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Mythbusters experiment goes awry, sends cannonball through two houses(losangeles.cbslocal.com)
496 points by viggity 15y ago|298 comments
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by viggity 15y ago
this looks like an awesome project, I'll definitely sign up, but how are you going to make any money? Sure, the $25K from kickstarter was nice, but how are you going to continue to make money?
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by viggity 15y ago
I find it ironic that this webpage doesn't work on an actual WP7 device (w/ mango). But, FWIW, I love my WP7.
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by viggity 15y ago
this has nothing to do with Hacker News. If you're interested in this, go to Reddit instead.
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by viggity 15y ago
If it requires my users on a public site to install an extension, I'm not going to use it. case. closed.
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5000 new climate gate emails releases(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by viggity 15y ago|0 comments
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by viggity 15y ago
this is a brilliant idea, kudos to you
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by viggity 15y ago
looks really cool and useful. One gripe: 3D pie charts are evil. http://www.gilliganondata.com/index.php/2009/12/02/how-succi... Use bar charts instead, or if you're really stuck on the pie chart thing, don't make it 3D
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by viggity 15y ago
I'm from Des Moines and know a couple of people that work at Dwolla. I haven't heard anything about Dwolla doing a lot (if any) bitcoin transactions. Do you have a source on that? Dwolla has an API so any point of sale system can integrate
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by viggity 15y ago
Please, if suicide has crossed your mind, please, please, please find help. I had a fraternity brother commit suicide and you have no idea how much you'll be missed. Help is out there and it is free. http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.
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by viggity 15y ago
I "get" it when it comes to silverlight for public facing websites. Really. I do. The general populace doesn't want to have to install a plugin. But what about intranet apps? Silverlight is so incredibly easy to work with (compared to html/
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by viggity 15y ago
looks nice, minor suggestion - some of the fonts look like hell on XP/Chrome and they're very hard to read. Congrats on launch
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by viggity 15y ago
I wrote a static code analysis tool with Cecil (you can write linq statements against your assemblies). And it is free. www.nitriq.com
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by viggity 15y ago
"After all, the biggest problem with democracies tends to be the voters." Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. - Winston Churchill
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by viggity 15y ago
I don't mind getting down voted, but you could at least leave a comment on why.
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by viggity 15y ago
And yet, curiously, George Soros and #Occupy are both leftists
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by viggity 15y ago
FTR, Pioneer HiBred recently patented their own glyphosate (roundup) resistance gene (a different one than monsanto has), although I'm not sure if they have any varieties that have the gene incorporated yet. Obviously, they're excited about
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by viggity 15y ago
1. There is plenty of genetic diversity (aka hetrozygosity). The most credible evidence suggests that Colony Collapse Syndrome was caused by a disease, not GMO seed. Also, all of the seed companies take tremendous care to ensure that their
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by viggity 15y ago
"most hated aspects of the company (genetic manipulation of seeds)" 1. Genetic manipulation of seeds is going to feed the world. And at the rate our population is growing, we're going to need it. 2. They weren't talking about genetic insert
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by viggity 15y ago
I lost a fraternity brother to suicide. Please find help, you have no idea how many people will miss you.
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Steve Jobs and Rounded Corners(folklore.org)
12 points by viggity 15y ago|1 comments
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by viggity 15y ago
I don't even look at pages past 120
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by viggity 15y ago
well, that, and millions of dollars
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by viggity 15y ago
The formatting of this article is AWESOME. There are so many articles that I'd love to read, but I simply don't have the time to parse through a gigantic wall of text. An outline with bolded text and bullet points is exactly what I love to
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by viggity 15y ago
"I take the hard view that science involves the creation of testable hypotheses" - Michael Crichton A computer simulation is not a testable hypothesis, never has been, never will be. There are millions of variables that go into our climate,
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by viggity 15y ago
if iirc, he lives in country (poland?) where apple won't pay developers, for whatever reason. In fact, I'm not sure that google/android does either, but he makes money from a 3rd party ad network that will make payments in poland.
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by viggity 15y ago
I might also add that I'm pretty damn confident in my developing skills, which makes me further weary of spending so much money on a policy.
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Errors and Omissions Insurance - Is it necessary?
3 points by viggity 15y ago|3 comments
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by viggity 15y ago
Please don't editorialize in your title. "BBC has live coverage of the events unfolding in Tripoli" is preferable to "BBC's amazing live coverage of events unfolding in Tripoli". If you want to comment on the quality of their coverage, do i
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by viggity 15y ago
Ben Fry is amazing. I've done a lot of info-viz work and his PhD Dissertation was incredibly helpful. He is much much easier to read and comprehend compared to Tufte. I highly recommend it: http://benfry.com/phd/

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