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by briancooley 16y ago
Kudos to the organizers for keeping the registration affordable. $199 for the early-bird seems very reasonable. I recall that the goal was to pay for the venue plus a little contingency.
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Clojure conj registration open(clojure-conj.org)
86 points by briancooley 16y ago|6 comments
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by briancooley 16y ago
You should tailor this for the iPad, particularly in portrait mode. I very often follow Epicurious recipes on my iPad by standing it in the dock. The big difficulty is trying to read and parse the cooking instructions into a workflow. This
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IPad Newspapers: Ripe For Innovation(readwriteweb.com)
1 points by briancooley 16y ago|0 comments
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by briancooley 16y ago
"I also found sleeping on it often magically produces a solution in the morning." I think this is a great reason to take a nap in the middle of the day if your environment is conducive to it. It works for me as long as the code is the top t
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by briancooley 16y ago
I should have added "in the minds of observers." to make that sentence clearer. It's more a statement about human nature than the relative weighting of the ingredients most vital to elite athletic success.
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by briancooley 16y ago
The point isn't really that athletes don't work their tail off. The point is that, because of the small number of available slots, professional athletes tend to be the intersection of the sets {people who work the hardest} and {people who a
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by briancooley 16y ago
Think of it this way: if you are good, any place that wouldn't hire you is likely to be another place you would consider to have bad culture. Besides that, if you think the culture is bad now, it's likely that you'll find similar settings i
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by briancooley 16y ago
Yes, ASE is great, though some would complain that not all of the API's are wrapped and that some if not all of the supported languages suffer performance hits. That's kind of my point, really. There are already some options in the wild, an
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by briancooley 16y ago
There are a lot of things about Android that are annoying. Sadly, Java is far from the most annoying thing for me. Besides, if you want to write in something besides Java, you have more hope on Android than iOS at this point [1]. The most a
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by briancooley 16y ago
I haven't had any device-specific error reports for the few Android apps that I have worked on, but they are pretty vanilla. There are occasionally comments in the android-developers group about issues specific to particular phones. Seems l
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by briancooley 16y ago
Just going out on a limb here...maybe pg doesn't want a Twitter account and "no good names available" is just an excuse for folks like Scoble who can't believe he's still a holdout.
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by briancooley 16y ago
Lots of good advice in this thread. My best advice is: when you are "there" with your family, really be there. I have a tendency to focus my attention on things I am working on even when I am not sitting in front of the computer. Often this
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by briancooley 16y ago
My favorite is juggling. I learned how recently after someone on HN posted a link to a Youtube video. At first I found it required a lot of concentration, but now it just takes my mind off coding for a few minutes during a break and it give
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by briancooley 16y ago
if there is any conclusion to be made, it's that low-carb diets may have some positive benefit on cholesterol and triglyceride levels, but don't seem to have any net benefit when it comes to weight control. This observation is hugely impo
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by briancooley 16y ago
The theoretical advantage of whole grain carbohydrates over refined carbohydrates is that the whole grains are less apt to cause a big dip in serum glucose that follows the huge insulin spike that follows consumption of refined carbs. That
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by briancooley 16y ago
1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20679559 (No difference with carb restrictions vs. fat restrictions) No difference? "A low-carbohydrate diet, which consisted of limited carbohydrate intake (20 g/d for 3 months) in the form of low-
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by briancooley 16y ago
Insulin + calories make you fat, not just calories. That's why one of the early symptoms of Type I diabetes is uncontrolled weight loss despite increased hunger. Insulin has a very important role in weight control but is often ignored in fa
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by briancooley 16y ago
There's whey protein as well. That's what's in Muscle Milk and Pure Protein products. I'm not sure if whey protein is any better for your endocrine system, FWIW.
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New Threat: Hackers Look To Take Over Power Plants(npr.org)
1 points by briancooley 16y ago|0 comments
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by briancooley 16y ago
If you click the discuss links, you get a transcript. Here's the stuff on Apple: http://bigthink.com/ideas/21603
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by briancooley 16y ago
It looks to me like the author was building a point about evolutionary bootstrapping of brain growth by eating meat ("but eating meat apparently made our ancestors smarter - smart enough to make better tools, which in turn led to other chan
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by briancooley 16y ago
Just a heads up, if you don't put it in the about section of your profile, users won't be able to see your email. The email field on your profile is only visible to you.
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by briancooley 16y ago
You have to know the distribution of user join dates for this to be meaningful at all. If there are 10x as many users who joined in 2010 as there are those that joined in 2007, then this graph implies that more veteran users are more like
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by briancooley 16y ago
I'm not saying that I have reached my dream, because I haven't. I am slowly working towards what would best be called a lifestyle business. I didn't make the first step for a long time because of some faulty assumptions.
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by briancooley 16y ago
Speaking from my own experience, I'd say that my biggest hurdle to following my dreams is a false dichotomy created somewhere in my imagination. For some reason, I always imagine 1) no income, 2) no reduction in expenses, and 3) not being a
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by briancooley 16y ago
Because you can't put the oil back in the Earth or bring back 11 dead men as easily as you can take back an iPhone. They might appear to be logically equivalent[1], but one clearly has hope of gaining empathy from the public and the other d
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by briancooley 16y ago
They could have said that, but ultimately it would have been a mistake, I think. Mostly because of things that have been alleged about the incident, their safety record, and the fact that the average number of barrels spilled by thousands o
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by briancooley 16y ago
The application (parking a car by powersliding) is a nice sizzle for a really interesting (to me at least) steak. The idea of combining closed loop model-based control for the easy-to-model portion of a process with open-loop control for th
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by briancooley 16y ago
Here's how I got to $45/HR on oDesk. Its admittedly a low rate, but its about double the average. - Be a good communicator. This means speaking and writing well, giving timely updates, and being clear about the spec. - Be honest. Buyers are

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