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mynameishere
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Is college worth the cost?
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jyrzyk
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People should be apprenticed at 13, and should enter professions at about 18. Only jobs requiring memorization of a large body of prior work (medicine or science) need more than that.
| null | 13 | 21 |
2007-08-29 19:48:45 UTC
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47,947 | 47,930 |
palish
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"Why netbeans' rails support is so creamingly good"
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r7000
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Cool. I wish the editor could be modified to act like Vim. I'd switch to it in a heartbeat.
| null | 4 | 15 |
2007-08-29 19:56:21 UTC
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47,948 | 47,915 |
especkman
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Is college worth the cost?
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jyrzyk
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Let me propose the radical idea that a college education is not solely justified by it's monetary value.
| null | 2 | 21 |
2007-08-29 19:59:37 UTC
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47,949 | 47,915 |
nfriedly
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Is college worth the cost?
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jyrzyk
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For me, college was absolutely worth the cost. Focusing on more than just the money, I met dozens of current and potential business clients. My side work as a freelance web developer has come mostly through people that I met in college.I went to a community college paid for entirely by scholarships, so the cost to me as far as money goes was only that of the books. The largest cost to me, though, was the time invested in classes where I learned very little. Back to money though, my pay jumped $2.75/hr at my day job as a direct result of getting my two associates degrees.
| null | 3 | 21 |
2007-08-29 20:02:13 UTC
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47,953 | 47,597 |
rustartup
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MySpace runs on IIS? Really?
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andreyf
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People who spoke against .Net/C#. Please study it really deep first. Do not make fun of youself.
| null | 6 | 11 |
2007-08-29 20:09:48 UTC
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47,960 | 47,958 |
tx
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Experience with Amazon Flexible Payment Service
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tx
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Just wanted to share (I know this topic is all time popular) about our experinece with Amazon FPS.First of all, we charge a small subscription fee each month. This severely limited our abilities to cherry pick payment processors. Second, we did not want to deal with (store on our servers) sensitive data such as credit card numbers.From a technical point of view FPS is a bit too complicated. Definitely more so than other gateways we looked at. That is because it's too generic: instead of 2 perties there are always 3. "Build your own PayPal!" is their idea. For people who aren't building their own paypal it is a bit annoying.Secondly, your users must have Amazon accounts. That may be good and bad, depending on how you look at it. To us it was bad: we did not want people to see "Amazon" stuff during sign up process - we had some unpleasant experience with similar approach taken by PayPal.But most importantly there is ZERO customer service. They have no phone support. None. If you try calling Amazon you won't find a single person who knows anything about FPS. And their "Technical Support" form WILL NOT return back to you within 24 hours. Basically it means that the system is not quite ready for production use: if your customers cards get rejected for no reason, you will need to solve that problem NOW. Well.. that's about it. Just wanted to share, since I picked up FPS advice somewhere on this board. We're going with authorize.net although it's unclear how easy it is to work with them using Ruby.
| null | 0 | 21 |
2007-08-29 20:31:23 UTC
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47,964 | 47,390 |
timr
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What Really Buys Happiness?
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kkim
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This article builds an elaborate straw-man argument: it argues that "happiness" appears to correlate with the perception of upward mobility (according to one survey, anyway). This may well be true -- but it doesn't mean that income inequality makes people happy!Moreover, it doesn't logically follow that taking steps to reduce income inequality would harm society's perception of upward mobility. Other than a weak assertion that focusing on inequality "legitimizes envy", the article does absolutely nothing to establish the link. It's taken as an article of faith that "redistributing income" (whatever that means) is bad for the motivation of the poor to become less poor. Stated another way: "the richer I become, the more inspired poor people are to be like me. Therefore, you should make sure that I stay at least as rich as I am today."
| null | 0 | 9 |
2007-08-29 20:36:12 UTC
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47,965 | 47,923 |
myoung8
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New Application Engagement Metrics from Facebook
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joshwa
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very interesting. this changes things significantly.
| null | 1 | 5 |
2007-08-29 20:39:34 UTC
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47,970 | 47,930 |
nanijoe
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"Why netbeans' rails support is so creamingly good"
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r7000
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Is Netbeans free?
| null | 6 | 15 |
2007-08-29 20:47:04 UTC
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47,975 | 47,482 |
eusman
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The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites (they perform better)
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nickb
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it's like comparing a good comedian actor vs a good looking actor. e.g. Danny Devito vs Brad Pitt. You just cant.Both make money, both are famous. But for different reasons. But there are cases of beautiful/comedians that don't perform equally well.So, you can't say that un ugly looking site will perform better. Usually ugly sites don't function well. The whole thing is about flow/simplicity/usability.Uglyness is so relative and differs to all individuals. For example, would you consider not painting your Ferrari's carbon fiber indoors and pedals uglyness? The point is that beauty some times cannot serve the purpose needed or it just has different variables. And in this case, you wouldn't show the beauty of what this car is made of if you went with the paint!
| null | 8 | 18 |
2007-08-29 21:10:13 UTC
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47,986 | 47,915 |
bmaier
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Is college worth the cost?
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jyrzyk
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If you haven't realized it yet, most of the education you're paying for in college isn't found in a classroom. College is a nice buffer against the transition to the real world where you can take risks without consequences for the most part. A lot of a college's value comes from your peer group, which is why smart people congregate at the top schools for the most part (aside from career prospects and prestige).
| null | 6 | 21 |
2007-08-29 21:33:52 UTC
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47,997 | 47,890 |
blored
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Hulu: News Corp's YouTube Rival Gets a Name
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terpua
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If News Corp actually found a good name, the comments in the Mashable article would be deriding it. So far as it stands, the comments are general positive, which makes me wonder whether the name is really catchy.Anyone else notice that the world works in opposites this way?
| null | 0 | 3 |
2007-08-29 22:19:14 UTC
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47,998 | 47,995 |
pg
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How do news reporters come up with a reason for why most stocks went up or down on a particular day?
