MCompeau

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The Key Metric No One Talks About with Sleep(medium.com)
1 points by MCompeau 5y ago|0 comments
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by MCompeau 7y ago
Alleviating homelessness using technology and data. I recently learned that homelessness is not just about the people you see on the street every day, but that homelessness is in fact a funnel that people fall deeper into as their situation
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by MCompeau 7y ago
This is a very eloquent explanation, thank you.
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'We' Is Sorry About the Weirdness(bloomberg.com)
1 points by MCompeau 7y ago|0 comments
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by MCompeau 7y ago
Props to the founder for his foresight choosing a name that will perfectly position them for an acquisition when Tim Sweeney decides he's ready to go head to head with Musk and Bezos.
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How your life changes at different levels of wealth (2015)(reddit.com)
69 points by MCompeau 8y ago|18 comments
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by MCompeau 9y ago
Obviously this data set is heavily skewed due to the fact it comes from loan applicants. Can anyone suggest a better, more representative source for net worth data by age, income, etc.?
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by MCompeau 9y ago
The way art transforms over time is fascinating and can completely alter our perception of entire classes of art and culture. Check out ancient Roman and Greek statuary and architecture: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-c
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by MCompeau 10y ago
I'm basically in the process of pursuing this dream. Previously I was an architect in Canada where we did a lot of large scale wood structures using sophisticated computational fabrication techniques. These types of sophisticated proje
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by MCompeau 10y ago
> What about the other execs responsible? Well, one of them is in charge now, so...
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by MCompeau 10y ago
Water leaks into cracks and cervices when its warm and then freezes when its cold. Since the ice expands and concrete has negligable tensile strength the cracks and crevices expand even further and the material begins to chip away and crumb
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by MCompeau 10y ago
What about debris floating on the surface?
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Google Kills Off Right Hand Side Ads(6smarketing.com)
1 points by MCompeau 11y ago|0 comments
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by MCompeau 11y ago
I run a small company that specializes in digital fabrication technologies like 3D printing. We’ve been in business for about 3 years now with moderate success. During that time, the progress I’ve witnessed in 3D printing technologies has b
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Does MrDoob Approve Your Code Style?(github.com)
1 points by MCompeau 11y ago|0 comments
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by MCompeau 13y ago
I feel like this undermines the true spirit of HN Plays 2048
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by MCompeau 13y ago
Think they're out of stock, I'm in Canada as well and I managed to snag one as soon as they went on sale.
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by MCompeau 13y ago
I can't seem to find a way to share the local/personalized results I get with others via link. Is it even possible/reasonable? Would appreciate any advice, thanks.
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by MCompeau 13y ago
Didn't seem to be a problem, YMMV of course.
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by MCompeau 13y ago
Thanks very much for the feedback from both of you. Some of it mirrors what we heard during our experiment. We're gradually going back over the website to clarify the communication of some of these points more clearly and fix some usability
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by MCompeau 13y ago
We tried this just yesterday at a couple Starbucks locations in Toronto for our new lines of 3D printed jewelry ( http://www.hotpopfactory.com/ ). It was great, because we could hone in on specific demographics that interested us based on t
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by MCompeau 13y ago
If you enjoyed this article, I highly recommend checking out the book Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich (director of Lockheed's Skunkworks). It covers the development of this aircraft and several others through some pretty gripping accounts of eng
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by MCompeau 14y ago
Yes, they are .stl files which, for the most part can be opened with any CAD/3D Modeling software and processed by pretty much every 3D printer.
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by MCompeau 14y ago
There are definitely Makerspaces and Hackerspaces around to facilitate this stuff. I'm a member of one called Site3[1] in Toronto. We have a variety of milling machines as well as a laser cutter, 3D printer and a new DIY 3-axis CNC that we
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by MCompeau 14y ago
but terrorists!
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by MCompeau 14y ago
....and that's where I stopped reading.
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Justice Department Won't Prosecute Goldman Sachs for Financial Crisis(foxnews.com)
1 points by MCompeau 14y ago|0 comments
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Use Kinect to take Live Control of Inanimate Objects [SIGGRAPH 2012](core77.com)
2 points by MCompeau 14y ago|0 comments
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MIT's Infinite Size CNC Router(alecrivers.com)
144 points by MCompeau 14y ago|38 comments
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Microsoft High Performance Lagless Touch Screen(youtube.com)
4 points by MCompeau 14y ago|1 comments

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