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pa5tabear··on Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails
So do you do you think Meteor can scale? I don't know if I'm following, but I'm assuming limiting the queries(?) means limiting the size.
pa5tabear··on Soylent: An Offbeat Food Idea Investors Are Taking Seriously
It's not going to be one size fits all. Right now it might just be a single product (and they're struggling to even get that together at large volume), but Rob's blog posts talk about customization as a key advantage of Soylent. Customization will surely come if they're able to get the ball rolling.
pa5tabear··on Unlocked phones are the way to go
How does porting to Google Voice work? Can you set your Google Voice number to be the same as your number through your wireless provider?

Currently I have a Google Voice account but it is a different number than my phone service.

pa5tabear··on This Isn't Capitalism, It's Growthism, and It's Bad for Us
All jobs I'm aware of in my field are salaried and they expect significant time input.
pa5tabear··on This Isn't Capitalism, It's Growthism, and It's Bad for Us
What sort of job allows you to survive financially working 2-3 days/week?
pa5tabear··on From Zero To Kickstarter In $5k
I would instantly buy into this sort of thing for notetaking in university classes.

Is there an option for three notebooks over three months, rather than one notebook each month?

pa5tabear··on Apple Special Event October 2013 Live Stream
$2899, check it
pa5tabear··on Soylent Closes $1.5M In Seed Funding From Lerer, Andreessen Horowitz
How will they compete with a large food company?

There's clearly some market for this. The food giants haven't yet entered because it's risky, and the supply chains for the ingredients still being developed. As soon as Soylent is successfully shipping safe product, however, the big companies will jump in and crush Soylent Corp with their lower pricing and higher profit margins due to their scale of production.

pa5tabear··on Learn Haskell Fast and Hard
Commenting to bookmark.
pa5tabear··on Contrary to public claims, Apple can read your iMessages
Does that mean they can view private pictures sent via iMessage?

I've wondered the same thing about Dropbox. If I were to open my dropbox at work, could my employer view private things in the dropbox? Even if I don't open the file, an icon will still load in the browser view.

pa5tabear··on Alexis Ohanian on Solving America’s Innovation Crisis
Kudos. I've thought some of these ideas, but I've never strung them together in my mind such a complete manner.

Now to nit-pick:

-Is talking about "marginal" innovators as the only people with safe work really accurate? I think many jobs which rely on people interaction and soft skills will not be killed off by technological advancement.

-I think telling people to get education is absolutely a fine thing.... if we replace the word "education" with "value adding skills". There are still going to be plethora of non-innovating positions that require skills. The problem is that the majority of students go to college to learn stuff that is mentally comfortable and are sustained on student debt that might well never be paid back. Yes, historically an education has always paid back over one's lifetime earnings, but I'm not sure that will continue in the future described.

pa5tabear··on Square Cash
It's bad. One time I mistakenly reversed the source/destination when sending my roommate two months of rent money and I over drafted his account because it took the money without asking his permission.

Once the accounts are linked, either party can pull/push money without the other's approval.

pa5tabear··on What is the best way to programatically detect porn images? (2009)
How do you program that sort of thing?

Do you have to tell it what shapes/colors to look for? Or do a combination of overall image similar combined with localized image similarity and portion by portion image comparison?

pa5tabear··on How Do you Motivate Yourself and Stay Focused?
what was the incident?
pa5tabear··on Computer chemists win Nobel prize
Can this be explained simply? I took physical chemistry and it sounds related to calculating energy changes for ionization or electrons moving between orbitals.
pa5tabear··on How much can an extra hour's sleep change you?
I have the Sleep Bot app and it measures movement and sleeping time and graphs the data. It doesn't give any analysis, however.

Do you have advice for a better analysis of my sleep each night?

pa5tabear··on Anonymity Is Hard
Malaria kills more than half a million people every year, and mosquitoes are the primary vector.

Killing mosquitoes is not trivial.

pa5tabear··on Computer chemists win Nobel prize
What data do you have? Do you know the mechanisms?

We calculated heats of formation in our chemical thermodynamics course, but we were always given ample data, and we knew what we were trying to calculate.

pa5tabear··on Open source is brutal: an interview with Google's Chris DiBona
I want to be one of those people. I've "learned" JavaScript on CodeCademy, I've solved some TalentBuddy problems, but I've yet to create something...

Can you give me some pointers on a project I could contribute to?

pa5tabear··on HP Chromebook 11
Technical document preparation. When you're dealing with stuff like tables, graphs, footnotes, appendices... Word makes it easier. I know there's probably a way to reproduce everything in Google Docs, but it's not as easy/automatic.
pa5tabear··on ‘Sitting is the new smoking’
I'll readily agree we're "not meant to".

However, I'm not sure how to be equally productive without sitting in front of a screen.

pa5tabear··on ‘Sitting is the new smoking’
Is this really tiring?

I get tired standing in line or even just trying to sit with good posture in my office chair.

As a 22 year old, though, I expect I will need to make changes if I want to maintain my physical condition while spending all my time at a computer.

pa5tabear··on This is Why You Spent All that Time Learning to Program
SAGE? I know of the herb and the mathematical Python simplification.
pa5tabear··on Using Katas to Improve Your Coding
What sources do people like for finding problems?

I've been practicing on TalentBuddy and really like it. It nicely supports lots of languages, and you can check your solution against others.

www.talentbuddy.co/

pa5tabear··on Prismic.io: a developer-focused approach to content management
What tools are used to make the main prismic.io page?

I've been seeing tons of new-ish sites with the scroll down structure where it's like there are multiple viewing frames stacked vertically. Is this because everyone is using the same toolset/template?

pa5tabear··on Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS
I want an app that will save posts/links. And let me comment.

Do any of them do that?

pa5tabear··on Nicotine as a useful stimulant
What do you mean by no more effect? No more blood pressure increase? Or no more cognitive stimulant effect?
pa5tabear··on 20% of Yelp reviews are fake
I predict that more than 20% of these comments will think more than 20% of reviews are fake.
pa5tabear··on Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
When you say a few thousand hours, do you really mean it?

Working 9-5 for a year is only 2000 hours...

pa5tabear··on Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
How long did it take you to make this app?
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