dfens

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by dfens 16y ago
I recently bought my first house in the greater Wellington area, so have spent the last four or so months dealing with real estate agents. I think anything to reduce their influence is probably going to be popular. The fixed commission is p
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by dfens 18y ago
Jef Raskin worked on an OS named Archy that also dealt with this problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy#Persistence
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by dfens 18y ago
This reminds me of the boxes from Hell Pizza, which can be turned into a coffin "for your remains": http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=hell+pizza+box+coffin&w=...
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by dfens 18y ago
I didn't realise most puzzles change, I just answered the Meaning of Life three times and assumed I was cheating. As for the sickle balance, I did find it, but think having username and balance on the top right works well on HN. Somewhere n
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by dfens 18y ago
I registered just to see what the puzzles were. Some thoughts: I found that you can answer the same puzzle multiple times, which you probably want to change. For three of the puzzles, if you submit a blank form the website breaks. You shoul
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by dfens 18y ago
Another method: Right-click picture, "Inspect Element" Firebug expands Right-click highlighted img element, "Delete Element"
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by dfens 18y ago
Thanks a lot for the feedback (and to everyone else too). I'm going to try both of those ideas when I get home from work.
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Ask HN: Looking for feedback on side-project
14 points by dfens 18y ago|13 comments
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by dfens 18y ago
For "Modern Nerd" he didn't mention that the N and the D are the same character, putting two words into one, which I think looks very cool.
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by dfens 18y ago
There's some cool looking stuff there. I had never seen "Light-Transmitting Concrete" before ( http://en.red-dot.org/2838+M582dcf2224d.html ).
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by dfens 18y ago
HearWhere placed me in Mt Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand which is slightly off but very close. Two minor things: 1) "DJ Carlito" came up as "Ã�J CARLITO" and when I clicked on "Peaches" the "About Peaches" section was for a different gro
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Wall Street and Vine: Hollywood's View of Business(papers.ssrn.com)
2 points by dfens 18y ago|0 comments
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How to Live With Just 100 Things(time.com)
3 points by dfens 18y ago|0 comments
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Why Tiered Broadband is a Wonderful Thing and ASIVS(blogmaverick.com)
3 points by dfens 18y ago|1 comments
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by dfens 18y ago
nytimes.com busts out of the frame.
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by dfens 18y ago
I highly recommend Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell. The title is not very imaginative but I found it a great place to start before looking at more complicated concepts. http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-2nd-Ed-Citizens/dp/046...
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by dfens 18y ago
The article on one page: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia...
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Boeing vs Bloomberg: Visuals are the key to situational awareness(amazon.com)
2 points by dfens 18y ago|0 comments
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The end of the critic?(latimes.com)
1 points by dfens 18y ago|0 comments
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by dfens 19y ago
I'm not a game theorist, but wouldn't people just game SpecArena the same way spammers game digg and reddit now? By 'game' I mean automatically rate the competition with low scores and have voting-gangs/bots give their own submissions high
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by dfens 19y ago
"Zuckerbucks" was used in a Joy of Tech comic: http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1015.html
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The most important thing to understand about new products and startups(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
92 points by dfens 19y ago|26 comments
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by dfens 19y ago
Well the secret part is right...
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by dfens 19y ago
If I really wanted to procrastinate, I would find all the blog posts complaining about lack of unicode, and count how many times a non-ASCII character was used.
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Football prank, internet, write a book(blog.toothpastefordinner.com)
1 points by dfens 19y ago|0 comments
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by dfens 19y ago
I had to laugh when I saw the link to your kratom website. I gave you a point for being so persistent.
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by dfens 19y ago
Are you going to submit this to Reddit?
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by dfens 19y ago
I'm busy with my own stuff, but I'm curious about what exactly you will be doing.
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by dfens 19y ago
Hey that's what I do.
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by dfens 19y ago
I haven't watched anything since The Sopranos finished. Except Seinfeld DVDs.

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