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by selmnoo 13y ago
What do you guys think about using immersion circulators as a general cooking technique for the average person? I see that you can buy one for $300 or so. Is it worth it? What about from the energy-savings aspect? Right now it makes more se
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Making Mobile Ads That Work(hbr.org)
1 points by selmnoo 13y ago|0 comments
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Why not simply readjust the food price so that I don't have to go through the trouble of stopping to calculate 15%?
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by selmnoo 13y ago
If it's such a formulaic process, the control should just be completely taken away from the end customer. Other reasons that tipping should exist: it only serves to perpetuate racism [1] and sexism [2]. A lot of waiters have preconceiv
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Current direction of cinema trends raises lots of interesting technological questions. I'm especially intrigued by those concerning media discs. The next FIFA World Cup is set to broadcast in 8K, so I think one can reasonably predict t
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> "Inadequate" for gaming, yes. Inadequate for computing? Hardly. How about for watching movies? High framerates would obviously seem very important for gaming, but it's not clear how important they are to movies/show
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Isn't this submission about Y Combinator joining him on that book tour? > We’re thrilled to announce that Y Combinator will be joining Alexis Ohanian on the road starting next week for the Without Their Permission tour. I think th
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Not to mention, the debatably distasteful choice of advertising his 'Hipmunk' startup so blatantly under the pretense of supporting startups. And you're definitely not the underdog when you're a repeat-founder who's
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Concerning .org tld, here's a relevant wiki paste: "It was one of the original domains established in 1985 and operated by the Public Interest Registry since 1988. The domain extension was originally created for non-profits, but t
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by selmnoo 13y ago
You use it to draw/paint? Can you please share something you've done? I'd very curious in seeing anything you've painted with it.
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Thank you for pointing that out. What the fuck is it with these high-levels treating people like some easily replacable, unhuman commodity? Don't ever speculate firing people like that in public , just fucking don't.
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Uhm, Ben lacks tact? Says who? I think you guys are maybe confusing the tough Dutch culture as being insensitive to some hot issues. Ben is an extremely smart, extremely prolific programmer. When you're out and about like him you'
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by selmnoo 13y ago
The earlier mass unemployment comes the better. Only that will necessitate some major rethinking of classical employment and welfare ideas, and very likely, finally have us implement basic income.
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Criminalizing piracy is no trivial thing either. Once you can get over the fact that piracy is a complicated issue, that it is unlike stealing things -- where the owner of some object is deprived of his original possession, we can get to ta
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> but it boils down to my belief that ongoing donations (a la Wikipedia's fundraisers) are unsustainable for large websites But... they work. They're not unsustainable. If they were unsustainable, the very example you cite woul
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by selmnoo 13y ago
He should also talk about how he himself is a bit of a patent troll (although an unsuccessful one). He's tried to patent some pretty fishy things before, but USPTO stopped him. He's tried trademarking smileys, the acronym "NS
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I think what OP is trying to get at is that pretty much everyone does or has done something or other which is embarrassing and potentially career-destroying. In Weiner's case, it's conceivable that the first dick pic was posted by
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I'm super confused right now. Are you two arguing on the fact that OP has 700+ karma? That's... because of this very submission , is that not obvious?
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> Person (previously "Man") of the year has never been a moral judgment. Hitler was "man of the year" in 1936. Well, originally. But now? No, absolutely not. See recent persons of the year (of the past few decades):
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> In defense of High School football and younger, most of the players aren't physically developed enough to cause and long term damage to themselves or anyone else (in terms of head related injuries). That's yet unclear, see re
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Facebook Swears It’s Cool Among Teens — Really(wired.com)
2 points by selmnoo 13y ago|0 comments
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> Maybe Netflix or Amazon or whoever will take up the slack. Or maybe those shows will just go away. It already is. Netflix is funding a lot of new stuff (House of Cards, Orange is the new Black, lots of standup stuff). Note that this st
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Was $1 Billion Too Little to Ask for Instagram?(slate.com)
3 points by selmnoo 13y ago|0 comments
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Since you're specifically asking for examples on non-OO code, and another commenter made mention of Haskell code: try xmonad. Here's a link to get started on studying xmonad's code: http://www.haskell.org/hask
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by selmnoo 13y ago
Anand is a total class act. All the other top chess players only ever had good things to say about him. And Anand is one of the people who coached Magnus. He's known to be focused strictly on the game and never do mind tricks to throw
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by selmnoo 13y ago
But that's in your circle of friends. Grand parent's circle of friends -- and culture -- is different from yours and uses word with slightly different connotations. Which brings us back to square one: the use of the word "f
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> First, it's probably not the case that interest and practice can have any impact on your underlying mathematical aptitude. What?! How did you arrive to that conclusion? This is a really bad myth. Math abilities for the most part h
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by selmnoo 13y ago
> If you EVER plan on charging for your product you have to ask for money NOW There are actually a lot of good reasons to wait before you start charging. Like, getting situated, getting everything working, working out the kinks, evaluati
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U.S. Safety Agency Launches Investigation Into Tesla Fires(online.wsj.com)
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by selmnoo 13y ago
I didn't want to go to far on an off-topic tangent, but basically what I was getting at was that I increasingly seem to be interested in a very limited number of sites -- that is, mostly, sites that I already know of and recognize. I u

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