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by jhull 14y ago
I can speak a bit from personal experience. I just spent close to 3 months in Rwanda and one of the coolest things I found there was an incubator called kLab in Kigali (www.klab.rw) that was modeled after incubators they have in Kenya. I he
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Campaigns Mine Personal Lives to Get Out Vote(nytimes.com)
14 points by jhull 14y ago|3 comments
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by jhull 14y ago
I agree with you if the button is standing alone, but if its a "Pay with Stripe" button alongside a Paypal and Google Checkout button then I think it adds more street cred than is taken away.
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by jhull 14y ago
How are you getting the location data? Are you just scraping Kickstarter's site? Can't find any docs on their API...
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Multiple "Email Addresses" with Existing Gmail Account(engineerwithoutacause.com)
1 points by jhull 14y ago|0 comments
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Romney Campaign Spending up to $120K a day on Twitter Ads(clickz.com)
1 points by jhull 14y ago|1 comments
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IBM Pocket Watson a Siri-Killer(bloomberg.com)
42 points by jhull 14y ago|31 comments
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by jhull 14y ago
Like Northeastern's coop program as well. They build the 6-months to 1 year off into their degree. Not sure if any student's make 80K but they do make a decent amount for an intern http://www.ccs.neu.edu/co-op/employers/index.html#salaries
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How can it be Sustainable? Kiva's Social Lending Campaign
3 points by jhull 14y ago|2 comments
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by jhull 14y ago
I think the argument here can be summed up as: Don't shop at Home Depot, Amazon or Whole Foods. Shop at the neighborhood Hardware store, the corner Bookstore and the local Farmer's market (for tech.)
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Cancer Detection Neural Network wins Top Prize at Google Fair(google.com)
1 points by jhull 14y ago|0 comments
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by jhull 14y ago
And you thought Apple was famous for their "product launches"
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by jhull 14y ago
You can use the HideMyAss VPN service. I used it to stream the Olympics http://engineerwithoutacause.com/how-to-stream-2012-olympics...
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by jhull 14y ago
"Where cognitive energy would need to be spent to work out your bug, instead of copying and pasting the error." I am pretty sure I would have gotten higher grades if I had known about StackOverflow in college. There is definitely value in f
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by jhull 14y ago
I dove for 9 years, through college, and the trick I always found is to just do it as much as you can. The more time you spend at 3 meter (or 10 meter) the less fear you have. As an example, went to a practice about a year ago after not div
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by jhull 14y ago
Great post. Felt similar sentiments and serendipitously was given a chance to travel to Africa and beyond for the good part of a year. So took it! http://engineerwithoutacause.com/without-a-cause.html
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Web App Tutorial: Amazon EC2 Deployment with Boto(engineerwithoutacause.com)
33 points by jhull 14y ago|3 comments
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MySQL Being Taught in Rwandan High School Classroom(engineerwithoutacause.com)
1 points by jhull 14y ago|0 comments
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by jhull 14y ago
Any idea why Redhat/Fedora are on a 3 year decline? Seems like Ubuntu is taking their market share (looking at yearly graph)
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LinkedIn UX Team Fix your Mobile App Splash Page(engineerwithoutacause.com)
1 points by jhull 14y ago|1 comments
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Python Web App Must-Haves: Installation Automation with Fabric(engineerwithoutacause.com)
1 points by jhull 14y ago|0 comments
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by jhull 14y ago
One extremely useful method that I almost never see in tutorials is >>> logging.exception("an exception happened here and will be printed") This will print out the message and then the full formatted error traceback
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Ask HN: (Update) What Karma Unlock New Features
2 points by jhull 14y ago|6 comments
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by jhull 14y ago
Not something I had thought about initially, but agree that they are missing the "what the user sees" view similar to how Google lets you see what different searches look like with your ads.[1] [1] Google AdPreview tool https://adwords.goo
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Ask HN: Legality of Streaming Geo-Locked Content with a VPN
5 points by jhull 14y ago|2 comments
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Sorry NBC but I am going to watch the Olympics live Anyway(engineerwithoutacause.com)
3 points by jhull 14y ago|0 comments
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by jhull 14y ago
I think there is only one thing you can do: Leave a negative review about the place on Yelp. http://www.yelp.com/biz/yelp-san-francisco
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by jhull 14y ago
Is it just me or is there a new "superior-than-the-others" NoSQL solution every week?
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Quick Python Flask App with a few Quick Changes(engineerwithoutacause.com)
5 points by jhull 14y ago|0 comments
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by jhull 14y ago
I like the idea of periodically taking a break from Googling or always knowing a fact. For me doing crosswords is a great exercise in this, sure you could Google the clues and know right away, but its much more satisfying wondering the answ

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