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by brunorsini 11y ago
Werner Herzog's amazing documentary on Antarctica ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093824 ) briefly discusses depression and suicide among penguins. It's pure Herzog goodness. Though he sounds almost like a caric
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Unicorns vs. Donkeys: Handy Guide to Distinguishing(medium.com)
83 points by brunorsini 11y ago|30 comments
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by brunorsini 11y ago
This is completely ubiquitous in Kenya. Highly recommend chatting with friends/acquaintances from there to understand how the country really runs on "Pesa", as they call it. A cool Kenyan Uber driver gave me an amazing uninte
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F.lux for iPhone and iPad Launches in Beta Outside of App Store(macrumors.com)
3 points by brunorsini 11y ago|0 comments
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by brunorsini 11y ago
...and an honorary Darwin Award.
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by brunorsini 11y ago
I agree the article is a bit opaque. From what I've read the flu vaccine offers protection ranging between neutral to positive, with no real study ever finding the opposite. I still hear a lot of people say they are "on the fence&
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Poll: Do you plan on taking a flu shot this year?
1 points by brunorsini 11y ago|3 comments
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by brunorsini 11y ago
Yes
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by brunorsini 11y ago
On the fence
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by brunorsini 11y ago
No
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by brunorsini 11y ago
I can confirm Spotify now works perfectly well on Chromecast
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by brunorsini 11y ago
A lot of what Google is doing in life sciences has to do with pursuing earlier, more data-driven diagnostics (eg, http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-designing-nanoparticles-t... ). I'm sure future humans will be ho
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by brunorsini 11y ago
Yeah, pre orders start in just over 2 hours. This might be related to that
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by brunorsini 11y ago
Any suggestions for stores similar to Canal Plastic Center in San Francisco?
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China’s Loongson makes a 64-bit Mips processor that runs x86 and ARM code(venturebeat.com)
4 points by brunorsini 11y ago|0 comments
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by brunorsini 11y ago
I'm considering Ionic for a simple web-based music recommendation app that I'm doing as a side project. For now I am using vanilla Cordova and it has been working fine... Except for iOS notifications, which are a bit of a nightmar
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Why Zimbardo’s Prison Experiment Isn’t in My Textbook(psychologytoday.com)
2 points by brunorsini 11y ago|0 comments
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by brunorsini 11y ago
I just recently decided to study film editing a bit deeper. Here are two classic reads that I highly recommend: On Film Editing Kindle Edition by Edward Dmytryk ( http://www.amazon.com/Film-Editing-Edward-Dmytryk-ebook/d
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by brunorsini 11y ago
Love the idea but feel uncomfortable giving such a young company the ability to read all my email and also send messages on my behalf. Would much prefer if they supported the option to forward relevant messages to them, TripIt style. One
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by brunorsini 12y ago
I ran BeOS for almost a year around that time. I remember it as fairly stable and packed with neat little features that made it feel lean and modern. Then I started to get disappointed that the community didn't seem to be growing fast
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by brunorsini 12y ago
You're right, sorry for the typo
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by brunorsini 12y ago
Poetry often goes way beyond just the naked words. Understanding the context around the writer, including background on his or her place and time matters a lot. In this sense, this amazing iOS app completely changed my understanding of T.S.
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by brunorsini 12y ago
Impressed! Seen many of these in the past that are too inaccurate to be useful, tested this with a couple of my own songs and the results were great - down to being able to detect quick E / Emaj7 / E changes. Congrats :)
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by brunorsini 12y ago
yes. the fact that it feels so weird is testimony to their server eng team
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by brunorsini 12y ago
Don't want to sound like the PC police but personally I would have chosen another verb for the title. The origins of the word "denigrate" are not particularly great: 1520s, from Latin denigratus, past participle of denigrare
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by brunorsini 12y ago
I don't really agree with the author's comment that this is "an unmitigated win for users": if nothing else, hardware products might become more expensive because they will need native encoding/decoding capability f
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“In Ten Years”, the quintessential geek music video(vimeo.com)
1 points by brunorsini 12y ago|1 comments
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System Calls Make the World Go Round(duartes.org)
9 points by brunorsini 12y ago|0 comments
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What Does an Idle CPU Do?(duartes.org)
563 points by brunorsini 12y ago|55 comments
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by brunorsini 12y ago
Love her passion and eloquence. If Plover can effectively make Steno keyboards understandable by our OS of choice... Should we start teaching our kids this thing before they ever get hooked into qwerty?

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