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by davi 16y ago
I'm a Gandi customer, not a shill of some sort. I saw this on their website and found the comments to be remarkable. A price increase inspired testimonials from customers about how Gandi was worth any price differential. Any business or e
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Spontaneous praise for Gandi by its customers(gandibar.net)
1 points by davi 16y ago|1 comments
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by davi 16y ago
One big lesson I've learned is that if you want something out of the ordinary, no one is spontaneously going to give it to you. You have to explicitly ask for it. And when you do, it's surprising how often you get a positive response.
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The New Dating Tools: A Card and a Wink(nytimes.com)
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by davi 16y ago
With my alumni discount, I had setup a booth at the Columbia Engineering Job Fair, looking for fresh talent. Good idea. Has anyone else here ever recruited for a startup or a small company at a university job fair? How did it go?
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by davi 16y ago
I would be more interested in a curated "who's who" list of HN user names and their real world projects. The quality of the list would be a function of its completeness and the curator's judgment about who to include. The list could be gene
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What a liberal arts education is good for(web.archive.org)
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My Darwinian Daughters(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
2 points by davi 16y ago|2 comments
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by davi 16y ago
There are a lot of people who think the thing stopping them from writing that great novel they plan to write is the fact that their job takes up all their time. In fact what's stopping 99% of them is that writing novels is hard. When the j
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by davi 16y ago
Validation of a wiring diagram extracted from a cluster of physiologically characterized cells in mammalian visual cortex.
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New perspectives on the dialogue between brains and machines(frontiersin.org)
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by davi 16y ago
Most interesting bit to me: "The conversations with potential acquirers [...] allowed the founders to develop close working relationships with some of the most important Internet companies who can not only be acquirers but also distribution
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by davi 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1472515
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by davi 16y ago
This came up recently in the Fiji project (a distribution of ImageJ and associated plugins): http://groups.google.com/group/fiji-devel/browse_thread/thre...
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Secret of AA: After 75 Years, We Don’t Know How It Works(wired.com)
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by davi 16y ago
This is one of those articles that makes me love the web. In the midst of a wave of angst about iPhone4 reception, we get a high S/N article, bubbled up from a vast froth of noise on the topic. It's like HN is my antenna for the internet.
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by davi 16y ago
It's an interesting summation of your perspective, thanks. You depict Obama as one molecule in a sort of political Brownian motion, with me & the Times acting as a cherry-picking Maxwell's Demon. A hard thesis to disprove, and I'll let
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by davi 16y ago
"My" accounting is derived entirely from what I read in that New York Times article. I'm not clear if you're criticizing my read of the article, or the article itself. If the latter, do you have any other accounts that provide further detai
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by davi 16y ago
In one case, after a radioactive byproduct of an Illinois power plant leaked into his constituents' well water, Senator Obama sponsored legislation to require nuclear power plants to report all abnormal leaks, not just ones they determined
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by davi 16y ago
People interested in this might also be interested in how Senator Obama handled a tritium leak in Illinois before he ran for president: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/us/politics/03exelon.html (EDIT: deleted carping about moderator cha
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by davi 16y ago
Thanks very much, that's helpful. Maybe good enough for a small, experimental project (i.e. one step beyond 'nothing'). An open source effort to take a crack at the larger scope you lay out would be a good thing.
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Ask HN: open source Posterous-style email validation?
34 points by davi 16y ago|20 comments
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The Spill, The Scandal and the President(rollingstone.com)
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by davi 16y ago
http://www.justin.tv/ycombinator/b/265435483
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"Odds of a prolonged slump are rising by the day."(nytimes.com)
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by davi 16y ago
TechCrunch had a contest about this when Posterous launched: http://techcrunch.com/2008/06/28/posterous-beats-tumblr-in-s... Michael Arrington posted the results here: http://techcrunch.posterous.com/lots-of-fake-post-attempts-o...
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by davi 16y ago
When you're in a good class with other smart people, you get to see their brains in action. You end up talking about interesting things with the classmates you like, and who like you. This is the foundation of a genuine intellectual network
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The Times to host political polling site FiveThirtyEight(mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by davi 16y ago|1 comments
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by davi 16y ago
This is a discussion of what the market will bear for Fair Trade branded coffee, not what the production costs for iced coffee are.
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This is right, good iced coffee is made differently and one could imagine that the production costs are different. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/dining/27coff.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iced_coffee#United_States What the mark

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