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by jmcgough 14y ago
"MIT sold out Drink or Die, too" What did they do?
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by jmcgough 14y ago
This has some potential if it got enough traction... but it's another chicken-or-egg business which is going to have trouble drawing users without having anyone people actually want to talk to. Slideshare is here http://www.slideshare.net/
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by jmcgough 14y ago
I like it! The "see a sample" modal looks really cluttered, though.
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by jmcgough 14y ago
This. He acts incredibly paranoid - a lot of what he puts online is misinformation to protect himself. When he fled the country he made sure to write blog posts and report to others that he'd lost all of his money (since there's still a wro
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by jmcgough 14y ago
note: this is from 2010
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by jmcgough 14y ago
"they would soon become wiser and realize that they have no value" Children don't need a credit card to be a valuable audience to direct advertising at.
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by jmcgough 15y ago
A bit off topic, but the new google glasses keep making me think of augmented reality in Shadowrun 4th Edition. So cool :p I'm really glad this kickstarter got funded, the Shadowrun universe has always been one of my favorites.
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by jmcgough 15y ago
I had a really difficult period of burnout in 2010/2011. I was a junior undergraduate, doing Neuroscience and computer science. I had three research positions, I TA'd, I worked as a tutor through the university, and I was completing an hono
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Show HN: Hacker Polls, an aggregator for polls on Hacker News(hackerpolls.com)
6 points by jmcgough 15y ago|3 comments
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by jmcgough 15y ago
I did a minor in CS, and was blocked from taking algorithms coursework due to budget cuts. I read Cormen's Intro to Algorithms last year, but coursera's algorithms course has been amazing for filling in gaps in my knowledge. I absolutely re
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by jmcgough 15y ago
Can we have some proper HTML and CSS rather than tables in tables in tables indented by GIFs?
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Show HN: Eureka Map visualizes where scientific papers are being published(eurekamap.com)
1 points by jmcgough 15y ago|0 comments
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by jmcgough 15y ago
This or some variant of it is most likely the future of scientific publications, now that physical publication isn't really necessary. A really good example is arXiv ( http://arxiv.org/ ).
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Academic publisher Elsevier hit with growing boycott(cbc.ca)
75 points by jmcgough 15y ago|8 comments
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by jmcgough 15y ago
Thanks so much - I've been teaching myself rails from the first edition of your tutorial. I made it about halfway through and was spending a ton of time trying to fix the app for heroku commits. Upon realizing that there was a second editio