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by heyrhett 14y ago
Warp speed is only 1/10th the speed of light. As far as some news about faster than light travel, refer to: http://xkcd.com/955/
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by heyrhett 14y ago
relevant (and funny cause it's true): http://xkcd.com/963/
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by heyrhett 14y ago
Also, he went to Choate, which is the most elite boarding school in the country.
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by heyrhett 14y ago
This is the real advice at the very end: "But the best way to have a future is to be part of a team that values progress over politics, ideas over territory, and initiative over decorum." The story is cut short though, and he doesn't really
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by heyrhett 14y ago
I don't want to be a wet blanket here, but does anyone else find this "tender love making" branding all over Aaron Patterson's technical content a bit... distracting? Personally I do. That said, Aaron does amazing work and he should be abl
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by heyrhett 14y ago
I agree, he is well within reason to get a lawyer and sue the pants off of McDonald's in civil court if his case is accurate as he describes it. He's not asking for that though. What he basically wants is a public apology and for McDonald'
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by heyrhett 14y ago
I find it really hard to believe that Steve Mann would have some kind of medical condition that would lead a normal Dr. to prescribe that Steve Mann wears the computer vision glasses that Steve Mann invented. I'm sorry he was harassed, but
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by heyrhett 14y ago
Can 3taps get me the content of the NY Times website via indirect means, so I can publish it on my website? I did a back of the envelope calculation that a lot of people are losing time by having to go somewhere else to get that content, a
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by heyrhett 14y ago
If this isn't brogrammer wisdom, I don't know what is.
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by heyrhett 14y ago
This is one of my favorite tumblrs: http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com/
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by heyrhett 14y ago
I love that the Argentinian government was worrying about their (mostly) tongue-in-cheek ranking in the Economist's big-mac index. It makes me feel like they're run by the Bluths from Arrested Development or something.
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by heyrhett 14y ago
The LSE has a good talk about what they're doing here: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/pu... It helps them find high school dropouts in Maine who might be great employees, but would otherwise never have shown up
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by heyrhett 14y ago
"My name is Barack Obama, and I'm the guy that got Mark to wear a jacket and tie." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/20/mark-zuckerberg-wea...
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by heyrhett 14y ago
+1 "DuckDuckHack"
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by heyrhett 14y ago
You decided to use copyrighted music, "Santo & Johnny - Sleep Walk 1959" through your "How it works" video, which I got to by clicking a link under the giant "Data Entry Blows" text on your main page. Did you actually obtain the rights
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by heyrhett 15y ago
I hope that someone helps make sure that this goes into a 529 fund where it can pay for education without being taxed or taken by one of his relatives.
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Why would the largest advertising company in the world want to place a screen between my eyeballs and reality?
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A site where getting poached is the whole point(news.cnet.com)
46 points by heyrhett 15y ago|6 comments
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Free is not a bad pricepoint for me to check if IE6 is rendering my page at all. For companies that need to check this sort of thing before launching, $250 doesn't sound too bad either. Nice work!
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by heyrhett 15y ago
How many wikipedia pages can we turn into .es domains? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes On a side note, I need to start using 418 "I'm a teapot" more often.
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Being part of community of talented people is a great thing. In addition to having a large pool of people to ask for help though, I think a great benefit is that YC companies help each other out without being directly asked. For example,
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What Craigslist Did Right: User Management Without Usernames or Passwords(jobpoacher.com)
120 points by heyrhett 15y ago|33 comments
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Can anyone explain why this post got buried on reddit? I thought they live for controversial stories like this. Is Arrington a reddit investor too?
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by heyrhett 15y ago
But he basically positioned "Clocky" so it couldn't run onto the floor, right? I think that Clocky solves this problem better, as long as you don't sabotage it to begin with. Of course, if you have a messy floor, that could stop clocky, as
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by heyrhett 15y ago
How do I pitch my startup to the Dan Lyons angel fund?
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Crazy, I don't even see this post in the ask section anymore.
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Thanks a lot for the great tool! It's very intuitive and works well!
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by heyrhett 15y ago
"First of all, nothing works out of the box. You will have to manually set up the driver for your video card, ...Xorg, " I stopped there http://xkcd.com/963/
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by heyrhett 15y ago
"We assume full configurability of the amount of ghosts and ghost houses, speeds, and the durations of Chase, Scatter, and Frightened modes"... "The game alternates between Chase and Scatter mode fast enough, so that each ghost reverses dir
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Pretty cool to see the room. I always liked this photo: "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!" (or you will take down the web) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:First_Web_Server.jpg

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