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by zecho 15y ago
You should add Eloquent Javascript to the list really good JS books, if you haven't already read it: http://eloquentjavascript.net/
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by zecho 15y ago
I think in this case it makes sense. Groupon restated a sharp drop in their reported revenues over three years. People don't necessarily invest in things they think are particularly good business models. They invest in things that are under
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by zecho 15y ago
I'm going to write the following with the caveat that there are plenty of idiots who like to put words in the founding father's mouth, not realizing how divided they actually were post revolution: Our Constitution is fundamentally built on
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by zecho 15y ago
Successful or not, why would anybody engage in this type of behavior? It's childish and I'm surprised he's not backing down from it on his twitter account. (Maybe I'm not surprised, per se. People can be asshats. I'm surprised nobody at Zyn
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by zecho 15y ago
It's an interesting concept, but I'm not sure how it's a business model. Do you guys also take a cut of equity from your startups?
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by zecho 15y ago
Agreed. I really appreciated his candidness about the whole process. For example, I've often wondered how the whole give away a t-shirt thing makes any sense considering the work that has to go into shipping them and the relatively higher c
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by zecho 15y ago
That won't happen until someone builds an incredibly popular framework for nuclear power.
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by zecho 15y ago
Does anyone else find the deletion of the infosuicide Wikipedia entry linked to in the article as deliciously ironic as I do? Which is a bit sad, because I'd never heard the term before, even though I have been online long enough to partici
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by zecho 15y ago
While I really like Heroku for the simplicity of use, you're not going to learn a bunch about how a web server actually works by using it.
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by zecho 15y ago
I've seen this a handled a few ways, depending on the merchant. 1. They show me the price before submitting it. I ask for a receipt sent to my email, which they need to type in, but I get it on my own phone immediately. The clerks I've seen
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by zecho 15y ago
!i brings up Google images, too.
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by zecho 15y ago
Excellent points. For example, I'm specifically referring to things like in the rising card, having the person place the card in the "middle of the deck" and holding out the entire deck minus a single card. That's not out of frame at all. I
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by zecho 15y ago
There's a grave marker in Los Angeles for Penn and Teller with a 3 of Clubs on it. It's definitely one of their "make a trick a lot more trouble than it's worth" routines. The payoff is featured in one of their videos from the late 80s.
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by zecho 15y ago
He does. It's the Penn and Teller show at the Rio in Vegas. Quite a few routines show you exactly how they work. And then they continue the trick to mess with your perception of how the trick was done.
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by zecho 15y ago
The real trick here is that Teller hasn't revealed anything new about the secrets of magic. One of the dirty secrets is that a magician does her best work with a willing audience. People want to be amazed. All magic requires misdirection, s
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by zecho 15y ago
Disagree. Forbes now print comments in the magazine. It's awful. I unsubscribed.
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by zecho 15y ago
Yeah. Sometimes the stats get it horribly wrong. I recently purchased new stove plates and burners and that's pretty much all they've been recommending to me for a few weeks. As though it's some kind of oft-recurring purchase or something?
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by zecho 15y ago
Yeah. I've seen Cisco software with buttons that do absolutely nothing. Click them all day long. They do nothing. The documentation says they do something, but they do not. Or GUIs that don't allow you to resize the window, despite the fact
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by zecho 15y ago
If you'd like to meet him, even briefly, go to the Penn and Teller show at the Rio in Vegas. After every show, they hang out in the hallway and chat with the audience as they leave. They usually wait until everyone is gone before they head
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by zecho 15y ago
Oh there will still be middlemen in the entertainment industry. The difference is that instead of entertainers working for the middle men, once they reach a certain popularity, the middle men will work for the entertainers. And really, this
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by zecho 15y ago
I added a couple of books. Seems like this could be a useful resource. A couple of feature requests: Search and ratings. Maybe ratings are what "points" are, but I'm not sure exactly what points means in the context of this site. Care to el
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by zecho 15y ago
Libraries aren't just books, though. That's kind of an old fashioned view of Libraries. Many librarians coming out of schools now have degrees in information services, and they're fairly progressive programs that are a subset of computer sc
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by zecho 15y ago
I think it's funny that people argue Google's more relevant. One of the reasons I got fed up with Google was the constant link spam in it from the content mills like Demand Media. Which is why I gave DDG a go. Maybe things have changed at G
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by zecho 15y ago
The labor part is his whole point. Gold has little to no utility ("...some industrial and decorative utility"), but land can be used to build more wealth ("A century from now the 400 million acres of farmland will have produced staggering a
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by zecho 15y ago
The 4-hour series borders on sociopathic behavior at times. I'd hardly call it common sense. I think Dwight Garner's review of 4-Hour Body in the New York Times summed up exactly how I felt about 4-Hour Workweek: "“The 4-Hour Body” reads as
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by zecho 15y ago
Before you dismiss Tim Ferris out of hand for his background, you should consider dismissing him on the merits of his methods of holding your breath longer than Houdini or eating ginger and sauerkraut to gain muscle.
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by zecho 15y ago
Exactly. Vi isn't a teacher, either. Khan hired her to continue doing what she's been doing for quite some time: Make math inspirational and interesting. She didn't even take any math courses at university. She's just incredibly passionate
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by zecho 15y ago
First, the headline doesn't represent the content very well. It should be Others May Use Data They Glean About You From Facebook. Secondly, I guess there's a fine line between "stereotyping" and statistics, isn't there? Thirdly, the author
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by zecho 15y ago
It's not just startups, either. In many markets, you've also got embedded competition from newspapers, radio, TV, and local magazines. And, of course, there's the national players like Groupon, Living Social, Google... The market is very li
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by zecho 15y ago
Keytar.

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