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by jbrun 18y ago
That is a great site, beats all others hands down. Pop-ups suck, but still beats the other sites. I love entering the date in words.
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How Microsoft's retail stores will differ from Apple's(macworld.com)
1 points by jbrun 18y ago|0 comments
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The boy so set on getting to Cambridge he got 22 A-levels(dailymail.co.uk)
3 points by jbrun 18y ago|0 comments
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by jbrun 18y ago
I use harvest and it works quite well for me.
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by jbrun 18y ago
Teachers vs. Quarterbacks Here is a very good article by Gladwell comparing the difficulty in finding good teachers to that of choosing NFL quarterbacks: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/15/081215fa_fact_...
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by jbrun 18y ago
Great interview. A couple things struck me. Particularly, two of the major threads in the 37signals new-speak lexicon are almost verbatim from the interview: I like to think of the Fortune 5,000,000 or 14,000,000. There are 14,000,000 small
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by jbrun 18y ago
Man, I just lost 2 hours of my life to Sneakers. How did Redford, and company get sucked into that. What a horrible movie.
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Free the facts - a set on Flickr(flickr.com)
19 points by jbrun 18y ago|3 comments
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by jbrun 18y ago
Montreal, Canada. If you don't mind the cold, you have great public transit and bike lanes throughout the city. Not to mention amazing food, culture and low cost of living.
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by jbrun 18y ago
Below is a list of Ted Talks, my top five which blew me away, followed by some other favorites. Enjoy! Top 5: Zander on music, Hans Rosling on World Development, Bolte on Strokes, Lessing on Creative Commons, and the DNA Folding one Some ot
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by jbrun 18y ago
It would be cool if this could be used to mark important pages on a site by individual users. Sort of like a bookmark, but more user-friendly. Users could quickly see a list of pages they have dog-eared and go back to them.
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Prado and Google bring masterpieces to Web(iht.com)
1 points by jbrun 18y ago|0 comments
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Autodesk executive to lead Yahoo(iht.com)
1 points by jbrun 18y ago|0 comments
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by jbrun 18y ago
Donate it to a third world country school. microrecycoop.org for example.
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by jbrun 18y ago
I never understood American unemployment numbers. Many countries operate fine with far higher unemployment numbers. Canada was at 7 or 8% for many years, France is often around 10%. Also, I remember reading an article that talked about the
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by jbrun 18y ago
point # 1 - true. point # 2 - perhaps, perhaps not. also trying to build a relationship with an iphone developer as I have other ideas and places to get money from. Just want to do this one quick and dirty.
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by jbrun 18y ago
I have a mysql db running on a bunch of sites we can use. As for copyright, i don't know for sure, but it is municipal government data so that is not a big worry. No user accounts. No admin. Weekend might be a tad optimistic, but I think it
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by jbrun 18y ago
To be very precise, the following is what I want to do. Please don't steal my idea. I am not a programmer, but I do run the site www.nimonik.ca and can do the design/marketing/admin. 1. Automate a scraper to pull data from the PDF files fou
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by jbrun 18y ago
Basically, I am willing to give a significant % of the revenue of the app. If not, maybe spend about 1000 $. Like I said, micro project. I think this app could be built in one weekend.
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Ask HN: Where to find a partner/developer for a micro project
11 points by jbrun 18y ago|14 comments
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by jbrun 18y ago
Interesting, there is a longer story behind this project. I would be interested in briefly talking to you about your experience. You can reach me by email jbrun @ nimonik . ca Thanks in advance.
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by jbrun 18y ago
Not sure what a cargo cult dance is, but thanks for the comments, all good points. 1. Simple disagreement on style. I'll think about it. 2. The audience who is potentially interested in my site are not tech savy people. They tend to be envi
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by jbrun 18y ago
In theory, it could be done internally and currently most companies manage it via excel spreadsheets. The problem is three fold 1. Tracking new and updated legislation 2. Understanding existing legislation 3. Understanding changes and the i
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by jbrun 18y ago
Thanks and good point. The target market is mostly manufacturing industry who is already pretty familiar with these issues, but I like your suggested sentence.
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Ask HN: Rate my Web-App/Start-Up
8 points by jbrun 18y ago|14 comments
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The Onion's Already Obsolete Tech Issue(theonion.com)
3 points by jbrun 18y ago|0 comments
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by jbrun 18y ago
Definitely a case of "if we will build it, they will come" instead of iterate, iterate and listen to others. Also could have run it through some models à la http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/16/061016fa_fact6
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How to fail big at your dream(avclub.com)
20 points by jbrun 18y ago|5 comments
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by jbrun 18y ago
As discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=414225 Lets hope it takes off - pun intended.
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Feynman on Looking at things from a new point of view(scholarspot.com)
2 points by jbrun 18y ago|0 comments

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