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amichail
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993
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I've always thought this to be really strange. How could they possibly know the major reason (e.g., bargain hunting, uncertainty about X, etc.)?
| 1 | 6 |
2007-08-29 22:19:38 UTC
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48,002 | 47,999 |
davidw
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Google In Oregon: Mother Nature Meets The Data Center
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davidw
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The kooky comments show why growth doesn't happen in Oregon - no matter what company wants to build, people start trying to find out how 'evil' it is and protest against it. It's sort of a knee jerk reaction, it seems:-/
| null | 0 | 1 |
2007-08-29 22:25:22 UTC
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48,003 | 48,001 |
extantproject
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Northern Virginia Meetup
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extantproject
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How about a meetup at Gordon Biersch in McLean, Virginia at 7:00 PM on September 5th? Everyone that can make it out is welcome. Reply here (or on HackrTrackr since he's doing a good job with it) if we'll see you there.
| null | 0 | 1 |
2007-08-29 22:26:39 UTC
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48,005 | 47,804 |
extantproject
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HackrTrackr now has area based forums for Y Combinator Readers
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dottertrotter
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Any Virginia, DC, or Maryland YC users out there please check out a potential meetup here, thanks to HackrTrackr:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48001
| null | 4 | 17 |
2007-08-29 22:30:07 UTC
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48,012 | 47,923 |
tomek
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New Application Engagement Metrics from Facebook
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joshwa
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I'm sick tired of these applications... I'm not logging in any more not to see notifications which of my friends installed what... Who cares?
| null | 0 | 5 |
2007-08-29 22:49:22 UTC
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48,018 | 47,930 |
kingnothing
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"Why netbeans' rails support is so creamingly good"
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r7000
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I've been using the most recent stable dev releases for several months now and love them.http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/ruby/Also, the devs are incredibly quick to respond to bugs if you run in to a problem.
| null | 1 | 15 |
2007-08-29 22:56:26 UTC
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48,019 | 47,880 |
gscott
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Review of Project Management Tools for Startups
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bigtoga
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Listing officezilla.com being free as a "Deal Killer" is too bad. It would have been nice if he would have at least gave it a try. Sure it is not a pure project management system but because it is not there are some advantages since it can do more then projects. If you spread your information out between various different systems you will find yourself with a whole lot of logins and urls to remember.
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Recently here at LearnItFirst.com due to our growth, I had to decide on a few things: (1) project management software, (2) help desk software, and (3) knowledge base management software. I wanted to post my notes/thoughts on the project management software here so that it can hopefully save someone else some time in the future.
| 0 | 9 |
2007-08-29 23:04:26 UTC
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48,022 | 47,930 |
Alex3917
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"Why netbeans' rails support is so creamingly good"
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r7000
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I really don't want to know the etymology of that one.
| null | 5 | 15 |
2007-08-29 23:18:53 UTC
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48,025 | 47,930 |
mhartl
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"Why netbeans' rails support is so creamingly good"
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r7000
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NetBeans looks great. Perhaps you can help me with something, though. Every time I try to evaluate one of these spiffy, does-everything-but-brush-your-teeth IDEs I go through the following process: (1) search for half an hour to find exactly the right thing to download; (2) download, install, and run; (3) now what??? In other words, I've found the documentation for fancy features to be rich, but instructions for just getting started are piss poor. Particularly critical is the lack of docs for step 3---how do I start or import a Rails project into the IDE? I've tried Eclipse, Aptana, and NetBeans, and given up in despair each time. I eventually figured it out for RadRails under Linux, but that was only after much effort. (I've since switched to Mac/TextMate.)Any help with the three steps above would be much appreciated. If anyone can post a nice step-by-step guide to getting started, I might even switch to NetBeans!
| null | 0 | 15 |
2007-08-29 23:24:06 UTC
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48,027 | 48,024 |
dfranke
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My eyes hurt...
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kashif
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Wear reading glasses, even if you don't think you need them. Set the color scheme in your editor to black on light yellow (this combination works well for me, YMMV). If you're using a CRT, either switch to an LCD or drop your resolution down a setting.
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From very long hacking hours. My brightness is already the least that ubuntu will allow. I am certain you guys face the same problem. How do you take care of your eyes?
| 9 | 16 |
2007-08-29 23:41:08 UTC
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48,030 | 48,024 |
jsjenkins168
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My eyes hurt...
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kashif
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Is it possible you are a bit farsighted? This can create some eye strain if you are forced to focus on a nearby object for long periods.I also have a friend who forgets to blink when he concentrates hard (seriously). Needless to say his eyes hurt when he codes.Whatever the cause, you should consider seeing an ophlamologist. I'm sure they can help you find a remedy.
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From very long hacking hours. My brightness is already the least that ubuntu will allow. I am certain you guys face the same problem. How do you take care of your eyes?
| 7 | 16 |
2007-08-29 23:52:31 UTC
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48,032 | 48,024 |
simpleenigma
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My eyes hurt...
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kashif
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It might surprise you but drink more water. Not soda, or coffee; drink water. Half the time my eyes hurt it is more about being dehydrated then staring too long ...
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From very long hacking hours. My brightness is already the least that ubuntu will allow. I am certain you guys face the same problem. How do you take care of your eyes?
| 0 | 16 |
2007-08-29 23:57:17 UTC
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48,033 | 47,915 |
aswanson
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Is college worth the cost?
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jyrzyk
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Mine was free. However, a flaw in my character led me to believe that a) It was trade applicable 2) They would teach me to build things. I studied electrical engineering, and it was mostly applied mathematics and physics with little systemic perspective. If I had to do it all over again, I would have studied pure mathematics, comp sci, and physics and built things on my own. But hey, free is free.
| null | 9 | 21 |
2007-08-30 00:04:36 UTC
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48,041 | 48,024 |
zaidf
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My eyes hurt...
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kashif
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Sleep.
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From very long hacking hours. My brightness is already the least that ubuntu will allow. I am certain you guys face the same problem. How do you take care of your eyes?
| 12 | 16 |
2007-08-30 00:15:23 UTC
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48,045 | 48,024 |
nickb
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My eyes hurt...
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kashif
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The trick is not to lower the brightness but to invert it. Under Mac OS, press Cmd-Opt-Ctrl-8 or get one of the many apps that do virtually the same thing but add more options. Basically, it just inverts the gamma curve and what was white becomes black etc. Under Linux... I have no idea.
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From very long hacking hours. My brightness is already the least that ubuntu will allow. I am certain you guys face the same problem. How do you take care of your eyes?
| 2 | 16 |
2007-08-30 00:34:32 UTC
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48,048 | 47,915 |
rokhayakebe
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Is college worth the cost?
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jyrzyk
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Take it from someone who quit. If you want to climb the corporate ladder than definitely go to college and sell your parents house to finance it. It will be worth it. I've seen it work. If you want to build your own ladder (as what I am doing now), then I suggest you check that college thing again.
I look around and I see my friends who graduated from school and they all make 1.5 to twice what I make a year, but not for long. The difference shows sometimes in our lifestyle and the way we look at the future. They see title, I see users. They see corporate car, I see users. They see 401k, I see Acquisition. Their biggest dream is to make Project manager or CEO. Fuck it I am CEO, and my wildest dream is to get that call from Sergey asking me for advices.
| null | 12 | 21 |
2007-08-30 00:38:42 UTC
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48,053 | 48,024 |
mhartl
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My eyes hurt...
