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Re:Religion may become extinct in nine nations
on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @11:52AM (#2354919)
This argument is just surreal. Are you claiming that the two are related? Why are fertility rates low in other countries not on the list as well? And in many countries, it's even lower. You never explicitly link the two together but you seem to be making some sort of implication that the trend of low fertility rates, which is more than anything related to the economical development of a particular country, is related to the lack of religiousness in the particular country.
Re:Show HN: Our new $149 hackable Bluetooth wristwatch
on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @12:43PM (#2222260)
Tell me I was not the only whose first thought was how cool it would be to build a cluster out of these things.
But props to the OP, it looks like something I would spend hours playing with.
New Intel processors to contain DRM suggested by Hollywood studios
Lessons Learned from Using Design Patterns in Industry Projects
Ask HN: Alloy Specification Language experience
I randomly found out about the "Alloy specification language". Basically it's an easy to use specification language which allows the developer to encode the logic of a piece of software and then test and debug this logic thus theoretically reducing the development and debugging time. I found the idea really intriguing so I was wondering if anyone here has used it for any of their projects and...
Re:Heroku founder Adam Wiggins: The Legacy of the Self-Made Man (2008)
on Sunday December 26, 2010 @12:51PM (#2040871)
Does it really matter? It's not like that was the point of the article.
Re:Time Ferris makes the #1 new york best seller list - again
on Saturday December 25, 2010 @01:40PM (#2039228)
I remember him saying what he did for his previous book and I can imagine that for this one he did something similar. Basically, he came up with 10 or so possible titles (before having finished the book) and then used AdWords to check to which title customers respond.
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Re:Ask HN: Peter Thiel's talk at MIT tonight
on Tuesday November 16, 2010 @05:27PM (#1911981)
Yeah I go to the "other" school and there were no announcements about it either. I read about it yesterday in an email from Boston startup digest.
Ask HN: Peter Thiel's talk at MIT tonight
Hi, is anyone from HN going to Peter Thiel's talk at MIT tonight (http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/events/nov-innovation-series-peter-thiel-2/)? I wanted to go but unfortunately, it sold out before I knew about it. Would anyone who is attending be so kind and write a short summary afterwards for those who cannot attend? I think that I would not be the only one who would greatly appreciate it.
Re:Ask HN: Is PHP/MySQL Still Practical for Building Web Applications?
on Thursday November 04, 2010 @04:06AM (#1868111)
The problem with this argument is that all of the websites that you mentioned were founded before Ror or alternatives were mature enough. Adam D'Angelo (former CTO of Facebook) said that if Facebook was created now, they would not use PHP (source: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=137376312958147). I can imagine that the situation is similar with the other websites.
Re:What self-learning methods do you use?
on Monday October 04, 2010 @03:22PM (#1756947)
I doubt that there is anyone who is not that way. In fact there is a Chinese saying "I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand." which arrives at the same conclusion.
Teach computing, not Word
Re:Ask HN: I have an idea. I have the money. I moved to SF. Now what?
on Monday August 23, 2010 @08:29AM (#1626572)
Do you think that you could eventually post this road-map online? I'm sure more people would be interested. Fell free to remove any sensitive data.
Re:Ask HN: How would you monetize a dubious website (e.g. 4chan)?
on Saturday August 14, 2010 @02:15AM (#1603023)
What I actually meant to ask is not how do they make money, if they make money, or even if it is their goal to make money but if you were in moot's shoes and you wanted to turn page views into money, what would you do?
Ask HN: How would you monetize a dubious website (e.g. 4chan)?
Greetings to everyone. It is a fact that for infamous websites, such as 4chan or encyclopediadramatica, it is pretty hard to turn page views into money. So the question is, how would YOU personally go about doing that?
