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by jgamman 15y ago
this is a business opportunity - curate some fb pages within a network with believable handles (ie, jj334) and then just sell them to a recent grad that wants a fb profile that looks squeaky clean. try not to put too many 'saved 4,000 kitt
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Math valentine(google.co.nz)
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I've created a new job description: Software Archaeologist
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by jgamman 15y ago
question to any - is there a start-up working toward hosting generic teachers/courses? ie, say i wanted to set up my own certificate and have some vid lectures hosted and then have the site take care of the sign-up, details and perhaps the
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Hear my tale of wifi gallentry(mcsweeneys.net)
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Flying Robots Build A Tower Near Paris(npr.org)
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PLoS paper generates visual of 1B academic paper views (clickstream)(plosone.org)
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Krugman on housing in 2005 - cause sometimes it's fun to go back in time(nytimes.com)
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by jgamman 15y ago
the exception is when the deviation from expectation is significant ie, 5-sigma certainty particles not conforming to speed of light limit would get a pretty quick acceptance.
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by jgamman 15y ago
i think that comment was tongue in cheek joke ;-)
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by jgamman 15y ago
Was that a misspelled ,r, or ,e,? :-)
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by jgamman 15y ago
tl;dr i'm a technical guy and what i do is the hardest thing there is so what you do is easy and hence not needed. oh please. bus dev is hard. making sales is hard. figuring out why your cool technical hack is pointless and will make no m
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by jgamman 15y ago
considering what's going on at the moment i think one could make the case that they were just two decades ahead of you... ;-)
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Switzerland looking to ban PowerPoint?(guardian.co.uk)
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by jgamman 15y ago
one of the big problems with excel as a tool in these sorts of situations is that it is almost impossible to audit. yes, a non-programmer can hack something up that kinda does what they want but have they stress tested it? there's some st
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by jgamman 15y ago
i believe the intent is to make the title as informative as possible for the audience - not just to C&P the one given ie, the guidelines state something like "don't post 'top-10 ways to do foo', better to change title to something like
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by jgamman 15y ago
I think it's more like scaffolding. After a while you find the symbols are just fine but why have such a steep barrier to entry? Fell-man wasnt too happy with Feynman diagrams - he hated them for ,bringing computation to the masses,. I thin
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Wiley and Elsevier PR spin for how their business model adds value(theconversation.edu.au)
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by jgamman 15y ago
Akl based here. not a dev so take some salt - CS has a different vibe to other industries. it's a small country with all the pros and cons that go along with that. don't expect to land with a good idea and find a VC who'll chuck you $100k
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by jgamman 15y ago
that auto alarm clock thing is bound to screw up for 'normal' people - it'll be a blinking 12:00 scenario where your coffee machine constantly turns on at 3AM every other Friday because someone accidentally set you to Amsterdam time in the
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by jgamman 15y ago
would you know it if you saw it happening real time? i don't understand Wolfram's ideas of computation but no-one doubts he's insanely smart - what if his idea is the only one 22nd century science considers as revolutionary in the early 21s
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by jgamman 15y ago
hey another kiwi on hn ;-) "better explained" is cool for the aha sort of insights. get him pygame and get him to make his own games to play - that could go in all sorts of directions. have him bounce around MIT's OCW - he may not get it
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by jgamman 15y ago
any ideas why this page crashed my ipad browser?
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by jgamman 15y ago
it's important to hire smart people and then trust them.
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by jgamman 15y ago
and no mention of mendely? http://www.mendeley.com/ the pain point is that people are focused on the publication - you need to focus on the people. i don't care what you think about a paper, but i want to know what Feynman has published
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by jgamman 15y ago
Q. what would a social network look like if you designed it primarily for business use and personal/social use was a subset? I think G+ could dominate the corporate collaboration scene in a way that Facebook can't. Seriously, FB is banned
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Zoom-out graphic of physics length scales w/ examples(primaxstudio.com)
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Teach kids electronics with PlayDoh(courseweb.stthomas.edu)
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Ask HN: is there a term for site deja vue?(forlue.com)
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by jgamman 15y ago
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