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by diN0bot 18y ago
another anecdote: i read handfuls of novels and dozens of short stories a month. a book before sleep helps settle the mind. much nicer than working on the computer until i drop.
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Profiling the powers that be(littlesis.org)
2 points by diN0bot 18y ago|0 comments
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by diN0bot 18y ago
that's interesting because at first i kept thinking i'd opened tabs to some geographic region and that was their flag.
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by diN0bot 18y ago
i'd be glad to have an API at all. right now, if you want to get donation reports on attempted congressional members you have to go to d.c. in person and individual print each report on their printer and pay for it. it is effectively impo
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For Peruvians, Baskets for the U.S. Market Bring a New Way of Life(nytimes.com)
1 points by diN0bot 18y ago|0 comments
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by diN0bot 18y ago
poor grammar actually gets in the way of understanding some of this, kind of like the lack of code indention. i feel like i was thrust into some lesson half-way. what's he trying to do? why? that said, the pictures are good. i have a clear
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by diN0bot 18y ago
i was wondering about the change, too, but i didn't find this article interesting. in fact, talking about the icon at all isn't interesting. i was just startled by the new favicon and it took me a few google pages (maps, gmail, search) to d
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by diN0bot 18y ago
this is awesome. fun, and at first glance reveals interesting data (though not more than analytics, which is actually a good way to check validity).
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by diN0bot 18y ago
> "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." A.Einstein I disagree. When I don't get enough scif
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by diN0bot 18y ago
fascinating, more from a social than technical perspective.
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by diN0bot 18y ago
article worth it for the japan groups link: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/04/twitter-launches-groups...
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by diN0bot 18y ago
why all the pessimistic comments? invest that $2000 in a 401 or roth low-risk fund and you will likely get good returns in 50 years.
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by diN0bot 18y ago
Correlation does not imply causation. Eg, brain scans could result from genetic differences or environmental (cultural) differences. All this study shows is that people who report cravings have different brain activity than people who do no
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by diN0bot 18y ago
sorry for the duplicate. i posted just as hn went down. as i clicked a second time i wondered whether it checked for double posts (no duplicate siblings). guess i have my answer. i don't see a "delete" option, though i've seen '[deleted]' b
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by diN0bot 18y ago
we measure the success of our startup by the amount of social and environmental good we are generating. the time to pull the plug is a good question. we are nearing our second year, though only in the past 4 months have we both been working
856.
by diN0bot 18y ago
we measure the success of our startup by the amount of social and environmental good we are generating. the time to pull the plug is a good question. we are nearing our second year, though only in the past 4 months have we both been working
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by diN0bot 18y ago
i run a site where articles are voted on. we don't show scores in the 'voting' part of the site. people have to make up their own minds. also, a user that participates in a discussion relinquishes past and future votes in that area.
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by diN0bot 18y ago
in case you're interested in more bug photos: http://www-math.mit.edu/~dhu/Climberweb/climberweb.html david and i worked together at the fluid dynamics lab. my job was mostly macro photography and matlab, while he was the actual grad stud
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Tiny boat uses water tension, not tiny moving parts, to move(newscientist.com)
1 points by diN0bot 18y ago|1 comments
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by diN0bot 18y ago
> Belkin's President: "So, it was with great surprise and dismay when we discovered that one of our employees may have posted a number of queries on the Amazon Mechanical Turk website inviting users to post positive reviews of Belkin pr
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by diN0bot 18y ago
i'm not convinced you have to choose between making something lovable and making something less annoying. just because people put up with annoying features of something they love does not mean they love the product because it is annoying. i
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by diN0bot 18y ago
haha. we had a pretty raucous "tie day" email thread at work once. everyone kept posting pictures of people wearing ties, or tye dyes, or colonel tigh, etc. lots of good fun, but definitely consuming way too much time and enjoyment to be p
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Ask HN: SUP nightly challenges at Cambridge, MA hacker space
4 points by diN0bot 18y ago|1 comments
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by diN0bot 18y ago
i read that as "the terror of an english lit assignment." ::wipes tear of nostalgia from eye:: as i read i kept wanting to see the punchline, that is: how did this effect the next 30 years of garfield (seems unchanged to me) and other comic
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by diN0bot 18y ago
The concept of interacting with smart computers is always interesting (including this parody and many others), but the implementations always leave me unsatisfied. I guess that's why I stick with sci.fi for entertainment.
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by diN0bot 18y ago
dfens, top notch! i've been looking for something more approachable than the w3c spec gooblety-gook for a while now. i've been trying to encourage the ui/html/js/css folks on my project to think about the specs. they come from varied non-en
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by diN0bot 18y ago
he says to email him, probably because then he'll add them to his big list.
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by diN0bot 18y ago
>"Many of these [education] apps [from smaller publishers] seem to work well, but they may be overtaken once the aforementioned “trusted names” start establishing a larger presence." really? i bet if the non-brand name apps are done wel
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by diN0bot 18y ago
this is done tons by big corporations. usually they pay a shop overseas to make accounts and post false praise. this is something i've looked extensibly into before, so when i get back tonight i'll go through my old notebooks and post some
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by diN0bot 18y ago
link to advertisement, please.

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