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by indiejade 16y ago
The WSJ article cited in Arrington's article: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/08/27/addressing-th... It's one thing to aspire to focus on small-scale businesses that benefit a local area / community (as do most female entrepreneu
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A Dashboard for Bugs(toolness.com)
1 points by indiejade 16y ago|0 comments
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How Can Futures Thinking Amplify Design Thinking?(core77.com)
6 points by indiejade 16y ago|0 comments
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Serpentine: a battle between a rock and a hard place(sfgate.com)
2 points by indiejade 16y ago|1 comments
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by indiejade 16y ago
Here's a link to the study: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone... A compelling argument has been made that the positive associations between SES and ASD prevalence that have been observed likely are due either i
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Autism: A Disease of the Rich?(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
5 points by indiejade 16y ago|1 comments
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by indiejade 16y ago
Can you cite some numbers here. Browsers are hugely optimized for displaying tables. They have tables down to a fine art. I'm completely unqualified to be talking about this, so only to a certain extent do I even feel like I should answer
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by indiejade 16y ago
Compiled code is only as good as the compiler. This is why I favor the side of hand-crafted CSS. The biggest problem with the code example listed FtA on Geeky Peek is that it showcases HTML tables, which are what tend make HTML most ineffi
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by indiejade 16y ago
Exactly. Speaking as someone who does not have them around any more, you cannot possibly imagine what it's like unless you've experienced it. It's incorrect to assume that poor people don't want to work, as well. Most of them want to wo
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Cars that run on CO2 and sunlight(sify.com)
1 points by indiejade 16y ago|0 comments
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by indiejade 16y ago
The interesting thing about the treatment of addiction is that one of the most effective solutions (Overeaters Anonymous, AA, Narcotics Anonymous, etc.) is that getting a bunch of these "addicts" in the same room to talk about their addicti
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by indiejade 17y ago
Willis and Takeuchi's agent, Kelly Engel, used to be a traditional agent. "I had done quite a few deals where I spent maybe five hours total working on the deal. I never saw the house. My client found it online and, you know, I would make
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Chipping Away at Realtors Six Percent(flatfeelisting.com)
5 points by indiejade 17y ago|4 comments
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Freakonomics: Alcohol 101(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by indiejade 17y ago|0 comments
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by indiejade 17y ago
You're exactly right: marketing something like this is hard. But writing the code is harder. Making it open source was risky, but brave. Oh, the perpetual downfall of open platforms. You're handling this extremely well, btw. I've had m
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by indiejade 17y ago
A cat pricks it's ears to increase fidelity of it's hearing, dogs point with their nose as a learned trait they don't do it in the wild. None of these behaviours are naturally evolved communication methods This is pure speculation. Who
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by indiejade 17y ago
Most cases of snakes biting humans occur when the snake is stepped on. Most cases of snakes eating other animals is when the snake can get its jaws ( unhinge-able jaws) around a warm-blooded critter. [edit] grammar fix. too early in the
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by indiejade 17y ago
Furthermore, as Isbell points out, of all the species, only humans point declaratively, and we are much better at following the pointing of others to our visual periphery than to our visual center, and while looking down rather than up. “W
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by indiejade 17y ago
Perspective changes as you get older. Besides, women live longer than men, and reach their prime later. There are a lot of reasons it makes sense for a female to date a male who is slightly younger than him. So. . . I daresay that the com
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by indiejade 17y ago
Agreed. Infrastructure is one of those things that the article kind of glazes over, but still thought it was interesting. Given Russia's socio-political nature, however, it just might work. The main problem with SV these days is that it's
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Can Russia pull off a Silicon Valley?(time.com)
1 points by indiejade 17y ago|3 comments
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Nanophysics, and a new way of producting electricity(physorg.com)
2 points by indiejade 17y ago|0 comments
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MIT scientists transform polyethylene into a heat-conducting material(eurekalert.org)
2 points by indiejade 17y ago|0 comments
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by indiejade 17y ago
Written mostly based on some old research gathered from this piece (also based on the parent article): "A Few Good Reasons to Not Partake of the Swine": http://indiejade.livejournal.com/23835.html Ergo: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by indiejade 17y ago
And what sells the most books and makes people read blog posts – losing loves, getting arrested, being fired, inching towards cirrhosis of the liver – is not actually that much fun when it’s you doing it. Yep. Drama follows people like u
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by indiejade 17y ago
Fourth, we need to become as good at providing career and emotional support as we are at criticizing performance (a very highly honed skill in most academics). However, research and experience show that the ability to cope with failure var
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by indiejade 17y ago
Definitely. Regarding the "diversity" issue, I think there's verifiable evidence that first-generation immigrants tend to be far more successful in the startup / small business enterprise than those who've been in the US for many generatio
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by indiejade 17y ago
What it reminded me of is when, after waiting on hold forever, the CSR says something like: "Thanks for calling ABC Company. What's your account number?" or "What is your phone number?" Having the first "words" a customer utters be number
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There are good reasons for saying hello.(esmerel.com)
214 points by indiejade 17y ago|37 comments
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Should the super-wealthy pay more taxes?(forums.intpcentral.com)
3 points by indiejade 17y ago|5 comments

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