warrenmar

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by warrenmar 12y ago
My local library lets me check out e-books too. It is very convenient.
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by warrenmar 12y ago
I've been trying to read one book a week since 2013 ( http://warrenmar.wordpress.com/book-of-the-week/ ). I think everyone should try it. I never read that much when I was in school, but now I really enjoy it.
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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg starts reading program(sfgate.com)
5 points by warrenmar 12y ago|6 comments
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What We Know About Inequality (in 14 Charts)(blogs.wsj.com)
18 points by warrenmar 12y ago|3 comments
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Practical applications of Y Combinators in Clojure(viksit.com)
3 points by warrenmar 12y ago|0 comments
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by warrenmar 12y ago
YKK gets a shoutout on So Fresh, So Clean by Outkast.
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Dropbox-jersey-wearing dudes try to kick kids off soccer field in San Francisco(blog.sfgate.com)
8 points by warrenmar 12y ago|0 comments
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S.F. rolls out free WiFi in public spaces throughout city(sfgate.com)
1 points by warrenmar 12y ago|0 comments
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Hong Kong protesters get Bay Area tech, political assists(sfgate.com)
2 points by warrenmar 12y ago|0 comments
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S.F. startup wants to be the 'Uber of pot'(sfgate.com)
4 points by warrenmar 12y ago|0 comments
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by warrenmar 12y ago
Elite Postmortem at GDC http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014628/Classic-Game-Postmortem
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Stanford Scientists Are Studying Altruism In The Free Pizza Subreddit(fastcoexist.com)
1 points by warrenmar 12y ago|0 comments
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by warrenmar 12y ago
This principle is used in aquaponics in the form of a bell siphon. You don't want to keep the roots of your plans submerged for long periods of time, so this lets you flush out the water automatically.
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by warrenmar 12y ago
"weaker" metrics can be useful, because you can understand it better. If I tell you a PageRank of an author is 3.452. That means nothing to me. If I tell you somebody's h-index is 18. That means they published 18 papers that
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by warrenmar 12y ago
The original funding Larry got was from the Digital Library Initiative. Then the web blew up. Maybe I shouldn't say PageRank was designed for citations, but that is where it draws its influence from. Things don't magically pop out
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by warrenmar 12y ago
PageRank was originally designed for this purpose.
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by warrenmar 12y ago
Redshift? or would that go under PostgreSQL?
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by warrenmar 12y ago
Amazon hosts public datasets at https://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/ Good if you want to quickly spin up an instance, copy data over from s3 and process it.
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by warrenmar 12y ago
You can build your own spectrometer following directions from Public Lab. Their goal is to develop open-source tools for citizen science. http://publiclab.org/wiki/spectrometer
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by warrenmar 12y ago
You can download The Bootstrapper Bible by Seth Godin for free. It's "Free for 2 weeks only through December 30th!" http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/docs/bootstrap.pdf‎ If you haven't gotten into an
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by warrenmar 12y ago
You can reduce jet-lag by eating at certain times. https://www.sciencemag.org/content/320/5879/1074.abstract The Science magazine page has a link to the podcast.
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Facebook Will Build Drones and Satellites to Beam Internet Around the World(wired.com)
1 points by warrenmar 13y ago|0 comments
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The Surprisingly Large Cost of Telling Small Lies(boss.blogs.nytimes.com)
198 points by warrenmar 13y ago|86 comments
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by warrenmar 13y ago
Getting an email from a recruiter is a whole lot different than getting a job offer.
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by warrenmar 13y ago
I thought the title was misleading enough to warrant a comment. It makes it seem like the Helium-4 isotope is exotic. Losing Helium-4 to the atmosphere is an acceptable research cost. Losing Helium-3 is not.
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by warrenmar 13y ago
Norvig teaches a Design of Computer Programs course on Udacity, which helps you think about solving problems. https://www.udacity.com/course/cs212
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This Man's $600K Facebook Disaster Is a Warning For All Small Businesses(sfgate.com)
248 points by warrenmar 13y ago|125 comments
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Twenty developers you don't know, but should(joystiq.com)
1 points by warrenmar 13y ago|0 comments
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by warrenmar 13y ago
Reminds me a bit of coffee meets bagel except instead of a single match, you get a batch. I wonder how facebook fatigue affects conversion. There probably isn't another way to find 2nd degree friends besides facebook login, or is there
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by warrenmar 13y ago
How are you going to hire your first 10 employees?

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