes and constantly referenced the map that came with the game. Then EQAtlast
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by boredguy8 14y ago
I would add to the list: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/02/the_decline_effect_is... The main point: Psychology is not "science" in the same way F=ma is science. It's a model. The secondary point: When the article then goes on to
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Introducing the Google Drive SDK(googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com)
1 points by boredguy8 14y ago|0 comments
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by boredguy8 15y ago
This story is about what you do after you have a product. It presupposes the product then identifies ways to market to a very specific audience. In that respect, the article seems spot-on.
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Be aware that in a felony plea bargain, you may forever be forfeiting your right to vote. 1 in 40 people in the United States are not allowed to vote because they have lost, either for forever, while in prison, while on parole, or while on
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by boredguy8 15y ago
"'There were 90 markers on her face, and an equivalent amount on her body,' said Cage. 'She delivered the performance in one take.'" Neal Stephenson, popularizer/coiner of the term "avatar" to refer to online bodies, seems to have nailed th
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Yes, this seems like the angel-investing version of "RTFM", which is reasonable in some situations.
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Real hackers use butterflies: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/real_programmers.png
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Why would I go to Facebook to interact with a store when I can go to, you know, the store's site to interact with the store? Facebook could, I imagine, be a powerful online store for people who don't otherwise have storefronts, but people w
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Is anyone else as impressed as I am that Teller remembered the name of an up-and-coming magician they met after a show more than a year earlier? And that he referenced the 'inside joke' with no prompting? Also, I think folks are missing wha
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History Flow: visualizing wikipedia edits [2003](research.ibm.com)
1 points by boredguy8 15y ago|0 comments
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by boredguy8 15y ago
The Encarta and (I believe) World Book entries on "Fractal" were written by Benoit Mandelbrot. It's actually quite common for experts to write entries for an encyclopedia.
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by boredguy8 15y ago
Is systemic exclusion of men from technology an endemic problem and I missed it? Are men commonly characterized by their physical attractiveness and marital status? It's appropriate to give attention to a widespread and often unacknowledged
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by boredguy8 15y ago
This exists in more than just the startup world. I was in a meeting today where a technology leader said, "Let's have X take the meeting notes, she's a woman." This person also had her administrative account set to a pathologically triviali
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Chinese workers want Foxconn jobs(theatlanticwire.com)
1 points by boredguy8 15y ago|0 comments
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by boredguy8 15y ago
The period is 2997, so set precision to 2997 if you want to see the repeat. Also, "998" doesn't appear 'in sequence' (it obviously appears as 97[9 98]0 981).
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by boredguy8 15y ago
"I don’t get how this is hard to understand." Because the 'other side' doesn't understand why you think they have to make it easy for you to buy Harry Potter 7.1 and if they don't, why you think you get to circumvent their processes. You wa

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