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kashif
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I suggest using a work timer to remind you to take short breaks every 30 minutes or so. My favorite timers are xwrits (Linux) and AntiRSI (Mac). (N.B. Despite being an X program for wrists, 'xwrits' is not a typo.) As you can guess from the names, they are principally designed to help with RSI, but they can help with eye pain as well.Here are a couple of things to try during the breaks: (1) count to 30 while focusing on something more than 20 feet away; (2) close your eyes and place your hands over them for a count of 30.I know it's sometimes hard to take breaks when in the throes of a hackathon, but you'll get better with practice. I try to be really anal, taking breaks even if I'm mid-line; that way, I know I'll get back to work when the break is over.
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From very long hacking hours. My brightness is already the least that ubuntu will allow. I am certain you guys face the same problem. How do you take care of your eyes?
| 3 | 16 |
2007-08-30 00:50:07 UTC
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48,058 | 47,622 |
pg
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What's the best startup story you ever heard?
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eusman
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Of all the stories in Founders at Work I think my favorite is Wozniak's. It still amazes me that he made the entire Apple II by himself, both hardware and software.
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doesn't have to be about software
| 5 | 9 |
2007-08-30 01:07:41 UTC
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48,062 | 47,376 |
stoptypingnow
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New hydrogen generating technology "competitive with gasoline"
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charzom
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carbon is black = bad,
hydrogen is clear = good.
this is all the science you need.
| null | 3 | 13 |
2007-08-30 01:21:08 UTC
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48,064 | 48,024 |
henning
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My eyes hurt...
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kashif
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I wish I had a project I cared about enough to work like that.
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From very long hacking hours. My brightness is already the least that ubuntu will allow. I am certain you guys face the same problem. How do you take care of your eyes?
| 8 | 16 |
2007-08-30 01:35:47 UTC
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48,065 | 47,886 |
koolmoe
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Ruby on Rails on NetBeans 6
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twism
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Nicely done.What's with the SQL, though? Doesn't NetBeans support migrations?
| null | 0 | 2 |
2007-08-30 01:36:14 UTC
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48,066 | 48,055 |
ivankirigin
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Harvard's New File-Sharing Client
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pg
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Miro (formerly the democracy player) has lots of these features, but this looks wonderful. "Intelligent taste recognition" sounds good, but I wish I had more confidence in such services.
| null | 3 | 12 |
2007-08-30 01:42:18 UTC
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48,069 | 48,024 |
bootload
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My eyes hurt...
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kashif
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"... My eyes hurt... From very long hacking hours ..."Have regular breaks. your eyes hurt because the muscles focusing the eyeball is squeezing the eye forward (extrinsic ocular muscle activity). HOMER: "... *my eye's hurt*"
LENNY: "You know its the inter-ocular pressure causing by the muscles trying to focus. Asthenopia is another name for it."
HOMER: "Huh?"
CARL: " Homer just take a break."
HOMER: "... I did. I just poked my eye to see what it was like."
So to stop your eyes hurting take regular breaks ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthenopia & http://www.coopereyecare.com/eye_strain.htm
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From very long hacking hours. My brightness is already the least that ubuntu will allow. I am certain you guys face the same problem. How do you take care of your eyes?
| 1 | 16 |
2007-08-30 01:58:18 UTC
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48,070 | 48,061 |
rokhayakebe
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Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future
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bootload
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My startup and I are moving to Japan. These guys aren't waiting. This speed will have so much impact in their culture and work in 10 years that other nations may sit and wonder wtf happened.
| null | 5 | 15 |
2007-08-30 02:01:20 UTC
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48,071 | 48,061 |
staunch
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Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future
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bootload
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Examples like remote-medical applications are pretty meaningless. High bandwidth applications for regular users is what will change the world.I think the result of the US lagging behind is that the rest of the world has to wait too. Because US-based innovators don't have the connections they don't create the new applications. Japanese users don't have much use for their awesome connections now. I know, I have one.
| null | 0 | 15 |
2007-08-30 02:03:21 UTC
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48,072 | 47,995 |
pickme
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How do news reporters come up with a reason for why most stocks went up or down on a particular day?
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amichail
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They don't know. They just find any reasons to support what's happening. Hindsight is 20-20.
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I've always thought this to be really strange. How could they possibly know the major reason (e.g., bargain hunting, uncertainty about X, etc.)?
| 0 | 6 |
2007-08-30 02:05:03 UTC
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48,073 | 48,055 |
bootload
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Harvard's New File-Sharing Client
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pg
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Interesting tech behind this. Two points that stuck me ... (though I shouldn't be surprised) ~ http://tv.seas.harvard.edu/research.php- Ubuntu download - all or most of the code is crisp python ~ http://svn.tribler.org/abc/branches/mainbranch/
| null | 0 | 12 |
2007-08-30 02:05:29 UTC
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48,078 | 48,055 |
ivankirigin
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Harvard's New File-Sharing Client
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pg
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It dumped core on me in around 8 minutes. I did get to see a nice "The Knife" video though. http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZatCZ1YWQeI
| null | 2 | 12 |
2007-08-30 02:19:12 UTC
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48,084 | 48,006 |
staunch
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Programmers Need To Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them All - Zed Shaw
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jamiequint
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I'm a huge fan of statistics for reporting, but I think his ideas about how to use it in practical development is mostly broken.Their team needed statistical analysis and charts to solve a 60 second response time bug? That's just a total lack of basic debugging skills.Eliminating all confounding and spending the time to test your application's performance characteristics in a statistically valid way rarely makes sense. If lives are on the line fine, but in most cases the reason for even attempting it do so is bureaucratic. Release early, release often.
