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by bloomshed 16y ago
Money, credit, bonds, and the stock market are mankind's cruelest jokes. We have no better way of transporting value so we base value on consumer confidence. It's just as silly as basing value on the supply of gold. Is inflation good or b
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by bloomshed 16y ago
Great video. This guy seems grounded. He's my hero.
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by bloomshed 16y ago
I used to work in a lumberyard with several insanely insensitive men. They had a saying which applies here that I will not repeat. I think that the super slick look can actually hurt an app. www.gowalla.com comes to mind. Enormous cuddly l
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by bloomshed 16y ago
Does a video on your splash page help market things virally? I feel like there are few things more irritating than a video of a founder or an overly cutesy animation explaining a new product being launched. How wrong am I? The exception to
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The future of K12 education?
1 points by bloomshed 16y ago|1 comments
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by bloomshed 16y ago
"With computers nowadays. . ." I was thinking today about the potential of digital textbooks/instruction especially in subjects like math. Schools group so many students so arbitrarily that most kids are not engaged at all in their class.
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by bloomshed 16y ago
I didn't mean to sound like I was being skeptical about ramps. Ramps make the most sense, especially the enormous three mile ones that lead right to the top level of the pyramid being built. I love big ramps made of dirt! Egyptians also u
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by bloomshed 16y ago
I hear you. No worries. I've been running into some dominant themes on HN as I've been participating and learning. This is my first project so usually when I say I can't code, HNers say, "Well you have no resume and can't code, so what va
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by bloomshed 16y ago
Ok, lots of administrative suggestions here, which is good insight, I appreciate it. What about collaboration and working with developers to incorporate their knowledge of sound programming structure and data architecture into the site? My
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by bloomshed 16y ago
Any suggested languages? I was emailing a guy last week about learning C. My first developer I worked with (college buddy) was using Rails for my site but my current developer is using Drupal.
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Ask HN: What makes coders happy?
7 points by bloomshed 16y ago|12 comments
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by bloomshed 16y ago
Finding a technical co-founder has been surprisingly difficult as I've worked through my network of college buddies. The project is risky and I think my buddies who are also trying to establish their careers are more tentative than I thoug
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by bloomshed 16y ago
Thanks for the response! I hear you. The reason I'm pursuing the project is because the product is nontechnical, cheap to build, and has mainstream appeal. There is no rocket science involved here. I'm taking existing tech and combining
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by bloomshed 16y ago
I think the trick is staying calm while you confront somebody about something. If you set them off, they stop hearing what you're saying and the whole "discussion" turns into a spitting match. Everybody knows that crazy talk is a waste of
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by bloomshed 16y ago
Thanks for taking time to help me out! I have a marketing buddy who believes the best course of action would be to polish up an amazing presentation of mock ups and present it to some angels because the site will probably be rebuilt after r
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by bloomshed 16y ago
A three mile long ramp made of dirt. I said they used dirt. Dirt. I like to ask my students how they think the Egyptians did stuff like this. They usually guess something like "a wooden thing with rope and they pulled it up." It's hard
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Ask HN: Funding Strategy - Bootstrap or Angel?
9 points by bloomshed 16y ago|8 comments
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by bloomshed 16y ago
It would be hard to fight a creature with 8 arms and no bones. They would grab all of our extremities and still have four arms left to beat us up. To quote the esteemed Thomas Callahan the Third: "Run for your lives!!! Your weapons are use
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by bloomshed 16y ago
Part of me says, "Teacher evaluations come down to tests, and tests are b.s.", but another part of me thinks there has to be some way to evaluate whether students make progress . Our district tries to collect data on this but I'm not sure
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by bloomshed 16y ago
I've never met one, but I think octopi are the coolest.
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by bloomshed 16y ago
"This fits with evolutionary perspectives that examine social pressures on the emergence of intelligence, and research showing a neural overlap between social-cognitive and executive brain functions." ___________________________________ OK,
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by bloomshed 16y ago
I'm always amazed by the Egyptians. They cut enormous obelisques(sp?) out of solid rock, rolled them onto enormous barges, floated them down the Nile, then erected them (pun intended) with nothing more than rope, sweat, logs and dirt. Pre
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by bloomshed 16y ago
Is it fair to sum up the Startup School meeting by saying there's more than one way to surgically remove the epidermis of a feline?
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by bloomshed 16y ago
HN Version of the comment I posted on your site: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ As a teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools, I tend to think that there is a direct correlation between socioeconomic status (SES) and student performance. Students who come fr
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by bloomshed 16y ago
I always hear stuff about how nanotech is going to do crazy stuff. What will a nanotech factory look like (if that's even an accurate description of how things will be made)?
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by bloomshed 16y ago
Good point. The only thing violent about farmville is how zynga relentlessly pursues your email list and real life dollars in exchange for worthless worthless digital items for your farm. Zynga does do a bit of charity awareness and fundrai
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by bloomshed 16y ago
I don't know if I follow what you're saying. We could make up hypothetical situations all day. Mental illness/child neglect/child abuse are all tragic things that exist independently of media. If the title of this article were "Study shows
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by bloomshed 16y ago
The title of this post is so ridiculous I refuse to honor the link by reading it. Anyone who really thinks Farmville or social networks had anything to do with this incident needs to learn about what it means to have a mental illness. This
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by bloomshed 16y ago
Scorched3D as in Scorch the Earth right? The tank/weapon game?
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by bloomshed 16y ago
I used to love a game called Stuntcopter on our family's old grayscale macintosh. You'd drop the guy out of the helicopter through the clouds into a horse-drawn hay wagon. We also had Microleague Baseball, which I wish I could find now it

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