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Ask HN: Thoughts and tips on Start-up Chile?
2 points by themgt 13y ago|2 comments
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by themgt 13y ago
Awesome graphics and low time-to-crate: http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html
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Climate Change: the four charts that really matter(neven1.typepad.com)
1 points by themgt 13y ago|0 comments
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by themgt 13y ago
We've updated our demo to 1.5 as well: http://rethinkdb-demo.pogoapp.com/
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by themgt 13y ago
I feel like this post has a bit of a strangely recursive backstory (as he explains along the way): he was helped by people from Youtube and Google to get hardware running Google operating systems so he could test their battery life while us
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by themgt 14y ago
Everyone would be much better off watching Koyaanisqatsi for time-lapse pan with good music and less self-importance: http://www.hulu.com/watch/27800
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by themgt 14y ago
Very interesting. Does this fit in conceptually with circus at all? It seems like there's a fair amount of overlap between the process/HTTP management done by circus and this stats/data collection/analysis (specifically hekad agent in the a
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by themgt 14y ago
Wikidata is interesting ... it seems to be a normal MediaWiki install with the custom-developed "WikiBase" extension: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase It'd be nice if the WikiMedia projects had a proper GitHub presence -
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by themgt 14y ago
I'm highly skeptical. I don't think "I am going to move my fingers around to press and hold the command button and press the tab button one or more times until I get to firefox". My brain already autopilots desires into physical output. EEG
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by themgt 14y ago
A friend of mine swears that if you're making say a gin & tonic, filling the glass with ice will result in less ice melting and therefore your drink will be colder but less watery.
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by themgt 14y ago
At Pogoapp we're basically building a Heroku-compatible platform (buildpacks + S3/API-compatible) on our own hardware, with support for storing data on the local filesystem (to run your own databases, etc). We're also really happy about Dot
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by themgt 14y ago
Yep, and it has the same cable news echo-chamber effect of creating self-fulfilling prophecies off weak fundamentals.
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by themgt 14y ago
This is one of the biggest projects on the web leading the way in throwing shitty old IE under the bus to help push the modern web forward. They're going to keep big-fixing 1.X so people stuck with IE6/7/8 can keep supporting it, but moving
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by themgt 14y ago
For a lot of people that word will primarily be associated with memories of their relatives or loved ones dying.
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by themgt 14y ago
I'm not sure what connotations you were going for with the word "hospice", but I'd really suggest choosing a different name.
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by themgt 14y ago
The fact that you can quantify a thing by a given metric doesn't change the subjectivity of the choice. You can measure the amount a drug causes the average user to miss work, or die sooner, or number of missing teeth, or anything, but any
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by themgt 14y ago
They explained it pretty simply - they asked the experts in the field to rate the harm on various factors, and they aggregated and compared those ratings. Drugs and the harm they cause to an individual and others is highly subjective and co
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by themgt 14y ago
I heartily support these sort of viral "would you get a load of these assholes" public shaming about large companies that become like the DMV with the way they deal with customers. It seems like one of the few ways for the little guy to fig
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by themgt 14y ago
Why not sue them right then and there when they foisted that bit of "strategy" on you and charged them with criminal extortion? Presumably because if given a choice, Rackspace would rather spend its time and energy on hosting servers than
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by themgt 14y ago
In terms of momentum, community activity, and tech stack progress, Meteor seems to be way ahead of the competitors and accelerating faster.
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by themgt 14y ago
The idea that analogy underpins all thought is also argued by Ian McGilchrist in his book Master and His Emissary, which I'd highly recommend to people interested in the sort of epic philosophical undertaking GEB was: http://www.iainmcgilc
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by themgt 14y ago
Yeah, "a lot of work went into scraping those sites, so how dare you scrape mine!" Wat?
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by themgt 14y ago
Any site wanting to position itself as a backbone of the open & safe net ought to itself be open source and have support for data import/export into a self-hosted installation.
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by themgt 14y ago
No, it's not obvious. Is this the monty python argument room? There's a vast amount of research into the negative effects of social isolation on humans and other mammals. Did you have something to add regarding this study, which is just o
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by themgt 14y ago
Except it's not at all due to urbanization. I would say it's more due (in part - the causality goes both ways) to the suburbanization in which the American ideal became to live in a big empty houses in the middle of nowhere with giant flat
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by themgt 14y ago
It's pretty obvious being isolated from real social and physical connection with other humans tends to have a severely negative impact on people's mental and physical health. It's really sad how America has built itself into a lonelier and
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by themgt 14y ago
TSA contractors have absolutely no right to demand intimate medical information from people who simply wish to travel through the air. The fact that you would think otherwise is a symptom of how unhinged the thinking in this country has bec
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by themgt 14y ago
Thanks! I ran into one other issue (PR: https://github.com/mozilla/eyedee.me/pull/27 ) but was otherwise able to get it booted in our Heroku-esque environment: http://eyedee-me.a.pogoapp.com/
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by themgt 14y ago
I tried to boot the example app eyedee.me and it's unable to find this tarball from the package.json: https://github.com/benadida/node-client-sessions/tarball/92f...
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by themgt 14y ago
Very interesting, guys! GH: themgt

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