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Rant from Zed Shaw of Mongrel Fame
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2007-08-30 02:43:41 UTC
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48,085 | 48,055 |
rms
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Harvard's New File-Sharing Client
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pg
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Is facilitating the download of copyrighted content illegal?
| null | 5 | 12 |
2007-08-30 02:46:26 UTC
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48,086 | 48,044 |
mhb
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Jessica Alba is Hot, Mathematically Speaking
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damien
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0.69 vs 0.7? If that precision reflects accuracy, how did they get it?
| null | 1 | 6 |
2007-08-30 02:50:12 UTC
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48,088 | 48,006 |
mynameishere
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Programmers Need To Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them All - Zed Shaw
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jamiequint
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I think women are better programmers because they have less ego and are typically more interested in the gear rather than the pissing contestHere's a statistic: 99 percent of all achievements in computer science come from men. But, hey, I'm no statistician, so maybe I'll just trust some off-the-cuff twaddle from random jerks.I try to show them how to properly graph a run chart and they're indignant.Just wondering: Is this guy hacking device drivers? OpenGl? Maybe he's tweaking the last bit of sweat out of microsoft's C++ compiler? No...he's clearly doing CRUD work. Performance issues in CRUD work are solved by RAM and memcached, not screwing around in Excel. That's why your co-workers are indignant: You don't understand your trade.If we want to only verify one single query on a database then what's stopping us? Stupidity that's what.Because there are 6000 queries, and not all of us can spend all-day-all-night screwing around with Excel.The classic example of this is the Pet Store "The Pet Store" isn't the classic example of jack.Then I hit the DB2 database and about crapped my pants. Almost all of the queries performed great, except one query that had sub-second response on average, but a 60 second standard deviation!...my own statistics are a little rusty. If the average is .5, and the SD is 60, doesn't that mean that certain runs should be choking so hard that the log file would...just freeze. I mean, break out the Excel if you want, but I've seen log files choke before, and it's usually obvious what the problem is: The entry at the bottom."It's not the database, it's IBM's DB2 configuration.LOL. DB2's configuration being a part of...what then?The next day we had IBM fixing the problem (turned out to be a single update index command) and we all kept our jobs.Our hero! (Self-proclaimed)That's what a proper analysis method can do for you.Or just watching the log file.
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Rant from Zed Shaw of Mongrel Fame
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2007-08-30 02:54:36 UTC
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48,091 | 48,024 |
michaelneale
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My eyes hurt...
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kashif
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My optometrist recommended you unclog the pores in your eyelids. You eyelids have pores that emit a thin layer of oil that covers the eyeball, and helps prevent evaporation. Those pores get blocked.She said to use a heat pack/mask (as hot as you can handle for as long as you can handle) an then massage the eyelids (pressing down on the top, and up on the bottom) to try and get the wax plugs out (yuk). Then wash your eyes.
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From very long hacking hours. My brightness is already the least that ubuntu will allow. I am certain you guys face the same problem. How do you take care of your eyes?
| 6 | 16 |
2007-08-30 03:01:05 UTC
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48,092 | 47,769 |
thisisnotmyname
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"A sizable fraction of the world's crops" are from mutations induced via radiation
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brett
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This is a really terrible description for this article. The term "mutant" simply means that it is a strain with altered genetic material. A mutation is not necessarily detrimental, and it doesn't mean that it will glow green, or sprout legs, and it certainly doesn't carry any radiation. Mutants are extremely useful for a variety of reasons, mostly for doing genetic studies. Obviously, the best way of producing mutants is to irradiate wild-type strains. (I'm working on a PhD in the biomedical sciences)
| null | 0 | 17 |
2007-08-30 03:06:06 UTC
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48,096 | 47,995 |
jamiequint
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How do news reporters come up with a reason for why most stocks went up or down on a particular day?
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amichail
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They are Fooled By Randomness :) (good book)
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I've always thought this to be really strange. How could they possibly know the major reason (e.g., bargain hunting, uncertainty about X, etc.)?
| 3 | 6 |
2007-08-30 03:16:23 UTC
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48,099 | 47,967 |
dzohrob
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Mitch Kapor speaks at YC dinner
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luccastera
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umm, this just takes me to weebly.com. am i crazy?
| null | 0 | 30 |
2007-08-30 03:26:58 UTC
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48,101 | 48,044 |
palish
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Jessica Alba is Hot, Mathematically Speaking
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damien
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"The Jessica Alba sashay beat off competition"?
| null | 3 | 6 |
2007-08-30 03:33:20 UTC
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48,107 | 48,061 |
falsestprophet
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Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future
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bootload
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I don't think this is as important as it is made out to be. These preposterously high speeds will certainly create opportunities for << internet >> applications, but I think that they are much less relevant for << web >> applications. The web is the internet's killer app and I suspect this will always be the case. There will be important transformations to be sure, but with more bandwidth we will just have more of the same.I think that the web is a better interactive application than bandwidth-intensive video alternatives. It (even MySpace) inherently stimulates our higher brain functions, whereas video seems to universally produce a trance-like state. (Although, I suspect this may be a prime opportunity for impression based advertising.) However good a business that may be, I won't be a drug pusher.More bandwidth doesn't make the internet a new medium; it just makes room for more of what we already have. If I had to guess what The New New Thing will be on the coming high bandwidth internet (and of course all of us here need to), I would say that it will be the old old things that people have been trying from the start. I think it will be nationwide video on demand; I think it will be bit torrent with a toll. I don't think it is an interesting problem for hackers or entrepreneurs. It is too messy. It is for suits in the media companies to clean up.edit: I may have spoken too quickly. A moment after I posted this, I began to wonder how much bandwidth is necessary to eliminate the need for a local computer. That would make one hell of an internet application. I'm sure there are plenty more. But, I still trust that the web is here to stay.
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2007-08-30 03:56:19 UTC
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steve
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Harvard's New File-Sharing Client
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pg
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Of course the feature that publicity will pick up on is the recommendations. I though, am more concerned about how resistant this is to various attacks.Youtube and bittorrent already have popular, legal stuff covered pretty well. What does that leave? Adult video?That's all they'll have left unless they protect the users very well.
| null | 1 | 12 |
2007-08-30 04:43:09 UTC
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48,121 | 48,024 |
nmeyer
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My eyes hurt...
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kashif
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Code with your eyes closed.
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From very long hacking hours. My brightness is already the least that ubuntu will allow. I am certain you guys face the same problem. How do you take care of your eyes?
| 11 | 16 |
2007-08-30 04:51:57 UTC
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48,123 | 47,869 |
cellis
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Gateway's trajectory from startup to PC giant to also-ran
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drm237
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Gateway has always been an also-ran, startup or not. They just happened to hit it big because 90% of Americans thought that Gateway was Bill Gates' company. i did, when I was 10. haha. my how things change.
