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by wvl 16y ago
I think it's a rule in Hollywood that sports movies must be inspirational. In addition to Any Given Sunday, you've got: * Invictus * The Blind Side * Rudy * Remember the Titans * Miracle * Rocky * Karate Kid And that's ju
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Trada’s Position on Staying in Stealth Mode(trada.com)
1 points by wvl 17y ago|0 comments
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by wvl 17y ago
If you are to do a truly high quality screencast, you would need to have a script (and code) written ahead of time anyway. Otherwise you would fall afoul of the other complaints in this thread -- overly long, rambling and unfocused.
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by wvl 17y ago
I assume you're referring to Clay Shirky's excellent essay "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable" http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking...
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by wvl 17y ago
Thanks for the dataset. FWIW: %s/"//g takes it from 170M to 100M Of course, compression negates the saving, but it still seemed odd.
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by wvl 17y ago
This was done 10 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1103801
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Mobile network operators are just big dumb pipes in the sky(paulcarvill.com)
1 points by wvl 17y ago|0 comments
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The secrets of Malcolm Gladwell(blogs.ft.com)
102 points by wvl 17y ago|36 comments
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by wvl 17y ago
Here you go: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/definitive-guide-to-the-prima...
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by wvl 17y ago
Here's a good article that explains what happens: http://blog.leshill.org/blog/2009/11/17/ensure-with-explicit...
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by wvl 17y ago
You know what sucks, commuting. I need go go out of the house into the cold, heat up my car, drive through traffic, find a place to park. This is obviously bad for the environment, and heck, it's almost 2010! Why are we still living with a
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by wvl 17y ago
Start checking your stats only once a day, at most. That way, you’ll be alerted to any potentially significant changes (i.e. your ecommerce engine is down) I agree with this advice, however I would sincerely hope that it doesn
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by wvl 17y ago
While I agree that node is interesting, this article is little more than blogspam. A better introduction is here: http://www.nakedjavascript.com/going-evented-with-nodejs (posted 4 days ago here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=946143
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by wvl 17y ago
Or, don't: http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/peta-cspi-and-other-menac...
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by wvl 17y ago
Perhaps, also the connection between: " It’s entirely possible to have a bad meal in San Francisco, but to do so is entirely your fault: Yelp and other social recommendation services are better represented here than anywhere else in the wor
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by wvl 17y ago
If it takes a link bait title to get this message across, then I'm all for it. This diet is essentially Primal, similar to the Paleo Diet ( http://www.thepaleodiet.com/ ). I've been doing it for a while now, and have nothing but good thing
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by wvl 17y ago
If you're losing weight, you're at a calorie deficit. Where does your body get the extra calories from? You got it, your own lard. http://www.marksdailyapple.com/saturated-fat-healthy/
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by wvl 17y ago
I've done the "Hacker's Diet" that posits that a calorie is a calorie, and what we eat is not important. I've done the conventional wisdom Low Fat diet. I've done a very low calorie high protein diet. All diets can work, at least in the sho
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How to Eat According to the Primal Blueprint(marksdailyapple.com)
4 points by wvl 17y ago|3 comments
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by wvl 17y ago
ΔWeight = Energy in (food) - Energy out (exercise plus metabolism) The flaw in the understanding of this equation as written in "The Hackers Diet" and many other sources is that the components on the right side of the equal sign are not ind
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by wvl 17y ago
Yeah, he lost me at Ferriss as well. And when he got to "The China Study", well... http://robbwolf.com/?p=300
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by wvl 17y ago
For some reason, the redirect links are broken for me in Safari. I get the message: Safari can’t open the page “ http://wordoid.com/RegistrarRedirect.aspx?registrar=godaddy&... because it’s an invalid address. For some reason (doesn't make
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by wvl 17y ago
This question is the reason I went into engineering. I learned calculus by correspondence in high school. Solving this problem transformed calculus in my mind from just some abstract problems to solve into something useful. It was a big tur
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by wvl 17y ago
One thing the article didn't mention is that when using ruby-debug you can drop into an irb shell from debugging. Best of both worlds.
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by wvl 17y ago
Interesting question that I've been wondering too. I had a prototype of something similar running in 2006, built on top of git.
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by wvl 17y ago
I assume people are voting up the headline, not the article, since that must be the most incomprehensible piece of text I've read in quite a while. How about a link to the proper source? http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904ove
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by wvl 18y ago
One thing I didn't understand before playing with Mosso Cloud Servers, is that a "cloud server" is basically a VPS that prices bandwidth incrementally and allows fractional billing cycles. If you shut down your Mosso cloud server, you are s
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by wvl 18y ago
ob correlation != causation Another hypothesis may be that the "Sexy Combo" box is the only one where a picture of the opened drop down does not appear, necessitating a visit to the actual site to see what it looks like in operation.
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Maxing out your love-growth-cash triangle(jackcheng.com)
46 points by wvl 18y ago|10 comments
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by wvl 18y ago
I'm always seeing Lordie, which my brain translates backwards to "get a lordie". Odd url, for sure.

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