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901.
Solar Paper, ultra-lightweight solar charger(eetasia.com)
1 points by shard 11y ago|0 comments
902.
by shard 11y ago
Take a look at the restaurant business. When you open a new restaurant, working from before opening to after closing every day is not atypical, even when you are selling something people want and have hired the right people. Going months wi
903.
Silicon Valley companies side against Apple in Samsung patent case(theverge.com)
2 points by shard 11y ago|0 comments
904.
by shard 11y ago
The grid of faces in the middle of the article are supposed to have "neutral expressions", but it's clear that some faces have a slight smile and some a slight frown. That has to cause some bias in people's responses.
905.
Factories Aren’t Dying to Take Your Order and Other Hardware Startup Follies(techcrunch.com)
2 points by shard 11y ago|0 comments
906.
by shard 11y ago
So it's the same as the twist in the movie Amelie...
907.
by shard 11y ago
So the evangelist would be in the marketing department?
908.
by shard 11y ago
Assuming the solvers that they wrote searched the problem space correctly, the hard side probably violates some assumption. My guess would be that on the hard side the pieces can lock into some sort of 3D structure.
909.
by shard 11y ago
I am trying to think of a good word to encapsulate this concept. Its the difference between Picasso's line drawings and a child's scribble, the difference between a maguro and otoro cut of tuna, the difference between a script kid
910.
by shard 11y ago
All that computing power going to waste. IF only there's a way to harness that power, maybe for folding@home or bitcoin mining...
911.
by shard 11y ago
So to the first order the warrior diet is the Ultra Slim Fast diet? "Have a shake for breakfast, a shake for lunch, and a sensible dinner"
912.
by shard 11y ago
Ah, so it's Monty Python's funniest joke in the world in visual form: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ienp4J3pW7U
913.
by shard 11y ago
Maybe he moved his life online? I have slowly stopped buying books, CDs, DVDs, photo prints after the early 2000s. I don't think it's that uncommon...
914.
by shard 11y ago
The question is then: If lead contacts went up by 40%, and if sales worked on commission, did you get a cut of the sales increase that happened due to your work?
915.
by shard 11y ago
That's pretty impressive. I would have thought that it's only possible to support a few people on that lifestyle. Could you give some more details about how you do it?
916.
by shard 11y ago
Living near or with family is a luxury in many cases. Consider the parallel situation where the father moves to somewhere else for a job, leaving wife and children behind, due to lack of opportunities in his area. Being able to say &quot
917.
Android Wear is useless in China, so Baidu just created its own smartwatch OS(techinasia.com)
1 points by shard 12y ago|0 comments
918.
by shard 12y ago
At first each change seems plausible, then it starts veering off into absurdity. I can't quite tell if this is satire or not. Do you have a link to share for these effects?
919.
Samsung Gear VR Open Source Development Framework(gearvrf.org)
9 points by shard 12y ago|3 comments
920.
Decoding the rules of conversation(mobile.nytimes.com)
3 points by shard 12y ago|0 comments
921.
by shard 12y ago
This brings up an interesting point. Next time I fly with my smartphone, I am going to remove my SIM card so that something like this doesn't happen.
922.
The $1B company that prefers 40 year old coders who only work 45 hours a week(pando.com)
21 points by shard 12y ago|7 comments
923.
Smartwatch App Helps Track Glucose(wsj.com)
1 points by shard 12y ago|0 comments
924.
by shard 12y ago
Service in Korea is also quite good despite a no tipping culture.
925.
by shard 12y ago
So refined carbs are bad due to high glycemic index, too much fat is bad due to seratonin release, is a generally optimal diet then just lean meat and vegetables? We are running out of things to eat...
926.
by shard 12y ago
For a second I had thought that someone had released an update for the Elm mail client. Color me disappointed (although I am more of a Pine guy myself, up to ~2006 at least).
927.
by shard 12y ago
Does this offer any benefits over burning multiple copies of the data? With media being as inexpensive as it is today, it seems more effective to simply burn multiple copies and distribute them geographically as opposed to replying on yet a
928.
by shard 12y ago
I remember reading this article about a person who had no sense of smell, and how they had to always make sure that they have no BO, have to worry about not being able to smell gas or rotten food, and various other things that the rest of u
929.
Samsung Wins Back Apple Processor Business(electronics360.globalspec.com)
1 points by shard 12y ago|0 comments
930.
by shard 12y ago
Non-paywall WSJ link through Google: https://www.google.co.kr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web...

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