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If Cutting Carbon Emissions Isn’t Working, What’s Next?
(green.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Cost of Gene Sequencing Falls, Raising Hopes for Medical Advances
(nytimes.com)
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Do We Really Need More Scientists?
(theatlantic.com)
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You could make separate areas. One for the robots, one for the humans.
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There was also another recent article in the NY Times about HIIT. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/how-1-minute-interv...
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This happened to me as well. If I had to do it all over again, I would have started pushing to Heroku from the start.
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15y ago
You should go to the gym a few times a week. A couple of months ago, I went back to the gym for the first time in six months. The next morning, a lot of my background stress disappeared.
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You need more projects. They don't have to be fancy, but they should look good. Once you’ve filled out your portfolio, you should go to meetups and talk with some other designers/programmers. Many of them are busy, and they might farm so
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Back in the day, Bill was kind of a dick, too. From Gates by Stephen Manes: “The Gates motivational method: You yell, you holler, you point out how stupid something is, the chastened subject goes back and redoubles his efforts to do a be
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This. It takes a lot of work to follow up on leads for 20+ hours/week and lug around heavy items.
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Does getting rid of our Old Entertainment Overlords really matter, if our New Entertainment Overlords are going to be doing the same thing? As long as one group of people is getting rich in an industry, the temptation is always there to st
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His method of coding works for him because he’s introverted. "As (odd?) as that may be, being around other people seems to really drain my energy and sap my creativeness. Despite my best efforts, I just don't have the same energy around oth
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You should show solutions in video form so the users can see what they should have done.
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The $1,000 genome: are we there yet?
(blogs.nature.com)
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This. I went on the home page and didn't get the concept till I looked at the Kickstarter page. You should put a big illustration on the front page that shows 1.) how the personal cloud powers the photo sharing and 2.) how this differs fro
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Go to 6:20 for the first office hour.
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15y ago
There are quite a few of them: http://lanyrd.com/places/usa/
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16y ago
You should make an html version of your resume. A lot of people won't use a .docx version. Also, if you're going to send people to your personal site, you shouldn't use one that's under construction. You would be better off using flavors.
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16y ago
The logo - Carve a logo out of the banner and stick it in the top right. You're wasting a lot of screen space. Shrink the height to around 85px. The Try It Now button → Use a more normal font and regular capitalization. Also, change the b
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16y ago
Your UI looks good. I would change those black icons at the top, though. It's not immediately apparent that the marker icon = map view.
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16y ago
I'm in California. It says 1 AM to me.
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16y ago
Change your copy to “Log In” and “Sign up Now”. Make the links stand out more. Lending Kindle books is non-obvious. Make an FAQ or a walkthrough. Make the copy something like this: “Don't know how to lend or borrow books on your Kindle?