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The Grinch Who Changed to the Twenty Sixteen WordPress Theme(filterjoe.com)
1 points by FilterJoe 11y ago|0 comments
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India issues dress code to discourage use of cheating technology for exams(bbc.com)
1 points by FilterJoe 11y ago|0 comments
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by FilterJoe 11y ago
While the HN crowd mostly gets this right when framed as a math puzzle, my guess is that confirmation bias is alive and well in high tech just like in any other field. One example: Young 20s entrepreneur vs. early 50s entrepreneur. Without
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High Tech Youth Baseball Bats: A Skeptic's Guide(filterjoe.com)
2 points by FilterJoe 11y ago|0 comments
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Netbook Dream Becomes Reality with Acer C720(filterjoe.com)
1 points by FilterJoe 11y ago|0 comments
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by FilterJoe 12y ago
Out of curiosity I poked around on your site and did some test searches using words similar but not identical to some of your titles. I did this just on articles I thought people might actually be looking for and that are over 1500 words. F
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by FilterJoe 12y ago
With all the talk of water running out in CA and the world, I am wondering why desalination is not part of the conversation. According to Wikipedia: "Supplying all domestic water by sea water desalination would increase the United Stat
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by FilterJoe 12y ago
I'm one of those people who has approached content creation strictly "as a service to your users, not as an exploit of your users." All of my blog posts are very carefully researched, in-depth guides, sometimes literally taki
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NYPD caught red-handed sanitizing police brutality Wikipedia entries(arstechnica.com)
15 points by FilterJoe 12y ago|1 comments
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by FilterJoe 12y ago
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip A. Fisher is the best book I've read about the process of getting to intimately know one specific company. It was written long before the phrase "focus investing" was coined. Warr
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by FilterJoe 12y ago
"not helpful" and "looks fake" are not the same. A review can be not helpful for many reasons, including: * one or more incorrect facts * goes on and on about one minor point while ignoring major stuff * too brief * reve
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by FilterJoe 12y ago
I wish Amazon had a "This looks fake" button above each review. I would click it multiple times per week. Most fake reviews are easy to spot. The simple test: Could this review have been written about any other book in this catego
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by FilterJoe 12y ago
The Great Suspender: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende... Combined with Session Buddy: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edac... Tho
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by FilterJoe 12y ago
Yes. Sandboxing makes sense when you think of browser as operating system. Isolate each process to increase security and crash-resistance. Makes sense, but it takes more memory.
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by FilterJoe 12y ago
The problem is using many open tabs with Chrome. If you use no more than 3 or 4 tabs, Chrome is generally fine. If you use more than that, Firefox has some built-in features to help with tabs such as delayed tab loading and tab grouping. It
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by FilterJoe 12y ago
It's too bad that Barnes and Noble's ecosystem (free books, emailing books to your account, lending library, etc.) was and still is so inferior to Amazon's. Amazon has yet to produce hardware anywhere near as good as the Nook
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New PyCharm Educational Edition(blog.jetbrains.com)
8 points by FilterJoe 12y ago|0 comments
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PyCharm 4 to have iPython Notebook support(blog.jetbrains.com)
3 points by FilterJoe 12y ago|0 comments
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ASUS Chromebox: Fanless Haswell in a NUC-like Form Factor, Starting at $179(anandtech.com)
12 points by FilterJoe 13y ago|1 comments
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PyCharm 3.1 released(blog.jetbrains.com)
2 points by FilterJoe 13y ago|0 comments
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by FilterJoe 13y ago
Agreed that online reviews are broken. That's what drove me to co-found a company that takes a different approach to reviews, one which stresses category over individual products. Start with the premise that the person you most want t
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by FilterJoe 13y ago
http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com/ Doing the first 2 lessons will not only get your a vagrant powered VM up and running, it will also give you a good feel for normal use. And you'll also be learning Django.
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by FilterJoe 13y ago
Gross market cap lost during a CEO's reign is a poor measure of performance for a variety of reasons: * stock prices often get de-linked from the underlying value of the business (and the starting point for Ballmer was the height of th
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by FilterJoe 13y ago
Safari was in need of an overhaul - Chrome, Atomic, and other browsers were so much better that I pretty much stopped using Safari. From what I saw in this review, the new Safari offers much more functionality than the prior version, devoti
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by FilterJoe 13y ago
Pinned tabs on demand (introduced early 2012) is Firefox's killer feature that got me using Firefox again after using Chrome almost exclusively for a year. When you pin tabs, and then restart the browser, the tabs are not loaded until
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by FilterJoe 13y ago
While I share the author's frustration that Google Reader is going away, I don't get all the hostility toward Feedly. In just a few months' time, they've replicated by far the most important aspect of Google - serving as
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Poll Finds Disapproval of Gov't Record Collection, but Little Concern(thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com)
4 points by FilterJoe 13y ago|0 comments
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by FilterJoe 13y ago
Chomksy's book, Manufacturing Consent, goes a long way to explaining how U.S. mainstream politics works in conjunction with the media, even though it was written over 2 decades ago. 20 word summary: Carefully study incentives throughou
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by FilterJoe 13y ago
I liked the article but not the misleading title. A title like "Alien movies have so many implausible ideas" would have been more accurate and not get people so stuck on the one idea implied by the title. Of all the implausible ideas in sci
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PyCharm 2.7.2 released(blog.jetbrains.com)
2 points by FilterJoe 13y ago|0 comments

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