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In the 1980s, the small South Dakota business selling computers through catalogs was called Gateway 2000. In 1998, the "2000" no longer sounded as futuristic and the now gigantic company was renamed Gateway Inc.
| 1 | 5 |
2007-08-30 04:54:27 UTC
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48,124 | 47,771 |
Shooter
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Dot-com names get dottier: X is the new Z
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zach
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I'm so incredibly sick of these "Teletubby" company names.Granted, I'm a cynical thirtysomething so maybe I just don't get it. Maybe Ooma, Lala, Tinker, and Bebo ARE great company names. I don't think so, though. I was rolling my eyes during the last internet bubble too, when everything was iVomit.com and ePuke.com, etc. In retrospect, I think most people will agree that most of those names WERE stupid.Like the author of the article, I do realize that many of the 'great' names have been taken and that the vast majority of domains seem to be held by domain squatters...BUT I think that using coined, nonsensical names is extremely counterproductive. Names should be memorable, easy to spell, and not have obviously bad connotations. It's not that hard to come up with an original name that is appropriate for what you're doing, is it? I've worked as an entrepreneur/hacker, as a VC, and as a naming consultant. I have a long list of unused names that I think would make great company names. I think of new ones on an almost weekly basis. So many that I will never be able to use them all in this lifetime. Maybe coming up with names is just a skill that many hackers don't take the time to develop?If a company is unable to come up with even a 'decent' name for what they claim is their all-consuming passion, it makes me seriously doubt their ability to ever properly execute their business plan. I consider it a failure in the marketing department (and marketing is a core function, whether you actually have a 'marketing department' or not.)If your company name sounds like a Teletubby, maybe you should just hire (or consult with) a marketing person before you launch...?
| null | 0 | 8 |
2007-08-30 04:55:13 UTC
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48,126 | 48,061 |
kingnothing
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Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future
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bootload
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"U.S. phone and cable companies, which control about 98 percent of the country's broadband market, strongly oppose the proposed laws, saying they would discourage the huge investments needed to upgrade broadband speed."Huge investments such as the $200B from American tax payers in the 1990's that resulted in nothing?http://www.muniwireless.com/article/articleview/5011
| null | 2 | 15 |
2007-08-30 05:04:32 UTC
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48,127 | 48,108 |
palish
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Justin.TV on Yahoo news
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abstractbill
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How did the crew get their inspiration for Justin.tv?Hah! Catching that crime was brilliant. Did they get him?
| null | 0 | 9 |
2007-08-30 05:07:56 UTC
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48,128 | 48,104 |
kingnothing
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Brilliant hack: Cool demo using an oscilliscope as the display (vid)
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nickb
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I wonder how it was done. The explanation under the video doesn't pass my bullshit-o-meter.
| null | 2 | 13 |
2007-08-30 05:10:45 UTC
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48,143 | 47,915 |
chaostheory
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Is college worth the cost?
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jyrzyk
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Like a lot of things in life, it depends on what you want and how you want to get there. It also depends on the institution's culture (we're going to ignore GetDrunkAndParty U).For technical and engineering pursuits, a good college is a great place to get a fast and wide overview of theory, competing technologies (or philosophies), and different specializations/tech aspects (database, programmer, ...). (I think this is why I'm more of a generalist as opposed to java or php master...)More importantly, (a good) college puts a lot of smart, driven people in the same place and time. Going to college allows you to form important relationships with these people that can strongly affect both your personal and professional life both now and in the future. I think both Apple and Microsoft are great examples of my last point.Finally (assuming you got a useful degree), in case all your entreprenuerial endeavors fail in the short term; a degree can net you a high paying job with a lot of free cycles to relax/regroup and get ready to start that next idea you have =)
| null | 7 | 21 |
2007-08-30 05:57:29 UTC
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48,145 | 48,061 |
tx
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Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future
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bootload
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It's not the speed of connections what is holding web applications back, it's poor runtime. DOM+JS without standard local storage, with complete absence of standard libraries for anything but trivial, without any access to PC hardware... Pretty pathetic... It is especially ironic to see ridiculously slow speed of simple Flash 2D graphics running full screen on a kick-ass video card. Besides, it's not only speed what matters, there is latency issue as well. With HTTP I cannot tell much difference (visually) when going from 3mbps to 12mbps unless I'm downloading an ISO file or something like that. Browser will not open more than 2 connections at a time anyway.
| null | 3 | 15 |
2007-08-30 06:01:16 UTC
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48,146 | 47,869 |
mynameishere
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Gateway's trajectory from startup to PC giant to also-ran
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drm237
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The PC business was quickly becoming a commoditized me-too business with numerous players and tiny margins.To those of us old enough, the catalog "Computer Shopper" was formerly a 1000+ page, 3-inch-thick monster consisting almost entirely of smallish computer companies selling PCs. Nowadays, you have Dell, HP, and a few others.
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In the 1980s, the small South Dakota business selling computers through catalogs was called Gateway 2000. In 1998, the "2000" no longer sounded as futuristic and the now gigantic company was renamed Gateway Inc.
| 0 | 5 |
2007-08-30 06:02:17 UTC
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48,147 | 48,104 |
jamiequint
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Brilliant hack: Cool demo using an oscilliscope as the display (vid)
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nickb
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Wow that is incredible!> The explanation under the video doesn't pass my bullshit-o-meter.Download the FLAC file and try for yourself then :)
| null | 0 | 13 |
2007-08-30 06:02:54 UTC
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48,151 | 47,915 |
far33d
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Is college worth the cost?
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jyrzyk
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Name one other place where are surrounded by smart, thinking people of the same and opposite sex constantly for 4 years. Name one other place where the law basically doesn't apply and you are basically encouraged to take huge risks with your friendships, your learning, and your life (sometimes). Sure, college is expensive. Sure, you have to do a lot of things you don't want to do. But, you also don't have many opportunities to learn things that are totally impractical from true experts in the field. Take advantage. Love every minute. Get out of there and do something amazing. Last, a lot of the people I met in college are incredibly smart and amazingly successful. Some of them work on the most innovative software around. Some write for world-renowned publications. And some of them just have really rich parents. No matter what, if you go to a good university, you will meet people that will help you someday later. Yah, privilege is a bitch, but if you have the opportunity to have it, why not?
| null | 5 | 21 |
2007-08-30 06:10:22 UTC
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48,162 | 48,050 |
davidw
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San Jose tops list of richest cities in US
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cellis
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Sometimes I just don't know... It's nice to work in the US for a lot of things - money first and foremost. But San Jose is also a good example of what's unpleasant about the US. Even a small town in Italy has (at least) an order of magnitude more character and interesting things, rather than sameness and right angles. It's difficult if not impossible to attach a monetary value to, but I think there are definitely some externalities involved in living in a beautiful place, that at least for some people, compensate for the other things that are wrong.
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wealth builders anyone?
| 0 | 9 |
2007-08-30 07:25:39 UTC
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48,164 | 48,087 |
davidw
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Reconstructed image of a Neanderthal child
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rms
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Hrm....http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f233/BigRed2009/Renders%20...
| null | 0 | 1 |
2007-08-30 07:31:46 UTC
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48,168 | 48,024 |
chmike
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My eyes hurt...
