dstorrs
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Gmail address: david.storrs
Software guy, serial entrepreneur, rationalist, occasional stand-up comedian, fulltime stand-up guy.
- Starry-eyed lover melts meteorite into engagement ring (dailymail.co.uk)
- Oil-funded climate change skeptic reverses self (latimes.com)
- Advice to developers on managing MySQL (insidechannelmeter.wordpress.com)
- Graphs in the Database: Rdbms In The Social Networks Age (2010) (slideshare.net)
- Mac daddy predicts all-knowing, all-seeing UI (theregister.co.uk)
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My sweetheart's daughter is 7 years old and very precocious. I'd love to give her the chance to get interested in computers at such a young age -- and not just playing games on them, but using them. What would people…
- Google-funded startup builds search engine + API for predicting the future (technologyreview.com)
- Cell phones let touchscreens know who you are (technologyreview.com)
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Browsing back through the archives, I found this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=809233 I found the following thread interesting (quoted in part): ====== START QUOTE 5 points by jacquesm [To pg] Are you willing to…
- Oil leak crisis...scarily familiar? (liveleak.com)
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Does anyone have experience with hosting a small dynamic site in the cloud as opposed to, say, a shared host like DreamHost or a VPS like Linode? What were the difficulties / advantages you encountered? Did it make the…
- Please review the alpha of our startup: LifeThunder.com (lifethunder.com)
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PayPal is, and long has been, the 800-pound gorilla of sending money online. This is actually surprising when you consider that there is plenty of competition and PayPal's customer management is quite poor. In the last…
- Religion Survives Only Due To Atheists (machineslikeus.com)
- Magnetic monopoles produced in lab--or, at least, their equivalent (machineslikeus.com)
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In the past year or two, I've had to explain closures--what they are and why they are interesting--several times. Usually, at the end of my explanation, the person doesn't get it, and they go back to doing whatever they…
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1) Originally, tomorrow was the day that applicants would hear if they should book a flight for demo day. But the application deadline got extended two days due to the Twitter and Justin.tv deals. Are things still on…
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We are setting up our Linode as a required step for launch; the DNS A records are propagating now, but I'm staring at the MX records thinking "crap...I don't want to manage a mail server." I could use GMail For Business…
- Ares-1X Rocket To Launch But Program in Question (nytimes.com)
- Reversing Aging: Interview with Aubrey de Grey, CSO of SENS Foundation (machineslikeus.com)
- Gene Therapy Helps Blind Children See (machineslikeus.com)
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Earlier today, TechCrunch posted (http://tinyurl.com/yh6kzqx) an article about how "the real time web" is a bad thing because people are constantly posting photos and tweeting about where they are / what they're doing…
- Antidepressants Target the Wrong Thing, and Only Work 50% of the Time (machineslikeus.com)