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Group dating site Grouper (YC W12) launches to 10 cities(techcrunch.com)
75 points by lincolnq 14y ago|41 comments
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by lincolnq 14y ago
I use a JS templating engine (Handlebars with compiled templates). When you have 3- or 4-level nested templates with 50+ fields to fill in, it's much easier to write (and especially to maintain) the snippets of HTML with {{name}}-type templ
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by lincolnq 14y ago
How much value -- how many stories, how many glimmers-of-an-idea, how many things-I-learned-growing-up-in-the-thirties are lost when an old person dies? I wouldn't wish death on a single person.
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by lincolnq 14y ago
No, that's group selection. If a progenitor could live a very long time and continue to produce offspring, it might be worse for the species, but it would be so much massively better for the individual's genes that those would be passed on.
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Ahh. Makes sense, but the habit I want is a substring of an existing habit.
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by lincolnq 14y ago
How do I add a habit that doesn't already exist?
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by lincolnq 14y ago
The "application of law > tax policy" seems like a true observation but may not be causal (just look at the massive amounts of corruption in India... and, come to think of it, pretty much every developing country) That said, I suspect t
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What Would an Entrepreneur-First Political Platform Really Look Like?(theatlantic.com)
19 points by lincolnq 14y ago|28 comments
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by lincolnq 14y ago
The problem is that you get fewer donations if you do it that way, because people prefer to donate to a story.
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by lincolnq 14y ago
I don't want that though. I want to be able to alt-tab between my two most recent windows, without having to think about whether they're in the same application or not. It pisses me off that OS X (and Ubuntu now) has this two-level applicat
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Selection and availability effects should account for this, though.
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Reason.com is a libertarian blog, generally promoting reduced regulation in all forms.
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by lincolnq 14y ago
I have heard that Pay With Square causes people to spend more money.
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by lincolnq 14y ago
It's a humanizing experience actually. Try it once or twice. My mind was blown the first time I paid with my name using Square, and since then I have explicitly sought out coffee shops which have it, because of the quality of the experience
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by lincolnq 14y ago
If you're in NYC, it's being broadcast in Times Square. http://www.space.com/16833-mars-rover-landing-times-square-n...
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Amazon launches Prime Instant Video(amazon.com)
5 points by lincolnq 14y ago|0 comments
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by lincolnq 14y ago
I don't understand the moral intuition here: why is working on that Oracle server morally wrong, but not paying taxes to the country which bombs those innocent civilians?
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by lincolnq 14y ago
You ask this question in a way that suggests that you think he got insanely lucky, and that's it. Whereas I actually think he is a great businessman. (I also think he got lucky) He could have sold Facebook for billions of dollars at any poi
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by lincolnq 14y ago
I don't know, but how do you compile any of these C programs?
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Wow, nice work. This looks great.
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Makes some good points. I can't help but notice, though, that the "good" examples are all longer . It makes me want to design a programming language that makes good code shorter than bad code...
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by lincolnq 14y ago
I suspect Almaviva is talking about the biases inherent to publication / talking about results. Consider, by analogy, the event "rolling a six sided die and getting a 6 and announcing that fact to the world". "What is the probability that r
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by lincolnq 14y ago
I couldn't disagree more. As an overworked startup founder who regularly uses services like this, SAAS has been a godsend. I hate configuring libraries, especially stuff like this that needs write access to a filesystem, database, etc. Just
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by lincolnq 14y ago
I've been using their system for a couple months now and it's a really excellent framework for building real-time apps of any sort.
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by lincolnq 14y ago
Wow, this is gorgeous. Nice work. I don't see the calendar entries from my iPhone's calendar - are they supposed to appear? How can I get them?
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I get the argument, although the blog you linked to seems broken right now (the graph doesn't show the data that he claims it to show). I agree: at some point we'll run out of things to employ humans doing. The big question for society is,
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by lincolnq 14y ago
FWIW, I read the article because of the attractive title you gave it. I found the beginning exciting and the rest quite informative. If you had titled it more boringly, I wouldn't have chosen to read it.
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A Collection of Anti-Procrastination Techniques(techhouse.org)
1 points by lincolnq 14y ago|0 comments
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I'm glad you know so much about this, but don't let your knowledge prevent you from doing the right thing. All I know is that Givewell seems extremely thorough, and holistic in their thoroughness. If there were a major effect such as the on
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by lincolnq 14y ago
You can fund insecticide treated bed nets in developing countries by donating to Against Malaria Foundation ( http://www.againstmalaria.com ), which is currently estimated to be the #1 most impactful charity for your dollar in the world, as

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