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kashif
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Check the screen orientation regarding other light source.
Do not put your screen in front of a source of light (window) or with a source of light in the back reflecting into it.Optimal orientation is with screen perpendicular to the window or light source to avoid reflections on the screen and light source behind the screen. Otherwise your eyes and brain will have to do allot of effort to focus on your screen.Check also the screen quality. LCD flat screen are Ok. A long time ago I worked with a tube screen slightly out of focus and had terrible head ache by the end of the day even though I had no problem with my eyes. Changing screen solved the problem.
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From very long hacking hours. My brightness is already the least that ubuntu will allow. I am certain you guys face the same problem. How do you take care of your eyes?
| 5 | 16 |
2007-08-30 08:31:45 UTC
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48,177 | 48,171 |
Shooter
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Buy a Mac, get TextMate!
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nickb
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I downloaded Textmate once after hearing great things about it, but I never got around to trying it out.I know there are bundles available for Lisp and Python, but can anyone comment on how good they are relative to Emacs/SLIME and IPython?
| null | 2 | 6 |
2007-08-30 10:24:24 UTC
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48,204 | 48,171 |
damon
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Buy a Mac, get TextMate!
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nickb
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I honestly tried to drop emacs in favor of TextMate for hacking scheme. It has the buzz, a great philosophy with a really stand up developer hacking it, sexy integration with osx, subversion hooks, nice bundle system, file browser, intuitive shortcut keys, seemingly deep regex support, and on and on. The issues I ran into with TM for scheme were really fundamental. While TM has both scheme and lisp bundles, they don't seem to handle code indentation nearly as well as emacs. Proper scheme indentation was mostly a manual process. The REPL integration is also much better in emacs, in my opinion. That proves to be a huge time saver. REPL integration in TM amounted to opening up terminal.app in a separate process.These two things - code indentation and repl support - were two things I couldn't look past. They are the bread and butter of scheme hacking. I would love to see TM improve in these areas.If you're lisp hacking I think you'll be best served by slime/emacs. That combination is the best environment I've found.
| null | 0 | 6 |
2007-08-30 12:38:13 UTC
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48,207 | 48,183 |
lispy
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How Basic Common Lisp Techniques Can Improve Code Configurability, Maintainability, and Reuse
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nickb
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This is what happens when a mediocre programmer reads too many Paul Graham essays, hacks his way through a couple of sections of SICP, and shamelessly rips off Peter Norvig's code in chapter 2 of PAIP.Kids these days.... ;)
| null | 0 | 10 |
2007-08-30 12:42:05 UTC
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48,209 | 48,055 |
damon
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Harvard's New File-Sharing Client
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pg
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This seems really out of sorts for higher education, Harvard in particular. Do their lawyers-in-training need more cases? I must admit, I would by tickets to MPAA v. Harvard. Or maybe by then I'll just watch it on "Harvard TV".Looking through tech glasses, their give-to-get algorithm and "bartercast" algorithms could be fun to write, but they don't feel new or novel.
| null | 4 | 12 |
2007-08-30 13:02:23 UTC
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48,214 | 47,915 |
imgabe
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Is college worth the cost?
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jyrzyk
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Here's some interesting numbers. Let's say you go to a college for four years and it costs $25,000/year, $100,000 total. To pay for it, you take out some college loans at 7% interest that have to paid back in 10 years. So, your loan payment is $1161.08/month. In total you'll pay $139,329 by the time the loan is paid off. So, you earn 1.2 million more over your life time than the non-college grad, but after the cost of college you're only ahead by about $1,060,000. I'm supposing here that by "over your lifetime" means until you retire, that is say from age 22 to age 65.Now, suppose you don't go to college but instead you start working at 18. You apply yourself to your job, learn what you can on your own time, and by age 22 you've got four years experience and you've been promoted the point that you can sock away $1161.08 per month in savings. Say you do this for 10 years and keep the money in a conservative mutual fund that earns an average return of 7% per year. After the 10 years are over you've got $200,965 in savings. At this point, you stop investing. Even with no additional money, by the time you're 65 (33 years later) you'll have $2,011,064.27 or roughly $1 million more than the guy who invested his money in college.Of course these are just some made up numbers. A lot of people who aren't motivated to go to college are probably also not motivated to save that much money and live that frugally. If college costs you less than $25,000 per year it might be worth it, or you might go into a profession that allows you to earn way more than $1.2 million more than the average high school grad. On the other hand, lots of colleges cost a good deal more than $25k/year. Also, the high school grad might invest his money more aggressively and earn more than 7% interest. It would be interesting to see where the crossover point is in terms of college cost, loan interest rate, investment interest rate, and so on. The point remains that a return of 1.2 million over 43 years on a $100,000 investment is pretty crappy (around 5.8% compounded monthly, slightly better than an online savings account)
| null | 8 | 21 |
2007-08-30 13:11:18 UTC
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48,219 | 48,202 |
croby
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New Technology: Dynamic Resizing of Images
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croby
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From the article, 'Well, it looks like Michael may have gotten his wish as Adobe has hired co-inventor Shai Avidan to their team.' Unfortunately, that makes it seem like this promising new technology will be lost to a proprietary implementation. It would be great to see something like this in the HTML 5 spec. <img src="image.png" dynamicresize="vertical|horizontal|both"/> This is, of course assuming that it could be done in-browser and isn't very processor intensive to do. Is this something the W3C could possibly consider?
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The article goes on to say 'Well, it looks like Michael may have gotten his wish as Adobe has hired co-inventor Shai Avidan to their team.' As such, it looks like this promising technology will be integrated into a proprietary application/technology published by Adobe. I think it would be interesting to have this technology in the HTML 5 spec. <img src="image.png" dynamicresize="vertical|horizontal|both"/> This is, of course, assuming it could be done in-browser and doesn't take a ton of processing power to do. Have there been any attempts to include more innovative technologies, such as this, in a W3C recommendation for something as broad as HTML?
| 0 | 1 |
2007-08-30 13:17:31 UTC
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48,228 | 48,061 |
mpfefferle
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Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future
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bootload
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"The opening of Japan's copper phone lines to DSL competition launched a "virtuous cycle" of ever-increasing speed..."They got real performance gains when they decoupled the service provider from the infrastructure provider. Of course, this was implemented through regulation, but I wonder what you could do on an open market. Would it be feasible for consumers to buy into a local fiber network so that they "own" the last mile? That would give them leverage when selecting a provider for TV, Internet, and voice service.
| null | 4 | 15 |
2007-08-30 14:13:01 UTC
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48,229 | 47,995 |
byrneseyeview
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How do news reporters come up with a reason for why most stocks went up or down on a particular day?
