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   by sown 15y ago

   Minor bug report: I tried to fill it out with the 'links' browser. I didn't see the captcha so I did not get a confirmation email but the app did seem to retain my email address so I cannot delete the old one to resubmit when I use a GUI br
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   Mountain View could shut down Hacker Dojo (mv-voice.com)

   2 points by sown 15y ago|0 comments
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   by sown 15y ago

   I'm leary. The reason we've used menus and windows for so long is because it just works. Improvements are always welcome but it's always going to be easier for me to say Alt-F, O.
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   by sown 15y ago

   That's too bad...for Stanford. It must have been a somewhat serious fight.
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   by sown 15y ago

   I think Stanford is more for keeping things closer to the status quo. Students in seats is how they make their money, after all. Not to say that they won't make courses online. I think they would be more than happy to charge $5,000 like the
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   by sown 15y ago

   What do you feel about a kickstarter like system to fund creation of content?
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   by sown 15y ago

   I've heard that tactic before, and it's a good one. However, how do you force them to give you a number first? The only tactic I can think of is to say 'give me market rates'. One time, they just kept pressing for more and more of a number
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   by sown 15y ago

   I don't mind doing tedious things. I discovered in college that I was an excellent bureaucrat when I became student treasurer. I just wish I could come up with ideas, though. A lot of them are hard for me to relate to. I don't go out and do
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   by sown 15y ago

   Didn't Nolan Bushnell try something similar to this in Mountain View not long ago?
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    by sown 15y ago

    AFAIK, it's a torrent for a torrent; a DHT implementation. The URI for the magnet link has all the information it needs to find peers and start downloading the data, the first datum of which is the torrent file.
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    by sown 15y ago

    I'm not sure what you mean. I am aware that not all open source is written by unpaid volunteers but that doesn't address my central point. If the industry demands that everyone write code, be it OSS, personal or just random junk code becaus
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    by sown 15y ago

    This demand that people write tons and tons of code on our off hours is understandable but is getting, I dunno, obnoxious? If not tons , then perhaps something of very high quality. I could write a nifty little linked list implementation b
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    by sown 15y ago

    If this happens, does this mean that manufacturers or vendors will have to practically give away computers? They're already so cheap that even the slightest tech-savvy consumer will just go ahead and pay a tiny, small premium for the abil
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    by sown 15y ago

    I wonder if a potato could power it.
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    by sown 15y ago

    You could make a self-watering container and use pex tubing to deliver water from somewhere. A self-watering container has a commercial name, "EcoBox", bu t are quite easy to make at home.
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    by sown 15y ago

    Thanks, but neither fountain nor rateless codes appear on that page. :(
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    by sown 15y ago

    Where do people keep these algorithms around? I've asked in the past about reference guides for stuff like this they throw Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming" which is a neat book but doesn't have esoteric and useful but hard to find stuf
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    by sown 15y ago

    I agree with you that biology has a definite effect. However, every time I express an opinion here on HN, I get down voted into oblivion.
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    by sown 15y ago

    I found the business model talk to be the most interesting; not heard it discussed before. When I was first out of school, my first interview wanted to see my transcript, so I gave them an unofficial copy. The hiring manager in charge menti
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    by sown 15y ago

    I've been reading about intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation. I don't know if that's a bunch of pop-psychology but I would bet he has much of the former. I wish I could summon those kinds of energies.
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    by sown 15y ago

    Looks neat. What's the battery life like? can I put a Clear dongle ( http://www.clear.com/ ) in it?
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    by sown 15y ago

    I resent being too stupid to work there. :(
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    by sown 15y ago

    One thing to consider is that large organizations often time have business units work against each other just as a sort of accident or unclear goals.
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    by sown 15y ago

    Even if Professor Ng says to put it on your resume, it remains to be seen if employers will accept it as any sort of credential.
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    by sown 15y ago

    I'm certain that "Burning Man" is copyrighted. You might have to tangle with that. http://www.burningman.com/press/pressRandR.html#bmanRR
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    How I Taught Third Graders Binary Numbers(exploringbinary.com)

    95 points by sown 15y ago|11 comments
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    by sown 15y ago

    I think it started at step 4.
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    by sown 15y ago

    Devil's Advocate: What if I keep trying new things that make me uncomfortable but all I do is fail with no sign of improvement?
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    Observation of the Dynamical Casimir Effect in a Superconducting Circuit(arxiv.org)

    2 points by sown 15y ago|0 comments
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    by sown 16y ago

    We truly live in the future now.