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A new maker movement for clothes (ashishmakani.tumblr.com)
1 points by tuxguy 14y ago|1 comments
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True&Co : a startup which uses algorithms to help women pick the best bra.(trueandco.com)
6 points by tuxguy 14y ago|0 comments
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by tuxguy 14y ago
This. 1. I am a self-proclaimed geek & although i love the nifty way to clip only parts of a page is awesome, its confusing, even to me. 2. About being able to share whole page easily & quickly Amdahl's law ( focus on the common ca
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by tuxguy 14y ago
This was not clear to me. @ followed by their fb &/ twitter username ? OR their clipboard username ?
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by tuxguy 14y ago
Pocket (formerly Read It Later) You need an ipad client, thats where a lot of content consumption happens, especially long form. One feature which i really like about Pocket, is it saves a parsed copy locally on the ipad. So i can "save"/ c
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by tuxguy 14y ago
Amazing effort, @gmf & team. Super impressed & for years i have cribbed there is not a good way to save, with context, really AWESOME & insightful HN comments, for future perusal, archiving & searching. IMHO, it does not see
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Pirate Bay Simplifies Circumvention of ISP Blockades(torrentfreak.com)
3 points by tuxguy 14y ago|0 comments
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Nvidia Kai,a platform for building quad-core Android tablets priced at $199(theverge.com)
3 points by tuxguy 14y ago|0 comments
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by tuxguy 14y ago
VLC is awesome, but SMPlayer is awesome *2 :)
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by tuxguy 14y ago
Just remembered, Cloudera has some nice tutorials & videos on Hadoop, Map Reduce, etc http://www.cloudera.com/resources/training/
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by tuxguy 14y ago
Thanks for providing these amazing resources & that too completely FREE. woot ! But the UX on the site is terrible. If & when time permits, please take a look at the Coursera, Udacity, Codecademy, Udemy, Lore(lore.com, formerly cou
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Sitting continously for long periods is very harmful to our health(npr.org)
2 points by tuxguy 14y ago|1 comments
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by tuxguy 14y ago
Intricately tied to the choice of the OS.
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by tuxguy 14y ago
This is not isolated. fb's algo sucks. I was posting a genuine comment & tried to post it 3 times. It warned me with a popup, as in the article & the 3rd time, it warned me that i would not be able to comment on public posts. IMHO,
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Samsung Galaxy S3 with the Siri-challenging S Voice(theverge.com)
1 points by tuxguy 14y ago|0 comments
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Avery's Bucket List:Spread the word about SMA(Spinal Muscular Atrophy)(averycan.blogspot.in)
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by tuxguy 14y ago
This with a capital T :) Brilliant insight. Great advice.
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by tuxguy 14y ago
Maybe slightly OT, i would like to know your motivations for diving into multiple distinct subjects ? Do you, kind of like Sal Khan (of Khan Academy fame) feel curious to know more & more stuff, & then want to share your knowledge &
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by tuxguy 14y ago
Good argument. But then by the same argument, would you not trust Sal Khan's Khan Academy videos, since he himself has experience in only a few of the many areas, he researches & then makes educational videos about. I would tend to agre
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by tuxguy 14y ago
Maybe Amazon should add smart log mining ? If it requires a lot of effort to productize, Amazon could potentially offer it as a service $0.5/hr to ensure you are not making major goof ups.
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by tuxguy 14y ago
I think this year's macbook air refresh from apple based on Intel's newest Sandy Bridge cpus will be Lege-wait_for_it-Dairy :)
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by tuxguy 14y ago
Here is an amazing talk on Content Centric Networking from Van Jacobson ( of VJ header compression fame) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6972678839686672840
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by tuxguy 14y ago
@mgw, thanks for your insightful comments. Traditionally the argument has been specialized hardware doing function X, will be faster (but not customizable, upgradable) compared to doing function X in software on commodity hardware (slow but
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by tuxguy 15y ago
I have tried all of the projects mentioned in the comments here. To me the most simple & quick was this bookmarklet. https://github.com/christiangenco/Coursera-Video-Downloader-...
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by tuxguy 15y ago
also, some great advice by Zed A. Shaw http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/advice.html
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by tuxguy 15y ago
Lots of great advice in this awesome article by AI guru Peter Norvig http://norvig.com/21-days.html
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A revolutionary new device using light (no pricking) to test Hb & tackle anaemia(youtube.com)
1 points by tuxguy 15y ago|0 comments
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by tuxguy 15y ago
Kudos to Ira Glass & TAL for being honest
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by tuxguy 15y ago
Related NYT article with some more facts & insights http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/business/global/india-over...
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by tuxguy 15y ago
Great job. Just curious, I have had similar ideas, but saw this NYT article about sites like CureTogether.com and PatientsLikeMe.com, & decided it was a met need . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/business/30stream.html?pag... I am

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