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by strick 14y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoin
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by strick 15y ago
This is a presentation at a TED conference by Carolyn Porco about Cassini-Huygens and Saturn: http://www.ted.com/talks/carolyn_porco_flies_us_to_saturn.ht... It has stuck with me for years. She is so inspiring, so passionate about her wor
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by strick 15y ago
Twitter started as a side-project while the founders were busy working on odeo.com. Which one have you heard of?
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by strick 15y ago
Grove looks very cool. But groupme is free and has a good iphone/android client that a non-technical user can setup and use. Push notifications work great. But Grove intrigues me for the ability to hook up useful bots to IRC. If Groupme had
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by strick 15y ago
ideas.txt and dropbox is my primary system. I've also played around with Simplenote on iOS plus the mac software Notational Velocity. They sync nicely.
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by strick 15y ago
Can I send the surprise gifts to a friend?
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by strick 15y ago
Until 5/1 I was making about $1,440/mo from google adsense on my site dodgit.com and a network of other sites I had purchased from flippa. Then I received an email 'your google adsense account has been disabled' and Google seized about a th
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by strick 15y ago
Very cool. One question: how does google index the content that hasn't loaded yet? (the infinite-scrolling thing)
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by strick 16y ago
How can you tell an extrovert programmer from an introvert programmer? The extrovert programmer looks at YOUR shoes while he's talking to you.
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by strick 16y ago
I'll give you one more reason: they decided to start coding in python and ruby instead.
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by strick 16y ago
My own variation: http://25.minutestocountdown.com/
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by strick 16y ago
If you like this post, you will probably love The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch: http://www.amazon.com/Last-Lecture-Randy-Pausch/dp/140132325... Pausch's book also carries the message that you can be persistent and obtain anything you want
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by strick 16y ago
another shameless plug for my own site as well: http://minutestocountdown.com/ experimental: send a text or call to set a timer when you aren't near a computer
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by strick 16y ago
I'll second Man on Wire. Artist-hacker decides to tightrope walk between the towers of the World Trade Center without permission. Such a great story, and a true one.
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by strick 16y ago
If you want a web-based approach that works on desktop and mobile, try the simple tool I built: http://minutestocountdown.com/ I'm testing a phone number that works via text or phone call as well and I'd love to have your feedback if you
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by strick 16y ago
I thought people might want to use the site on a mobile device, so I bought a mobile theme from themeforest for $9. Turns out it isn't easy to find a minimalist site template that works well on both mobile and desktop browsers. Let me know
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by strick 16y ago
Maybe - but I find it handy to be able to use the browser's URL autocomplete to fill these in for me. That is, I type "5" and firefox pops up with 5.minutestocountdown.com and I can just hit enter to start it.
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Tell HN: I made a minimalist timer. Launching today.(minutestocountdown.com)
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by strick 16y ago
>Oh, and there isn't a single good pizza place in a 30-mile radius of the city. Have you tried z-pizza or Lost Dog Cafe? If not, give them a try. Lost Dog has a fabulous beer selection as well.
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by strick 16y ago
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach. Great read so far. Equal parts grim and funny. A few others have mentioned fiction by Haruki Murakami. All of his work is fantastic.
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by strick 16y ago
I agree completely. None of my coworkers are friends. But they can see all the content I've posted to this Hacker News Facebook group anyway. It is public.
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by strick 16y ago
Am I the only person who would rather this was a private group? (so non-members can't see posts). Even if Jason just approved every join request I think this would be better. Example: your employer doesn't need to know that you are talking
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by strick 16y ago
I just used it to give an easy-to-remember name to a rackspace cloud server I spun up yesterday. This is a throw-away server I'll likely nuke within a month, but for now I will remember how to get back without needing to memorize the IP add
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by strick 16y ago
Just tried the site with my iphone 4. It guessed my location correctly and pointed out French lessons that are happening nearby right now. Cool! I'd like it if there was a way to list events happening 'today' and also 'this week' in my area
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by strick 16y ago
austinchang - Are you working on an iPhone app? android? blackberry?
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by strick 16y ago
What about the merits of what Doctorow has written? I'm not sure his background is terribly relevant here. What if PG had written this piece and it was a defense of someone who invested lots of time and energy reading HN articles and making
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by strick 16y ago
FYI the kindle edition is always $9.99 and available at the Amazon link above.
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by strick 16y ago
If you enjoyed this article, you will probably love Randy Pausch's Last Lecture: http://www.amazon.com/Last-Lecture-Randy-Pausch/dp/140132325... I had already watched the lecture on YouTube and thought I wouldn't get much from the book bu
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by strick 16y ago
Think about ways you can spend a few dollars to save yourself time. By driving to my subway stop and paying to park instead of walking, I save myself over 5 mins each way every day. That comes to over 3 hrs a month I get back--about 40 hrs
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by strick 16y ago
Funny stuff! Looks like a response to Amazon's new offering: "We are pleased to introduce a new storage option for Amazon S3 called Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) that enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, repro

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