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by teuobk 17y ago
Direct free link to the paper from the author's site: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/jones-ben/htm/Ag...
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Kind of like a crystal radio, but on a much larger scale. (A crystal radio apparently harvests something on the order of tens of microwatts while in operation)
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A good lab/composition notebook and a Pigma Micron pen. Sharing is a bit difficult, but it can't be beat for flexibility.
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Airbag systems are fascinating. They sit around for years, perhaps decades, deciding over and over again whether or not a crash is occurring. Then, when a collision does occur, they have to make a decision -- the right decision -- and ta
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by teuobk 17y ago
Meeting new people is part of the fun!
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I have a similar problem. When I decide that my old clothes are worn/stained/horribly unfashionable and set out to refresh the wardrobe a bit, I set out to buy a few new ones. After settling on which store to patronize (Am I too old for AE
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by teuobk 18y ago
In addition to being cheaper (usually) and tasting better (very often), the food prepared at home gives the chef or baker a certain sense of satisfaction. I feel like I've really accomplished something when I make something delicious from
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by teuobk 18y ago
Although the black-body spectrum of the sun does peak at green, that's not why plants are green. Consider this: they appear green to us because they are not absorbing the green light. So, then, why green? For that matter, why not black?
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by teuobk 18y ago
Of course, this is all predicated on the ability to successfully classify potential employees as A, B, or C players. A couple of months ago, I interviewed at a startup for a product management position. During the interview, it became clea
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by teuobk 18y ago
Did you take the GRE? Actually, I'm curious if GRE scores have the same impact as SAT scores at the firms that care about standardized test scores. Or the ACT, for that matter.
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Also, keep in mind that asking for a high rate can provide credibility in the absence of other data. Think about the way many people buy wine: the pricier the bottle, the better it must be, right?
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A few thoughts: - Kevin Rose went to a coder on elance to build the first version of Digg, so that route can be successful - Try posting fliers on the kiosks or in the CS buildings at college campuses. I'd recommend giving as much detail a
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by teuobk 18y ago
In an Inc column a while ago, Joel mentioned that his offer for new grads is $75k/year. Not sure how that scales with experience, but Glassdoor might give you some idea about going rates in the NYC area. As a sidebar, I've discovered that
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by teuobk 18y ago
It's been a couple years since I pulled the numbers, but here's a chart of the undergraduate admission rates for Harvard, MIT, and Stanford for class years 2004-2011: http://www.keacher.com/files/undergrad-admissions.png As you can see, t
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The lack of attention to detail is a bit alarming, too. For example, the first sentence on the page begins, "Please bare with us as we develop this..." but I don't think you're trying to organize a clothing-optional coding party ("bear" no
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by teuobk 18y ago
On a related note, could anybody comment on their experience getting PCI compliance? I'd like to have the payment process a bit more integrated with my web site, but many of those solutions seem to require PCI compliance, and that looks rat
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I think that another key is being accountable to somebody else, if only informally. I'm all for self-motivation -- and I've accomplished plenty that way -- but I find it far easier to work when I know that somebody else cares about whether
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by teuobk 18y ago
I like the simplicity, but I'm not yet sold on posting event photos here instead of Facebook. Maybe the ToS would be a deciding factor. Speaking of which, what are the ToS, especially with regard to content rights? Bug: the Java upload ap
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by teuobk 18y ago
I feel the same way about the "Nice guys finish last" point. Surely there must be some counterexamples of nice guys who have achieved great business success?
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There have been a few that have been abandoned for environmental reasons. Prypiat, Ukraine comes to mind as one example. In that case, all 50,000 residents were forced to quickly abandon the city due to the nearby Chernobyl accident.
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Get to the shower as quickly as possible. I find that I tend to snooze or go back to sleep if I don't immediately get out of bed and go directly to the shower when my alarm goes off. If I give myself any time to think about it, any time a
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Exactly. It remains unclear to me how the housing crisis can be "fixed" until the underlying home values fall in line with historical price:income ratios. That is, either real incomes must rise significantly, or real housing prices must d
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I think this ignores the fact that the reason some people (like me) buys/subscribes to a paper is because it's... printed on paper. I can get all of the information with my computer or my iPhone, but I enjoy the interaction with actual pap
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Do you aim there even if the goalie is hugging the post? What if you're in the slot and he's showing a huge 5-hole? Obviously, you're not going to try to hit the goalie, so that implies some awareness of the goalie's current location and
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As a goalie, I'm skeptical about claims that those pads will fool players. In fact, one school of thought says that pads should be dark so that the goalie appears as large and imposing as possible. Regardless of their effectiveness, I thin
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Index funds. As a broad generalization, index funds are superior to managed funds due to higher long-term returns and far lower fees. As another broad generalization, you can have higher returns than index funds (aka the market) only at th
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Stanford University (or rather, I went there until I graduated a few weeks ago)
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I will miss the serendipitous discovery of information gained by casually browsing a newspaper. Kind of like reading a social news site. I rarely pick up a paper to read a particular article; I read for the sake of reading. However, I dis
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It's remarkable what users will "put up with" when their core needs are being met. I don't like a lot of things about CL, but does it meet my core needs? Yes; I can reach an enormous number of people with a high rate of success. It seems
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Indeed. Book knowledge at universities is wonderful, but the value of the social experience cannot be understated. In some sense, one's classmates at a university form a giant fraternity. Stephen Leacock put this quite eloquently in "Oxf

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