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Is the Hitler story true? Wikipedia says that he got the idea in London, where he filed a patent (!) for the fission chain reaction.

Here's the link to his patent, btw: http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=GB&...

Maybe the author should unfollow some people?

It is an interesting app and I think a lot of twitter developers will find it useful.

On the UI side you need to rethink things. Twitter apps tend to be on the really well polished side, and your site is lacking here. There are lots of different fonts and effects, alignment issues, things like that. Maybe hire a designer? Or if you want to do it yourself, really simplify things.

Same here. But I think that is the idea - to let the comments speak for themselves and let the comments sink or swim on their own merits.

That's an interesting insight but it goes too far. For example, Mint.com/Intuit and Facebook can survive independent of Google.

It is like a safe harbor provision. If you exclude processed foods and grains, then you are in a relatively safe place food-wise, though not perfectly safe of course.

If you do eat processed foods, then you take your chances or you must spend a lot of time educating yourself about various ingredients and the studies about them.

The point is that it is difficult for people to follow the diet consistently.

The 140 character feature is definitely an execution issue and not an idea issue. It wasn't part of the original design, they iterated their way to that.

"@Jack was still just an engineer, and the service was only a few months old when the group acquired Twitter.com and re-branded. Back then, we had no character limit on our system. Messages longer than 160 characters (the common SMS carrier limit) were split into multiple texts and delivered (somewhat) sequentially. There were other bugs, and a mounting SMS bill. The team decided to place a limit on the number of characters that would go out via SMS for each post. They settled on 140, in order to leave room for the username and the colon in front of the message."

http://www.140characters.com/2009/01/30/how-twitter-was-born...

Thanks for pointing that out, I missed it the first time. See it here: http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/73.png

More interesting than how they got thier names is what these companies were doing before their names got famous. For example on this list there are decendants from a pulp mill, dried fish exporter, and a playing card maker.

I've read the book, as well as Influence. Influence is a far stronger book because it does a better job of describing the theoretical underpinnings of why the 50 tricks work.

Some of the tricks are really narrow and so they aren't all that useful themselves (e.g. to write post it notes and put those on interoffice forms and surveys for a better response), but with the theories you can make better extrapolations.

Is that really a win though? Your friend is out two years worth of income + considerable debt to make an extra 35K after two years.

That's the stated policy, but it hasn't been my experience. I've done many days at waaay over 2 hours.

You can get free wifi at starbucks without any AT&T setup at home. The steps:

- buy a starbucks gift card ($5 minimum)

- register the giftcard online

- use the registration info when prompted when you connect to the network at SBUX.

- you must make at least one purchase each month on the giftcard, e.g. a tall coffee for $1.50.

- you can only use two MAC addresses on that card. Otherwise they'll lock your account, but you can call and get it unlocked.

- with said giftcard you also get free refills and free flavorings of some type too, even if you don't use the giftcard to buy the coffee in the first place.

I go to starbucks pretty much every day and that's how I get online there.

Selling MSFT stock to fund a charity is not the same thing as MSFT funding that charity.

I'm not sure this is the case, because yesterday I did all of the updates that Apple advised, but I didn't get Safari 4 with that. Today I manually downloaded it.

For what it's worth, it is significantly faster than Safari 3.

I'd consider giving it up / a trade for a worthy cause. I like having the trifecta, but what would I put there that I wouldn't put on idoh.com instead?

idoh.net

idoh.org

andperse.com

ballerinc.com

openappled.com

vimpressive.com

wikkey.com

They all have some idea for a site behind them, just haven't gotten around to it.

The UI needs some work. The Viget Labs page looks really slick, so whoever did that should take a crack at crowdmind. I won't sign in to sketchy looking websites, even if it is with OpenID.

I think it was a passage in Chinese that needed to be translated into English.

Welly, Shh!! It isn't ready yet for prime time.

The only article Lady Fortuna has no control over is your behavior. Good Luck.

FTA: Once you submit a DM to @SF311, you will receive a service request number. Apparently, there is a city staff member devoted to handling and responding to @SF311 Tweets.

San Francisco is also using CoTweet, a Twitter business platform that acts like a CRM, to manage and track these conversations. CoTweet’s platform supports both marketing communication and response-driven customer support via Twitter.

Well, you can send a link to a picture there, it seems reasonable: "pothole @ 345 Bryant Street http://bit.ly/9879809

I'm getting into scheme for a project I'm working on. Sometimes I'm really impressed by how much can be done with some tight coding. I've done some Arc coding as well, and I think that it could have the edge if it matures and gets some library support.

Happens to me too. I've found that having a collaborator really helps to get things done, because I don't want to let them down. I'm almost at the point where I won't start projects unless I have a collaborator.

Maybe the next step is to have users? I have an app I'd like to have users for, but it isn't quite ready yet. Maybe once you have actual users that will keep you motivated as well.

I'd guess that it is not an artifact of learned phenomena. The rotation has the pixels of the ball moving from right to left, and the illusion is that the ball is moving right to left.

I think that this would hold up for cavemen - that if they see part of an object moving from right to left (in their peripheral vision) that they'd also see the whole object moving from right to left.

yes, please do this. See e.g. https://rpxnow.com/

I think there is a simpler way to picture this. Imagine a volume of water suspended in the air - the height and width is the person's cross section, and the length is distance to be travelled. All of that water is going to get onto you regardless of how fast you travel. So speed is not relevant there. But for the water hitting the top of the cube, it gets wet only with respect to time, and not to speed.

Conclusion: if the rain is falling straight down, it always makes sense to run.

Time of course has to be a factor in the sorting of the search results. But that doesn't mean that it has to be the only factor.

Other possible (negative, antispam factors): ratio of following to followers, number of duplicate or near dupe posts, etc.