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by davi 17y ago
A little more: http://ianschoenherr.blogspot.com/2010/04/john-schoenherr-19... , http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/04/08/in-memory-...
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"The only man who has ever visited Dune" has passed away(bpib.com)
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Language nit: "Posterous is not a microblog. It's your place to post everything." I think defining oneself to an audience in terms of a negative -- 'we are not x, we are not y, we are z!' -- tends to leave a negative association. Just flip
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by davi 17y ago
You're parsing the paragraph wrong. The sentence "No apostrophe is needed" doesn't refer to the immediately preceding sentence, it is referring to the original use of "it's" by JarekS. Ah well. Someone on the internet was wrong, I had to co
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by davi 17y ago
Credit to Carl Zimmer for the snappy headline ( http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/04/07/evolved-fo... )
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Evolved for sushi(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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Yet-Another-Genome Syndrome(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
12 points by davi 17y ago|0 comments
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by davi 17y ago
posted 17 minutes ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/middleeast/06baghdad...
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by davi 17y ago
Yet Bing works: http://www.bing.com/search?q=wikileaks
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by davi 17y ago
At PayPal we spent tens of millions in marketing through our referral program (get a friend to join we'll give you $5-10) Assuming a good business case (which PayPal had: bootstrap network effect with pure money), could a web startup ever
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by davi 17y ago
My knee-jerk reaction to this is, "Another useless confusion of correlation and causation! Stupid media! Stupid HN!" But... A family friend had a stroke. It affected his gate and speech. He found that if he smiled broadly, both his gate and
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Inc. Magazine goes virtual for a month(inc.com)
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"“Aggregation works for consumers,” he said. “It makes it easier to find and discover and enjoy premium content, and it works for advertisers, because with that aggregation you get greater reach.” [...] To get permission to move content ont
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by davi 17y ago
A little light heartedness is never a problem IMO. I disagree. I come here for things that are interesting , not lighthearted. Things that change my model of how the world works. As the concentration of interesting stuff goes down, peopl
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Why Haitian bus owners spend so much on murals(npr.org)
7 points by davi 17y ago|1 comments
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by davi 17y ago
Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape Brian Hayes http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393329593/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp... This book is a "how it works" guide to the infrastructure of modernity: the power grid, mining, steel pr
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by davi 17y ago
I don't think the lesson here is, "Boy, girls today!" This 16 year old is an outlier, despite her mainstream looks. She has built up her audience to the point that she can attract 450,000 views to a youtube post on shoes, and she has moneti
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by davi 17y ago
OK, so Microsoft finds lots of bugs by this technique (according to you), but then this guy says that he finds still more bugs, with (according to him) pretty primitive methods. And then the guy says, '"I found bugs, lots of bugs. That was
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by davi 17y ago
So what's your analysis of why the external teams are ineffective?
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by davi 17y ago
direct link: http://www.mymacnetbook.com/compatibility-chart/
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by davi 17y ago
I'm learning git right now and that little site produced a big increment in my comprehension. Still at 'grasshopper' stage, but now I'm doing stuff, rather than scratching my navel and drooling while looking at man pages and Stack Overflo
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What turns a bull market into a bubble: Testosterone?(onpointradio.org)
2 points by davi 17y ago|1 comments
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An 'Apprenticeship' In First-Generation Chutzpah(npr.org)
1 points by davi 17y ago|0 comments
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by davi 17y ago
As found in the SQLite FAQ, behind the assertion "Threads are evil". http://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q6
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The Problem with Threads(eecs.berkeley.edu)
8 points by davi 17y ago|3 comments
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I also don't really listen to lyrics, largely because it is hard for me. I think I actually have some sort of perceptual incapacity -- I have to really try to understand them, whereas it seems other people hear them very easily. Even whe
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by davi 17y ago
I don't have a smartphone. I would sign up for this service if it would send me email when someone responded to my posts on HN.
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by davi 17y ago
At http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html , pg speculates that ideas 4 (outsourced IT), 18 (the WebOS), and 19 (application and/or data hosting) can be bundled. I think Newmark's vision may belong in this bundle as well. It somehow feels like
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The Science Reader: A Crowd-Sourced Profile(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
1 points by davi 17y ago|0 comments
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Senator Leahy's pictures from ringside(lens.blogs.nytimes.com)
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