rationalbeaver

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by rationalbeaver 2y ago
"Hold Control and Option while clicking on a window to switch focus to that window without raising it." TIL. Amazing little hack.
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by rationalbeaver 7y ago
"Ikaria...named after the Greek island where a close-knit community helps extend people’s lifespans." "Bader met Dadashi through an offline men’s group for discussing life, love and everything in the wake of Secret’s collap
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by rationalbeaver 7y ago
Great concept! Bookmarked for future reference. Nitpicky copy edits: In the headline, it should be "value" not "values". Also, I'd update the job buttons to just say "Apply". "Apply Job" sounds a
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by rationalbeaver 8y ago
You're on the right track with that, although I'd say it's centered around order, rather than entropy. It's hard to do it justice here, but the book builds off of existing information theory to offer an explanation of wh
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by rationalbeaver 8y ago
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies - César Hidalgo (2015) Fantastic read that gave me a new way to understand the world.
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by rationalbeaver 8y ago
When facial recognition is ubiquitous we will all wear masks.
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by rationalbeaver 11y ago
We should be suspicious of all ideas.
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by rationalbeaver 14y ago
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by rationalbeaver 15y ago
"Stay the hell out of my kitchen" comes to mind. :)
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by rationalbeaver 15y ago
I'm not sure why I would care to defend him, but it seems that his claim that the data is not real time can be verified by the first image in the parent comment's list. In that shot there's a column listing the 'Upload Reason'. The reasons
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by rationalbeaver 15y ago
I'm not going to buy it until it goes on sale for 90% off.
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by rationalbeaver 15y ago
It's because he's spending a lot.
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by rationalbeaver 15y ago
Seems like it would be a pretty good business model for utility companies.
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by rationalbeaver 15y ago
One bank to rule them all?
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by rationalbeaver 15y ago
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?rlz=1C1CHMR_enU... Google is your friend.
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by rationalbeaver 15y ago
I launched http://practicalinterviews.com , where I'm posting my interviews with entrepreneurs, business owners and creative folks of all sorts. I'm still working on my recording setup, to say nothing of my interviewing techniques, but at
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by rationalbeaver 15y ago
Replace Facebook with Google Search and Twitter with Gmail, then add in Orkut for good measure. That would be an interesting graph.
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by rationalbeaver 15y ago
Yes, just like all the other hackers...
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by rationalbeaver 15y ago
I don't mean to be a jerk, but this post was lifted wholesale from Jonathan's actual blog: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2011/05/23/on-snuggies-and-bu... And this is the actual link to the post named in the submission: http://www.hypebo
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by rationalbeaver 15y ago
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/23/groupon-u-s-revenues/
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by rationalbeaver 15y ago
I think there's good advice here for almost anyone, you just have to adapt it to your situation. Not all of these work for everyone, but many will work for most. Let's take your site CompVersions.com (which looks very nice, BTW) for example
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by rationalbeaver 15y ago
There's actually a current model at Ikea that works awesomely as a stand up desk: The Fredrik. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00115992 I own one and enjoy it greatly.
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by rationalbeaver 16y ago
There's a bit more info in one of the articles he linked to. Specifically, in the HufPo piece ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tonya-plank/meet-mega-bestsell... ) she's quoted as saying: "AH: As of Tuesday, January 04, 2011 at 9 PM, I've sol
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by rationalbeaver 16y ago
I was under the impression that Hotmail is accounts you can throw away.
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by rationalbeaver 16y ago
"One very important point that William fails to mention about his email to us - he spent the time to track down every Tumblr employees email and sent it to the entire team. It was way over-the-top, and yes, discouraging to the team." Assumi
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by rationalbeaver 16y ago
We should chalk it up to Facebook being blocked in China.
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by rationalbeaver 16y ago
It's the vacation you take shortly before the baby arrives. The wife and I took one (though I refuse to call it that). For the record, we probably spent about $250 on the whole trip (including fuel, lodging, food, etc).
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by rationalbeaver 16y ago
While I basically agree with you, the literary nazi in me must say that SF is a genre, not a writing style. The Baroque cycle crosses the historical fiction and SF genres into a lovely mutant child that could be called Historical Science Fi
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by rationalbeaver 16y ago
Likely more for trademark and brand protection than Google (although it doesn't hurt there either).
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by rationalbeaver 16y ago
Good reference on link building: http://www.seobook.com/archives/001792.shtml It's a little older, but still valuable. In fact, someone submitted it here, rather recently.

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