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by showerst 18y ago
Here's their actual detailed breakdown for the curious: http://www.isuppli.com/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=20138
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by showerst 18y ago
You may want to add rel="nofollow" to your outgoing links, just to discourage people from spamming it for a free link.
903.
by showerst 18y ago
Is the dog there? Is the dog awesome? ... This is at least as important to me as the location/price/amenities/cool people
904.
by showerst 18y ago
A note to anyone who creates a new programming language: Please put up a quick bite of sample code that shows how your language looks and what it does on the site, and don't require me to download a PDF and search through it.
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by showerst 18y ago
This doesn't really apply in the western world, but interestingly enough, one of the cheapest ways to raise an society's IQ is by introducing the use of iodized salt: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/16/health/16iodine.html
906.
by showerst 18y ago
I find this almost more valuable for the list of caveats to the data than the viz itself. It's really nice to see them break down why it seems to skew so male at the younger ages, as opposed to OH NO THERE ARE NO GIRLS. P.S.: Oh no, there a
907.
by showerst 18y ago
In the US at least one of the latest trends (advances?) are these microwavable single-serving bags of rice (and now pilaf, curry, etc). A few companies make them, and they're a large enough for a small meal, and pretty good for being a 90se
908.
by showerst 18y ago
It does some data mining, but there's also a lot of soft AI (optimizing an airline travel search, building a basic search engine). It's quite good, although there are a number of annoying typos in the code, a trend that I've noticed recentl
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by showerst 18y ago
The Visualizaing Data book from http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514556/ is a good easy way to jump into processing. There are some frustrating typos in the code, but if you're a programmer you should be able to fix them quickly, and you
910.
by showerst 18y ago
(Temporarily) Cape Girardeau, MO. At least there are a few of us here in flyover country =)
911.
by showerst 18y ago
I think this writer is missing the point just like Cramer did on Stewart. The New York Times doesn't have subpoena power, but there are still a non-zero number of people in power who limit their shenanigans because they're terrified of endi
912.
by showerst 18y ago
I think time zones are actually pretty useful. If I have to call Frankfurt or Tokyo, it makes a big difference whether it's 4pm their time or 6pm. If things were the same worldwide then I'd have no idea if it's the middle of the night in th
913.
by showerst 18y ago
I'd think that you'd just be empowering big organizations (churches, unions, etc) that can just 'pass the sheet around' at a weekly meeting. One way that I can think of to do it would be like so: Start a person at, say, 0.6 votes at 16. Vo
914.
by showerst 18y ago
I'm not quite sure i agree with it, but it's worth at least thinking about the converse of this argument: Perhaps we let too many people vote already? The average American isn't just a little uninformed, but is provably wrong about a num
915.
by showerst 18y ago
Personally, I hope to see your experiment succeed with flying colors (mmm caffeinated pizza sauce) but I don't think the science is on your side: http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/soil/msg10134314520...
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A Proposal for Handling Transparent Legislation(timshowers.com)
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by showerst 18y ago
1) Your search doesn't tell me anything when there are no results, Try searching for "DC" and you'll see what I mean 2) Auto-suggest would be really helpful in the search, to make it easier to make my location string well-formed. 3) Letting
918.
by showerst 18y ago
Anyone else notice the wsj editorial pages taking a hard swing right in the last few months/years? They've always been the most conservative major newspaper editorial wise, but it seems like in the last few months I've seen quite a bit more
919.
by showerst 18y ago
Having experienced East St. Louis (and most of North St. Louis), reading about places like Detroit and Buffalo, I start to wonder, at one point do we just decide to 'give up' on a city? Are there modern cases of abandonment of a major metro
920.
by showerst 18y ago
I would make the argument that police are becoming more accountable, not less, as a result of technology (particularly cell-phone video) and common knowledge of FOIA statutes (at least in the US). The cases of the man shot on Seattle transi
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by showerst 18y ago
Although I personally consider nytimes one of the few info sites really worth registering for, you might try http://www.bugmenot.com if you feel otherwise, they usually have working links for just about any free site.
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by showerst 18y ago
Hehe fair enough =). I just wanted to make that point because I believe many people (although perhaps not many hacker news types) are likely to waste their time because (from a cold, unfeeling economics nerd perspective) we tend to underval
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by showerst 18y ago
No, the marginal income (in dollars) is the smallest amount of dollars that you'd take to work for someone else for those 6 minutes. Said differently, if I'd offer you six bucks at dinner time to give up cooking and work for me and you'd sa
924.
by showerst 18y ago
Personally I'd say it saves me a few hours a month: A little by not constantly fumbling around switching apps, and (much more significantly) it makes fixing some bugs easier because you can see the effects of your code and your code at the
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by showerst 18y ago
Anyone else amazed at all the single-monitor set ups? When I'm doing any web coding, I go crazy if I have to constantly switch between code and browser(s). As cheap as monitors are these days, I'm amazed anyone still programs on just one.
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by showerst 18y ago
I've heard a number of complaints that the kindle 1's conversion service fails on PDF's with tables and graphs. Anyone know if this is still an issue? My main purchase point would be for reading PDF papers/textbooks, so it's a bit of a deal
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by showerst 18y ago
There's a fantastic (physical) product design blog at http://www.thedieline.com/ that I often use as inspiration, especially since many of the product ranges use a palette of 3-7 colors.
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by showerst 18y ago
What about six months down the road when you want to add a new section to the bottom of every single page, or when next year rolls around and you want to change the 'copyright 2009' to 'copyright 2010'? Realistically, you're going to need s
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by showerst 18y ago
In theory, if that becomes a big enough hole, the market should rectify it on its own. You can already go to Starbucks and buy $10/lb 'Fair Trade' coffee, and many 'hip' brands (American Apparel comes to mind) trade on their humane wages an
930.
by showerst 18y ago
My guess is you're not the only MikeM, which leads to yahoo-esque usernames (I'd likely be TimS223 or something), and by that point you may as well allow real nicknames.

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