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Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg to design July 22 Memorial sites in Norway(bustler.net)
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by jmduke 13y ago
Not just the exams -- the practice exams, the prep courses, the books, the tutors. And not just the money -- the time investment in preparing and taking the SAT/ACT is massive. High schoolers in low-income areas or ones forced into si
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by jmduke 13y ago
This is the best news about college admissions that I've heard in a very long time. As someone who was fortunate enough not to be disadvantaged by the clear socioeconomic preferences of the SAT (and I'm guessing the ACT as well,
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by jmduke 13y ago
Your attitude seems unnecessarily negative. Let me give you a theoretical example: I live with my girlfriend. My girlfriend's birthday is next week and I want to plan a surprise party. I send a message out on this thing instead of F
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On being a proud non-technical founder(alexisohanian.com)
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Two things prevent this from being a cogent narrative, in my opinion: - How do these figures compare to the overall population of applicants? - How do these figures compare to the entirety of VC-backed startups? Without that knowledge, this
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Hedonometer(hedonometer.org)
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Is it time to re-evaluate the Facebook-Stack Overflow partnership? (2012)(meta.stackoverflow.com)
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The Aesthetics of Computers (1988)(groups.google.com)
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Speaking as someone who is anti-Karpeles and unilingual: I think speaking three languages, regardless of context, is incredibly impressive.
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by jmduke 13y ago
I think this is a minor flaw of an article with much greater ones -- then again, I'm biased, as I make this mistake regularly. (In my defense, it's incredibly easy to pass over without noticing: I didn't even notice it in th
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by jmduke 13y ago
Can a similar argument be made about the PayPal Mafia? Is there a lot of investment cross-pollination within the members, or is it more just a general sense of "lots of clearly forward-thinking people made lots of money and continue t
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by jmduke 13y ago
I believe it was a typo for 'burying'.
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Unusual in a relative sense, the same way artists and musicians and movie makers are unusual in any segment of society. There are millions and millions of iPad users; of course most of them are going to use their iPads primarily for consum
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by jmduke 13y ago
Honest question, and I don't mean this in an accusatory fashion: how often do you use the bus?
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by jmduke 13y ago
The followup question, of course, is: how did those people discover 'view source'?
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Mining Twitter to discover how bad I am at Threes(jmduke.com)
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Flat design refers to a graphic design concept: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/05/what-is-flat-design/
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This is a shockingly honest and open assessment of Microsoft's PR from someone who actually works at the company. I think the underlying notion is spot-on, and -- as someone who doesn't bear any particular ill will towards Micros
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by jmduke 13y ago
I inferred from your comment that you think people who idolize Jobs should be avoided because he has strong negative personality traits/flaws/etc. I'm addressing that most people -- which include those who are famous and hav
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by jmduke 13y ago
It is possible to admire someone without thinking they're flawless; or, perhaps, to admire certain traits/aspects of someone without admiring them altogether. Michael Jordan was the greatest athlete of his time but an absolute ass
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by jmduke 13y ago
What's your definition of a real company which excludes WhatsApp?
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by jmduke 13y ago
Some unsolicited (and minor) advice: - The CTA buttons could use some improvement. I'm hardly an expert on these matters but I imagine "Start finding great candidates" would perform much better than "Company? Sign up&qu
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Lightly Icons: 350 iOS 7 icons inspired by Helvetica Neue(tmthymllr.com)
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Twitch plays Pokemon(twitch.tv)
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How Gawker buys traffic (rarely, for advertisers)(niemanlab.org)
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No, movies haven't gotten (much) longer(jmduke.com)
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by jmduke 13y ago
So, if I'm reading this right, a bit more than one in eight AirBnB hosts in New York are violating the law? Is that not an issue in of itself?
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While I don't actually disagree with your conclusion (and am more than confident that you know more than me about social media), this data only supports the hypothesis that "people share content using social media buttons", r
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by jmduke 13y ago
What an absolutely wonderful idea for a blog. I'd beseech you to do Metropolis , but I feel like that'd be a relatively short post, so to speak.

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