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Supplementing real-world objects with 3D printing(vimeo.com)
3 points by maayank 14y ago|0 comments
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Smarter Socks - socks with RFID chips(blacksocks.com)
2 points by maayank 14y ago|0 comments
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by maayank 14y ago
Posted the question to StackOverflow[1]. Debated with myself whether to post there or Server Fault, but here we are. Maybe it will be closed by the-powers-to-be as I'm not sure of the focus (I do want a programmable solution, i.e. an API) [
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Netanyahu: Israel subject to increasing number of cyber attacks(haaretz.com)
1 points by maayank 14y ago|0 comments
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Untold Stories About Steve Jobs: Friends and Colleagues Share Their Memories(forbes.com)
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Major banks hit with biggest cyberattacks in history(money.cnn.com)
29 points by maayank 14y ago|12 comments
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Iran blocks GMail, Google(in.reuters.com)
1 points by maayank 14y ago|0 comments
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by maayank 14y ago
And for a good reason. I find the noise to signal ratio of these articles relatively high and I think many would like to see less of them.
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Facebook drops photo tagging in Europe(insidermonkey.com)
1 points by maayank 14y ago|0 comments
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Twilio Hits the Road in the EU(twilio.com)
1 points by maayank 14y ago|0 comments
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by maayank 14y ago
What do you do when that happens on your laptop? You close the page and move on. Why does it need to be any different on your mobile/tablet? I assume the battery cost of 2 seconds of video loading/playing once in a long time is negligible.
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The Curse of the Traveler(reddit.com)
4 points by maayank 14y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Stock Hits A New Low, Down More Than 50% Since IPO(techcrunch.com)
39 points by maayank 14y ago|46 comments
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Samsung reveals MB Pro Retina competitor(engadget.com)
2 points by maayank 14y ago|0 comments
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Ex-Google hiring committee member about job interviewing(extroverteddeveloper.com)
92 points by maayank 14y ago|65 comments
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by maayank 14y ago
Really excellent writeup. I think many people are squeamish with the idea of "personal opportunity cost" also because in their experience "personal numeric value"==easy unhealthy way to measure (seemingly) one's worth and to compare two ind
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by maayank 14y ago
Agreeing with what you said as well. I think (as the user 'grecy' mentioned in another place) that as a population, programmers are in a relatively unique position. They (we) can be in a situation where there are a lot of clear opportunitie
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by maayank 14y ago
It's a good guidance but I think it's more complicated. We would all like to have a zen-like efficiency at all times and do such projects whenever we have free time, but in reality it is usually far from that. I think most people would agre
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by maayank 14y ago
Good points! All of this assumes I can go to paid work an ever-increasing amount, which is obviously not true. The amount of hours I can work in a week is fixed. That is indeed the biggest fallacy I ultimately saw in me, friends and comme
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by maayank 14y ago
Different reasons for why the principle doesn't hold water resonate with different people. The tax issue was more about "if you already do this, beware of ...", not about why it's wrong (that's the rest of the post). eevilspock, who is obse
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by maayank 14y ago
But that's not what your article was about! First, relax. No need for name calling (in your earlier comment), no need for getting overly excited with exclamation marks. Maybe there's a case to be made for better authorship and I welcome f
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by maayank 14y ago
It's not a post about "The Only Ultimate Way to self-realization". It's a post about "given this statement I often hear, here where it works (and how to improve on it), here where it doesn't". If it doesn't work because of different reasons
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by maayank 14y ago
Sadly this article about the value of your life is written by an accountant, or at least someone who sees things as a bean-counter does. This assumes he holds that exact idea to which he replies in the article and that he holds it true to
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by maayank 14y ago
You have to decide, what makes you happiest? If it is freeing up your time to do something else, then you might even pay a premium to have someone paint your house for you. Exactly, ultimately these are all pathways to the same question/a
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by maayank 14y ago
You can get exciting things for money (travelling for example is not always trivial financially). More to the point, both point of views have utility. I criticize "my time has a numerical value" in the post, but it is useful to have some me
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The Money/Time fallacy(thoughts.maayank.com)
52 points by maayank 14y ago|39 comments
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by maayank 14y ago
Why the first, why the last?
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by maayank 14y ago
Or youth on the streets protesting their government, after not being able to escape anymore into a fantasy world
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by maayank 14y ago
Ah! didn't know about it. Was there a mailing list/fb group? EDIT: what did you do for place?
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by maayank 14y ago
In. Will try to see if I can help secure a space.

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