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by mcrider 15y ago
This is a major concern of postmodernist theory. This stuff mostly went above my head in my philosophy classes, but I recommend reading Baudrillard and Don Dellilo for their takes on our obsession with simulacra.
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Message sent :)
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by mcrider 15y ago
Hey, this looks familiar! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3577492 This looks really executed though, best of luck to your project.
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by mcrider 15y ago
Wow, really cool. My apartment overlooks Vancouver harbour and I can see every ship thats on the map.
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by mcrider 15y ago
God I would love this. This really is the best GUI DB client. I use Navicat for PGSQL but its not free and its quite clunky (though to be fair, very powerful). In any case, SQLite and PGSQL support are supposedly in their roadmap.
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Piwik offers as much as GA IMO and its your data.
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Great idea! I'd suggest as a next step a user account system to store your favorite comics. Are you manually entering the number of frames or do you automate that? Its sortof a neat gimmick but I'm not sure it really adds much useful info
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by mcrider 15y ago
I was looking for something like this today, but I'm not sure you're quite there. What I want is to be able to import all my RSS feeds (you should be doing that already), and have them cross-referenced/weighted with whats hot on my Reddit
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by mcrider 15y ago
I'm more excited by the Ivy Bridge processor thats supposed to show up in the new Airs. I for one am waiting for the new Air to be announced (the rumor mills say Q1/Q2 of this year), whereupon it will replace my aging Mac Pro (which, being
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Elsevier withdraws support for Research Works Act(insidehighered.com)
1 points by mcrider 15y ago|0 comments
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Merging people's writing together doesn't seem to be as obvious as merging people's code together -- code is a means to an end, so whatever is the best solution should be merged into master. Writing is subjective, so if your paragraphs cau
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by mcrider 15y ago
Plus -- what a waste of money. What I could do with that datacenter!
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Because this won't be valuable until there is serious data that they can statistically infer different things on (like how Google Translate and other services get better over time). It also sounds like (perhaps wishful thinking) that it wo
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Show HN: Review my web app for podcast fans
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Web developers aren't always altruistic and some even have some business sense. Not that I agree with the what the 60 minutes site did (at least provide a link to go to the full site!), but pushing a mobile app will give them the opportuni
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by mcrider 15y ago
Whoa, didn't know Titanium compiles javascript into native code. Cool! But Phonegap has a pretty rich set of plugins and its relatively painless to extend Phonegap's functionality with a plugin. Did you have to hack in your geofencing ca
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by mcrider 15y ago
Pretty cool, and I think you're getting in on a quickly growing field -- Open data. IMO, the key to success for your site would be a great API and some interesting tools that use it (e.g. Visualization tools)
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by mcrider 15y ago
The legal implications would likely be tricky, especially between different countries, but IANAL so I won't comment on that. I think one would have to be creative as to how to incentivize donations, but there are a number of things an indiv
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by mcrider 15y ago
The 'Oxford Companion to the Mind' http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Companion-Mind-Richard-Gregory/... And also the Oxford Companion to Philosophy are my go to reference points on the subject. Just really great encyclopedias on the two areas
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I think it would be valuable for a number of reasons to have a community of researchers and research-funders rather than a general community of people that need money and people that want to give money away. The main reason being that it w
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Ask HN: Validate my startup idea, Kickstarter for Academic research
6 points by mcrider 15y ago|6 comments
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by mcrider 15y ago
I'm working on a web app for listening to podcasts and did a soft launch with some good feedback -- but haven't heard much about my design. The site is http://flapcast.com -- thanks!
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US border guards are primarily ex-military. Canadian border guards are often civilians (in fact, a good friend of mind worked at CBSA during summers between semesters at university). This lends a lot to the attitudes of the guards. That s
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by mcrider 15y ago
There are many non-tech hurdles; The most significant to me being that the most reputable journals are behind the paywall, and academics is all about reputation. My organization, the Public Knowledge Project ( http://pkp.sfu.ca ), provides
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by mcrider 15y ago
Agreed, as evidenced by my SO who took philosophy and got almost a perfect score on the LSAT. I didn't go in that direction, but I think majoring in Philosophy is a great path if you're sure you're going to get a post-graduate degree (or a
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I'd suggest automatically detecting location and display local content on the frontpage. Also, I'd put some more focus on live events -- There is so much music out there that I won't bother to listen to, but if a band is playing at a local
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by mcrider 15y ago
Try the Public Knowledge Project -- http://pkp.sfu.ca (disclaimer: I work for them). We create open source publishing software for journals and conferences (among other things). Our unofficial list of journals is steadily growing (over
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How appropriate he refers to it as his 'holy grail quest'.
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I really hate reality tv, probably similar to most other HN'ers, but I must admit I really like watching Dragon's Den (I think its called Shark Tank in the US). I think a show about startups could go along a similar format (but over a long
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Not to mention Phonegap, which is now an Adobe product thanks to their recent acquisition of Nitobi.

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