mercurialshark

51 ms·

241.
by mercurialshark 13y ago
The kindness shown at Pret a Manger, while exceptional is not completely surprising to me. While at their Chicago location, I walked in and ordered food one day, running on particularly little sleep. At the register, the clerk insisted that
242.
Being the Voice of Reason: Tricky Business(thoughtly.co)
3 points by mercurialshark 13y ago|0 comments
243.
by mercurialshark 13y ago
No, that's a great answer. Contribution based karma system seem more value-driven than a popularity based (or only) upvote platform. That's really what we are trying to address. We see the problem as social media visibility is bas
244.
by mercurialshark 13y ago
Nice, we are currently implementing the rest of the Stackexchange sites, as we started with just Stackoverflow. The caliber of content on the stackexchange network is phenomenal. Is there a specific stackexchange site that you would be prou
245.
by mercurialshark 13y ago
That's interesting. While it may be slightly less particular it allows for more organic conversation. I appreciate your insight.
246.
by mercurialshark 13y ago
George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946 While it's nothing new, it offers context into writing well that is as sophisticated and thought provoking as i've ever seen. English/American prose have chan
247.
by mercurialshark 13y ago
Do you have a history with Yahoo answers? How do you compare it with other Q&A sites? Also, the vicious HN-FB cycle, we all empathize with. Thanks.
248.
by mercurialshark 13y ago
Awesome, thanks! Published work is - whether the author thinks about it this way or not - now considered just a foundation/framework for ongoing discussions. If you can filter the batty (which I hope we can help with), then the comment
249.
Ask HN: What sites do you contribute to the most, besides HN/Twitter/FB?
7 points by mercurialshark 13y ago|10 comments
250.
by mercurialshark 13y ago
Well said. You should paste this comment into the NYTimes comment section, it clearly articulates the issues (even for the technologically inept), of which none were discussed in the article.
251.
by mercurialshark 13y ago
Nice job! Question, are you guys using an API so users can share their contributions/writing potentially to other platforms?
252.
A New Solar Material Shows Its Potential(technologyreview.com)
1 points by mercurialshark 13y ago|0 comments
253.
by mercurialshark 13y ago
The quantified self movement should be far more extensive. I am linking to our blog again! The Secret Digital Ocean: The Data We Aren't Addressing http://thoughtly.co/Blog/thesecretdigitalocean
254.
The Secret Digital Ocean: The Data We Aren't Addressing(thoughtly.co)
2 points by mercurialshark 13y ago|0 comments
255.
by mercurialshark 13y ago
So glad someone posted on this bullshit. Not only has uTorrent started doing this, but BBEdit 10 and some other previously not super shady software has too.
256.
Entrepreneurship Is Punk Rock(thoughtly.co)
1 points by mercurialshark 13y ago|0 comments
257.
by mercurialshark 13y ago
Ha!
258.
by mercurialshark 13y ago
Good thing we are only going for a hundred million at the moment.
259.
by mercurialshark 13y ago
Sounds like they were inspired, at least in part, by Thoughtly. "Quantifiably Good Content." But I'm partial. http://thoughtly.co
260.
by mercurialshark 13y ago
Extrapolating relatively few truly random data points from massive datasets, for analysis and modeling, is what "Big Data" is all about. This article would have you think that working with clusters or snippets of impossibly ginormous datase
261.
by mercurialshark 14y ago
What a class-act.
262.
by mercurialshark 14y ago
Holy fuck, y combinator is on the bar exam.
263.
by mercurialshark 14y ago
This sounds a lot like synesthesia. Not the association of colors and sounds, but visual-mathematical synesthesia. There are people, like you, that can do arithmetic simply by looking at number-boards that float in the field of vision, like
264.
by mercurialshark 14y ago
Bitcoin mining can pay for sustenance (in theory). The future is here and it is delicious!
265.
by mercurialshark 14y ago
The posting of corporate earnings is a rather poor example. The law doesn't require you to personally trade on inside information, as an attempt to manipulate trading by furthering actual or false inside information is sufficient. A reasona
266.
by mercurialshark 14y ago
Sorry, on a plane and somehow deleted former post with iPad. Anyway, I'm still serious about getting former profs/legal scholars involved in a podcast setting, hn members with insight to how it will have a deleterious effect on tech progres
267.
by mercurialshark 14y ago
Because nothing says freedom like regulators from the OSHA and SEC warrantlessly reading your drunk messages.