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Re:Avoiding Burnout on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @09:11AM (#5631917)
I came here to say the same thing.

And, Feynman had a gift at making these ideas accessible to the layperson. He is very missed.

Re:Huginn, an Open Source IFTTT / Yahoo Pipes on Thursday March 14, 2013 @08:27PM (#5378517)
Yahoo pipes is the bomb. I wish they would have maintained it. Thanks for building this, I can't wait to put it through it's paces!!
Re:Physicists Say They Have Found A Higgs Boson on Thursday March 14, 2013 @08:21PM (#5378499)
Ugh, I hate the "god particle" name. I wonder if people called the atom that at first also.
Re:Physicists Say They Have Found A Higgs Boson on Thursday March 14, 2013 @08:20PM (#5378495)
Somewhere there is another parallel universe where scientists are excited they have found normal matter after digging through all their higgs bosons.
Re:The Handshake Deal Protocol on Thursday March 14, 2013 @08:19PM (#5378486)
Where I come from, you ask a man if he wants to grab a BEER. Much more productive conversations that way :)
Re:Megaupload Shutdown Boosted Digital Movie Revenues on Thursday March 07, 2013 @11:35AM (#5338526)
I don't know how they can reliably trace the cause of this back to Megaupload...
Re:Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown on Thursday March 07, 2013 @11:34AM (#5338520)
Amazon is often considered a lumbering giant, so it's great to see this type of innovation from them. We all know they spend lots of time on UX, but I had no idea they had teams thinking outside the box like this.
Re:Why founders shouldn't be the developers on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @06:27PM (#4913106)
Agreed. You need the perspective if you're running a software startup.
Re:Hacker News Google+ Community on Friday December 07, 2012 @11:43AM (#4887751)
That never really took off in Google Groups, but that didn't really have the social structure around it that Google+ does. I wonder if the second time's a charm for them.