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amichail
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In a few cases, it's really obvious (the company's earnings are out; their stock is way up; thus, they beat earnings), but in most cases journalists have to write something no matter what, so they write something plausible.
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I've always thought this to be really strange. How could they possibly know the major reason (e.g., bargain hunting, uncertainty about X, etc.)?
| 2 | 6 |
2007-08-30 14:16:16 UTC
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48,230 | 48,184 |
sanj
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Tales of an Instant Company - the founding of epinions.com
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sharpshoot
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I think it is important to read more about epinions. Beyond the fact that it is pretty much dead today, was firesaled, and was had some nasty interpersonal personnel issues, I think it is a classic example of a company with a unmanageable story:"Here's how it works: we convince people to write opinions. And then when someone else reads that opinion, and ranks it highly, we'll give the writer a piece of an affiliate link sale."There's way, way, way too many steps involved in making a few pennies.The story that you tell your users (all of them) is very important. Epinion's was pretty miserable.A buddy of mine said that one of the reasons that Google's a money machine is that it is dead easy for a neophyte web advertiser to set up an ad:1. Pick some words
2. Pick how much you want to pay
3. Done.That's the level of story you want to tell.Measure your story against that.
| null | 0 | 20 |
2007-08-30 14:18:50 UTC
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48,233 | 48,050 |
Goladus
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San Jose tops list of richest cities in US
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cellis
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The 500,000 population threshold combined with the use of "median household income" is what makes this interesting.Newton, MA has a MHI of $86,000 but its population is more like 84,000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton,_MassachusettsThe 500,000 population limit rules out lots of suburbs and use of the median eliminates diverse cities with wealthy neighborhoods. I'm not immediately sure what use of "median household" vs. "median individual" means, since I'm not sure what counts as a household. (do 4 young professionals crammed into a small house in Cambridge count as one household?)
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wealth builders anyone?
| 1 | 9 |
2007-08-30 14:31:25 UTC
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48,235 | 48,234 |
budu3
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Is 'Intelligent Resizing' Coming Soon To Adobe Photoshop?
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bootload
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I wish it was an open source project that could be incorporated into web browsers. That would be great.
| null | 1 | 4 |
2007-08-30 14:42:39 UTC
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48,241 | 48,232 |
damon
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Does My Startup Idea Suck?
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entrepreneur
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What's the idea? How to linkbait headlines?
| null | 0 | 6 |
2007-08-30 14:46:00 UTC
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48,244 | 48,184 |
steveplace
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Tales of an Instant Company - the founding of epinions.com
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sharpshoot
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I love the fact that this aggregator pulls up articles before the bubble. The language and the tone of the entire article is like nothing can go wrong. It's great.It's also interesting that the author of the article foreshadowed "Web 2.0" before it was coined 5 years later. The Tom Sawyer model. Brilliant.
| null | 1 | 20 |
2007-08-30 14:51:17 UTC
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48,246 | 48,142 |
kirubakaran
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Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe
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jamiequint
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WE refer to them as 'hackers' too? :-(
| null | 1 | 19 |
2007-08-30 14:58:45 UTC
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48,248 | 48,211 |
damon
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The Gphone is coming; how Google could rewrite the rules
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luccastera
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I think you can tell how successful product X is by the amount of "X killer" stories you run across with the "rewrite the rules" or "change the industry" type of hype. Google, make your phone. Microsoft, make your zune, your origami. Creative, make your $5 mp3 player. These people posting these link bait headlines and all this "could be 2008", "could have x" stuff, please.I'd like to see a gphone. I'd like to see google release their operating system. Both products are periphery to their core competency of search it would give us a good chance to see how malleable they are.But goodness am I tired of these speculative journalists. OK, I'm truly sorry for posting this rant.
| null | 0 | 3 |
2007-08-30 15:05:59 UTC
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48,249 | 48,006 |
FatBastard
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Programmers Need To Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them All - Zed Shaw
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jamiequint
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The guy says programmers are shitpumps because they are men who are guided by primate dominance reflexes not reason, and what do the programmers do in response?Start a pissing match of course.I saved his page so I can study up. Also, my dick is bigger than yours and I could kick your ass.
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Rant from Zed Shaw of Mongrel Fame
| 5 | 68 |
2007-08-30 15:06:46 UTC
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48,250 | 48,024 |
villiros
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My eyes hurt...
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kashif
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As you're near-sighted, ask your optometris to give you a "near vision" prescription. Such prescription would have lenses that are as weak as possible while still allowing you to see clearly at about arm's length.Idea being that focusing at things close by requires keeping your ciliary muscle stressed for long periods of time (try to focus on your palm as close to your face as possible, and then keep it there for a few minutes to feel this). Focusing at things far away requires complete relaxation of the eye. If you wear near vision glasses, your screen will hopefully be far enough that your eye is relaxed when focusing on it. I've been using weak glasses for work for the last 5 years or so, and find it makes a huge difference after a day of coding.
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From very long hacking hours. My brightness is already the least that ubuntu will allow. I am certain you guys face the same problem. How do you take care of your eyes?
| 4 | 16 |
2007-08-30 15:10:20 UTC
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48,256 | 48,171 |
inklesspen
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Buy a Mac, get TextMate!
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nickb
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I use TextMate when I can, and emacs when I can't. I recognize that emacs is much, much, much more powerful. However, I don't have the time needed to learn how to unlock that power.TextMate has a much gentler learning curve, and a lot more affordances -- it's easier to figure out how to do something when you have no idea of the keystroke or name of the command.
| null | 1 | 6 |
2007-08-30 15:39:31 UTC
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48,257 | 48,232 |
palish
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Does My Startup Idea Suck?
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entrepreneur
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This submission title is less than ideal.
| null | 2 | 6 |
2007-08-30 15:44:22 UTC
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48,259 | 44,124 |
eastsidegringo
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Human-consensus hurricane forecasting
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wensing
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The weather enthusiasts behind Stormpulse.com are applying the concept of the wisdom of crowds to hurricane forecasting. How? Create an account at Stormpulse.com and the next time there's an active storm, tell them where you think the storm is going to go by filling out a slick little form. They're going to take everyone's forecasts and aggregate them to see if you (and the crowd) can accurately forecast the the movement and strengthening of tropical cyclones.
