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briteside··on Taxing Growth
Lol how is this #1
briteside··on David Lynch has died
Actually he started this back in 2005
briteside··on AI Hype Is Cooling – New survey
https://faraday.ai - conventional ML not GenAI
briteside··on Tom MacWright's Projects
He's a legend
briteside··on Impossible Cookware and Other Triumphs of the Penrose Tile
Anybody manufacture actual Penrose tiles?
briteside··on Ask HN: Recommended CRM solution for a SaaS startup?
We use Pipedrive at Faraday and love it — it's the Trello of CRM
briteside··on Ask HN: Is there an open source equivalent to Palantir?
We are starting a program at Faraday (http://faraday.io) to offer complimentary access to journalists and educators. Faraday certainly isn't Palantir, but it's similar.

If you're a journalist or educator and want to check it out, shoot me an email, I'm andy@

briteside··on A Case for Upserts
https://github.com/seamusabshere/upsert
briteside··on World `countries` – database table for MySQL
Another source, with SQL, XML, JSON, etc.:

http://data.brighterplanet.com/countries

and a lot more like it at:

http://data.brighterplanet.com

briteside··on Hackathon No More
Whenever we (http://brighterplanet.com) sponsor hackathons we always do a "Healthy Hacker" component, with yoga, healthy food, etc. e.g.:

http://numbers.brighterplanet.com/2011/04/12/healthy-hacker-... http://numbers.brighterplanet.com/2012/01/27/cleanweb-hackat...

briteside··on SciRuby
My answer to this question is transparency. At my company Brighter Planet we write all of our scientific/methodological code in Ruby so that people with basic technical skill can understand what's going on. The ability to create expressive DSLs is really crucial.
briteside··on Elegant Markdown for a more civilized age
Is Maruku's metadata syntax supported? http://maruku.rubyforge.org/proposal.html
briteside··on AIM AV
That screenshot is just begging for a caption contest