Re:Ask HN: Experience with immigration lawyers
on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @09:24PM (#1596829)
Thank you for your response. I'm aware of OPT and H1B but from what I have heard, H1B is nicknamed indentured servitude for a reason. The employer is often aware of the fact that the employee has to comply with any of his requirements as if the employee gets fired, and he is unable to find another job soon enough, he'd have to leave the country. Furthermore, I'm not exactly fond of the idea of being an employee, I'm leaning more towards self-employment or founding a startup. But I guess beggars can't be choosers.
Ask HN: Experience with immigration lawyers
Greetings. Since there are many non-Americans living and working in the US on this site, I was wondering if some of you would be willing to share your experience with immigration lawyers. I was considering getting one approximately a year ago to help me make a plan how to obtain a green card and eventually a citizenship, but then, after doing some research on the Internet about the US...
Re:Ask HN: Diet/Fitness program resources?
on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @04:17PM (#1536413)
Can anyone recommend a book about working out? As in about exercises and such.
Ask HN: Honing programming skills in a "Blue box"
After reading several good reviews of the book "Talent Code" (among others, the review on Derek Sivers' blog) I decided to give the book a shot. One thing that intrigued me was the information that supposedly, Brazilian soccer players practice futsal (a game similar to soccer, with a smaller field, fewer players, and a smaller, heavier ball) as this game "compresses soccer's essential skills...
Re:Understanding procrastination and how to achieve our goals
on Sunday July 11, 2010 @11:15PM (#1506681)
tl;dr = Procrastination is an ego defense mechanism which works by hindering your performance. This is a way to avoid the possibly painful reality. In the article, the give the example that if, for example, you study for a test only the night before and get a bad grade, you can still tell yourself "I just did not have enough time" which is by far not as painful as admitting to yourself that you are not smart enough.
Understanding procrastination and how to achieve our goals
Re:Ask HN: Daily schedule
on Saturday July 10, 2010 @09:41PM (#1504728)
You are not the first person to point it out. See explanation below.
Re:Ask HN: Daily schedule
on Saturday July 10, 2010 @06:44PM (#1504480)
You sleep 4 hours 25 minutes a night‽‽‽
Re:Ask HN: Daily schedule
on Saturday July 10, 2010 @03:29PM (#1504200)
Sure but that is dependent on how low-level your definition of "mimic" is. I did not mean that I would do the very same thing. This might not be the most instructive example, but for example if someone said "I work hard all day long", you can certainly get successful as well by doing that. I guess I should have said "get inspiration" instead of "mimic".
Ask HN: Daily schedule
There is a lot of interesting people on this website who are nothing short of my idols (and I can imagine that I am not the only one who feels that way). Without a doubt, one way to mimic the successes of these people is to do what they do. So I was just wondering if some of you guys cared to share what does your normal day schedule look like.Sorry if this is a repost, I tried to find if a...
Re:ITA Software - Puzzle Archive
on Saturday July 03, 2010 @10:39AM (#1483840)
How can one improve in these sorts of problems? Crack open CLRS and read that?
Re:IPad and Kindle Reading Speeds
on Friday July 02, 2010 @02:04PM (#1481814)
Actually the thing that sold me on kindle was that you can use dropbox with it as well, trough the dropbox website interface. I can imagine that it will be a sub-par experience and probably it will not take 5 seconds but oh well. And yes, the plan was to try it out and return it in the worst case.
Re:IPad and Kindle Reading Speeds
on Friday July 02, 2010 @01:26PM (#1481696)
I ordered a kindle yesterday ($250, 1/2 of the iPad price, for a refurbished DX from amazon warehouse deals was just irresistible) and even though I do not have any first hand experience yet, I think that the device has a lot of potential. I have a lot of PDF textbooks that I never get around to read because I just cannot read on a computer for longer periods of time. Therefore, I intend to use the kindle for reading through the textbook the first time I work my way through it (which will likely take a long time and therefore the e-ink comes in handy) and search through the PDF on my computer if I, at some point in the future, need to reference something. As far as I know kindle caches pages before and after the current page and accessing these pages is exactly the type of movement that one performs then reading through a textbook the first time through. Can anyone who has experience with kindle say if my assumptions wrong?