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by nhebb 15y ago
I did the same thing. Apparently my code reads like an Edgar Allen Poe work. Maybe I should get a Vincent Price impersonator to do the voice over for my next demo.
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by nhebb 15y ago
Link to document in question: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/divers/stoa/201...
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by nhebb 15y ago
It's probably the HN load. I'm getting a "A server error occurred. Please contact the administrator." message for the calc app.
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by nhebb 15y ago
The Stony Brook Algorithm Repository is a nice little collection of algorithms, plus they out link to various implementations: http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/
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by nhebb 15y ago
I've been hearing that a lot since the OWS movement started. It's worth pointing out that the Citizens United ruling stated that in certain freedom of speech issues, corporations have the same rights as people, not that they are people.
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by nhebb 15y ago
> "cram everything above the fold, no matter the cost" The reason I said it's a straw man is because I've never seen anyone actually champion that point of view. I've seen minimalist landing pages, but I haven't come across any I can th
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by nhebb 15y ago
Straw man. No reasonable person has ever said that you can't have content below the fold. The point that good copywriters make is that you have to grab the visitor's attention, and the best way to do that is to have the attention grabbing m
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What's At Stake In the Net-Neutrality Fight(realclearmarkets.com)
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by nhebb 15y ago
What caught my eye about that story was the transpacific communications, since the dateline was Nov. 10, 1911. Looking it up on Wikipedia, the first transpacific cables were laid in 1902 (transatlantic in 1986), so getting a cable from Nank
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by nhebb 15y ago
I thought it said "unicorn". I was dismayed to find that my beautiful, refrigerator-worthy rendering of a unicorn was interpreted as a few Arabic characters, some arrows, and a domino tile.
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by nhebb 15y ago
In this case, they wouldn't even need to provide support if they just offered a way to merge accounts. I have three, and it's a pain.
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by nhebb 15y ago
Not to detract from the man's project (which I think is cool), but every little piece of garbage in the ocean does add up. Oceanographers have mapped garbage patches in each of the oceans, e.g.: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/08/at
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by nhebb 15y ago
Corrected. BTW, I quoted it from "What is Science?" on the Friends of Tuva site. The whole piece is a good read: http://www.fotuva.org/feynman/what_is_science.html
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by nhebb 15y ago
The difference between superficial knowledge and real knowledge is nicely illustrated in one of Feynman's little stories: "So we went alone for our walk in the woods. But mothers were very powerful in those days as they are now, and they c
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by nhebb 15y ago
I like it because it's an iconic icon (tautology intended). It embeds a little bit of computing history right there in a 16x16 image.
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by nhebb 15y ago
I used to work for a company with an internet content filter. I'd search for a topic, see a promising link, and bam! the content filter blocked the page for profanity. I try to limit / self-censor my profanity in deference to the working st
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by nhebb 15y ago
I'm surprised a few people mentioned Kutcher. I would have guessed his speech was motivational, but not actionable .
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by nhebb 15y ago
Here's my recent experience doing programming related searches: - Perform multiple keyword search on Google for esoteric topic. - Get a page of results that don't include all keywords (remember, can't use '+' anymore). - Switch to Bing and
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by nhebb 15y ago
That's a lot of videos to wade through. Any recommendations for top videos to watch with actionable content?
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by nhebb 15y ago
I'm not challenging you on this, but I still remember Buffet's comment from years ago that they were weapons of mass destruction. What is the risk and how do regulators ensure that any untoward risk is mitigated?
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by nhebb 15y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not a quant and don't know where to source data on this topic. But from what I'e read, the size of the derivatives market was approximately 5-6X global GDP in the mid 00's. Now, it's over 20X global GDP. If that market ever
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by nhebb 15y ago
> at least provide a legitimate reason why he was an asshole Well, since you're asking ... I admire Steve Jobs the entrepreneur, but Steve Jobs the dad qualified as one [1]: "Jobs's first child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, was born in 1978, the
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by nhebb 15y ago
Nice job, but it needs error handling for price entries. Invalid entries are skipped with no notification. $0.99 works, but $.99 doesn't. Only handles $ prices (e.g., no euro).
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by nhebb 15y ago
A toilet with a built-in urinalysis system.
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by nhebb 15y ago
The author, Bill, answered questions about this on Joel on Software: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.665091.3... Key comment: "[..] when you're in your spare bedroom alone slaving away for 5-6 years, then someone come
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by nhebb 15y ago
Reputation is Symantec's attempt at crowdsourced whitelisting. It sucks for small Windows software companies because if their products haven't achieved widespread usage they can be flagged by Norton AV for lack of reputation.
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by nhebb 15y ago
If you were simply an activist, I'd applaud your tenacity to battle the state. But you're a CEO. You let go staff that were (I assume) critical to your operations. Unless those employees are just sitting by the phone waiting for you to re-h
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by nhebb 15y ago
The "near:" operator looks very useful. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff795615.aspx
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by nhebb 15y ago
Consistency cuts both ways. There is the branding consistency of the + symbol, and then there is the consistency of how + worked for searches last week vs. this week. My vote is that consistency in usage trumps consistency in branding.
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by nhebb 15y ago
> I watched "Reality Bites" and read Coupland's "Generation X" and thought "how can they be so complacent and moody? Isn't there more to life?" I'm trying hard not to come off as acerbic, but maybe it's because you've taken two pieces o

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