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pagemanon Creative new way to fund a movie

we've done this for http://leaudouce.com/seednotes.htm (raised 10% of budget in 30 days, budget at around 2M USD) - if anyone else is interested in raising the 90%, buzz me! :)

pagemanon Netflix Prize 10% barrier broken

would you have the URL for the methods?

pagemanon You Can't Teach Height, But Can You Teach Programming?

on the 10,001st hour epiphany BEGINS at least according to http://kottke.org/09/05/giving-110-in-defense-of-sports-inte...

pagemanon You can't type "mailinator.com" in Facebook chat

but you can type http://66.135.60.177/

pagemanon Taking a stand: Facebook, TechCrunch, and Free Speech

someone just asked Michael Arrington (see the comments):

Jeff: Hey Michael! You are Jew right ? Michael: I am a human being.

pagemanon The Revolution Will Be Twittered

exactly. you can actually set-up a dial-down (callback service) to setup an internet connection.

pagemanon The Revolution Will Be Twittered

we used to have Thuraya phones in Afghanistan for emergencies (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090421134111AA...) - if they satellite you are trying to upload to DOESN'T point to the horizon, you could have your satellite pointing to the sky on the roof and people would be none the wiser.

pagemanon The Revolution Will Be Twittered

http://twitter.com/persiankiwi/status/2169483495

"I am accessing twitter from 148.233.239.24 Port:80 in tehran. you can avoid gov filters from here. spread to others. #Iranelection"

pagemanon Student challenges prof, wins right to post source code he wrote for course

I actually encourage my students to POST all of their WORK under a by-nc-sa Creative Commons license so that other people/students can build on their work - it's actually EASIER to check for plagiarism when their work is online - I just Google it and it will flag if they are copying verbatim.

pagemanon Arrington responds to the Gillmor Gang thing

Arrington is getting A LOT of death threats over this, according to this UPDATE:

"Update: Many comments are complaining about comment moderation. This isn’t about free speech. It’s about dozens of death threats and hundreds of others saying pretty horrible things about one of of us. You may think that your comment needs to get heard and that calling for someone to die shouldn’t be taken seriously. But multiply that by hundreds and maybe you’ll get a sense of this. I was rude. I made the problem worse by saying things because I thought he was play-mad. and then i apologized. i may be a lot of things but i don’t think i deserve to die over this. please. stop. i can’t deal with the death threats after what happened last year and then this year in europe. leo won. you guys won. i surrender. just stop. please. stop."

pagemanon Leo Laporte loses it with Mike Arrington on the Gillmor Gang

755 comments and counting on Leo's ff:

http://friendfeed.com/twit-conversations/1d37431c/live-now-g...

and it looks like Arrington's apology has been accepted:

"Thanks for the post, Mike. Apology accepted. Now that I know what was going on in your mind, I apologize to you. There seems to be something about the Gillmor Gang that just engenders over the top passion. I’m embarrassed by my overreaction. Peace."

pagemanon Text of Y Combinator article in Inc Magazine

maybe there should have been a "buy this magazine" link to: http://bit.ly/175fvY and also a link to this commentary, then it could be under Fair Use.

pagemanon Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

I have to agree with this one. Most of what happens in my class are now in PbWorks!

http://itethic.pbwiki.com http://sysanal.pbwiki.com http://vertsol.pbwiki.com

pagemanon Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

Heroku/Herokugarden - in terms of teaching my students how to deploy an ecommerce app in less than an hour (actually 31 minutes). This would have taken A LOT MORE TIME if there was no such thing as instant deployment!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0WhxO0W_n4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt0RHqRHyvA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUG4mf29ZQ8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE2YkzKPf0o

pagemanon MIT Database Systems (6.830) TA Course Notes

Ramakrishnan and Gehrke's book is here: http://www.4shared.com/file/44623995/31aac346/Database_Manag...

pagemanon Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web.

what about http://summize.com ? Instant, Pull (with twitter, +push), filtered, real-time notifications? :)

pagemanon Ask HN: I'm Tired of Hacking. What Do I Do? Please Advise.

maybe the OP is taking everything to heart? :)

pagemanon Ask HN: I'm Tired of Hacking. What Do I Do? Please Advise.

and do some PNF stretching :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNF_stretching

pagemanon Ask HN: I'm Tired of Hacking. What Do I Do? Please Advise.

I have to agree with the gold rings. What we had were gold coins hanging on our necks just in case something happened to the dollar or the euro. At least with gold, you can pay your way out :)

pagemanon Trading coding for designing

buzz me :)

pagemanon My $3.3M Mistake

is this the same as what was discussed here: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3613/3324835985_f8339dd2cf.jp...

here's the HN link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=504151

pagemanon Poll: How many HN readers are working on a Startup?

buzz me :)

pagemanon Poll: How many HN readers are working on a Startup?

I now have to agree with you on that one hehehe :)

pagemanon Poll: How many HN readers are working on a Startup?

yup. we're incubating 2-3 projects this way right now :)

pagemanon Tell HN: PG's 6 Unexpected Advantages of "Cheapness" in a Startup

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_(computing) comes to mind :)

pagemanon Ask HN - Chinese localization/internationalization

thanks for the comment. The "cultural mapping" here is two-way: explaining to the Westerners why a particular Western has to be translated (or not translated) to its equivalent Chinese idiom. This way the Western client progressively understands certain Chinese idioms. i.e. http://knowledgeworkx.com/index/brochure_na.html

pagemanon Ask HN - Chinese localization/internationalization

will do! :) expect an email from me very soon and you if you know someone who can be our acquiring bank - please get in touch - we can move very quickly if that facility can be made available ASAP :)

pagemanon Ask HN - Chinese localization/internationalization

I spent six months trying to find an acquiring bank in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, U.A.E., Yemen etc. but I couldn't find one. I came very close with one but it didn't pan out. If you know any Arab bank willing to be an acquiring bank we can set up in their country.

pagemanon Ask HN: I have been experimenting sleep maintenance insomnia. Any recommendations?

try this: http://xkcd.com/320/ and http://echochamber.me/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=12882

pagemanon Ask HN - Chinese localization/internationalization

thanks for your interest - my email is in my profile but here goes paulpajo [at] gmail and also paul.pajo [at] asiapay [dot] com