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Liu | 13 years ago | on: The physics of skipping stones

An interesting application of this concept was in WW2 for bombing dams - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncing_bomb

Liu | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: How many of you built a profitable startup while having a day job?

Well, I would be happy to hear about things such as: * Which features did your first version have? * How did you get your first users? * Did StyleFeeder rely on B2B connections, if so how did you find/create them? * What was StyleFeeder's business model? * When did you start looking for funding/why/how? Thanks for the time and experience sharing!

Liu | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: How many of you built a profitable startup while having a day job?

Very interesting post, is there a one detailing how you started?

Liu | 14 years ago | on: How to build a portrait with dice

There are similar portraits done with Rubik's Cubes http://freshome.com/2011/11/08/dream-big-rubik%E2%80%99s-cub...

Liu | 14 years ago | on: The Spider of Doom

Actually expected a story about id software's spider of doom...

Liu | 14 years ago | on: Steve Jobs’ best is yet to come

Can't find the video, can you please provide a link?

Liu | 14 years ago | on: Finding Love Optimally

There should be an algorithm that automatically searches and matches XKCD strips to posts...

Liu | 14 years ago | on: Hacker Panel: Bookmarklet to pull up or start the HN discussion for any web page

What's the easiest way to take such code (one line) and format it to something readable?

Liu | 14 years ago | on: Marc Andreessen on Why Software is Eating the World

Which notable businesses are in that category besides Healthcare and Education?

Liu | 14 years ago | on: Please confirm your email address

Does simply seeing 82% vs. 50% enough? Shouldn't there be some significance measurements added to it? If you had only 6 people in this experiment maybe it is just a statistical error...

Liu | 14 years ago | on: Data URI Generator via Drag and Drop

Can someone please give a few examples for what this could be used for?

Liu | 14 years ago | on: Is the Internet an extension of human memory?

Perhaps we are contentiously making that tradeoff, with today's amount of knowledge you do not have time to deeply learn it all, so you instead just skim learn and store pointers for future times you might actually need it.

Liu | 14 years ago | on: Zynga Files to Raise $1 Billion via IPO

Maybe in Farmville cash...