creade

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by creade 12y ago
Bill Hammack is a national treasure. I can't highly enough recommend subscribing to his video series: https://www.youtube.com/user/engineerguyvideo/videos
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by creade 12y ago
NYC (Roosevelt Island and, it sounds like shortly, the Hudson Yards development) and a few other places have modern pneumatic solid waste transport system provided by http://www.envacgroup.com/
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by creade 13y ago
It's not in the article but my guess would be that none of Warren Buffet's money was ever actually on the line. The last time Pepsi had a contest for $1 Billion, they bought insurance against someone meeting the conditions to win
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by creade 13y ago
I'd heartily recommend the book version of The Peter Principle . A lot of people are probably familiar with its namesake principle, but the book goes into a lot more detail about what the implications of it are and wider concepts of u
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by creade 13y ago
I was amazed after finishing The Idea Factory and realizing how much we (as humans and as the tech industry specifically) owe to Bell Labs. The invention of UNIX gets literally one sentence in the book and I think that's the scale it d
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by creade 13y ago
Aaron Swartz designed Victory Kit ( https://github.com/victorykit/victorykit ) with the beginnings of this exact use case in mind. What would you do if you passionately cared about an issue but lacked the massive funds required to mount a
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by creade 13y ago
You might check out this topic on Quora: http://www.quora.com/IFTTT-1/What-is-the-coolest-IFTTT-Recip...
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Open Letter from a Millennial: Quit Telling Us We’re Not Special(phoenixandolivebranch.wordpress.com)
7 points by creade 14y ago|1 comments
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by creade 14y ago
EA apparently just retracted: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57426660-93/ea-not-killing-...
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by creade 16y ago
And maybe NCAA?