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by lesterbuck 16y ago
The book about that group, The Eudaemonic Pie, is a great read: http://www.amazon.com/Eudaemonic-Pie-Thomas-Bass/dp/05951423... Recently I ran across another book about the same group, "The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists U
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by lesterbuck 16y ago
Microsoft's Bizspark program also has a free MSDN subscription, and anyone who reads Hacker News could easily get into Bizspark. Your entire project does not need to be on Windows to be accepted into Bizspark, just some part that needs, sa
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by lesterbuck 16y ago
For simple uses, there are several free git hosting services. Assembla offers unlimited repos and 2GB for free, while ProjectLocker offers unlimited repos and 500MB for free. There are some limitations on tools and sharing and users, but
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by lesterbuck 16y ago
Apparently U and J came into English in the sixteenth century as undifferentiated alternatives, and were split into separate letters about 1700. It was very surprising to me to learn that English picked up three new letters only three hund
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by lesterbuck 16y ago
I am working on an idea to increase blood donations, as a background project, and I'll be continuing on that whether I receive a free ticket or not. In our local Ruby community, one of our guys asked for blood donations for a family member
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by lesterbuck 16y ago
Even public libraries have Safari subscriptions, e.g. Harris County Public Library (Houston area). There are different versions of Safari, so some things are missing from this more public subscription, but there is a lot of stuff in there
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by lesterbuck 16y ago
>Actually, no. The housing crisis was US govt created. I have read this so many times, and I keep looking for something that backs it up. Yes, the US government made mistakes in this, but "caused" it? Please. I worked briefly in the m
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by lesterbuck 16y ago
An advertisement just doesn't come out accidentally looking like it's an invoice from the Yellow Pages Of course not. They sent out almost 20 million pieces of email over the years, so what were they doing? Testing all the f*cking time!
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Performance Art, Rock Music Reach Engineering Nirvana in OK Go Video(wiki.nasa.gov)
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by lesterbuck 16y ago
After two ultra low end Brother laser printers in a row cratered on me, I went back to my trusty LaserJet 5MP/6MP class printers. Two years ago I picked up a 40K page LaserJet 6MP for $10.49, plus $26 flat rate shipping. It works flawlessl
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by lesterbuck 16y ago
Since he is on a shoe string budget, there are plenty of cheaper VPS solutions, many under $7/mo. I had one for $3.84/mo for awhile. Latest deals are collected at http://lowendbox.com
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by lesterbuck 17y ago
Except for that other iPhone prototype guy who lost an iPhone and either committed suicide after "intense interrogation", or was killed: http://gizmodo.com/5319275/report-iphone-leak-interrogations... http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/07/i
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by lesterbuck 17y ago
Backtalics seems to be a neologism. I kind of like it.
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by lesterbuck 17y ago
This reminds me of the Zen proverb that I ran across a few months ago, and now have pasted on the wall above my desk: "To know and not to do is not yet to know." There is something very real in the action taken from knowledge that looks so
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by lesterbuck 17y ago
As other comments have stated, it is so much more than a simple technical problem. An entire web of "ethics" rules and well-funded politicians presents a formidable barrier to change. For true blood-boiling outrage, read the very sharp an
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by lesterbuck 17y ago
One common report of these interviews is that it becomes a super intense brainstorming session for ten minutes. Are the applicants allowed to record the session? Certainly they are not trying to write it all down in real time, and it seem
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by lesterbuck 17y ago
CitySourced just launched to do this at TC50: http://tc50tweets.techcrunch.com/story/180036092/citysourced...
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by lesterbuck 17y ago
There is quite a body of knowledge about eye contact when applied to hacking women. Viz. the original experiments by David Shade: http://www.fastseduction.com/youarenew/eyecontact.shtml - Jeans Joe's manual on eye contact mastery: http:
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by lesterbuck 17y ago
As a scientist in a previous life, I love Michael Crichton's idea that there should be strict separation between the people that collect the data and the people that analyze & interpret the data for politically charged areas of science.
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Invention to Venture - workshops in technology entrepreneurship(invention2venture.org)
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by lesterbuck 18y ago
During the 1973-74 academic year, Hawking was a visiting professor at Caltech, and I was a junior in the physics program. The first signs something was up were the wheelchair ramps that appeared around Bridge Laboratory, the older physics
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by lesterbuck 18y ago
I like the layout, too, but only after I enabled Javascript using NoScript in Firefox. My first impression was a jumble of overlapped markup over half the page. I hope you can work on progressive enhancement for low end browsers, mobile,