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by mikk0j 15y ago
Well, Higgs Boson is aptly named the "God particle" - it seems likelier and likelier that it doesn't exist.
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Productivity tips for tech marketing people(mikko.ws)
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by mikk0j 15y ago
Same exact prob. The 25-minute counter is there on the desktop. I just haven't pressed play yet. Instead, there is HN to go through.
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Direct democracy through dollars: Starbucks CEO pledges end to donations(money.cnn.com)
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Twounce.me - beta signup for the Twitter out-of-office autoreplier(twounce.me)
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How to Build a Pre-Launch Landing Page(hackfwd.tumblr.com)
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by mikk0j 15y ago
Do proofread everything you put in <h1> tags. Even for a softlaunch.
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Customer Development for B2C, part 2/3: Finding Users for Testing(hackfwd.tumblr.com)
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Video: TechCrunch's Mike Butcher on how startups should manage the press(hackfwd.tumblr.com)
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Customer Development for B2C, part 1/3: Prototyping(hackfwd.tumblr.com)
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Two weeks left in coding contest for European under-18s(hacknow.org)
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by mikk0j 15y ago
Can't even click +1. Gives me the error "Oops... you need a Google profile to use this feature. Google Profiles is not available for your organization." since I am logged into a Google Apps account. Google itself force-merged my personal ac
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by mikk0j 15y ago
The reason there is that until very recently the only way to make a believable alien in the TV was to dress up a human in a costume.
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by mikk0j 15y ago
My summary: collaboration between individuals is a strong Darwinian driver of competitive advantage between species (or other large groups). Homo sapiens individuals were more efficient at collaboration due to language and other social cogn
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Programming contest for under-18s in Europe. 1st prize 5000 EUR + more.(hacknow.org)
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by mikk0j 15y ago
"-But even scientists admit that they can't explain everything. -There probably are questions that science cannot answer..." I would love to get rid of this intellectual appeasement of supernaturalists. It is only there to avoid accusations
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by mikk0j 15y ago
I like what your pet theory states. For me, it highlights the bigger question: _why_ do we have this propensity to "trust without doubt"? My pet theory for that is based on risk-avoidance and (behavioural) rational choice theory. When we tr
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by mikk0j 15y ago
You would need a threshold of course. But having that would also mean there would be a fringe demand for people who are above the threshold. Thus, if this is done, there could be demand for a job board where non-threshold-meeting HN members
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by mikk0j 15y ago
The article isn't so much about the company as about the network. Fair enough, some accounts have been taken over by their "official" owners in the case of trademarked names etc. But this is a far cry from turning dull & corporate -- de
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by mikk0j 15y ago
I know many people who say that when they search for an app and find two alternatives, out of which one is paid and one is free, they go for the paid app. We all have limited, crippled or badly designed apps lying unused on our smartphones.
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by mikk0j 15y ago
Finally, we have a viable business for Nokia. And NOK +2% in the OMX Helsinki at the time of writing. Any not-bad news is good news for NOK.
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by mikk0j 15y ago
This one is gold: "As Bruce Sterling has put it: "I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people settling the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times chea
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by mikk0j 15y ago
My favorite, #469: "A YouTube VC firm, that will invest money in people who are willing to do stupid stuff on video in hopes that the video will go viral and they will make a profit." Could happen, in today's angel investment climate...
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A critique of the Startup Genome report(marketingsense.posterous.com)
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by mikk0j 15y ago
A program, just like human intelligence, is always means to an end. Whether it passes the Turing Test or not does not change this.
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by mikk0j 15y ago
Thanks for clarification. I missed that completely at first. Even if the marketing dept. wants the logo in small caps, human-readable text has proper names capitalized. That's the way it should be.
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by mikk0j 15y ago
Should be of "mobile developers", upon reading the article. But nonetheless, the numbers are a bit pointless since they don't indicate overlap (gosh, you can develop both iOS and Android?). What would be interesting is to know the share of
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by mikk0j 15y ago
Love the implicit dualism in the title. How come is it that our brains are misled? As if we or our "minds" were somehow less susceptible.
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by mikk0j 15y ago
Dunbar's number continues to be misunderstood. It is not so much a measure of individuals as a measure of relations between individuals that are important for us to track. It is not the node that is important, it is the connections that the
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by mikk0j 15y ago
I am through to page 20 now of the 67 page report #1, and the more I read the more lack of novelty there seems to be. An example: "We attempt to provide that evidence for the existence of the Marmer Stages intwo ways:1) The Marmer Stages co

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