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by zach 14y ago
And indeed, an entire charitable organization dedicated to giving animals as gifts to developing communities. http://www.heifer.org/
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by zach 14y ago
Don't miss the end (pp. 41-43), where he calculates that the net economic benefit of mating between "systematizers" as very positive, modeling the resulting higher wages compared with the cost of autism (as 3-SD systematizing behavior) and
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by zach 14y ago
This is really going to be tough for me over the next two weeks because I'll have a lot of new services to become a power user on.
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by zach 14y ago
That's what's so weird, though — that particular reel-to-reel design actually seems like a deliberate combination of both influences. The skeuomorphic look of Podcasts was based on a physical product design by Ive's legendary design influen
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by zach 14y ago
For those who are bugged by mystery abbreviations, V2V means Version 2: Vegas. http://sxswv2v.com/schedule Looks like it's Sunday through Wednesday, so there will be plenty of available hotel rooms.
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by zach 14y ago
This is totally the same as Instapaper but instead of an app, it's magazine issues. All paid-subscriptions magazines still appear as free apps on iOS, but they either offer a free sample or a free trial. In this case, it's a free trial, whi
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by zach 14y ago
For those of you wondering why The Magazine is on iOS (first) and not a website, the answer is simple. Marco is just replicating the successful Instapaper business model: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-Readability-and-Instapaper...
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The "Most Revealing Job Interview Question" Is an IQ Test(quora.com)
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by zach 14y ago
I've always wondered what 1000memories business cards look like, because I'd totally love it if they were gravestones: DAN WILLIAMS BELOVED FOUNDER AND CTO Okay, that was random, but congrats on the acquisition. Great fit.
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by zach 14y ago
That's a good insight, thanks. The bureaucracy of providing care, especially where it involves the VA (which as mentioned is a different story than the VHA itself), can indeed screw up all the other benefits in the system. Definitely a caut
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by zach 14y ago
Uh, okay. My dad has been delighted with his VHA healthcare, if you demand anecdotal evidence. Statistically speaking, the Veterans' Health Administration routinely outscores private hospitals for satisfaction and is more cost-effective as
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by zach 14y ago
I also type this way. I never took a typing class and evolved directly from hunting and pecking, to hunt-and-peck without looking, to typing in the way you describe — if I extend my fingers, my thumbs and index fingers form a triangle. I ra
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by zach 14y ago
The best response would be to offer a reason for people to come back after they leave for a week or so. The worst response would to offer a reason for people to leave for a week or so if they weren't going to already . If the company basic
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by zach 14y ago
I like how Marco spins this, how he's just casually reviewing his logs at the end of the day, sees a couple of numbers out of place, spins through a Sherlockian series of deductions and has a sudden moment of clarity about Apple's hardware
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by zach 14y ago
Typically for me, the answer is that they are not interactive ssh sessions but long Rails migrations running via Capistrano. Anyone have a suggestion how to use tmux for those?
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by zach 14y ago
I'm interested to see the designer for this theme is none other than Drew Strojny, founder of the company behind The Theme Foundry. His backstory is remarkable — he was an offensive tackle selected in the 2004 NFL Draft. Really. You can hea
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by zach 14y ago
The way USA.gov puts it, government works are "not subject to copyright" or restrictions thereof, which I think explains the situation better. I am having a hard time finding a model for (or even discussion about) what happens when governme
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by zach 14y ago
Yeah, I'm kind of wondering the same thing. It's certainly the kind of timeframe that changes your perspective. Maybe a tiny bit of Danny Hillis rubbed off on me from working at Applied Minds (man, I sure hope so!) Because as we answer issu
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by zach 14y ago
Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost, pay-as-you-go storage service that can cost as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month. What would be absolutely fascinating is a pay-before-you-go storage service — data cryonics. Paying $12 to sto
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by zach 14y ago
We should subsidize things that are already affordable instead? Um...
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by zach 14y ago
Is it too much to hope that someday some of the software at the heart of Pixar's physics simulation systems could be released? Oh man, that would be awesome. When I went to the legendary SIGGRAPH 2001 Physically Based Modeling course with D
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by zach 14y ago
My theory is that by the time iGoogle goes away for good (November 1 of next year), there will be a way to customize the right side of your Google+ page with widgets. It won't be as flexible as iGoogle or support the same old widgets, but t
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by zach 14y ago
Another way to make the task seem less daunting is to make the card vertical, presenting four rows (of three stamps each) to complete instead of two rows of six. Grouping focuses people on immediate completion (visually completing a line or
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by zach 14y ago
This sounds like "If it was really that important, you wouldn't have forgotten it." — an untimely and unhelpful bit of smugness disguised as insight. It's okay though — I'm sure if you had realized that, you wouldn't have posted it.
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by zach 14y ago
I think the cringiness is inversely proportional to the geek-cred of the discipline involved. You're just another Perl hacker? Awesome. You're a biochemistry hacker? Okay. You're an "SEO hacker"? Ugh. You're a (shudder) "brand hacker"? Die
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by zach 14y ago
I just saw another rehash on the front page (which I don't mind much at current) which drew the inevitable responses: Old member: This has been on here n times! New member: But hey, as a new member, I appreciate it! http://news.ycombinator
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by zach 14y ago
Craig Newmark has often said that they innovate in response to their community. That would seem to have three effects: - Incrementalism: faster horses instead of cars - Suburbanism: those in the community want it to stay familiar - Majorita
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by zach 14y ago
One of the unusual experiences I had growing up in LA was a high school club fundraiser where we all went to a sitcom. Yes, we were hired as a studio audience for an evening. This was clever because they gave us a reason, not just an indivi
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by zach 14y ago
The best uses of QR codes are DEEP LINKS. Not as "mystery links", not to look modern, but to jump directly to one item in the middle of a hierarchy or a pool of options. Check out how Tesco used QR codes in Korea to make a virtual grocery s
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by zach 14y ago
As I understand it, Emacs was originally a text editor.

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