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Rescuing Science from the Military with Comics?(npr.org)
1 points by thejteam 12y ago|0 comments
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by thejteam 12y ago
For a nerdy take on it, read John Allen Paulos's book "Mathematics and Humor." It has been quite some time since I've read it so I don't remember if there are any practical takeaways, but I remember I enjoyed it. Ke
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by thejteam 12y ago
I knew somebody would have beat me to it.
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by thejteam 12y ago
The one time I encountered this was in 9th grade. The health class teacher wasn't used to people writing good essays. I got an A on the first essay of the year, and she wrote on the paper "Good job, if you actually wrote it."
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by thejteam 12y ago
Without knowing anything about your product, I'm going to focus on your last line. "Another issue is our product makes things convenient. It saves money which is a hard thing to sell." I think you and them might be using a di
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Is this the future of parenting? – Data Based Baby Monitors(cnn.com)
2 points by thejteam 12y ago|0 comments
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by thejteam 12y ago
In addition to the comments about liability coverage, also remember that in most accidents your car will not be totaled. The cost of repairs only goes up over time.
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The Mars and Venus question(economist.com)
12 points by thejteam 12y ago|1 comments
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by thejteam 12y ago
The DOD has a fair number of SBIR topics each release on various types of autonomous vehicles, including air, land, and sea based drones. Look at http://www.dodsbir.net and look through the recent archives, say the last two year
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Teenage son discovers his deceased father's ghost car in Xbox rally game(autos.yahoo.com)
4 points by thejteam 12y ago|1 comments
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by thejteam 12y ago
I haven't delved into it, but I hear you can learn quite a bit of programming from Minecraft. And even if nothing else comes of it he gets to play a game his peers are playing and can talk to them about it.
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by thejteam 12y ago
I don't have data on how this works with web development or SaaS, but in many industries direct mail is still the way to go. Crafting a sales letter is like crafting a landing page on your website. There is a reason you still get junk
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by thejteam 12y ago
So is this the politically correct version of the "avoid ghetto" function that people joke about? In all seriousness though, it is pretty cool use of data mining and crowdsourcing.
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Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction [video](research.microsoft.com)
27 points by thejteam 12y ago|0 comments
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by thejteam 12y ago
I will second InDesign. I was having a conversation not that long ago with somebody who used to work in the printing business and that is what she used. And she had horror stories of people trying to do things with Word and HTML.
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by thejteam 12y ago
The main disagreement I have is the assertion that the majority of jobs (at a nationwide level) is for web based languages. While it is trending in that direction from what I see the majority of jobs are still Java and C++ with a bit of C t
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Startup Idea: Test Other Startups in Rural Areas / Outside SV
3 points by thejteam 12y ago|0 comments
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by thejteam 12y ago
Just a few thoughts. The parent poster is absolutely right that people will not pay for education, as all of the failed tutoring centers outside of cities will attest to. I almost started one myself but caught myself before I lost a lot of
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by thejteam 12y ago
SEEKING WORK: Remote (Based in Maryland) I'm a former software developer turned freelance writer. You need user documentation or internal technical documentation, but your developers are too busy making money for your company. I can cr
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Engineers, Inventing Ourselves Out of Work?(todaysengineer.org)
2 points by thejteam 12y ago|0 comments
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by thejteam 12y ago
$1: Mega Millions ticket $10: Two five dollar scratch offs $100: Books $1000: Depending on the company, now you can start looking into mutual funds. Personally, I would invest it in a nice vacation $10000: This is firm mutual fund territory
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by thejteam 12y ago
I was hesitant to submit this because I don't want to start a gun control flame war. Pretty please, if this does make it to the front page can we keep it civil? Personally, I find the intersection between tech and law in this instance
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A New Jersey Law That's Kept Smart Guns Off Shelves Nationwide(npr.org)
1 points by thejteam 12y ago|2 comments
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Baltimore's Water Wheel Keeps On Turning, Pulling In Tons Of Trash (npr.org)
2 points by thejteam 12y ago|0 comments
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by thejteam 12y ago
Well, I don't like cities much at all. I prefer to live on a street with more chickens and goats than people. I literally have to wait for the chickens to cross the road If I HAD to live in a city I would live in a small coastal city l
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by thejteam 12y ago
Do you have friends who graduated 6 months to a year ago? Where did they find jobs and are those places any good? Or even people who you kind of knew. Many companies offer referral bonuses so even somebody you knew casually will usually be
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That Time When People Thought Playing Chess Would Make You Violent(techdirt.com)
3 points by thejteam 12y ago|0 comments
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by thejteam 12y ago
A function that consisted of a giant switch statement, with each case consisting of another switch statement. Half of the sub-cases contained GOTO statements back to the top of the function. Even worse... I wrote the code. It was 2am, I had
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by thejteam 12y ago
The startup may be able to fly under the radar for personal property tax considerations, but in many states if the company owns property in the state then they have to file a personal property tax return, with the proper filing fee, etc. Th
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Someday Soon You May Swallow A Computer With Your Pill(npr.org)
2 points by thejteam 12y ago|0 comments

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