petermarks

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by petermarks 8y ago
Where is the explanation, let alone the data, to support the claim that happiness has not increased? There’s a compelling data driven chapter in Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now that makes the opposite argument. It also makes a compelling
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by petermarks 14y ago
Manipulating Ableton Live directly using python is tricky as you need to impersonate a proprietary device. However, there's a fairly there's a fairly straightforward Open Sound Control API here: http://livecontrol.q3f.org/ableton-liveapi/l
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by petermarks 15y ago
Regarding learning Ruby in Portland, make it out to a PDX Ruby Brigade meeting if you haven't already. They have meetings focused on learning Ruby: http://calagator.org/events/1250461371
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by petermarks 15y ago
Should work now. Thanks.
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Startup School 2011 Industry Meetups
10 points by petermarks 15y ago|3 comments
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by petermarks 15y ago
I just hacked together a large standing desk this weekend using cabinets from Ikea: http://petermarks.info/2011/04/11/the-spaceship-2-0/ The criteria for this project was 1) Cheap 2) high enough to rest my elbows on, 3) large enough for a
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by petermarks 16y ago
@adamc - I understand you want to do everything you can do encourage your daughters education and I'm sure that will serve her well. I'm my experience, however, I had more to do with my own motivation in school than my parents. I tried hard
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by petermarks 16y ago
I agree standardized tests focused on memorization aren't educational, but surely tests that require problem solving ability (math) are worthwhile. Without standardized tests, how else are we supposed to quantify how well students and by ex
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by petermarks 16y ago
My startup -- http://feastery.com -- was founded to address these problems for great restaurants. In general the issues around retention and customer quality have been around since the beginning but have been largely ignored by most write
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by petermarks 16y ago
This has worked well for us at http://feastery.com . No issues with the quality of the invitees.
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by petermarks 16y ago
Surprising to see this on HN. Regardless, here's my favs: 2009-03-10 Jamie Jones, 2007-02-18 Danny Howells, 2006-10-14 Trentemoller, 2003-08-24 Sasha live at Creamfields
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by petermarks 16y ago
Fritos and YouTube, no. Chicken McNuggets and Call of Duty, yes: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/family-and-relationships...
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by petermarks 17y ago
I've been using jashkenas' ruby processing for a simple gui: http://wiki.github.com/jashkenas/ruby-processing . Processing is a pleasure to use once it's liberated from java syntax.
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by petermarks 17y ago
Redmine (redmine.org) is a free, open source alternative to basecamp/trac written in rails. It's great for tracking issues for your own projects, but especially useful to small teams. There are numerous plugins available to meet individual
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by petermarks 17y ago
I used prepaid sims from MTN and SafariCom when I visited Kenya and east Africa this summer. 50 cent activation fee and $5.00 for all the minutes I needed (including to the US) for 3 weeks on a network that seemed as reliable as my at&t
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by petermarks 17y ago
Agreed. I thought the most spine tingling part of the trilogy was at the end of the second movie when Neo uses his powers in the real world. This is reminiscent of my own hacking experience, albiet far less dramatic, where successfully gami
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by petermarks 17y ago
Agreed. This account of his 4am workouts and non-stop icing routine on gameday is truly inspiring: http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=4068270 I like Kobe more than Lebron more for this very reason. He compensates for his relativel
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by petermarks 17y ago
I grew up here and moved back after college in CA, so I'm a little biased. It's a great place to live. The tech scene is really inviting and impressively sophisticated as others have mentioned. The Ruby group where that calagator app was de
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by petermarks 17y ago
Awesome. I'm interested to see what you come up with. Shoot me an email at the address in my profile.
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by petermarks 17y ago
Wow, awesome to hear there are other people into lighting on here. I'm spending my weekend working on a Max/MSP patch that spits out patterns onto an LED grid controlled by a 4/4 time signature. I plan to tie these patterns to music clips w
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by petermarks 18y ago
Facebook already possesses and uses this sort of personal information for ads and they still don't have a great monetization rate per user. Twitter certainly has less overhead per user though.
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by petermarks 18y ago
My biggest criticism of 37 Signals is how easy they make selling simple products out to be. It's hard to imagine their success without the onslaught of positive attention rails has given them. That said, this protectionist deliberate misinf