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by emeltzer 16y ago
Prisoners are among the most fit people in the world, despite an absence of good machines, good diet, coaches, and instructional material. If you want to be fit, start exercising--a nice way to get started is to truly understand that any ki
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by emeltzer 16y ago
i know it's supposed to be cute, but the yawning is sort of creeping me out.
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by emeltzer 16y ago
Hmm. There's something appealing about tweaking a bunch of fairly mundane parameters (button color, for example) in order to more effectively allow people to come together and make something interesting with your site. It might not be as i
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by emeltzer 16y ago
This is exactly the kind of feedback I was hoping we'd get! I'm just going to go line by line, after which I'll start redo-ing the PDF to reflect some of the changes. 1. Hint text. Good point. That implementation definitely sounds more u
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by emeltzer 16y ago
Many of these ideas are things we are either planning to implement or have discussed in the past--great minds think alike :) We'd absolutely love to talk more about this stuff with someone else who's as interested in the problem as we are!
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by emeltzer 16y ago
It'll be open source (like most projects in the open science space are, see PLOS's open journal effort for a good example) because there is no reason for it not to be :) As for the type of protocol, since the site is oriented around user-mo
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by emeltzer 16y ago
Absolutely. Should have linked this off the bat, but here is our signup page: http://openprotocols.net/
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by emeltzer 16y ago
Any critique of our ad or design spec are also very very welcome!
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Our Open Science project is looking for a dev(openprotocols.net)
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by emeltzer 16y ago
recently many places that used to be open wifi hotspots have become "china mobile hotspots" which are about one million times less useful. example: starbucks in Beijing used to just be a WEP'd wireless connection, you buy a cup of coffee an
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by emeltzer 16y ago
top of my head stuff: 1. there is beginning to be a serious proliferation of DIY science centers at least in the field of synthetic biology (those guys are capable of doing anything from biochem to cell bio, so they could work on these jobs
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by emeltzer 16y ago
very nice. i will use this as it is.
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by emeltzer 16y ago
"...He handles those transactions like a Boy Scout because Amazon doesn't mess around, he says - the company just kicks you off its site if you infuriate customers." more evidence in the 'amazon knows what they are doing' file.
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by emeltzer 16y ago
This is fantastic!
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by emeltzer 16y ago
Seeing sites that aim to serve the research community (pubget comes also to mind) begin to pop up is very exciting. that said, I think the social graph component is useful as a way to inform what papers the site shows you, but should not b
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by emeltzer 16y ago
I wouldn't write off google china quite yet? They still have a huge office here churning out tons of code, making interesting things, kicking ass with android stuff..
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by emeltzer 16y ago
@benhedrington doing something involving libraries in beijing. we're in stealth mode ish. youku and tudou and all the other youtube-likes are essentially unusable in the US. partially intentional to avoid copyright trouble for the companie
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by emeltzer 16y ago
i was trying to explain to a friend yesterday what a "meaty" article is, I think I'll just show him this and forget it. 1. Speaking from experience and with expertise as opposed to random analytical arguments that may or may not be true. 2.
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by emeltzer 16y ago
I deleted my facebook entirely as an experiment, and completely forgot about it a week later. I used to use it very often, but the moment it was gone, I didn't miss it in the least.
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by emeltzer 16y ago
watched your video to see if this was something i'd want to use, still have no clue! show a useage case in the video please, not just a bunch of pretty words about the service.
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by emeltzer 16y ago
the exile owned so hard. i wonder what the whole story is on the exchange at the end of the article? i can't really imagine matt taibbi throwing coffee in someone's face.
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Check whether a site is dead or alive(ericmeltzer.posterous.com)
2 points by emeltzer 16y ago|0 comments