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by tommoor 11y ago
In 100 years we may look back on this last month as the time when 'the machines were born'
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by tommoor 11y ago
The British Museum was the first museum I visited where It was all... "holy shit - museums can actually be super interesting!" ...that said, Imagine how boring this place would be if Britain hadn't colonized half the world at
513.
by tommoor 11y ago
There's probably a startup for that
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What We Learnt Surveying Our Most Active Users at Speak(blog.speak.io)
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by tommoor 11y ago
You're right, it's almost as if the piece was written purely as content marketing to promote the gotenna ;) Interesting nonetheless!
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by tommoor 11y ago
BTW, you can use Buffer for this as of a couple of months ago - should be easier than a custom script :)
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by tommoor 11y ago
This is a great advert for TinyLetter, would love to know if they approached Wired to get this published and how that process went down.
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by tommoor 11y ago
Dropbox has great designers, surprised they couldn't have found a few hours to spruce this up in the year and a half since it was acquired :)
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by tommoor 11y ago
After watching that video I feel like they should do a promo with Etsy. Also can't help but think about Cory Doctorow's "Makers", sci-fi being slowly ushered into our lives :)
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Lessons learnt from 3 years building team communication products(blog.tommoor.com)
2 points by tommoor 11y ago|0 comments
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Company hikes price 5,000% for drug that fights complication of AIDS, cancer(usatoday.com)
1 points by tommoor 11y ago|0 comments
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by tommoor 11y ago
Yep, San Francisco is even worse as you'd expect - <1km option would be nice :)
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by tommoor 11y ago
Agreed apart from lines on the road. Many studies have shown that less signage and lines makes people drive more carefully/slowly - a boon in housing neighborhoods.
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by tommoor 11y ago
2 miles maybe, not 10 or 20 though... plus the searing heat ;)
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by tommoor 11y ago
The frontpage design is nice, I can see the value - currently I'd use workflowy for small pieces of information like this. I think you're missing a trick by not having any of your example's linked to an actual FAQT - those 8
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by tommoor 11y ago
Placemeter looks very smart although they have an enterprise sales model, Density is literally giving their units away...
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Greek debt crisis: How easy is it to swap currencies?(bbc.com)
1 points by tommoor 11y ago|0 comments
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Tips for Working at Home with a Spouse or Significant Other(blog.speak.io)
1 points by tommoor 11y ago|0 comments
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by tommoor 11y ago
I guess you could travel farther, given enough time. Someone should calculate how big the wingspan would need to be to power a commercial airliner, probably the width of Texas? :) Still, great stuff - this is how all great tech starts
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by tommoor 11y ago
"Now you can fly longer with no fuel than you can with fuel. So, what Andre has done is not only a historic first for aviation, it's a historic first for renewable energies"
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by tommoor 11y ago
For some more recent good examples check out http://littlebigdetails.com/
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Worker killed by robot at Volkswagen factory(ft.com)
11 points by tommoor 11y ago|4 comments
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by tommoor 11y ago
You should try Sqwiggle for this, pretty much what it's designed for :) https://www.sqwiggle.com
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by tommoor 11y ago
If only the labels had 5 years ago put a reasonable music licensing system in place for the digital world... we might now have a burgeoning ecosystem of startups and niche music services competing to provide a great customer experience inst
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by tommoor 11y ago
usually it's because when you're buying something it needs to be delivered ;)
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Will we ever build ringworlds?(bbc.com)
17 points by tommoor 11y ago|10 comments
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Crossrail: The monster tunnelling under London streets(bbc.com)
84 points by tommoor 11y ago|48 comments
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Solar Impulse Plane Begins Pacific Crossing(bbc.com)
1 points by tommoor 11y ago|0 comments
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by tommoor 11y ago
Interestingly this doesn't appear to work with the newer versions of iOS, I guess as the information can't be unencrypted - which is reassuring!
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by tommoor 11y ago
I can imagine that Kafka might make more sense as we scale up further? RabbitMQ has the right trade off of performance / setup etc..

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