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by nhebb 14y ago
And here we have empirical (zeal) evidence that should make you reconsider calling someone a "dumb jock". Rugland calculated in his head what a PhD in Physics worked out on paper. We call it coordination. I look at it as another facet of in
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by nhebb 14y ago
D&B makes money selling their rating information, but while a DUNS number is free, you have to pay to manage your rating. I can't recall the exact wording but the salesman's phone pitch bordered on "Nice little business you got there. I
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by nhebb 14y ago
" Amazon Best Sellers Rank ... #18 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Java " [sic] Ouch! For John's sake I hope Amazon gets the category corrected.
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by nhebb 14y ago
It's not my project, but the source files are C++: http://sourceforge.net/p/mariamole/code/2/tree/trunk/code/ma...
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by nhebb 14y ago
If you have the time, skills, and inclination to help, see item 4): http://dalpix.com/blog/help-development-mariamole
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by nhebb 14y ago
OK, but I'm still going to pronounce it duh-jango. Sorry - it's ingrained.
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by nhebb 14y ago
I think a lot of us need to admit that the author is right. I, for one, do generalize about Europe. I think of social democracies with high taxes. I think of arcane rules and regulations to start and run a business. And most of all, I limit
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by nhebb 14y ago
Attention is being paid to this story in the news world because the NYT has a model to sustain their business. With recent announcements that Newsweek is going out of print and the publishing arm of News Corp lost $2B in the last year, th
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by nhebb 14y ago
I read Hyperion a few months ago, and I only read to the end so that I wouldn't be left with that nagging feeling of leaving a book unfinished. Much like the Grammy's and the Emmy's, I've found that book awards may be a good indicator of
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by nhebb 14y ago
I read a lot of mediocre stuff this year, but two are worth mentioning. Wool - by Hugh Howey. He self-published Wool and now has a deal to make into into a movie directed by Ridley Scott. In that, it's a pivotal work in the self-publishin
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by nhebb 14y ago
Looking at my GoodReads favorites that qualify as classics, these are the ones that I enjoyed the most: - Anything by Jack London - Anything by Ernest Hemingway - *One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich* by Solzhenitsyn - *The Fix
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by nhebb 14y ago
> Cheaper By the Dozen The remake had Steve Martin cast as a football coach, though.
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by nhebb 14y ago
> no need for an app, because the list of stuff to do would be rather short. For me, one of the keys of a successful todo list is to keep the list short to begin with. A long todo list is too daunting, but a short one is motivating. I
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by nhebb 14y ago
2 days? I'm curious why software companies still use Digital River. As a customer I've run into issues with about half the orders I've placed through DR subsidiaries.
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by nhebb 14y ago
The tax freedom day chart - http://taxfoundation.org/tax-topics/tax-freedom-day (scroll down a bit) is a better metric because in looks at all the taxes for the average taxpayer.
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by nhebb 14y ago
To put things in perspective, 200 years ago there were no photos in existence to paste onto walls. So what we're feeling is a cultural nostalgia for a very short period in humankind.
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by nhebb 14y ago
Your comments are an inspiration, but I think they are tangential to the blog post. The way I read it, I think the OP is addressing the Bravo TV show http://www.bravotv.com/start-ups-silicon-valley . I was able to make it through about 5 m
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by nhebb 14y ago
I was curious about the author so I looked up his profile on the University of Delaware website [1]. Despite being listed as a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, his educational background is in Sociology and Anthropology.
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by nhebb 14y ago
Anecdotally, no. IMO, Twitter is half social engagement, half narcissism. You can make your account private, but that would void the narcissistic half.
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by nhebb 14y ago
I was talking to my daughter (17) about this. As others have said, Facebook is out, and Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr are in. The one comment about Facebook that stood out: "It's been taken over by moms."
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by nhebb 14y ago
You have a point there. But going with your example, the ideal gas law (PV = nRT) still models a system where all inputs are known. While not a perfect model, it's much better for predicting the performance of a thermodynamic system than mo
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by nhebb 14y ago
It sounds like the problem boils down to the difference between understanding a scalar (speed) and a vector (velocity). So economics would need a way to represent economic forces similar to the way a free body diagram is used in engineering
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by nhebb 14y ago
The prof also busted him on another question: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/256822/product-of-tw...
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by nhebb 14y ago
5 weeks? That's practically a lifetime! Nothing tops "Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 10 Minutes" : http://www.amazon.com/Sams-Teach-Yourself-Minutes-2nd/dp/067...
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by nhebb 14y ago
> "Ask HN" doesn't qualify as most basic research? I think it does in some cases, but not in a case of this magnitude. It's a matter of specificity.
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by nhebb 14y ago
I didn't take part in the previous thread, but I kind of took umbrage with the question. It's really hard to take a question like that seriously when it appears that the OP has put zero effort into researching the subject. How can you not b
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by nhebb 14y ago
An explanation is given in the Operating Cash Flow vs. Net Income, EBIT, and EBITDA section of this Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_cash_flow
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'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistleblower(rt.com)
378 points by nhebb 14y ago|202 comments
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The problem with the return of manufacturing(blogs.reuters.com)
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by nhebb 14y ago
Pet peeve: I would never use IE as long as there is no built-in password manager. You shouldn't have to rely on 3rd party add-ins for this.

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