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Ask HN: What's the best way to keep track of a house remodeling project?
1 points by lmg643 9y ago|0 comments
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IBM's Watson 'is a Joke,' Says Social Capital CEO Palihapitiya(cnbc.com)
13 points by lmg643 9y ago|7 comments
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by lmg643 10y ago
I must be out of step with the times as I'm surprised by the favorable comments about Night Shift. For my eyes, the f.lux nighttime adjustment and configurability is great. at work, i use it during daytime hours as well, helps greatly
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Snap’s Stock Price Could Be Cut in Half(barrons.com)
2 points by lmg643 10y ago|0 comments
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Snap’s Coming IPO Looks Like One to Avoid(barrons.com)
2 points by lmg643 10y ago|0 comments
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by lmg643 10y ago
I taught myself to code late in life on VB.net - amazing how easy and powerful to get going. I've done a decent amount in C# since then. When I think about C# syntax vs VB.net syntax, and consider it's all .NET under the hood, mak
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by lmg643 10y ago
People forget that Silver's approach is basically weighting polls to figure out what the election will be, and he's the best "poll weigher" out there. But if the polls are systematically wrong, being the best at it is an
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by lmg643 10y ago
why do we need to create an account to try it out?
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by lmg643 10y ago
When I look at Theranos' board, I tend to think about it the other way around - Theranos sought out distinguished people that wouldn't be able to call them out on the science. Basically, that Theranos conned their board as well, a
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by lmg643 10y ago
At the risk of 100 down votes - considering the theory that "Clinton outperformed where paper ballots were used" - isn't there an alternate hypothesis that extra paper ballots could have been submitted by her supporters, as a
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by lmg643 10y ago
I taught myself to code using SO in just the last two years. I reference it almost daily. I've shipped production software in this time span using the information. I can't believe such a high quality source of information exists o
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Hedge Fund Wants to Use Atomic Clocks to Beat High-Speed Traders(bloomberg.com)
290 points by lmg643 10y ago|220 comments
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by lmg643 10y ago
Great article. Microsoft Access was my first introduction to databases. (For those who don't know, MS Access is like "excel for databases.") Gave me a good-enough sense of what was happening under the hood. Started me on a ca
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by lmg643 10y ago
I think another trick of longstanding tabloids like the enquirer is that they almost deliberately undermine their reputation by publishing a lot of crap (aliens, etc) while mixing the better sourced stuff that causes celebrities fits. I thi
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by lmg643 10y ago
I taught myself to program at a professional level working on VB.NET. nothing i'd ever tried "clicked" with me until i could see all the pieces coming together. The syntax reminded me of old VBA macros I'd built, and the
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by lmg643 11y ago
I am in the middle of reading HPM, sad to hear. Andy Grove's writing has a lot of the same flavors of Paul Graham, but for a more corporate setting. The no-nonsense attitude towards meetings, and also understanding the challenges of de
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F-35 Lightning II: Busting Myths – Episode 2(youtube.com)
2 points by lmg643 11y ago|1 comments
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F-35 Lightning II: Busting Myths(youtube.com)
2 points by lmg643 11y ago|0 comments
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by lmg643 11y ago
El Chapo is the head of the sinaloa cartel: "Chicago, home of the Mercantile Exchange, has always been a hub from which legitimate goods fan out across the country, and it’s no different for black-market commodities. Chapo has used the
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by lmg643 11y ago
prescription opiates started the problem with heroin. the history of oxycontin is a sad one for the country. with the recent pharma/biotech explosion, lots of companies are trying to get in on the painkiller game as well. there's
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by lmg643 11y ago
This is a really sad story of how America is failing the middle class. Ohio used to be a major manufacturing hub - no longer. Now there are more deaths from heroin overdose in Ohio than car crashes. It started with the widespread accessibil
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by lmg643 11y ago
I recently discovered the joys of ExcelDNA, which lets you do spreadsheet extensions using C#. One of the first things I did was spin up a plugin that allows users to request data elements from CSV files hosted on a server, essentially a gi
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by lmg643 11y ago
I tried out this extension and found that it slowed down chrome and even crashed within a few minutes of using it. so perhaps amazon didn't get as much useful information as you think.
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by lmg643 11y ago
this is the second redesign of sheet music I've seen in the past few years. I applaud every attempt, because it forces us to reconsider what we already know. however, as an amateur musician for the past 30 years, it's worth consid
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by lmg643 11y ago
Also engaged in one of the most ridiculous tax dodges of all time. Uses a "derivative" with his brokers that allows a bunch of short term trades to be taxed at long term capital gains rates. http://www.bloomberg.com&#x2
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Time Warner Cable draws first net neutrality complaint(rcrwireless.com)
5 points by lmg643 11y ago|0 comments
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by lmg643 11y ago
This doesn't seem like great reporting - largely unrelated to the Orlando event that triggered the NYT article. This worker's blog seemed pretty insightful: https://plus.google.com/+KeithBarrett/posts/PWA
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by lmg643 11y ago
How powerful would a terrestrial satellite amp need to be in order to be effective? how cheap would it need to be to sell?
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by lmg643 11y ago
thanks for responding, I will try this out at home. Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011 does not have this functionality, although the Windows version has for years. I figured other users might have this type of problem as well but for all the d
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by lmg643 11y ago
will we be able to change the zoom on the font in an email without increasing the font size? Huge PITA on Mac compared to Windows.

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