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The Dangers of Abstraction as Leverage -- PyCon 2009 Talk [PDF + video](us.pycon.org)
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Fast Artifical Neural Network Library(leenissen.dk)
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by mahipal 17y ago
Does this affect something like MobileRoadie or the other app generation platforms, which translate a data layer into UIs?
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by mahipal 17y ago
That's a good observation -- I wouldn't put it past them. I think the relevant psychological principle is "transfer of excitation." Apparently it's pretty obscure, but here's an article about it: http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/articles/pag
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by mahipal 17y ago
This is my go-to reference for web typography. It's simple enough that I can re-read the whole thing whenever I need to make things that aren't completely hideous. http://www.slideshare.net/jeff_croft/elegant-web-typography-...
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A Brief History of Hard Work, Adjusted for Risk(fastcompany.com)
1 points by mahipal 17y ago|0 comments
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Unit of Sense(artlebedev.com)
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Our Best Startup Advice (a list of lists)(readwriteweb.com)
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Formula for Healthy Sleep by Piotr Wozniak(supermemo.com)
40 points by mahipal 17y ago|10 comments
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by mahipal 17y ago
If you haven't seen it, Dan Gilbert's TED talk -- "Why are we happy?" -- presents some good experimental results on this topic. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_w... The Wikipedia article (and even the choice of
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by mahipal 17y ago
Memorizing facts isn't innately valuable -- it's valuable because it makes critical thinking and problem solving easier. If you have a larger working memory (because you've memorized lots of things before), you'll be able to hold a larger s
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by mahipal 17y ago
I set up Spaces right when I got my Macbook, and it's hugely helpful. I assigned each of the major apps I use (Firefox, Terminal, Xcode, and Photoshop) to a different space. Combine Spaces with SizeUp [ http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/si
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by mahipal 18y ago
This is the list I've been using. It seems to cover the big ones. http://www.mobileorchard.com/9-places-to-publicize-your-ipho...
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by mahipal 18y ago
This is great info, thanks for all these links. Angie's List is interesting -- very high quality, I'm sure, with that "Consumer Reports" style business model. But they also lose a lot of traffic going subscribers-only. No doubt they're roll
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by mahipal 18y ago
You're right, that site is hideous. =P I came across http://www.workstir.com recently too, which is a similar concept. But I have to wonder... do either of these sites actually have a business model ? I had some thoughts on how to possib
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by mahipal 18y ago
I got this idea after building a specialized website for a particular local artisan, but I think the whole method could be generalized pretty easily. Etsy provides a clean, centralized storefront for individual merchants / creators to sell
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by mahipal 18y ago
A good interface is intuitive, in the sense of both easily learnable and easily usable. I don't think you can really decouple the two. It sounds like you're mostly just displaying giant blocks of text, so I'd recommend this excellent slides
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by mahipal 18y ago
That's a bit of an exaggeration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil#Pharmacology http://www.modafinil.com/ Sure, there's no long-term studies, but we can extrapolate from the receptors that it acts on and its relatively minor side e
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by mahipal 18y ago
Well, I think I know exactly the site you're talking about, but I won't blow your cover for you. I saw it on Reddit just a few days ago and there's a suspicious Facebook icon in the corner that wasn't there a little while ago... so if this
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by mahipal 18y ago
Any elaboration on where the 10% performance hit comes from? I read over the "What's New" and Guido's announcement, but I didn't find any mention of it.
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by mahipal 18y ago
Another great opportunity that's unique to the college experience is the chance to do research and work closely with a professor. You mentioned you have a lot of experience in computer vision. If that's something that interests you further,
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by mahipal 18y ago
Er, and that distance is only important if you're going to drill through the Earth to see them. ;) Otherwise the distance is upper-bounded around 12400 miles. At any rate, happy Thanksgiving wherever you are.
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by mahipal 18y ago
These are great. The Python tutorial is very readable. You could use these side by side with any decent university course that you can find online. Here is a link to Caltech's introductory Python course, with exercises posted that ramp up i
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by mahipal 18y ago
That is a really good looking app. I like the color / value overlay and the simple, clean interface. Don't let the low first day sales discourage you. I saw my biggest spike on the 2nd day of sales. I think it has to do with how long it tak
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by mahipal 18y ago
Thirded. They're also one of the few registrars to tell you explicitly that "you own the domain in your name." Their free private registration offer is a nice touch, and their control panel is pretty solid and thorough.
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by mahipal 18y ago
A site that hasn't been mentioned yet... http://www.makewords.com They'll generate "words" for you with whatever length / language you like, and I like the fact that they check the .com availability for each one. Consider the more obscure
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by mahipal 18y ago
If you're a bit more conservative with your screen real estate, I'd recommend the Tab Kit plugin instead: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5447 It includes the vertical tree-style sorting, but I prefer the horizontal mode wi