zeynel1

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by zeynel1 15y ago
Gravity is not a force; gravity is a hoax. I am glad that physics establishment finally is realizing this: http://science1.wordpress.com/2008/12/25/dear-physicist/
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by zeynel1 15y ago
Feynman and other physicists built a mass destruction weapon that they knew it was a mass destruction weapon. Feynman is a murderer http://science1.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/ten-most-wanted-phy...
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by zeynel1 15y ago
Thank for this insightful comment. Do you think, online form would work to count a relatively small section of the population, such as New York City? The problem with online submissions is that it's quite difficult to uniquely identify peo
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by zeynel1 15y ago
http://citizencensus.appspot.com/ http://citizencensus.appspot.com/about
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Ask HN: Citizen Census. What do you think?
3 points by zeynel1 15y ago|5 comments
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by zeynel1 15y ago
" Having air around the text reduces the stress level, as it makes it much easier to focus on the essence. " But his extreme left margin creates unnecessary tension and looks unbalanced on the page. On the other hand, I applied his 140% lin
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by zeynel1 15y ago
" "The freshman aren't really using facebook [to find parties] anymore." " I built this app to learn Google App Engine http://hello-1-world.appspot.com/about and it will be good for people to find hot spots where people at. But I've been
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by zeynel1 15y ago
" Companies are a lot like people. " True; but even more so: Corporations are living organisms; I call them humanoid organisms. http://science1.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/the-realm-of-the-hu... Humans are the domesticated critters of humano
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Jason Calacanis: "There's unlimited amount of capital in the world"
2 points by zeynel1 15y ago|4 comments
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by zeynel1 15y ago
" The usual way theoretical physics was done since the time of Newton was to begin by writing down some equations and then to work hard calculating solutions of the equations " I cannot believe that Freeman Dyson would claim such false noti
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by zeynel1 15y ago
This is what I am trying to do with my project with GAE: http://ting-1.appspot.com/rt?rt=python At this point, I only have my own links; but if other people submit their own python links; and I figure how to sort by relevance, ting may be
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Experiment with “release early” mantra(hw11.wordpress.com)
2 points by zeynel1 15y ago|0 comments
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by zeynel1 15y ago
" Modern physics has begun to think of the bit—this binary choice—as the ultimate fundamental particle. John Wheeler summarized the idea as “it-from-bit.” By that he meant that the basis of the physical universe—the “it” of an atom or subat
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by zeynel1 15y ago
Thanks for this analysis! It makes sense. I believe one of the reasons to launch early is to observe how users actually use the product. Now I am thinking maybe I need more than a co-founder, or in addition to a co-founder, “brand ambassado
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Rana Sobhany, iPad DJ and Entrepreneur (gothamgal.com)
7 points by zeynel1 15y ago|0 comments
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by zeynel1 15y ago
I am not sure. I tried email because I was new to Google App Engine and I was trying to learn how to send and receive email; and also email appeared to be easiest. I vaguely remember reading here that the younger generation do not use email
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by zeynel1 15y ago
Thanks! I updated the about page with your suggestion: http://hello-1-world.appspot.com/about Any other edits are welcome.
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by zeynel1 15y ago
As the user of this app I was thinking socially active fun-lowing females of all ages; probably living in a big city going out at least a few times a week; and for whom enjoying the company of girlfriends is an important part of their lives
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by zeynel1 15y ago
I also wanted to add this quote by PG that founders do not need to identify with their users: http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html One of the things that will surprise you if you build something popular is that you won't kn
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by zeynel1 15y ago
What on earth makes you think there is significant overlap between "party girls" and entrepreneurial-minded women? I don’t believe that the co-founder needs to be a “party girl”. If she goes out once in a while with her friends and uses t
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by zeynel1 15y ago
What are the benefits for the users of your app? May I suggest these: 1. bragging rights 2. finding hot spots 3. posting a picture from the outing to keep a record of social activity I welcome other possibilities as well. Why
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by zeynel1 15y ago
" This is an Irish company with little reach beyond Ireland and Great Brittan, so I expected to see reviews from either of the countries they supply. Instead I get American naval-gazers who haven’t ever seen or tried the stuff pontificating
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Ask HN: How do I go about finding a female co-founder?
6 points by zeynel1 15y ago|16 comments
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by zeynel1 15y ago
The nice comparison chart there shows that, for the purposes of signage, the difference is academic . The sign for the G train set in Arial or Helvetica will make no difference for riders. Or "Exit" in Arial or Helvetica... no perceptible
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by zeynel1 15y ago
" Standards are [just] paper. " He misunderstands how the world works. Standard is not just paper; standard is the thing. From this site: http://science1.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/matter-does-not-exi... For physicists Newton’s atomic
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by zeynel1 15y ago
My experience is that the easier to bookmark a page the least likely I will get back to it (except the two dozen or so in the bookmarks bar in Chrome). I built for my own use with Google App Engine this service I call "ting" (sample search:
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by zeynel1 15y ago
" Use knowledge engines, such as www.wolframalpha.com or www.trueknwoledge.com " Wolframalpha can be classified as "knowledge engine" but is this true for www.trueknwoledge.com? I couldn't figure out what it is.
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by zeynel1 15y ago
I like the simplicity of HN and I voted "I'd dislike it". But it was interesting to read the discussion because I've been working on an application with tags: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2366115 Several of the problems mentioned c
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by zeynel1 15y ago
ok, I fixed the problem. It should work now.
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by zeynel1 15y ago
Thanks for trying. The title of the page you are submitting must have returns before and after it. I try to catch that error with "strip" but for some reason yours is not caught: soup = BeautifulSoup.BeautifulSoup(urllib.urlopen(url))

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