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What is Dalvik?(groklaw.net)
3 points by frossie 16y ago|0 comments
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by frossie 16y ago
See, the real problem here is that the OP thinks that math and science are distinct. I certainly am of the opinion that they are not, which makes the whole argument very weak, since reason -> logic -> mathematics -> science. [E
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by frossie 16y ago
Doesn't explain the popularity on that list of orange. I have no fondness for orange (my HN topcolor is a soothing 7BB6F0) and have always been a bit of a loss to figure out why it figures so much. It also tends to be the same shade of or
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by frossie 16y ago
isn't 6 exactly the age kids start asking questions? Yes but a 6 year old still believes their parents :-) Seriously, the issue is that the questions young kids ask need a lot of context to interpret - they are not the kind of thing you c
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What BP Could Have Bought With All the Money They Lost (visualeconomics.com)
1 points by frossie 16y ago|0 comments
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by frossie 16y ago
For those who didn't make it all the way down: People often intuitively think of probabilities as a fact about the world, when in reality probabilities are a fact about our model of the world.
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by frossie 16y ago
I also switched to DDG at the prompting of an HN commenter, and agree entirely with the points made in the OP. The only downside really is just in the formatting of the results - I can get 11-12 results in a google search in a full-height w
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by frossie 16y ago
On the other hand, a lot of people who are social/motivated by team psychology already have other motivating options, like team sports, group classes etc. The interesting thing in this idea (which I agree with the comment that it would be g
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by frossie 16y ago
Well, I have had everything from school leavers to PhDs working for me, and I can tell you that a college degree is not necessary to become a good programmer if you are adequately mentored by the right person. So my personal answer to y
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by frossie 16y ago
I haven't done this, but I know if I did I would ask this guy: http://informationisbeautiful.net/ No idea whether he does small contract work or whether it is affordably priced, but I like his work.
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by frossie 16y ago
At the risk of being stripped of my PMI membership for sloppiness, I have a rule of thumb for estimating tasks when (a) I don't need to be accurate and/or (b) I don't want to take the time to be more accurate. A. geek estimate "couple of da
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by frossie 16y ago
I hate to be the bad guy, but: Investors get excited, refer him to experts in the ceramics, who reply "no way." How do you know they are not right? Patents in and of themselves are not proof, as we all know.
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by frossie 16y ago
The fact that it is written by a female founder is what doesn't make it linkbait. It's a case of "hey girlfriend, here's the list of things you need to do to be a founder, and guess what, none of them involve dropping testicles". They psy
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by frossie 16y ago
Funniest box in that graphic: Arachnophobia: Appropriate to include a huge picture of a tarantula on a page about fear of spiders?
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by frossie 16y ago
Yeah, I find the whole framing the thing around the US constitution unhelpful. This is really a human psychology issue rather than a cultural history issue. The thing that makes me curious is whether "semi" anonymity is the best of both wor
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by frossie 16y ago
where are all the hacker biologists, psychiatrists, or gardeners? Err, we are here. You'd be wrong if you thought that everyone in HN is a startup person, or even a programmer. However, this is hacker news hosted on ycombinator .com. T
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by frossie 16y ago
I feel really unclean for having googled this, but you will be delighted to know that the dog will be fine. http://www.tmz.com/2010/08/17/dr-frank-ryan-dog-jill-border-... Re OP: my county has recently banned electronic devices while driv
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by frossie 16y ago
When its time to take out their credit cards then they backtrack And to be fair, even if I am trying to be super-honest, I find it very hard to decide whether I would be happy to whip out a credit card from a concept pitch. It's not jus
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by frossie 16y ago
A quote by somebody who is not an astronomer, clearly (she said, while in the other workspace watching data originating gazillion of miles away taken by an instrument that works only because of obscure quantum effects). :-P Seriously, I thi
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by frossie 16y ago
It's probably a mobility horse (and the guy is in a wheelchair). You can use the horse to help you transition from a wheelchair to a chair and so on.
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Illegal Gender Discrimination in Tech? Hardly(bnet.com)
1 points by frossie 16y ago|0 comments
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by frossie 16y ago
It's a pretty big reason. I've been a Netflix customer continuously since 1999. There isn't a single subscription service I have signed up online or offline (magazines etc) that comes close to that kind of longevity. And I pay them a hell o
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by frossie 16y ago
I casually ‘pitched’ the idea to a respectable consumer-tech focused VC who immediately commented that he didn’t think the people who like to play games were the same people who like to win rewards/deals or shop period They don't need to
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by frossie 16y ago
I think it also ignores that many of the blogs I find most endearing are from new bloggers finding their writing voice. I find that by the time a blog has become big enough to secure its author a book deal, or a paywall slot, its best days
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by frossie 16y ago
Judging from the comments on the OP, people are having trouble picking two airports that work - bit of a shame, to get lifehacker exposure and then having people shrug and go away. The problem is that I suspect adioso uses cookies and/or br
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by frossie 16y ago
What did they do a week after when the novelty wore off? Certainly giving people a stimulus can reward good behaviour. I recall reading that drivers of (normal engined) cars with a fuel consumption live readout get higher mileage than peopl
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by frossie 16y ago
One of them was a Brit who in the 1950's invented a toilet that permitted squatting I do believe I have seen somewhere a flyer by the British National Health Service advocating putting one's feet on a (step)stool in order to achieve a mor
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People don't really like unselfish colleagues(eurekalert.org)
2 points by frossie 16y ago|1 comments
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by frossie 16y ago
Summary quote: It’s only once you’ve actually become a customer that companies put efficiency ahead of attention, with the result that a company’s current customers are often the ones who experience its worst service. Economically, this ma
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The crisis in customer service(newyorker.com)
2 points by frossie 16y ago|1 comments

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