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by frisco 17y ago
Here's a post on your.flowingdata explaining it more in depth: http://flowingdata.com/2009/07/15/collect-data-about-yoursel... This is exceptionally awesome. I didn't realize it until I saw it, but I'd been looking for exactly this for a
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Your.flowingdata - An experiment in personal metrics through Twitter(your.flowingdata.com)
16 points by frisco 17y ago|1 comments
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Bashreduce: A Bare-Bones MapReduce(linux-mag.com)
17 points by frisco 17y ago|1 comments
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TheGreatHatsby, an ingenious AIMbot(en.wikipedia.org)
17 points by frisco 17y ago|6 comments
785.
Coho AIM Spam courtesy of a secret bot, "TheGreatHatsby"(jason.motylinski.com)
1 points by frisco 17y ago|0 comments
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The Evolution of Gmail Labels(googleblog.blogspot.com)
23 points by frisco 17y ago|3 comments
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NSERC Grant Peer Review Is More Expensive Than Giving Everyone a Grant(informaworld.com)
1 points by frisco 17y ago|0 comments
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A Tale of Two Programmers(mail.linux.ie)
125 points by frisco 17y ago|55 comments
789.
by frisco 17y ago
I expect that use is way, way more prevalent that is commonly believed.
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by frisco 17y ago
One thing that jumps out at me, being from NYC, is the complete lack of anything in Central Park. There's this widespread belief that you can't go in the park after dark, since it's /so dangerous/, but apparently statistically that's not t
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by frisco 17y ago
Last night it was #IranElection, the keyword "Mousavi", @Change_for_Iran, among several others. Yes, there are rumors going around, but if you found the right users there were definitely people right there, standing on the streets. That s
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by frisco 17y ago
It's 5:30am on the East Coast and I've just been up all night, watching with rapt attention Twitter feeds since 11pm. The media's been inexplicably out of it (see #CNNfail, but CNN isn't the only one), but Twitter's been amazing to watch.
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by frisco 17y ago
That's a bit of a jump. How'd you go from "As a libertarian..." to "So I'd settle for a government mandate" in 3 lines?
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The MP3 Experiment(pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)
66 points by frisco 17y ago|6 comments
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Harmonic Fluids, a fast algorithm for simulating the sounds of 3D water(cs.cornell.edu)
4 points by frisco 17y ago|1 comments
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by frisco 17y ago
I can do go for that for RoR; but Napster was a much bigger leap in its time than we give it credit for now, and the same for Bram/BT. The BitTorrent protocol was well done, even once P2P was far from an obscure idea.
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by frisco 17y ago
BitTorrent, by Bram Cohen. Napster. Ruby on Rails (maybe; I'm uncertain how much it was just dhh in the early days).
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by frisco 17y ago
> And they only took off because Linus is not a total dick Have you ever seen Linus on usenet? I'd argue that his Real Programmer protective stance towards Linux was more helpful to it taking off than being a really Nice Guy.
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by frisco 17y ago
Wow that's misleading linkbait. The actual article describes it as philanthropy targeted at availability of contraception, female education, and higher standards of living world wide, things that are correlated with lower, more sensible, b
800.
by frisco 17y ago
The "clock speed" of a neuron is actually closer to 50ms-100ms (only about 10-20Hz for meaningful purposes) -- but you have about 100 billion of them, and they're all working in parallel. The brain's building blocks are really slow relativ
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by frisco 17y ago
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=How+much+wood+would+a+w...
802.
by frisco 17y ago
That takes me to a blank page with the HN frame (and the Konami Code doesn't do anything)?
803.
by frisco 17y ago
It's the Konami Code. Here's a list of other sites that accept it (includes Digg and jQuery among others): http://www.konamicodesites.com/
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The truth about electrosensitivity(economist.com)
1 points by frisco 17y ago|0 comments
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Does the Universe Have a Purpose?(templeton.org)
8 points by frisco 18y ago|13 comments
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by frisco 18y ago
I don't know if it's new or not, but having the icons write about each other is definitely very cool. Bill Gates on Jeff Bezos, Gordon Brown on Barack Obama, even Rick Astley on moot -- it's different and really interesting.
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Time 100: Moot, by Rick Astley (Not Online Poll)(time.com)
7 points by frisco 18y ago|10 comments
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Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Silicon(aigamedev.com)
1 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
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Flawless Business Plan Seeking Teleportation Scientist(craigslist.org)
3 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
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by frisco 18y ago
Facebook is the 5th most populous country in the world. That's more of where its "common knowledge success" comes from given where it is now, as opposed to venture raised. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_popul

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