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by niels_olson 18y ago
I like how he moves to microphone between and perpendicular to the water bottle and the coke can so it can't roll off the table.
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by niels_olson 18y ago
I was about to recommend How to Think Like a Computer Scientist ( http://openbookproject.net//thinkCSpy/ ), which is what I've been using and thoroughly enjoy, until I realized that it's the original version of How to Think Like a (Python)
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by niels_olson 19y ago
Fellows has some interesting products which I've used in the past with some success. In general, using a variety (I also use a wacom sometimes, and often use a mighty mouse with my ibook) http://www.google.com/products?q=fellowes+microtrac
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by niels_olson 19y ago
So this got 53 points on hacker news, 2 points on reddit. 35 comments on hacker news, 2 comments on reddit. 39 links on hacker news, 3 links on reddit, all of which were already in the hacker news thread.
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Ask YC: I have to iron. Where can I quickly find interesting non-fiction video besides ted.com
56 points by niels_olson 19y ago|36 comments
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by niels_olson 19y ago
Does a similar page exist for Comp Sci?
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Any internet radio stations play going-to-sleep music? I'd visit that station every night twice.
9 points by niels_olson 19y ago|19 comments
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by niels_olson 19y ago
hmmm . . . sounds more like, as desktop Linux takes off in the home market, Red Hat is responding to increasing pressure by reminding folks they're not in the consumer desktop business. I've been using CentOS 5 on a server, and during initi
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by niels_olson 19y ago
The first sentence is an unsubstantiated assumption and, as a parent, I can tell you it's wrong. The less a child knows, the less context they have, so the less room you have to negotiate an agreement. Plus, their knowledge level is intimat
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by niels_olson 19y ago
Wow, I should read my threads more often. Keep it up! Care to share any updates? More or less TV now? As for us, now, I don't think anyone bothers to open the giant wood box in the living room now unless company's over. I'm thinking about p
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by niels_olson 19y ago
The video equivalent of a book is any imaging screen. Cathode ray tube, LCD, whatever. That's not inherently bad. The social construct of mass one-way transmission coming in through an imaging screen and paid for with advertising, which is
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by niels_olson 19y ago
I just spent four weeks on a pediatric neurology clerkship in medical school, and my wife is a pediatric occupational therapist. Throw away your TV. Just do it. After Katrina, when we evacuated to my parents' house, they'd just moved in the