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by frossie 16y ago
Six deaths a year? I went looking to verify that statistic thinking it can't be right, but I didn't find what I expected. According to the source below: "Approximately 27 school aged children die in school bus accidents every year. Seven
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Your Child Left Behind(theatlantic.com)
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by frossie 16y ago
I think true capitalism can't arise in a vacuum; it needs a regulatory support structure for enforcement. cf. The Value of Nothing by Raj Patel in which he makes the point that we all agree as a society how trade is conducted, and we can
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by frossie 16y ago
I don't think you're the first: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2027209 Me, I am still trying to figure out what a startup does with 27 conference rooms....
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by frossie 16y ago
To be fair, I think what he is specifically saying is that a lot of the blogosphere/tech buzz/flame wars etc. is not influencing anything because by the time the early adopters get their hands on the gear, the next product is already in the
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by frossie 16y ago
Only 16 percent of Northeasterners live in cell phone-only homes, the lowest of any region. The highest frequency of wireless-only households is in the South, where 29 percent live that way. Can anyone here figure out the reason behind th
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by frossie 16y ago
But I don't get the impression that folk like that want to kill Comic Sans per se. If you put another "friendly" font out there, the point about not writing probation notices in it would still stand.
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by frossie 16y ago
Erm, the OP was explaining that if you have already launched, your YC experience differs from what you might expect. Fair point I thought, and might be useful for those considering the timing of their YC application. I have noticed that som
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by frossie 16y ago
When someone is suspected of a crime, they are often imprisoned leading up to their trial. ... after a judicial hearing in which bail is denied. People are not just locked up - most countries have very stringent rules as to how long you c
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by frossie 16y ago
"metadata that isn't prominently visible in the browser is guaranteed to be wrong" Very true. Still, I wish title junk was my only problem. My bank's online banking home page has a title of "Home". Just that. "Home". No "Acme Bank Home",
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by frossie 16y ago
For what it's worth - Every time i click on an HN story I also open the comment page (in two new tabs - I use the fabulous Tree Style Tab firefox extension to stop that becoming as insane as it sounds). That way after I read the story, even
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by frossie 16y ago
I would like to try it, but to be honest I haven't figured out how to do it without coming across as... sanctimonious?
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by frossie 16y ago
Erm, aside from the fact that they seem to be in pretty good financial footing these days - given how easy it is to export your data from Evernote, I don't see why you would be hesitating. Just export and save once in a while. My only beef
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by frossie 16y ago
co-ops are cheap, but usually you get what you pay for Ouch. This does not describe my experience. My co-ops have generally been great and I have hired (or attempted to hire) more than one of them upon their graduation. Of course, hiring
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by frossie 16y ago
"We’re not very good at predicting customer growth or device engagement." But they are good enough to admit that, and plan accordingly. Hat off.
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by frossie 16y ago
What is it that you don't believe? I have direct experience (at either end) of all the elements of the story - people in poor situations refusing money because of their pride or principles, people in bad situations helping for no reason at
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by frossie 16y ago
Direct link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLPVCJjTNgk
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by frossie 16y ago
I've always used complex numbers as a mnemonic: real + imaginary, a + bi (obviously the file is real and the softlink is "imaginary"). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number
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by frossie 16y ago
It's amazing how reflexive that question is, and I also get it a lot even though I will only, say, use 5 slides for an hour-long talk. Hell, I have been asked for my slides after a talk where I was obviously just showing live screens in a f
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by frossie 16y ago
(I submitted this) I have zero connection with this site, except it made me very happy when I found about it today. I can't believe I haven't heard of this before (searchyc didn't turn anything up). Granted you may not be as excited if you
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ScribTeX online LaTeX editor (with git interface)(scribtex.com)
118 points by frossie 16y ago|34 comments
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by frossie 16y ago
People complain about two things: First, they complain about things that ought to work well but don't - "I can never find that option" "it crashes when I try to do this" "it's counter-intuitive to need this" "the defaults are not sensible"
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by frossie 16y ago
Same here, but used the ScanSnap-Evernote integration feature, so Evernote takes care of both the OCR and the searching, and if anybody is feeling particularly motivated they can also tag.
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by frossie 16y ago
There's a school of thought that putting highly visible commercially available accelerometers (more accurately they are shock sensors) on the outside of the shipment will cause it to be treated more gently. We subscribed to this school o
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by frossie 16y ago
I suspect you are thinking of EPIC - http://epic.org/ which has indeed filed a lawsuit - I don't see how this is EFF purview.
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by frossie 16y ago
Thank you for making that point. False dichotomies annoy the heck out of me. I encourage people who are not to try and eat vegetarian (never mind vegan - and BTW I am neither) for one week as an intellectual exercise. The issue is not whe
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by frossie 16y ago
Okay, interesting post that left me with a "Well, yes and no" response. The accusation is, that the "scrum master/coach" role in agile has gone from being an in-team activity to being a project management activity. I do think that is true.
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by frossie 16y ago
You might not know anybody who is not spitting mad, but I have never seen anyone opt out when I have travelled through equipped airports. As long as people are going through them like sheep, I am not sure the media storm will change much.
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by frossie 16y ago
I am totally ad blind. I don't see them, or if I see them I don't parse them, or if I parse them I don't remember them 3 seconds later. Of course that does not mean that ads don't deliver a return.
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by frossie 16y ago
It sounds horrid, but it's not entirely a new phenomenon. In First Aid training, I was taught never to yell "someone call an ambulance" when assisting a victim because people will just stand there like lemons looking at you. Instead, you ar

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