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by tacon 10y ago
A friend in Houston was telling me in the early 2000s about working on a NASA JSC project to use an off the shelf GPS receiver on the space shuttle. It took a few iterations on the firmware to handle 18,000 mph, etc., but he said the vendo
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by tacon 10y ago
@athollywood Are you available for offline discussions? Maybe you could put some contact info in the public section of your profile. Feel free to email me: xenon@mailworks.org
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Doing Moore with Less – 1000X Better Quality Answers in Supercomputing(arxiv.org)
1 points by tacon 10y ago|0 comments
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Practice Being Rejected(rejectionathon.com)
3 points by tacon 10y ago|0 comments
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I’m shutting down SoHelpful – what I learned from helping 10,000 entrepreneurs(medium.com)
4 points by tacon 10y ago|0 comments
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Want to Find Fulfillment at Last? Think Like a Designer(nytimes.com)
1 points by tacon 10y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 10y ago
I run and bicycle on alternate days in gross humidity, and I have been using the "resting on the back of the neck" design of the Philips/Nike Flite Sport headphone for ten years: https://www.amazon.com/Nike-HJ
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by tacon 10y ago
My experience also is that there is pretty limited sharing, even among business partners. The worst was when the idiots at Aweber, the email marketing service, were hacked, and I had waves of spam coming in on many per domain emails. Six
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Why Oil Traders Are Writing Love Poems to Yahoo(wsj.com)
3 points by tacon 10y ago|0 comments
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Big Logic(johndcook.com)
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by tacon 10y ago
If you are having trouble with Google putting your emails into spam folders, email to yourself at Gmail. Then examine the original headers ("show original") and check the authentication header Google adds. It begins: Authenticat
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by tacon 10y ago
Not yet, but the basic idea is laid out in the ebook by Robert Graham about cold calling for customer development. Here is his blog post about it: http://blog.asmartbear.com/cold-calling.html A careful listening to Mixerg
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Medication May Stop Drug and Alcohol Addiction(news.utexas.edu)
14 points by tacon 10y ago|4 comments
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by tacon 10y ago
Since you are looking to connect with new people and new work, you might want to include your contact info in your public HN profile. You can crank the Medium post or Youtube video strategy to the max by targeting the people you want to mee
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by tacon 10y ago
Ok, how about machine vision plus Mechanical Turk or reCAPTCHA, with the human helping with difficult symbols? Apparently we already have a training set of the translated tablets.
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Should Prison Sentences Be Based on Crimes That Haven’t Been Committed Yet?(fivethirtyeight.com)
3 points by tacon 10y ago|0 comments
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by tacon 10y ago
Remember phonics for kids learning to read? And "just sound it out"? I try that from time to time on ESL friends, and the looks I get... I think that is the difference between years of passive intelligible input vs. starting fr
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by tacon 10y ago
And there you have demonstrated the entire thesis of the original article.
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by tacon 10y ago
Does anyone know where to find those IBM commercials from the dotcom boom that made fun of nerdy IT people? One had someone run in saying "Server's down! It doesn't scale!" and the other guy goes to his keyboard and sa
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by tacon 10y ago
I heard a news report about Frankfurt being smaller than Charlotte, North Carolina, so it can't possibly absorb all of London's financial companies anytime soon. It was certainly a lesson in geography, as I'd always thought
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by tacon 10y ago
An oldie but a goodie: Q: What's An IBM Man-year? A: 730 People Trying To Get A Project Done Before Noon. (EOM!)
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by tacon 10y ago
Jonathan Stark on The Freelancers Show podcast has been harping on the answer to this issue for multiple episodes. He figures out the intended result of the project and makes a fixed price bid, paid in advance. If the client wants to chan
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by tacon 10y ago
>Ten years from now, how have you improved yourself? > >The list is pretty much endless. To name a few: I wish I were better at chess, I wish I could juggle five balls instead of barely four, I wish I were better at piano, I wish I
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by tacon 10y ago
http://www.snopes.com/military/saltpeter.asp
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by tacon 10y ago
Remember the European Constitution that failed a few years ago? (At least the three hundred page document that they were calling a constitution.) I was shocked when my German friends mentioned that the German people would certainly have v
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by tacon 10y ago
For a somewhat entertaining peek into the weird legal theory mindset, give a listen to the radio archives of Rule of Law Radio[1], a show on Texas Liberty Radio[2] in Austin, Texas. [1] http://www.ruleoflawradio.com/ [2] h
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by tacon 10y ago
It's usually called vexatious litigation, and many jurisdictions have list of vexatious litigants, whose filings go through a special judicial review before being accepted into the system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by tacon 10y ago
I don't know of any papers, but for verified certificates from Coursera, you validate your identity via a webcam selfie and typing their one sentence honor code into an input field.
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by tacon 10y ago
Doesn't this translate into cheaper clicks for the savvy advertisers bidding HTTPS (only)?
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by tacon 10y ago
That was an oddly confusing segment about Huber. In the third to last paragraph of the long story are we (finally) told that "He's chronically ill", though I suppose one is supposed to decode his health issues from the earli

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