jgamman

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by jgamman 14y ago
cut some slack - maybe she's busy you know, helping 30-odd underpriveledged kids expand their horizons. when the heck did this community start only focussing on the nitpicking? as the OP said 'small point'...
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The Economist magazine: A review.(nationalinterest.org)
4 points by jgamman 14y ago|1 comments
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1992 Wash Post editor memo on the PC and impacts(recoveringjournalist.typepad.com)
6 points by jgamman 14y ago|1 comments
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by jgamman 14y ago
how did you do that?
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by jgamman 14y ago
my pain point over the last few years has been pulling data out of pdf documents (ie govt departments think this counts as open data). I'd pay through the nose for a tool that i could just dump pdf files into and have them find tables and
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by jgamman 14y ago
i recall reading about a letter from napolean to josephine on his way back from some war. he told her to stop bathing, I'm on my way home. when it comes to cultural context, i guess anything goes...
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NZ internet/IP/copyright lawyer posterous blog: latest Kim Dotcom post(lawgeeknz.posterous.com)
1 points by jgamman 14y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 14y ago
School of Henry Ford Advertising: Model T for less than a $1000 Marketing: If I can figure out how to make a car for less than $1000 I'll sell millions
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The letter that got 2001: A Space Odyssey started(lettersofnote.com)
4 points by jgamman 14y ago|0 comments
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300,000 babies stolen in Spain since 1940s for ideological reasons(spiegel.de)
2 points by jgamman 14y ago|0 comments
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Guy builds particle accelerator in kitchen(pstevensonkeating.co.uk)
60 points by jgamman 14y ago|24 comments
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by jgamman 14y ago
i prefered the physical wall with paper and string. just the way my brain works i guess
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Golden Mean Calipers(goldenmeancalipers.com)
2 points by jgamman 14y ago|0 comments
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Is Apple becoming an evil empire?(nzherald.co.nz)
3 points by jgamman 14y ago|1 comments
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by jgamman 14y ago
create a honeypot ID and use that as a disposable cost of anonymity. i'm assuming that a suitably motivated person can find a passport and then create a persona around that. then you can use all the 'normal' channels but there is a name t
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by jgamman 14y ago
i think there's a lesson here in risk management. the obviously brilliant doctor failed to put care and attention into the mundane delivery part of the process. there are no small details. Jet Star is a low price, zero premium service.
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1950s SciFi flame letter unwittingly contains prescient Google reference(lettersofnote.com)
6 points by jgamman 14y ago|1 comments
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Molecular basis to trust and altruism(online.wsj.com)
1 points by jgamman 14y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 14y ago
know your tools. i had a colleague who needed to xy plot some data from an instrument dump into excel. problem was, the data and timestamps weren't one-to-one. he was looking at a few thousand rows of timestamps with almost random gaps b
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by jgamman 14y ago
post hoc ergo proctor hoc
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by jgamman 15y ago
seriously - it's a 'subscribe' function. i don't give a fig if it lands in my inbox or a reader or my email's RSS inbox. so long as the function continues (and email is a fine proxy) I'm fine with it.
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Mildly addictive weight game - disguised algebra(mathplayground.com)
5 points by jgamman 15y ago|0 comments
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Packet switching in Stockholm's waste vacuum system (urbanneighbourhood.com)
23 points by jgamman 15y ago|3 comments
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by jgamman 15y ago
slave and sugar trading visualised. i'm sadder than i was 5 mins ago.
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Grad student sneaks fisherman into Nobel's 1950s publication(prospect.rsc.org)
9 points by jgamman 15y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 15y ago
so reverse the question - "why does programming small things take so long?" (assuming x, y and z were relatively standard). is there a niche in this somewhere that maybe some % of the guru class should be focusing on 'making typical, trivia
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by jgamman 15y ago
The Economist has a highly focused strategy on appealing to particular demographics - high language comprehension skills help position it in the high-value part of the market. It's obviously working, last time i checked it was making huge
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Ask HN: Tool for gathering quotes for use in non-specified future context
1 points by jgamman 15y ago|1 comments
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CEO puts social security number on billboard as challenge(gobankingrates.com)
2 points by jgamman 15y ago|0 comments
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by jgamman 15y ago
they know their target audience: the 2006 Lara Croft model was from BG http://www.itsvery.net/laracroft-karima-adebibe.html

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