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by mortuus 13y ago
This is great, here's hoping it spreads like wildfire on facebook!
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by mortuus 14y ago
"Is there a way to post this on digg" -2007
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by mortuus 14y ago
you have to say the whole line (including the 'if a woodchuck could chuck would' piece)
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by mortuus 14y ago
The reference to the Redditor that automated his work and took a disproportionate portion of the bonus pool was a strong example of changes to come. Any thoughts on that piece?
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by mortuus 14y ago
Typo in the Bloc.io link URL in the closing line, block.io should be bloc.io : "Jared Tame is a co-founder and mentor at Bloc, where he’s teaching people how to become web developers in 8 weeks."
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by mortuus 14y ago
It could scale if he sub-contracted work to local college students looking for mobile dev experience.
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by mortuus 14y ago
The author looks to be planning a future post on how he plans to take on this responsibility. Can anyone (who feels that they have 'taken full responsibility') share what path they have forged?
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by mortuus 15y ago
Potentially allowing him to view the world in inverted colors?
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ThePirateBay now accepting promotional home page doodles(thepiratebay.org)
4 points by mortuus 15y ago|0 comments
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by mortuus 15y ago
Having the information normalized as you suggest would be great. Breaking it up into a ~5 point scale (especially if it took advantage of visual cues) would save some mental effort. Perhaps relative font sizes?
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by mortuus 15y ago
The article closes with the thought that there may be a related 'cognitive universal'. This list reads like a bare-bones version of the human experience: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_universal
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Build app to make science more open and win 10k (or a quadricopter)(mendeley.com)
1 points by mortuus 16y ago|0 comments
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by mortuus 16y ago
I bet they're doing better with the ads now that they are asking users if they are relevant. It would be interesting to see some numbers in this area. Occasionally there are amusing ads on Hulu which I find enhance my viewing experience. Al
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by mortuus 16y ago
Multiple comments have suggested that this page has elements reminiscent of scam-related web pages, of the type where you are clearly being sold to. Warning flags that come to mind: overuse of large fonts, very long pages with repetition of
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by mortuus 16y ago
typo: "otherwise you nobody can see it" Where did you get the (one boat cruise|two boat race) saying?
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by mortuus 16y ago
at least two social bookmarking sites targeted to women have been attempted and failed sk*rt: http://mashable.com/2007/08/08/skirt/ SugarLoving: http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/sugarloving-com-digg-nev...
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by mortuus 16y ago
This video on Khan Academy's "Vision and Social Return" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRf6XiEZ_Y8 ) seems to be putting some of this into practice (requirement of 10 in a row with visual feedback). Also the feedback for the teacher (in
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by mortuus 16y ago
Seems like an interesting idea to push into an education system. This is concept behind harder versions of classes (e.g. honors, AP) where you can increase the difficulty level if you have shown you are capable. However, the timeline is too
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by mortuus 16y ago
this bias tends to come up frequently on HN (often as a reminder that this community shares more articles about businesses that succeed than those that fail), so many may recognize it (and upvote it) --- it's sort of like saying tl;dr and s
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by mortuus 16y ago
Heard of the Dead Man Test? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_behavior_analysis#Behav... "If a dead man can do it, it ain't behavior, and if a dead man can't do it, then it is behavior."
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by mortuus 16y ago
fta: "One area where we are seeing real-time analytics improve content companies is in article headlines. For most of us, an article headline is all we use to decide whether or not to read on, so having a good one is definitely important. T
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by mortuus 16y ago
Thanks for sharing, had to look the term up. roughneck (drilling): "A low-ranking member of the drilling crew. The roughneck usually performs semiskilled and unskilled manual labor that requires continual hard work in difficult conditions f
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by mortuus 16y ago
MySpace started getting a lot of negative coverage in mainstream media in terms of personal safety (bad people out there). (e.g. http://www.ktvu.com/news/7783930/detail.html ) Facebook's earlier negatives were more in line with employers s
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by mortuus 16y ago
Does this have any applications for game development?
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by mortuus 16y ago
thanks for sharing that, it helped to find this name origin: "Revlon was founded in the midst of the Great Depression, 1932, by Charles Revson and his brother Joseph, along with a chemist, Charles Lachman, who contributed the "L" in the REV
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by mortuus 16y ago
- the enemy and equipment art is great - the journal feature is fun, I wish more games had something like this. you might be able to introduce quests/statusrewards around information contained in the journal (like GoblinCrusher --- punishes
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by mortuus 16y ago
Marketplace Whiteboard does a great job explaining market concepts with analogies and simple whiteboard visuals (and is available as a podcast) http://marketplace.publicradio.org/collections/coll_display....
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by mortuus 16y ago
b2b potentially, according to this article: http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/30/stickk-raises-more-funding-...
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by mortuus 16y ago
Could the YC model compete with undergraduate education?
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by mortuus 16y ago
I expected a story from show details. Definitely want a link to the full-story somewhere if the numbers catch my eye.

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