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n-named | 16 years ago | on: New Dropbox Features

Votebox seems to be an innovative concept, seems to be much better than systems used by for example Google communicating with users/developers. I'm speaking from experience as a developer, it would be nice to see this concept applied to API development/feature requests.

Also, nice use of the word janky.

n-named | 16 years ago | on: The “Interview” with Y Combinator That’s Not

From wikipedia:

"""It is not easy to determine how far Pythagoras was indebted to the Egyptian priests, or indeed, whether he learnt anything from them. There was nothing in the symbolical mode of representation which the Pythagoreans adopted, which bore the distinct traces of an Egyptian origin."""

And further: """The philosophy and the institutions of Pythagoras exhibit what might easily have been developed by a Greek mind exposed to the ordinary influences of the age."""

n-named | 16 years ago | on: Peace.facebook.com

After seeing MZ at startup school, it was apparent that he is a big thinker. I didn't think this big though. Brilliant!

n-named | 16 years ago | on: Advanced JavaScript Techniques

There's also an issue with his myMethodValue. It's actually a global variable (try alert(window.myMethodValue). He should have used var myMethodValue within the function definition.

n-named | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you concentrate?

Exercise, meditation, yoga, spending time in nature. Sleeping regularly. Eating breakfast. Spending enough time per day not working, i.e not overdoing it.

n-named | 16 years ago | on: Rupert to Internet: It's War

"""It is not, what’s more, merely that Murdoch objects to people reading his news for free online; it’s that he objects to—or seems truly puzzled by—what newspapers have become online. You get a dreadful harrumph when you talk to Murdoch about user-created content, or even simple linking to other sites. He doesn’t get it. He doesn’t buy it. He doesn’t want it.

Every conversation I’ve had with him about the new news, about the fundamental change in how people get their news—that users go through Google to find their news rather than to a specific paper—earned me a walleyed stare."""

Is this some sort of joke?

n-named | 16 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO

"""Zuckerberg insisted the goal was easily attainable. He took regular breaks throughout the day to do 10-15 pushups, even if he was in the middle of a meeting with visitors. He completed the 5,000."""

5000 push-ups, one week = 715/day assuming 7 day week. That means 48 breaks per day of 15 push-ups. So assuming 12 hour days, 4 breaks per hour.

So every 15 minutes he did 15 push-ups for a week?

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