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by noahlt 14y ago
Reminds me a lot of Arc's square bracket syntax: [* _ 2] becomes (lambda (x) (* x 2))
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"Tap the spacebar with your phone." - Bump unveils new photo uploader(photos.bu.mp)
195 points by noahlt 15y ago|146 comments
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by noahlt 15y ago
I could imagine a similar and opposite article, "Netflix is broken", written from the perpective from an older person instead of a younger one: Why do I need to sign in? Why do I have to choose something to watch – why doesn't it just let m
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by noahlt 15y ago
When you read about astrophysics it sounds like we already have everything all figured out. It's kind of astounding that no man made object has ever actually left the Solar System yet.
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How adding randomness could make voting more fair(dcn.davis.ca.us)
2 points by noahlt 15y ago|0 comments
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by noahlt 15y ago
That's easy for him to say, but is there any evidence that this is, in fact, true?
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Facebook vs Salary: when choosing jobs, students value Facebook more than money(designlessbetter.com)
2 points by noahlt 15y ago|0 comments
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by noahlt 15y ago
I suspect a large part of the creepiness comes from the lack of any audible speech in the video.
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by noahlt 15y ago
This is a really interesting account of an interview. At the same time, I am skeptical of the author's armchair psychology and his speculation about the 'real' Jobs. He pushes his own interpretation so hard that I can only assume it color
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How are cities like living organisms? We can model them using the same math(ted.com)
3 points by noahlt 15y ago|0 comments
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by noahlt 15y ago
Startup Bootcamp is always a great event. Thanks to the guys who put it on, and I highly encourage you to go to Startup Bootcamp if you're on the East Coast and can't make it out to Stanford.
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by noahlt 15y ago
"You’re much better off to take one of your earbuds out and put it in her ear. Then you’re connected with about two feet of headphone cable." - Steve Jobs ( http://37signals.com/svn/posts/52-steve-jobs-just-put-it-in-... )
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by noahlt 15y ago
What does this have to do with Twitter?
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by noahlt 15y ago
This mentality ("give people what they want") results in the empty, sensationalist journalism that most people dislike. When I read the news, I don't want to be entertained, I want to be informed. The same goes for Internet searches.
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by noahlt 15y ago
I suspect that you didn't read the article. In addition to heavily discussing Dunbar's number, the entire point of the article is that, even with the aid of social networking technology like Twitter, Dunbar's number still applies. From th
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by noahlt 15y ago
Strangely appropriate is today's XKCD: http://xkcd.com/904/
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by noahlt 15y ago
Half of the world has SMS access and can therefore use Twitter.
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by noahlt 15y ago
David Baltimore won a Nobel Prize for discovering reverse transcriptase, the enzyme that allows HIV to work. In a talk he gave at my high school, he stressed the same message, saying that "the frontier of knowledge is nearer than we expect"
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by noahlt 15y ago
Apparently nobody reads the TOS, because clicking the TOS link leads to the press release.
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by noahlt 15y ago
I used to use del.icio.us as a sort of online magazine. I would read the feed for posts tagged "python" and see all the blog posts about Python that people were reading that day. My usage was very similar to the way people use Twitter and H
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by noahlt 15y ago
Fascinating statistics. I wish the charts had been designed in a way that made it easier to compare the numbers: for instance, I want to visually compare the number of hours that each country spends sleeping, but these charts force me to re
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by noahlt 15y ago
I wonder how many non-geek users who read this article will simply disallow all third-party apps, even legitimate ones.
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by noahlt 15y ago
I was a bit disappointed to find that this was a Kindle book that repackaged a bunch of already-published blog posts, rather than some clever way to publish a blog that would be delivered as a periodically-updated Kindle book. Nevertheless,
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by noahlt 15y ago
I don't think that calculus should be included in a high school curriculum. Differential modelling is a valuable skill, sure, but I don't think that it will be applicable to 95% of students. There are such a broad range of jobs in the world
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by noahlt 16y ago
Based on their past actions, I feel like Google or Twitter would never do this, and that makes me respect them much more.
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by noahlt 16y ago
A bit friendlier than the title of an unauthorized biography which my friend owns: "iCon".
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by noahlt 16y ago
It's neat that he was able to make this effect, and I'm glad we're experimenting with new Javascript+CSS3 effects. This particular effect, though, reminds me of turbulence in an airplane, or the rumble of a subway. When I see the rumbling
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by noahlt 16y ago
Bing Maps makes napkin-sketch style maps as well, if you have Silverlight installed. Say what you like about Bing in general, but Bing Maps is pretty cool.
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by noahlt 16y ago
> Today, do any colleges even consider this? In the time you work flipping burgers, you could just as easily become leader of 12 after-school activities that look "impressive" on a resume. Most college application forms have, in additio
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by noahlt 16y ago
This was really hard for me to understand, so I'll post my summary in hopes that it helps someone else: CityPockets is a website that helps you organize your coupons and vouchers. You import your coupons and CityPockets will plot the deals

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