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by ektimo 17y ago
Thank goodness, I thought it was because of the cheeseburger waffles... http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/page/21
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by ektimo 17y ago
I'm the other poster, and I believe you weren't Technically Lying ( http://lesswrong.com/lw/11y/not_technically_lying/ ) but why did you bring up that you hadn't used the driving directions? Maybe this had nothing to do with deceiving peopl
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by ektimo 17y ago
Wow, I thought you'd be mortified! Instead you don't consider it "unethical in the slightest" because you thought it was the only way you could win. How much money do you think you made from your review which was written to make it seem lik
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by ektimo 17y ago
"while others can appreciate the level of engineering and the minds that went into the precision you can feel when you are driving it." I'd like to see a blind test for that. And who cares anyway if an expert can detect a certain "feel", ot
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by ektimo 17y ago
Still the people who never do that are, in honesty, feeling bad not good. I hypothesize the reason humans perform worse after failing a hard question versus passing an easy question is that by keeping yourself down, you avoid getting into t
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by ektimo 17y ago
Negative thinking feels bad. Maybe he's never actually experienced it. A better explanation is needed.
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by ektimo 17y ago
Or you could try using 2 other cards to draw a horizontal line across the 2 lines for comparison. One card is used to form the right angle and the other is used to slide up to see which line end it reaches first. Or if you could get a good
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by ektimo 17y ago
"Winning" iPhone/Facebook: 1 in 100. $10M per year. Winning Mega Millions Jackpot: 1 in 175,711,536. $12M paid over 26 years ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Millions )
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by ektimo 17y ago
"The 1-2% that succeed can expect an upside of around $10-20 million in annual revenues. This isn’t quite a lottery, but it’s depressingly close." A lottery ticket costs $1 and isn't worth it. A 1% chance to "win" $10 million would arguab
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by ektimo 17y ago
really? i thought it kinda sucked. "If grades and enthusiasm are waning, it’s time for parental intervention. But not too much. And not too little. Really, you know your daughter best, and it’s important to talk about what’s going on at sch
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by ektimo 17y ago
"Computer use" is that little sliver above "TV and Movies".
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Interactive graph of how different groups spend their day(nytimes.com)
6 points by ektimo 17y ago|1 comments
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An Interactive Database of Ideas(images.businessweek.com)
3 points by ektimo 17y ago|0 comments
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by ektimo 17y ago
Sounds like a complex, error-prone solution that requires the devices and people to learn something new and doesn't solve the problem of not being able to see the person you're talking to. "A nod-aware phone would make my daily communicatio
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by ektimo 17y ago
Clickable link: http://herdit.org/music/index.html
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by ektimo 17y ago
Are you getting more than 550 sales per review or less than 200 (for your total number of reviews)?
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Ask HN: What percent of iPhone apps make less than $100?
6 points by ektimo 17y ago|4 comments
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by ektimo 17y ago
One thing that would help for evaluating your ideas is to include links to existing sites that are most similar. This would save the evaluator time in getting the basic lay of the land and show whether you're aware of the strongest competit
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by ektimo 17y ago
I agree that's really nice... but what happens when the text isn't found? The feedback is that the page brightens. Even if I know to shift my eyes to the entry field, it feels odd to me that the feedback for something going wrong is that th
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by ektimo 17y ago
http://handykeys.com/ - download the stable version. http://handykeys.com/v3 - download the beta version shown in the video. Sorry about the sound and thanks for the feedback. I knew it sucked but it was going to come down to that or no
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by ektimo 17y ago
My biggest complaint with current search in all the browsers is that if you don't find what you're looking for, it takes a while to realize what has happened since there is no obvious feedback (though FF is pretty good). Also, it isn't obvi
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by ektimo 17y ago
Also: Ask people you know, especially people who will be qualified/candid enough to tell you what is wrong. Asking HN was a clever idea! Asking people in person is also important. I think this is an important question. Anyone else have sugg
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by ektimo 17y ago
Start with a small one, predict how data will turn out and see how close you get. Then go for a bigger one. Disclaimer: This opinion based on (almost) no real experience.
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Ask HN: What should I do with this project (HandyFind)?
16 points by ektimo 17y ago|15 comments
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by ektimo 17y ago
This is a really easy way to do it if you just want to track a few links. From Google: How do I manually track clicks on outbound links?: http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?...
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by ektimo 17y ago
Would Twitter be able to take the domain name over given that it includes the word "Twitter" and is about Twitter?
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by ektimo 17y ago
Are any of these companies profitable?