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by scw 18y ago
The source post, including a PDF version: http://extremepresentation.typepad.com/blog/2006/09/choosing... One failing of this diagram is its reliance on 'what Excel provides', including chart techniques that are difficult to interpret o
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by scw 18y ago
Iqbal Quadir on Grameen bank and microfinance: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/iqbal_quadir_says_mobiles... The talk covers the scaling of capitalism to the "other 80%" and the profound social change that takes place with small capital
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by scw 18y ago
If you found her talk fascinating (as did I), definitely check out her book ( http://drjilltaylor.com/book.html ), which covers the entire process in great detail. At times its a bit slow, but it successfully elucidates the challenges she
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by scw 18y ago
The crazy thing about this machine is the screen, which at 1600x768 in a 8" gives a 220 ppi... The iPhone looks crisp at 163 ppi, and we're on our way to the approximately 300 ppi limit of the human eye.
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by scw 18y ago
The journal article referenced: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/337/dec04_2/a2338
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The Happiness Effect(time.com)
8 points by scw 18y ago|2 comments
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by scw 18y ago
If you buy free range organic eggs at double the cost of mass produced commercial ones, you've still got a cheap protein source.
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by scw 18y ago
Just anecdotal, but I had a Thinkpad 600 which lasted from 1998 till 2006. While all machines will fail eventually, it is nice to find the ones which last 8 years instead of 2. Similar to the decision making process for cars: getting one t
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by scw 18y ago
Flatly claiming that Rails can't scale is overstating the case, but their is some truth to it: relative to other frameworks / languages, the effort required to scale Rails is greater than other popular languages. This has improved with mong
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by scw 18y ago
As much as I prefer discrete graphics, the X3100 is actually quite good. Good enough to be the only video option for the Macbook Air, Macbook, Thinkpad X300 and Thinkpad 61s all well received laptops.
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by scw 18y ago
If you're in California, definitely take a hard look at the UCs: in-state tuition is very reasonable, and the schools are among the best on the country for CS. Generally, the highest ranking UCs are: Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB. All four o
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by scw 18y ago
No, it won't with the trailing '.' -- try it yourself, visit site.com/news and then search for 'news.'
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by scw 18y ago
This is still the case: typing in 'news.' will be recognized as a URL, and only subdomains of 'news' will be matched.
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by scw 18y ago
These visualizations are beautiful. What would make it considerably more interesting would be access to the code so we could run it against our own projects, or perhaps integration into something like http://www.ohloh.net/
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by scw 18y ago
You're completely right. To convince myself: trillion = 10**12 wikipedia = 10**8 surplus = trillion applied_surplus = surplus * 0.01 print applied_surplus / wikipedia which leaves us with only 100 wikipedias, as your numbers
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by scw 18y ago
>The Internet-connected population watches roughly a trillion hours of TV a year. That's about five times the size of the annual U.S. consumption. One per cent of that is 10,000 Wikipedia projects per year worth of participation. He sw
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by scw 19y ago
Great idea. I've been using browsershots.org, which while cheaper only provides static images of pages. Sandboxing the entire machine is a clear improvement. A logical next step is automated testing to take advantage of these system confi
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by scw 19y ago
The $316m could accomplish much, but I doubt directly creating a startup hub. The drivers which turn cities into creative class meccas wouldn't be included, and it likely would face the same difficulties as the Middle East's education plan
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by scw 19y ago
It'd be much better if they de-aggregated this information over the surface to create a true 'heat map'. If they did this, you'd probably see true hotspots of patent innovation which I'll bet correspond nicely to startup hubs.
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by scw 19y ago
Nothing wrong with the article, but I was expecting... optimizations. It seems to instead be a list of additional software your average desktop user may find useful.
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by scw 19y ago
Curi, thanks for the helpful advice. I'll update the page to clarify the process and what the numbers mean. The numbers themselves are unitless; they represent the cumulative impact level from all threats combined. What degradation means a
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by scw 19y ago
I'm not sure if you're referring to the NYT image or our site, the site itself does a much better job of giving context: http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/GlobalMarine The 'How did we create this map?' header lays out our process and what the col
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My startup functional equivalent, mapping human impacts on the ocean
22 points by scw 19y ago|6 comments
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by scw 19y ago
No one in the article claims it is all downside (the shrimp farmer in Georgia now makes his income from Jellyfish) or a claim on the evolutionary advantage of the system. In a direct way, we can trace our own lineage as mammals to being be
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by scw 19y ago
Has it ever been easier? Is there some hidden nostalgia for a world I'm not a part of that made application development dramatically simpler? Writing code is hard, no matter what the environment, one of Java's largest failures was 'write o
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by scw 19y ago
The NSF isn't the primary fund granting organization for medical research, the NIH is -- with a funding level (28.7B) that eclipses the NSF (5.9B). In 2003, NIH is estimated to have funded 28% of the overall medical investigation costs: h
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by scw 19y ago
I have a degree in physical geography, but now work full-time on some sweet research projects.
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by scw 19y ago
I'm a developer for NCEAS, an ecological research center, attached to UC Santa Barbara.
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by scw 19y ago
Don't want to start a 'my database is...' rant, but have you given Postgres a whirl with said data? It tends to be fairly robust for very large datasets, and its performance tends to be excellent under these conditions. Migration from MyS
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by scw 19y ago
A minor meta comment; Good titles really do matter: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=103834

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