The ads on flickr wrecked it 4 me
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Would your productivity double? (This is a serious question btw). Perhaps some fb employees are thinking about their next world class meal and overlooking a new idea, and employees at a facebook successor are grinding away while eating rice and beans for 2n.
Did Ion Storm ultimately end up beating out their competition due to their luxurious office space [1]? There is a difference between a perk and an indicator of success.
I think that's one of the main points.
"""Every once in a while, he would bring the new game upstairs to test it out on his family. They would play along, but Teuber could tell that the game wasn't working. Sometimes, in the middle of a match, he would notice his youngest son, Benny, reading a comic under the table. Other times his wife would suddenly remember a load of laundry that needed immediate attention. After each of these sessions, Teuber would haul the game back downstairs for further refinement. He repeated this process over the course of four years."""
Most businesses fail due to not understanding their customer, not due to the technical side of the product. One strategy to combat this is to prove that you're making something people want.
Add a tagline to the divvyshot logo in the top left.
These are "extended slices" and the third argument is the step. This link also explores deletion and the __getitem__ method:
One can also now pass slice objects to the __getitem__ methods of the built-in sequences:
>>> range(10).__getitem__(slice(0, 5, 2))
[0, 2, 4]
Or use slice objects directly in subscripts:
>>> range(10)[slice(0, 5, 2)]
[0, 2, 4]
Google is pioneering in the UI design area here, and they have a track record of supporting standards, sharing their technology and being developer friendly. To improve the usability of the web they are introducing controls that unleash the capability of the web. After trying out these buttons, I found that they are bliss for a keyboarder. Labeling and archiving before was abysmal, and different across browsers. Now it is a pleasure to use.
The initial website has a "domain parker" feel to it. I think the colours/design are off. Just my opinion though.
The loading times (especially for the map) seemed long for a production website. The longer I use your site (the more searches I do) the more annoying this feels.
There is good data on here for near where I live.
Can you use it to help find a better HN username as well, since it seems that "matt" was taken? ;)
-With an online spreadsheet program, it would be nice if it could understand existing VBA code/Excel Macros. There is a lot of this out there.
-Better access control. AFAIK, Currently with Excel you can only password the document with one password. It would be nice to have an access control list, and maybe even restricting access within worksheets within the document.
(no offense)
"""... Just because it takes a lot of maths doesn't mean it isn't easy to do. Mathematics is a (formal language for the) description of events, not the other way round. Take integration for example, the mathematical operation of finding the integral e.g. finding the area under a curve specified by a quadratic equation. There are humans with 1.75kg of brain tissue that can't do that, so it must be hard, right? However, it takes just a handful of electronic components to devise a circuit that outputs the integral. Can we really say for certain that there isn't a simple enough circuit you can build out of bee neurones to compute the angles encoded in the waggle dance? Of course not. It was recently shown by Elbing and coworkers that we can build some electronic components from single molecules. It isn't intrinsically hard; it's just hard to write down.
A bee doesn't need "equipment sensitive to the quantum-mechanical world"; it just needs visual acuity and some simple circuitry. Well, two circuits. First, an encoder that takes inputs from its primitive memory, recently stimulated by the food discovery and the excited journey home noting sun/horizon landmarks, and outputs the dance. And secondly, a decoder to recognise the dance before its cute little compound eyes and compute the relevant angles for navigation. It sounds complicated but it isn't. Consider this: how complex are the mathematical operations required for a human to catch a thrown ball? Pretty complex and likely to take up a lot of paper--but, crucially, they don't take up a lot of brain circuitry if such things can, after Elbing (or more properly, billions of years before Elbing), be built of a handful of molecules. Just because a rational, sentient, conscious process struggles to achieve a thing doesn't make it a hard thing to do. Doing is easier than computing, for most values of "do" and "compute"."""
The combination of this food and first read of H&P makes for a good Sunday.
Superman 3 I never saw that movie.
Twitpay charges a nickel everytime you make a Twitpay over $.99."