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by pdog 14y ago
Thanks!
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by pdog 14y ago
The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile benefits from shocks and gets better.
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by pdog 14y ago
Thank you! The "Entitlement Generation" may be in trouble, but the world they live in wasn't set up by them, it was set up by their parents. The Last Psychiatrist [1] characterizes the previous generation as "The Dumbest Generation Of Narc
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by pdog 14y ago
List shows us those impressive thing?
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by pdog 14y ago
"For example, imagine if you could build a workflow by dragging and dropping to connect your Salesforce.com implementation with your back-office provisioning applications, based on a conditional logic and then send out SMS confirmation to
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by pdog 14y ago
Not really. $870 could just be a sudden windfall. I'd suggest paying off some debt, if you have any.
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by pdog 14y ago
I've seen and read about Quartz and qz.com so many times... I still don't really know what they are or what they're for.
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by pdog 14y ago
For the most part, it's a list of some pretty impressive young people doing some pretty impressive things. You don't have to shit all over it in this thread because you're butthurt.
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by pdog 14y ago
Not really. There are many different types of meditation: Samatha (Concentration), Vipassana (Insight), Zazen, Yoga, etc. What's a guide for meditation that practices mindfulness?
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by pdog 14y ago
Anyone have a guide on how to meditate to achieve mindfulness?
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by pdog 14y ago
"The complexity of [a bottom-up, biologically-inspired model of the brain] will take a long time to overcome. Since Allen concedes that sufficient computational power is already here, he seems to be arguing that it will take over a hundred
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by pdog 14y ago
$137. pmarca seems legit too.
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by pdog 14y ago
The more things change, the more they stay the same :)
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by pdog 14y ago
> Now, distribution is a worthless service. Worthless? Distribution is about more than just shuffling bits from point A to point B. For one, it requires an building an audience.
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by pdog 14y ago
Previously, The Sprawling Guide to Content Marketing that Made Us $10,000: http://blog.idonethis.com/post/36065976015/the-sprawling-gui... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4805655
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by pdog 14y ago
> Overall we executed about 500 a/b tests on our web pages in a 20 month period which increased donation conversions by 49% and sign up conversions by 161%. How did they measure this? Did they isolate the effects of the a/b testing? D
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by pdog 14y ago
Why don't we just make high schools better?
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by pdog 14y ago
This article is about the cost of an MBA, which is a master's degree (in business administration), at a very prestigious university. So you're kind of hijacking the thread when you bring up the cost of a college education. There's no doub
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by pdog 14y ago
Sounds great in theory, but in practice you'll be having that conversation about your database schema anyway.
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Review sites to email when you’re about to launch your iPhone App(mytangibles.tumblr.com)
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by pdog 14y ago
At all? You can still share a link to an Instagram photo. You just won't see the full image in the official Twitter stream.
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by pdog 14y ago
"Sass is better on a whole bunch of different fronts, but if you are already happy in LESS, that's cool, at least you are doing yourself a favor by preprocessing." http://css-tricks.com/sass-vs-less/
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by pdog 14y ago
Those may be reasons for the development of Bitcoin, but Bitcoin itself is simply a technology. Any number of use cases may emerge from it, even ones we can't foresee. It's entirely possible that Bitcoin transactions will largely occur bet
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by pdog 14y ago
Given the amount of research they put into determining the 160 character limit[1], it's disappointing that Twitter had to limit themselves to 140 characters (to allow for usernames). [1] - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05
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by pdog 14y ago
I'd put Kurzweil's book down and pick up some more recent research. As the biologist P.Z. Myers once wrote, “Ray Kurzweil is a genius. One of the greatest hucksters of the age.” The full New Yorker article, Ray Kurzweil's Dubious New Theor
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by pdog 14y ago
That's why I said nearly all . By the end of the century, there will be one Bitcoin left to mine.
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by pdog 14y ago
What happens when nearly all of the 21 million Bitcoins are mined[1]? Will transactions not happen anymore? [1] - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_Currency_Supply#Projec...
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by pdog 14y ago
Get the 13.3" MacBook Air.
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by pdog 14y ago
Vladimir Nabokov, whose prose style ranks among the best, said: “Style and structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.” The vast majority of writers and bloggers today use a truncated writing style (perhaps reminiscent of
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by pdog 14y ago
Paul Graham has brought this up before, in How to be an Angel Investor [1]: "There is an ongoing debate between investors which is more important, the people, or the idea—or more precisely, the market. [...] The three most prominent people

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