HalcyonMuse

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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
Wow, thanks for pointing that out - it was fascinating to read.
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
On the other hand, by dint of being so loud, they've given even the quiet hackers some well-deserved recognition. Intellectualism has too long been shunned in the main stream. It's finally become sort of (dare I say it?) cool to be a hacker
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
(t)he (r)eally (u)nusual (l)ights ... (y)ellows (a)nd (d)arks ... (u)ncommon (m)oods ... (b)rown (p)ackages (o)f (s)traw, (t)oo. You missed it, but no harm done - it was not very interesting to begin with.
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
I'm surprised you didn't mention September 1993, the neverending September. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September This isn't a big date technologically speaking, but as far as the social history of the internet goes, it was huge.
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
Surprised no one has posted this link yet: http://hackingisnotcracking.com/ It's only 100 days old on HN. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=577224 I found the link memorable, anyway. I've been sharing it with my "liberal arts friends"
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
This seems like a great idea to me, as it could get you a job, and make your service much faster, in that you could build your notification system into the class scheduling system, which would mean you wouldn't need to poll their system eve
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
In my humble opinion, "very cool" is a huge understatement. Very relevant to my interests.
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
I, too, was surprised there weren't more. I use this; I like it quite a lot. The search feels quite superior to Thunderbird's native search.
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
The article in the comment you replied on has a solid theory: it's hard to patent bacteriophages in their natural state, and tailoring bacteriophages to a specific person presents difficulties with the FDA. Therefore, obtaining profit throu
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
I've heard good things about coffee shops, but I haven't tried them yet. According to a recent article on YC, this is a "third place." (The article was about MMOs.) Pubs and bars are also "third places." Essentially, though, yes, there is n
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
It has a cleaner interface, but I have to click a button every time I find a login that doesn't work to get a new suggestion. On bugmenot, I don't have to wait for code. On the other hand, this might somehow protect the site from getting sc
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
Seems kind of embarrassing, though, as far as bugs go...
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
Didn't chemistry.com start as a referral engine test by a PhD? (This may be heresy.)
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
Very handy to know! Thank you.
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
"A more sustainable fashion" relative to what? Carbohydrates, I'm guessing?
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
Something important to note is that melatonin is not going to force you to sleep. You're not going to fall asleep staring at a computer screen if you take a dose of melatonin. It will make you sufficiently tired to sleep if you lie down and
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
For sufficiently high values of drowsiness, the difference can become negligible.
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
A lot of people have left a comment complaining that they keep their money in a bank. This seems to be missing the point - do you also keep your fine china in a bank? How about that jewelry you like to wear on Friday nights? That copy of Ad
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
If you hand over a wallet with a reasonable amount of cash in it that appears to be a used wallet, why are they going to decide it's a fake? How many people really carry one?
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
Where do you keep your laptop when you're not using it? Also at the bank?
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
Fake financial accounts are pretty common among corporate companies for detecting database breaches as a sort of last line of defense (or awareness, anyway), aren't they?
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
Do you have a better recommendation?
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
Very cool - I did not know this measurement, though it seems painfully obvious now that you've pointed it out. I will start using the lane dashes; thanks.
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
Definitely the most amusing journalism piece I've read lately. It also didn't smack of that whole "I don't know what I'm talking about" thing that plagues modern journalism.
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
"The safe party drug"? I haven't read anything about modafinil being used as a "party drug" in the sense that cocaine or mdma might be used. This seems like a very poorly written article... and there were no links to the research (or no obv
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
I hate the notifications, too, so I've set my feed to show status updates only by default. Occasionally, I'll switch to the links or notes view to see what's trickling around, since I usually miss these in news feed mode anyway.
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
I interned at Yahoo for two summers, but I worked in Break/Fix for the search clusters. I was no where near marketing. As far as I could tell, non-tech-savvy users are their target audience... and there are way more of these people than you
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
On the other hand, there are plenty of places that do ship their garbage ridiculous distances. I have no citations, but I think you could find examples with Google. I seem to recall a few instances involving France and Siberia (separately,
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
No. E-mail is too fundamental.
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by HalcyonMuse 17y ago
I was under the vague impression that a little bit of sodium was necessary for keeping the proper h2o equilibrium in the bloodstream. I don't go out of my way to ingest sodium (I probably get plenty in my diet) and I don't know whether sodi

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