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by robobenjie 13y ago
There are two things to like here: 1) No one like solicitation calls and its nice to see someone stick it to them and 2) he is shifting the economics to be more representative of the costs to all parties. There is a cost to the person being
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by robobenjie 13y ago
I was disappointed it wasn't.
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by robobenjie 13y ago
To pay for the development of children's entertainment. Public television is wonderful but I bet all of us look back fondly on a show that we loved as children that would not have existed without ads to pay for its production.
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by robobenjie 13y ago
google has a search app: ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-search/id284815942 ) and facebook has a "just share photos with your friends" app: ( https://www.facebook.com/mobile/camera ). While you can bemoan feature creep all you wa
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by robobenjie 13y ago
How can you possibly say that you aren't willing to spend more than $200 dollars, but would wear it on your face every single day? People pay more than that for sunglasses which provide no functional utility above the $5 sunglasses.
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by robobenjie 14y ago
"Pump 6" is a fantastic book. I find the genre of Science Fiction short stories is very hit-and-miss. Pump 6 is a hit.
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by robobenjie 14y ago
They do complain about it, they just don't do it on Hacker News! My wife teaches preschool at Stanford's Laboratory School and they often talk about the teacher gender gap and what they can do about it, especially at young-children educatio
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by robobenjie 14y ago
I love things like this, but I really feel like putting it on the back of the shirt is really socially awkward. "Hey can you turn around and not face me for a while so I can play your shirt"
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by robobenjie 14y ago
I have gradually increased my airbnb rates while maintaining a constant level of occupancy from $35 to $90 over two years, so at least from where I'm standing it doesn't seem like a race to the bottom.
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Show HN: Recipe Generating AI (my open source weekend clojure project)(reciperoulette.net)
5 points by robobenjie 15y ago|1 comments
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by robobenjie 15y ago
Does anyone know how to pronounce the name? I see ooh-duh-CITY, but I presume that they were trying for you-DAH-city or maybe OOH-dah-city...? (like University + Audacity). Regardless they picked a hard one to figure out.
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by robobenjie 15y ago
more details in this (slightly) older article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/technology/googles-autonom...
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by robobenjie 15y ago
I think I wasn't quite clear in what I meant. d is the distance that your center of mass changes while your feet are in contact with the ground (While you are doing work) and h is the height that your center of mass changes while you are in
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by robobenjie 15y ago
Here is what I have come up with. Using conservation of energy: When you jump your legs do work that gets converted in to kinetic energy and then potential energy. Assume that when you are shrunk down you maintain density. The potential ene
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Show HN: "That's what she said" bookmarklet(dl.dropbox.com)
4 points by robobenjie 15y ago|0 comments
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by robobenjie 15y ago
about the same number of calories, (224 calories in a donut, 207 in a bagel) but those calories come from sugar and fat in the donut (4 times the sugar and 12 times the amount of fat). Sources: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=calories
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by robobenjie 15y ago
In fact, my wife works in Early Childhood education at the Laboratory School at Stanford, and they do think and worry about exactly those kinds of things.
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by robobenjie 15y ago
And I was pleasantly surprised to find that (this time) I hadn't noticed until reading the comments. If we live in a world where one group of people is the norm and other groups need special distinction to identify them ("he" is a generic h
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What I don't know about building webapps(robobenjie.posterous.com)
1 points by robobenjie 15y ago|1 comments
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by robobenjie 15y ago
Thank you do much. I have wanted this for years. I know that Netflix is interested in predicting what I will like, but I basically never like movies with a tomato score below 75 or so, so before I always browse netflix with a rotten tomato
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by robobenjie 15y ago
I agree with most of the points in this article, but saying that all people who forge boarding passes will use latex gloves seems false. From my point of view the point of multiple screenings is to increase the difficulty and complexity of
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by robobenjie 15y ago
http://projecteuler.net/problems is a nice source
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by robobenjie 15y ago
We use these types of questions to allow an applicant to show us that they can, in fact, write a simple program (see http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/why-cant-programmer... ) and we use programming puzzles to make it more interesti
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by robobenjie 15y ago
The pdf he links has more examples and greater depth about implementing diffusion ai. Recommended. http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/papers/PDF/OOPSLA06antiobj...
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by robobenjie 15y ago
I like the visualizations for the maze generation a lot. I actually used (yet another) maze generation algorithm for an xbox360 game I worked on as a school project. The constraints were slightly different because we wanted cycles and no de
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by robobenjie 15y ago
The (free, open) stanford class ee263: Linear Dynamical Systems is really good. It concentrated on how to take real problems and fit them into a form where a computer can solve them in what appears to be complete magic. Plus Stephen Boyd is
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by robobenjie 15y ago
Mountain View - Anybots Inc Take over the world with robots. We build telepresence robots and we are looking for all kinds of hackers. Robot code (especially streaming video, networking, BSD wifi), webcode (front end, back end), sourcing en
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by robobenjie 15y ago
I am a clojure intermediate-beginner who would like to use it to learn about web technologies, which I know almost nothing about. Would people recommend this as an entry point? If not what would you recommend instead?
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by robobenjie 15y ago
Mountain View, CA -Anybots Inc Taking over the world with robots. Starting with mobile telepresence. We are a very small team (around 10 people) but have already started shipping our product and are deep into developing the next version as
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by robobenjie 15y ago
Also places that have more expensive food tend to have more people to spread the tips around on. The waiter splits the tip with the person busing tables, the person refilling your water glass, the host etc.

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