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by pie 17y ago
Should read "8 basic tips" rather than "open letter."
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by pie 17y ago
Perhaps "finding opportunities to be unique" would be a better way to describe this concept. Doing the opposite of everyone else sounds like a profoundly bad idea when applied to many, many things. This stirs up some of the sense of irony f
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by pie 17y ago
There was an entertaining exhibit of fabricated housing at MOMA last year, including some "working prototypes." The "micro compact home" was incredibly cool. The attention to detail and slick, functional design was really inspiring. I left
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by pie 17y ago
I've worked for a ~100 person company that switched from Exchange to Zimbra last year. While many aspects of the system work great, others are buggy, difficult, or practically useless. (For example, the calendar features are miserably immat
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by pie 17y ago
Well, this is an art exhibit, and it's really more about cultural deconstruction and examination than entrepreneurship. This reminds me how much I love getting lunch out of a cart or kitchen truck. Some of the best (and/or most satisfying)
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by pie 17y ago
Yep, this is that same seam carving presentation from siggraph 2007.
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by pie 17y ago
Indeed. My current place of employ has a similar open work space (granted, it looks less like an airport) and it's notably uncomfortable. The idea that such a layout encourages "openness" and "communication" often doesn't work out, and inst
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by pie 17y ago
Worthwhile for the image and caption alone. This reminds me: I'm a bit tired of quick reactionary articles in the news that come in response to relatively minor sociological, psychological, or medical studies. These new developments are ind
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by pie 17y ago
Having just hacked together an ugly threaded task queue for scraping and multi-stage data processing in Django, this looks like a breath of fresh air. I need to work my way out of the self-inflicted mess I've created. Does anyone have exper
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by pie 17y ago
I play drums, trumpet, accordion, guitar, bass, keyboard, banjo, and whatever else I get my hands on. Putting together a complex song with audio software -- wiring together effects and virtual instruments and tweaking MIDI programs and sett
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by pie 17y ago
Last year's news. It's frustrating that these commercials continue to this day, thus mitigating some of the impact in the public's mind that the company is, indeed, guilty of various forms of fraud.
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by pie 17y ago
I like this one, and perhaps it's pertinent to the atmosphere of entrepreneurship and individualism here on HN: "If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy
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by pie 17y ago
While this piece focuses on the journalists themselves, the other aspect of the supply-and-demand perspective here is that society's requirements are shifting as well. It could be that there simply isn't a widespread demand for the type of
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by pie 17y ago
I see a confused mess of buzzwords and old news.
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by pie 17y ago
Interesting. Next up, airplanes with feathers. But I love how nature continues to inspire us. If my TV looked anything like a cuttlefish, I'd watch it a lot more.
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by pie 17y ago
Priceless for the term dictionary. Heh, Tom-Tom Club. Genius of love indeed.
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by pie 17y ago
I am very happy whenever I see hackers taking interest in audio software. There has been some fascinating progress in technology/processing ability in the last 5 years or so, but it's always fun to get back to the basics (as Bloopasphone do
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by pie 17y ago
This has been some of the most readable, accessible online documentation I have seen for Rails since the site was launched (was it 6 months ago? I don't recall now). It's not an ideal reference, but I always refer new Rails users to this as
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by pie 17y ago
Perhaps by "the most bankrupt nation on Earth" she means "the nation with a populace most likely to declare bankruptcy." Semantics aside, this is a decent overview of personal bankruptcy in the US, although it feels a little light on insigh
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by pie 17y ago
It sounds to me like the argument here is that newspapers, faced with their current crisis, should be producing different (i.e. "hipper" and less "partisan" or old-fashioned) content. I'm not sure that this is the case - I'm fairly certain
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by pie 17y ago
This makes me wonder what's under Gowanus' millions of gallons of oil and sludge. Maybe we don't want to know. I'm somehow reminded of the homemade submarine in 2007: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/04/arts/design/04voya.html
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by pie 17y ago
There used to be an incredibly disturbing full-store video billboard in midtown Manhattan. It looked like the windows and glass doors of an ordinary - if somewhat close to the sidewalk - office, except the perspective was skewed (which it h
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by pie 17y ago
This all boils down to the fact that clients hiring freelancers are often clueless about defining their own needs and identifying/hiring someone who can get the work done. It is very frustrating to see how many people seem to be looking f
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by pie 17y ago
I balked at the idea that "the main determinant of doing well in AP classes is IQ," which I'm not so sure about, especially when conflated with the idea that IQ is also a measure of student intelligence. In my experience, AP classes are foc
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by pie 17y ago
The title here is a little misleading - it sounds to me like the term 'artists' is being used to describe professionals who are simply more laid-back and friendly than the traditional uptight, nose-to-the-grindstone ideal of a working stiff
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by pie 17y ago
I'd have to agree - the only thing more annoying than the overuse of industry buzzwords is the INCORRECT overuse of industry buzzwords. It's always disheartening to see business analysts who have no idea what they're talking about, although
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by pie 17y ago
Absolutely. I rarely see such insightful, constructive, and inspirational writing about UI design floating around the web. Relatively little has changed since this written, and it still looks so innovative and even "futuristic." I think jus
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by pie 17y ago
It will be interesting to see the adoption rate of this micropayment system among casual readers. It's likely that serious "business users" will stick with the full-service subscription packages and ignore more complex payment systems, as t
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by pie 17y ago
So true. There's a sense of desperate flailing as news media watch profits decline, and for some reason developing new technology is often treated as a last-ditch effort to salvage a sinking ship. I guess most of this strange behavior comes
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by pie 17y ago
How about pill identification? This is currently covered by systems that search by feature or imprint, and it would be cool if there were a way to pull these search features from a photograph input.

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