waldir

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by waldir 11y ago
I've been collecting info about this kind of companies for quite a while, and warmly welcomed the creation of the Open Company Initiative ( http://opencompany.org ) in 2013 -- co-founded, among others, by Chad Whitacre from G
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Show HN: A community-curated list of open companies(github.com)
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by waldir 12y ago
Unfortunately the repository (as suggested by the screenshot[1]) seems to be private: https://github.com/github/help-docs I assume that's because they may be documenting upcoming features before they are announced
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by waldir 12y ago
I normally use the torrentz.com meta search engine and go with the torrent with the most seeds. It then shows me all the sites that have that torrent, and I pick one whose name I recognize. Works like a charm.
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by waldir 12y ago
Reasonator is a better way to visualize info from Wikidata: Data on Paul Graham: - Freebase: http://www.freebase.com/m/017cm9 - Wikidata: https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=92650 Data on
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by waldir 12y ago
I had the same thought. For reference, an initiative to assemble companies who reject that and other similar myths is undergoing at http://opencompany.org
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by waldir 12y ago
Because those sinusoidal waves are merely projections (in the real and complex plane) of the true elemental component of the FT, the complex exponential, which is really a helix: http://m.eet.com/media/1068017/lyon
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by waldir 12y ago
Definitely. That's precisely the argument against relying on GDP or similar measures as indicators of "progress": https://www.youtube.com/v/cpkRvc-sOKk?start=54&end=141
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by waldir 12y ago
There's nothing specifically Brazilian about that sentence. In fact, it's a quite common saying in Portugal.
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by waldir 12y ago
Like this? :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzFpg271sm8
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by waldir 13y ago
Wow, please do go ahead and make it happen :) I'd love to contribute to such a project.
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by waldir 13y ago
I actually came here to say this. This breaking-down process to turn complex arguments into a tree of simple statements that can be debated more objectively and with less controversy was the core of a similar platform that existed a few yea
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by waldir 13y ago
This only seems to work for two people at the moment (i.e. no group calls), but for that use case, it seems promising. As it happens, for the past few days I've been trying out a lot of tools for online video/audio conferencing, a
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by waldir 13y ago
Even more relevant to this thread: http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/specificator
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by waldir 13y ago
Is their sense of orientation really that great? In your simulation, when a wandering ant finds food, it heads right back to the anthill in a straight line. All I know from this is from reading about Feynman's experiments, but what he
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by waldir 13y ago
The version at http://mrrio.github.io/jsPDF/ works for me (on both Firefox and Chrome)
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by waldir 13y ago
Have you heard of https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js ?
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by waldir 13y ago
The version at http://mrrio.github.io/jsPDF/ works for me in FF23.