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Shamiq··on Really? Windows Phone 7 Commercials
It's a pretty sweet phone...
Shamiq··on The race to buy up the world's water
Yes, it was.
Shamiq··on Microsoft Buying Adobe?
I'll also chime in and support Dynamics. It's an amazing market with a ton of actual growth potential.
Shamiq··on Sitting more than 6hrs/day increases likelihood of premature death
Pardon me, but was that a pun?
Shamiq··on Ask HN: How do Hackers kill time when bored on weekend?
Laundry and http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/
Shamiq··on Review my one-day Twilio project: track and view your customer support calls
Shhh....quit giving away my ideas!
Shamiq··on Blind user of the iPhone
Sexy, do you run readability on it first?
Shamiq··on Justin.tv Beats YouTube in Time Per Viewer by 2-1 Margin
It's probably because of puppy cams.
Shamiq··on Ask HN: Non-programming, 'thinking' jobs?
1. Get a PhD.

2. Become a professor/researcher.

3. Grad students program for you.

Shamiq··on [dead]
The awesomeness of this title blows my mind.

Flagged.

Shamiq··on [dead]
Flagging. This is useless.
Shamiq··on How to Pack For 10 Days In a Carry-On
Are slideshows like that automatically generated, or does some guy sit down and copy/paste text and images into a template for each one?
Shamiq··on The math behind a neat calculator trick
Oh no.
Shamiq··on The scariest pricing idea ever. That works.
Also read about Prospect Theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_theory
Shamiq··on Donald Knuth making an Earthshaking Announcement June 30 in San Francisco
Is he retiring?
Shamiq··on Price Anchoring, Or Why a $499 iPad Seems Inexpensive
I have a copy if anyone wants to take it off my hands. Just pay the shipping :)
Shamiq··on Ask HN: What makes you happy? What is your American Dream?
I get a huge amount of satisfaction making things that serve functional needs. It's an object I can point to and say "I built that." Even better is when an individual can't determine the make, and enquires about how much I spent/where it was made.

My first decently large, and thus far only major, piece of furniture is a cat treehouse my girlfriend and I built for my cat. I was disgusted by the price and the poor construction quality of the pieces sold in pet stores, and I didn't want to pay shipping for something better.

So, I looked at the design, figured out what I would need and went at it. It took about a day using the university shop, and I was thrilled to bring it home and watch my cat jump on, claw at, and sleep on it.

Shamiq··on Ask HN: What do you think of this business idea? PDF printing & delivery
That's pretty cool. What do you have that's automated?
Shamiq··on Ask HN: What makes you happy? What is your American Dream?
Hi Kirsten,

Two recommendations. 1. Use https://www.dropbox.com/ to share the files. 2. Put some contact information in your profile :)

My dreams are pretty small for the time being. I want to build most, if not all, of the furniture in my new house. I want to explore the American wilderness before it ceases to exist.

Shamiq··on Ask HN: How do you test your web applications?
I've used Selenium to run unit test along with various flavors of Watir. Watir requires much less overhead and is programmable in Ruby. Selenium has libraries in all your favorite libraries, but requires running a Java proxy server. However, you can automate tasks by having Selenium record your actions on a page, which is super nice.
Shamiq··on Proof that 1 = 0 using a common logical fallacy
I'm thinking something that has to do with set theory. I don't remember the steps.
Shamiq··on Etude sheet music app coming to iPhone, iPad
If you're interested, the Northwestern Machine Perception of Music and Audio (EECS 352) has got a ton of material online:

http://music.cs.northwestern.edu/courses/eecs352/index.php

Shamiq··on Ask HN: Is functional programming really worth it?
Expand your mind. It'll pay dividends later.
Shamiq··on Ask HN: Where did you go to college?
Don't just upvote -- leave your name!
Shamiq··on Ask HN: Where did you go to college?
Northwestern University
Shamiq··on ManPacks.com - a different kind of startup
Interesting. Is it actually cheaper to get the single pack ($13 per unit) than it is to get the macho pack (13.33 per unit)?
Shamiq··on Darkness Increases Dishonest Behavior
Different basis for what "dark" is then. I'm sure someone else could find a sound justification (not claiming validity).
Shamiq··on Asking an unusual "favor" of the hacker community...(Healthcare IT startup)
This guy:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek

Shamiq··on Welcome Harj
Does this mean he's moving down to Palo Alto, or telecommuting from Seattle?
Shamiq··on Notify HN: There is currently an AppEngine outage
Damn interns....

edit: I've broken things massively as an intern...

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