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811.
by showerst 16y ago
Although the author barely touched on it, I used to have a friend who owned a coffee shop and told that there's always an interesting push-pull. People like a coffee shop for two reasons: Great atmosphere (most important), and great coffee.
812.
by showerst 16y ago
This may be related to some form of perceptual hashing: http://www.phash.org/
813.
by showerst 16y ago
I know it's just a joke, but it should be "books that dumb people read", although I'd argue that anyone who 1) reads _anything_ regularly and 2) is taking the SAT is probably not dumb by normal standards =)
814.
by showerst 16y ago
Good point that it's not just safety advances making cars heavier... It still seems strange to me that even hyper-small cars (by modern US standards) like the Mini Cooper or Smart still don't seem to break about 40mpg. Is this related to th
815.
by showerst 16y ago
Totally cool, but the car is made of fiberglass, so what happens when it gets in a crash? Does it have airbags? I've heard (although have no good source) that we've made big leaps in fuel efficiency in the past 30 years, but much of it has
816.
by showerst 16y ago
I upvoted you, but on the flip side, we currently have a large number of students who are coming out of college with low real-world value degrees and huge amounts of debt. It's probably unsustainable to have 175,000 psych and history majors
817.
by showerst 16y ago
Great idea, as a side note, I notice that all of the website text is just in an image, which means that there's nothing for search engines to pick up on. I'd strongly recommend that you put up a paragraph or two of real (non-image) text int
818.
by showerst 16y ago
No mention of CLRS? For shame. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262033844/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp...
819.
by showerst 16y ago
Nice idea, although your site looks very plain on wide monitors, I'd consider doing something that tiles across wider backgrounds. Also, are you any good with gradients? I find these to be a real lifesaver, and would pay for something simil
820.
by showerst 16y ago
I was under the impression that this was a good deal for businesses because they'd just offer the product less their normal costs for advertising/marketing, since groupon did that for them. They spend less getting the product out (and get a
821.
by showerst 16y ago
In case it's interesting to anyone else, here's a more trusted link to the Alexa and Quantcast top 1M sites lists: http://www.seobook.com/download-alexa-top-1-000-000-websites...
822.
by showerst 16y ago
Puerto Rico is a bit slow to learn, but pretty great once it gets going. I have Agricola on the shelf because I've been hearing how great it is, but haven't had time to learn it yet =P.
823.
by showerst 16y ago
It's a relatively simple question whether a certain trait can be 'ascertained' by these systems, and to what accuracy, in a given context. There are a number NLP programs that can detect a writers gender from text at a much greater accuracy
824.
by showerst 16y ago
Ah, I'd missed the distinction, thanks.
825.
by showerst 16y ago
iPad, anyone? I know they're not quite for the same purpose, particularly considering the advantages of eInk for a reading-only medium, but not to even mention it seems bizarre.
826.
by showerst 16y ago
One issue with this that I'd like to point out is that the background is apparently still a .png, so this isn't something you can implement on an HTML <div> out of the box (unless I'm misreading the source).
827.
by showerst 16y ago
See also the GeoHash, which lets you remove characters from the end at a gradual loss of precision: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash In my mind the big issue with these is that while they're easy to transmit, you don't actually want t
828.
by showerst 16y ago
I think that most people around here are interested in a business that has very low start up costs, and very cheap scalability. Even if it were possible for a guy in a basement to buy a ferry, I'm not sure that I'd want to ride it =P. That
829.
by showerst 16y ago
On the flip side to that, many people nowadays use google maps to show things unrelated to navigation. When you're trying to pinpoint locations that aren't street addresses, or show large area overlays, all that extraneous information is di
830.
by showerst 16y ago
If I'm reading it right, basically the courts said that the FCC doesn't have the right to regulate internet providers like they do common carriers (like phone networks), so they're just going to reclassify them as common carriers, then regu
831.
by showerst 16y ago
According to the PDF: http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/longrange2/Wor... it's virtually all due to changes in fertility. As countries grow in wealth and life expectancy, the number of children per woman tends to drop off dras
832.
by showerst 16y ago
Trying filling in everything else and leaving that field blank. I tried a few different combos and that's that one that I think worked.
833.
by showerst 17y ago
I believe in the US you can still be legally compelled to give up the encryption key(s), and simply held in contempt (indefinitely?) until you do.
834.
by showerst 17y ago
I just tried it on Chrome on windows XP, and saw no scroll bars until I dropped below 1024x768. Sure you don't have your zoom level cranked up? Try hitting Ctrl-0 to reset it.
835.
by showerst 17y ago
Without turning this into a political discussion, it's worth noting that the actual "bank" part of this should end up turning the government a handy profit: http://www.freep.com/article/20100330/BUSINESS07/3300313/Ban...
836.
by showerst 17y ago
Wikipedia used to have a list of them, I remember there being at least 5, possibly more.
837.
by showerst 17y ago
Unfortunately, no, you can't. There are plenty of zip codes in Missouri that have a dozen small towns that all have 1001 Broadway as valid addresses. There are at least 5 zip codes (possibly more, there used to be a list on wiki) that cross
838.
by showerst 17y ago
Those videos are most likely being served from a CDN.
839.
by showerst 17y ago
I live in DC and ride the metro, most of which lacks AT&T service (for now). The NYT app is a life saver for this, I just download the morning's news on my way into the station, and then can read it on my commute.
840.
by showerst 17y ago
I have this: http://www.amazon.com/Introductory-Graph-Theory-Gary-Chartra... and quite enjoy it, although it's fairly beginner if you're a math person. There's also a more thorough list by a real pro under the 'network theory' section her

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