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by wanderingstan 13y ago
I've done some jobs that needed address verification and it was a pain. If they've really solved it, it's a huge accomplishment. The rest of their tools look good too. Snail-mailing is sadly still essential to business and ne
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by wanderingstan 13y ago
In that case, it's like the Ise Grand Shrine in Japan. On the one hand, it's over a thousand years old. On the other hand, it is rebuilt every 20 years by the monks. So how old is"The Shrine"? http://en.wikipe
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by wanderingstan 13y ago
A few years ago I was cutting it close for a flight from New York to Maine. Everyone else had boarded when I got to the gate. When my wrinkled, self-printed boarding pass threw error noises, the agent told me just to go, "and run!&quot
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by wanderingstan 14y ago
You are almost certainly correct about material stuff minimalism, but I wonder about my head. I live pretty minimalist outwardly, but my browser has 40+ tabs open, I have 100+ unanswered emails, there are dozens of apps and platforms that I
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by wanderingstan 14y ago
I was just thinking of this idea over dinner tonight, when a friend was giving his recommendations on PHP and Ruby frameworks and their pro/cons. "There should be a site for this type of knowledge!" I thought. And --boom!-- I get home, and
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by wanderingstan 14y ago
What punishment would Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak have faced for their illegal phone activities, if today's laws were in place then? Seems that Ortiz could have gone after them for more than even 35 years.
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by wanderingstan 14y ago
At least they have the date on the article. Tangential rant: It's ridiculous how many sites don't include a date at all, or hide it at the bottom, or give month & day while leaving off the year. Seriously, the date is at least as import
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by wanderingstan 14y ago
Renowned author Oliver Sacks tells that he wrote his first book in 10 days. He had committed to kill himself if he didn't make this goal. The story is in this RadioLab episode: http://www.radiolab.org/2011/mar/08/
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by wanderingstan 14y ago
I've come to realize that writing good code also involves good storytelling. There may be a thousand ways to get the job done, but the better coder will arrange and cluster things in ways that "flow" for the next human reader. Good coders a
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by wanderingstan 14y ago
I think it was on RadioLab where a primatologist mentioned how amazing an airplane flight is. Not the aerodynamics, but that hundreds of people sit jam-packed for hours and no one gets hurt. If you put that many monkeys or baboons or whatev
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by wanderingstan 14y ago
This little hack takes a picture every hour (webcam and screenshot) and gives visualization of your online work habits: http://wanderingstan.com/lifeslice
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by wanderingstan 15y ago
The article specifically eliminates this possibility. The mice in the study had no choice as to what group they would be in, so there was no self-selection effect.
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by wanderingstan 15y ago
Jesus was clearly stealing from the bakers and fishermen, who were robbed of over 5000 bread and fish sales that day. Damn socialist.
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by wanderingstan 16y ago
It's cool that the young upstarts have the better UI. In a sense, it makes sense that the advertisements on Expedia and Orbitz are so distracting: advertising is supposed to grab attention! I wonder how much money these big players are ma
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by wanderingstan 17y ago
Our tendency to keep reading even bad books is also (to some degree) a manifestation of the "endowment effect" documented in Dan Ariely's "Predictable Irrational": Once you've forked over money for a book, you value it more simply because i