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by stickhandle 12y ago
Read about him a year or 2 ago in National Geographic ... bothered me then as now that he was referred to as "Batman". He's clearly Daredevil.
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by stickhandle 12y ago
The last 2 articles I read were this one and the earlier piece on Google and neural nets [1]. It's easy to connect the two, add the pervasive integration of technology in our lives, mix in a healthy dose of paranoia --> see a SkyNet
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by stickhandle 12y ago
Lesson learned from having 3 kids in hockey: Until you reach a level of "good enough" to participate in "the game", its not much fun. Once there, the better you get, the more fun it becomes and turns into a virtuous circ
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Intel Compute Stick(intel.com)
929 points by stickhandle 12y ago|335 comments
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Life is a game. This is your strategy guide(oliveremberton.com)
2 points by stickhandle 12y ago|0 comments
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Nano sculptures(jontyhurwitz.com)
1 points by stickhandle 12y ago|0 comments
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by stickhandle 12y ago
The big payoff is the image at http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/Visual_SQL_Joins/Visu...
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Visual Representation of SQL Joins (2009)(codeproject.com)
3 points by stickhandle 12y ago|1 comments
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by stickhandle 12y ago
Gave it a try .. def better than my default basic jet fold.
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How to fold the world's best paper airplane(kottke.org)
7 points by stickhandle 12y ago|1 comments
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by stickhandle 12y ago
true ... but your web experience suffers for it. ying and yang.
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by stickhandle 12y ago
This. When you get a whiff that you are good, its time to go solo.
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Meteor 1.0(meteor.com)
4 points by stickhandle 12y ago|0 comments
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Yes, Neanderthals are us(richarddawkins.net)
3 points by stickhandle 12y ago|0 comments
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by stickhandle 12y ago
... and let the spamming begin
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by stickhandle 12y ago
I keep reading the lego comparisons but i think that's staying a little too inside the box. Block for block, if you will. A better comparison is "Minecraft is the digital equivalent of playing in the sandbox".
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65 Accomplished Writers and Marketers Reveal Their Secrets to Productivity(focusalot.com)
5 points by stickhandle 12y ago|1 comments
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Why Bootstrap is a bad fit for WordPress(themeshaper.com)
2 points by stickhandle 12y ago|0 comments
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by stickhandle 12y ago
Thing is, for people who can understand its benefits (which are great) it is hard not to advocate. I remember the father of a friend in grade school giving advice to learn languages (spoken languages). He knew a few and obviously witnessed
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by stickhandle 12y ago
I always find these kinds of projects interesting ... then inevitably I'm reminded that having a server is a playground and can be fun. NGINX is easy (for 80 of 80/20 part anyway). SFTP/SSH too.
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by stickhandle 12y ago
I really really want to like ddg, but I can't seem to get away from a need to !g. Further, though its obviously a loss in privacy, the quality in search results returning from a "context aware" google is just leaps better. It
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by stickhandle 12y ago
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/05/scientific-computings... suggests its probably still Fortran. The new breed of contenders: Haskell (new?), Clojure, or Julia.
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The homogenization of scientific computing (2013)(talyarkoni.org)
71 points by stickhandle 12y ago|54 comments
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by stickhandle 12y ago
Typing on an ideapad Y510p - its an excellent machine. I know that phones and tablets have the seat at the head table right now, but I can't imagine not having a laptop sitting on the kitchen table. Others seem to be dropping that ball
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by stickhandle 12y ago
Workflowy
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by stickhandle 13y ago
Love innovation in this area and will play with this a bit. HNers interested in this might find happiness with Snipcart ( https://snipcart.com/ )
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by stickhandle 13y ago
Better late than never.
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The Day Microsoft Gave Up World Domination and Settled For Relevance(waffle.wootest.net)
40 points by stickhandle 13y ago|46 comments
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by stickhandle 13y ago
Understood. My point, probably vague, is two-fold: (1) You need to be good enough at something to recognize smarter . You need to do the work. For most non-trivial efforts, this means harder . (2) Smarter is a process, not a destination
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by stickhandle 13y ago
I find the Work Smarter, Not Harder meme a little tiresome. How 'bout this - Work Smarter AND Harder. Focus on outputs as the only thing to brag about. Hours put in rarely impresses anyone of significance. Its about the output. Wo

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