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We're letting the cat out of the bag on our top secret feature. We'll have the feature on the site by week's end (just in time for the next thing that comes down the Caribbean pike).What do you think?
| 0 | 2 |
2007-08-30 15:48:04 UTC
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48,263 | 48,142 |
toffer
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Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe
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jamiequint
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Bruce Schneier suggests that this article is a little too sensationalist: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/08/cyberwar_in_es...
| null | 0 | 19 |
2007-08-30 15:55:55 UTC
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48,264 | 48,183 |
damon
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How Basic Common Lisp Techniques Can Improve Code Configurability, Maintainability, and Reuse
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nickb
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You've got to give the guy credit for trying. His sources are sound - PAIP is difficult, and PG consistently rings true. I'd take him over a mainstream C# drone salivating over Biztalk.I do like his update : "A lisp hacker has rewritten my code to take advantage of more of the language's native featuresX eliminating a great deal of code in the process."
| null | 1 | 10 |
2007-08-30 15:57:30 UTC
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48,265 | 47,852 |
almost
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Tutorial FTP: It's Easy as 1-2-3
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entrepreneur
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A tutorial on using an FTP client? On "Hacker News"? Something is very wrong here...
| null | 0 | 1 |
2007-08-30 15:58:34 UTC
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48,280 | 48,234 |
ivankirigin
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Is 'Intelligent Resizing' Coming Soon To Adobe Photoshop?
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bootload
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I intend to work on javascript tools to make this happen at DevHouseBoston
http://devboston.pbwiki.com/Dev3Projects
| null | 0 | 4 |
2007-08-30 16:30:23 UTC
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48,281 | 48,202 |
ivankirigin
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New Technology: Dynamic Resizing of Images
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croby
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I intend to work on javascript tools to make this happen at DevHouseBoston http://devboston.pbwiki.com/Dev3Projects
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The article goes on to say 'Well, it looks like Michael may have gotten his wish as Adobe has hired co-inventor Shai Avidan to their team.' As such, it looks like this promising technology will be integrated into a proprietary application/technology published by Adobe. I think it would be interesting to have this technology in the HTML 5 spec. <img src="image.png" dynamicresize="vertical|horizontal|both"/> This is, of course, assuming it could be done in-browser and doesn't take a ton of processing power to do. Have there been any attempts to include more innovative technologies, such as this, in a W3C recommendation for something as broad as HTML?
| 1 | 1 |
2007-08-30 16:30:53 UTC
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48,285 | 47,958 |
zviband
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Experience with Amazon Flexible Payment Service
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tx
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Amazon's FPS wasn't meant to be the end-all online payment system. It really seems like it was developed because so many webmasters hated paypal. And while going through amazon is a lot better than having ugly ass paypal... the users still sees a third party, which can seem unprofessional.In my personal experience, I applied for FPS. They sent me an email asking me some more questions, then said they would get back to me in two days. It's now been two weeks.
| null | 1 | 21 |
2007-08-30 16:42:33 UTC
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48,289 | 48,287 |
pg
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You're ideas aren't worthless, but they're pretty close.
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run4yourlives
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I wouldn't say I put zero value on ideas. Just that the founders matter a lot more.
| null | 0 | 3 |
2007-08-30 17:01:11 UTC
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48,290 | 48,044 |
Masapena
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Jessica Alba is Hot, Mathematically Speaking
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damien
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25/36=0,69444... Looks more like 0.69 than 0.70.
| null | 2 | 6 |
2007-08-30 17:02:38 UTC
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48,295 | 48,284 |
fauxto
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Thoughts on Image Processing in JavaScript?
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ivankirigin
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Image processing is not possible with JavaScript.
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I intend to work on javascript tools to do image processing at DevHouseBoston.
http://devboston.pbwiki.com/Dev3ProjectsThe goals are to build an open framework, to learn more JavaScript, and eventually to implement that crazy dynamic image resize method that's been floating around the internet.
http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il.nyud.net:8090/arik/IMRet-All.mo...I thought I'd ask this group if they knew of any existing tools to use. A cursory google search found little.This might be easier to do in Flash, but I want to learn more JavaScript and get the sense that it will be more portable this way. Any thoughts on this issue?
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2007-08-30 17:05:05 UTC
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donna
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How Not to Die
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subhash
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thank you, i needed the boost, perfect timing. ;-D
| null | 49 | 169 |
2007-08-30 17:15:34 UTC
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48,300 | 48,286 |
donna
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The word "Hacker" - Negative to Positive
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iamyoohoo
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the interpretation of words depend on each generation's intention. Hacker seems more aggressive and progressive for today's frontier; programmer seems old school...
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3-4 years ago when I started programming right out of school, the word Hacker used to have a negative connotation. I always wanted to call myself that but people would say "Hackers are people that just hack things together and cannot build scalable solutions" and programmers are ones that build real solutions. Glad to see that is changing now. I didn't agree then - I don't now. Do you ?
| 4 | 3 |
2007-08-30 17:21:52 UTC
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48,301 | 48,294 |
palish
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How Not to Die
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subhash
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"I only wrote it down because I only had two hours before dinner and think fastest while writing."Hmm.. I wonder if writing can help one to think through software design faster, too.I suppose that writing consists of actual programming, though.
| null | 18 | 169 |
2007-08-30 17:27:37 UTC
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48,302 | 48,270 |
msiegel
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Which keyboard do you use?
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vikram
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I use an IBM Model M Space Saver... love it! although it's probably the last keyboard you'd want :D
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A few days back my Kinesis keyboard broke down so I am looking for a cheaper option?
| 0 | 3 |
2007-08-30 17:27:55 UTC
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48,304 | 48,184 |
thomasptacek
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Tales of an Instant Company - the founding of epinions.com
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sharpshoot
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> Everything is faster. Zero drag is optimal. For a while, new applicants would jokingly be asked about their ''drag coefficient.'' Since the office is a full hour's commute from San Francisco, an apartment in the city was a full unit of drag. A spouse? Drag coefficient of one. Kids? A half point per. Then they recognized that such talk, even in jest, could be taken as discriminatory in a hiring situation."Could be taken as"? It is discriminatory. And Epinions failed; the Reddit team built a more valuable property with a tiny fraction of the time and effort.
| null | 2 | 20 |
2007-08-30 17:29:51 UTC
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48,308 | 48,185 |
damon
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Lectures are Ineffective
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nickb
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I think lectures are expensive. Time is expensive. In order for lectures to be effective, their value has to exceed their cost. You have two options - shorten them or improve their quality. Speaking is an art. The value of a good lecture far exceeds text. Imagine what you'd be missing if you just read "I have a dream", not hearing MLK's delivery.
| null | 0 | 4 |
2007-08-30 17:34:46 UTC
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