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iceronon Losing Music

This is wonderfully written. It reminds me of a condition called visual snow [1] where sufferers develop continuous TV-static-like tiny flickering dots in their entire visual field. Makes you appreciate the things you have.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/head.12378/full

iceronon Andrew Kim: Minimal to the max

Unless I am missing something, hundreds of thousands of followers on these types of accounts definitely does not equal close to $10,000 a week.

iceronon Eigengrau

I meant related to the processes behind migraines (specifically migraine aura). Not that migraines cause visual snow. IIRC, there is currently research being done on visual snow at the UCSF.

iceronon Eigengrau

Because visual snow has nothing to do with your eyes. More related to migraines than anything.

iceronon Your Logical Fallacy Is:

Probably to unmask 'not provided' search referrals.

iceronon Our path to $1M in sales

Excellent read. I've been wanting to try out Teespring for a relatively popular (~ 46k followers) Twitter account I manage ever since I saw veb's post. Time to get thinking about some designs.

iceronon Things I learned by pretending to be blind for a week

Yes, Blue field entoptic phenomenon is the name.

I've also heard of visual snow, which seems to be related to migraines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon

http://f1000.com/posters/browse/summary/1090714

iceronon $49 Personal Genome at 23andme (incognito windows until you get the best price)

I have seen $69 and $99 as well.

iceronon $49 Personal Genome at 23andme (incognito windows until you get the best price)

Yep, running tests with Optimizely. Surely they have updated it by now.

iceronon Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Files

FYI: I'm pretty sure Windows users can navigate to their Dropbox folder and type 0 bytes in the search bar to see if they were affected.

iceronon The new Hulu

One of the more interesting things about this new version is its "face match" feature. It allows you to highlight over an actors face and it gives you card of information about them.

http://new.hulu.com/labs/tagging

iceronon Y Combinator S12 Demo Day Batch 1

I've tried Evernote. Most of my content are saved links, which Evernote doesn't seem to handle well as far as I have seen.

iceronon Y Combinator S12 Demo Day Batch 1

I like Kippt. I just wish their was a service like it where I didn't have to worry about any of my saved content becoming public. Or that it might be acquired and then I have to start over (I'm looking at you, Spool). For now, I suppose I will continue to use Kippt. Their search needs some work, though.

iceronon Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99

Regardless, this type of linking violates responsible FTC disclosure.

http://www.ftc.gov/os/2009/10/091005endorsementguidesfnnotic...

iceronon Kindle Edition of The Pragmatic Programmer for $2.99

Affiliate tag? Not cool.

iceronon Twitter Mutual Followers and Unfollows - A Quick Hack

Love Friend or Follow. Use it every week!

iceronon 3D Printing Survey Hints To The Third Industrial Revolution

Yep, here is a video from a NOVA special - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeJPBuBEJ50

iceronon Refer.ly (YC S12) Lets Regular Folks Earn Affiliate Revenue

This is super helpful. Thanks!

iceronon Refer.ly (YC S12) Lets Regular Folks Earn Affiliate Revenue

Judging by its appearance, I'm guessing this won't have any business options? Would be nice to have a centralized product like this that saves me from having to find/sign up for each individual affiliate program. Plus having all the analytics data in one place, too.

Right now it seems to be super early stage. No database of affiliate programs that they have and you can't even withdraw rewards (earnings).

iceronon You're sharing your personal data with every app

Same applies for changing email settings.

iceronon Google I/O Sells Out in 30 Seconds

Have the exact same story. Always next year I suppose.

iceronon HN: Name a problem, any problem, you'd like to see someone solve

Free will, longer life span etc... :)

I would like an Android application that delays all notifications by a set amount a time.

So if I want to do an hour of work I could set it to an hour and it wouldn't notify me at all. After the hour is up, all the notifications appear as they normally would.

iceronon Our unrealistic views of death, through a doctor’s eyes

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/01/090130-immor...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/4357829/Immortal-j...

It is inevitable that a time will come where it will be possible for humans to stave off aging to a significant degree. Whether this is in 100 years or 10,000 years, it is difficult to tell. What measures should be taken because of this is for the future to decide.