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by whimsy 17y ago
tl;dr: Get rid of your TV, turn off your gadgets, and exercise. I was hoping for something profound and specific for designers/software engineers.
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by whimsy 17y ago
http://sites.google.com/site/thinkinginanutshell/nootropics This link was posted a while ago here on HN, I believe. It's more information dense, though it has testimonials from far fewer people. (That is, just one person.)
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by whimsy 17y ago
Well said.
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by whimsy 17y ago
CalTrain (San Jose to San Francisco) kind of works like this. Sometimes tickets are checked, sometimes they aren't.
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by whimsy 17y ago
I thought of this exact page whilst reading; I'm glad I wasn't the only one. It would be pretty awesome if you documented how you made it work (especially if you do it in such a way that is cheap and easily reproducible).
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by whimsy 17y ago
Very, very interesting... I think it would be a good idea to keep the actual location data inaccessible to the end user, but I can imagine it fitting in well with a site like OkCupid.com. OkC currently has a feature that parses profiles for
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by whimsy 17y ago
290% or 190% improvement but not 290% improvement
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by whimsy 17y ago
I believe s/he meant if the box you are using to log in is compromised, then all boxes your box has access to (by way of the private key it has in its file system) are compromised, whereas it seems you interpreted the comment to be implying
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by whimsy 17y ago
I'm very curious what the modern age would look like if Europe hadn't found the Americas until the 1600s, or the 1800s... what would modern technology look like? Modern culture? Would the Americas eventually have sufficient technology (prim
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by whimsy 17y ago
Hopefully you have heard of lesswrong.com by this point in time.
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by whimsy 17y ago
Didn't those hammerhead things have feathers on their heads?
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by whimsy 17y ago
I believe this idea was part of Snow Crash, and also a premise of Cory Doctorow's "Makers." (Except the means of production are centralized in Makers, iirc.)
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by whimsy 17y ago
This assertion is relevant to my interests. Do you have references to these studies?
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by whimsy 17y ago
>So would the occasional glass of orange juice actually be worse than the occasional can of soda? I don't think so - didn't he say orange juice is filled with sucrose? Sucrose is 50-50 glucose-fructose, unless I misinterpreted that part
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by whimsy 17y ago
Erik Smartt wrote about this[1][2], and it hit HN a while back. [1] http://www.eriksmartt.com/blog/archives/305 [2] http://www.eriksmartt.com/blog/archives/306 * As far as I know, part 3 isn't written.
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by whimsy 17y ago
Stack Overflow did essentially this, didn't they? How did they do that?
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by whimsy 17y ago
http://www.newtabking.com/ seems to do this for FireFox. Are there any other similar extensions for Firefox?
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by whimsy 17y ago
I'm surprised this didn't get more discussion. Why not?
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by whimsy 17y ago
Is there some sort of mathematics applicable to the level generation? For some reason, something about the game vaguely reminds me of hypercubes... though I'm not particularly familiar with hypercubes.
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by whimsy 17y ago
I showed it to a few friends and I'm glad the ramp-up is at the pace it's at. It makes it friendlier for folks who aren't naturally analytical thinkers, I think. That is to say, the ramp-up pace is good because analytical thinkers will blaz
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by whimsy 17y ago
No obligatory humor referencing H.P. Lovecraft's mythos? We're probably better off without, come to think of it. Good find; thanks for sharing.
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by whimsy 17y ago
Ah, yes, μTP is what I meant.
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by whimsy 17y ago
Do you have any recommendations on feminist material to read? I have tried, but much of what I found was very silly.
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by whimsy 17y ago
Incidentally, in case anyone did not get the reference, the title comes from a song called "99 Red Balloons" which is a brief chronicle of military awareness computers detecting a group of red balloons as an incoming threat which leads to a
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by whimsy 17y ago
You seem to be referencing this: http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/gosling/scal... Is that correct?
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by whimsy 17y ago
Wow... never before have I seen such a high quality procrastination tool.
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by whimsy 17y ago
I believe he was anticipating the socialism argument from someone, and he was trying to nip it in the bud. You are in the set of "someone" but you are not the only element in that set. Don't take it so personally.
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by whimsy 17y ago
I like the LeechBlock firefox plugin.
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by whimsy 17y ago
http://hackerdojo.pbworks.com/
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by whimsy 17y ago
As far as application of statistics to automated composition goes, definitely check out the EMI project over at UC Santa Cruz.

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