owensmartin

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by owensmartin 10y ago
Learn to speed-read by learning from a couple of speed-reading books. I recommend the Evelyn Wood system to get you started.
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by owensmartin 11y ago
Thanks for the shortened URLs. Question: I always obtain those by hitting "Share" and then copying the link. Is there a better way?
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by owensmartin 12y ago
I'm just happy to see the New York Review of Books appear on HN!
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by owensmartin 12y ago
Carpentry. I thought I knew a bit about woodworking because of my middle-school shop class. Turns out it's an extremely precise and technical activity, packed with lessons in engineering, measurement, statistics, and physics. I'm
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by owensmartin 13y ago
Okay I did it myself: https://gist.github.com/javahead123/7045923
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by owensmartin 13y ago
Someone PLEASE do this for meetup
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by owensmartin 15y ago
Sorry to offer the most trite comment possible, but how does a 22-year-old trying to pick up chicks constitute "hacker news"?
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Mobile Acquisition Transparancy Alliance(openmata.org)
1 points by owensmartin 15y ago|0 comments
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Why the Obsession with Big Data?(kaleidoscope.kontagent.com)
2 points by owensmartin 15y ago|0 comments
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by owensmartin 15y ago
I'd like to tack on another key feature to these 13th chords (no pun intended)-- and that is of spreading out the voicing across the instrument's (usually piano's) range. There's a sort of rule of thumb in jazz that the only interval that s
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by owensmartin 15y ago
Great piece of history. I think the author's conclusions are flawed though. He writes: > Ecological activism did not play significant role in all of these developments; neither did the numerous well-meaning international treaties, morat
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The Day Steve Jobs Saved Apple(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by owensmartin 15y ago|0 comments
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New York Picks Alta to Run Bike-Share Program(nytimes.com)
2 points by owensmartin 15y ago|0 comments
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by owensmartin 15y ago
How I wish the Times would actually put in some technical details! If their aim is the transparent diffusion of news, they shouldn't shy away from technicals that maybe most people don't know. In fact, perhaps it's time more people found ou
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by owensmartin 15y ago
These meetups are great for DC hackers and entrepreneurs! If you classify yourself thus, you must attend!
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by owensmartin 15y ago
My opinion: it looks terrible. In particular it doesn't match the contours or shadows of any of my other desktop items. As for the google favicon, am I the only one who still misses the old G?
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Google Chrome Blog: A fresh take on an icon(chrome.blogspot.com)
4 points by owensmartin 15y ago|2 comments
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by owensmartin 15y ago
For quick reference: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2474573
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Tired of MLB.TV blackouts?(thewarscoming.com)
5 points by owensmartin 15y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: What is a security clearance worth?
2 points by owensmartin 16y ago|2 comments
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by owensmartin 16y ago
Wonderful. The concept of falsifiability is a gift Karl Popper gave to humanity, and we mustn't forget it. So from a statistical standpoint, you're estimating theta, some parameter that indicates your level of extroversion. What does this p
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by owensmartin 16y ago
I'm sorry, but I really don't see the benefit for having made this thing-- the tweets it puts out are useless! Are we just playing around in how to program Markov text generation? Because who cares; they figured that out ages ago.
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by owensmartin 16y ago
Arg. It's not division by zero, it's zero work divided by a finite number of workers. Nor is it an undefined supply of jobs-- should you need the quantity "workers per unit work", then, finally, you'd have an undefined quantity.