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well of course, they're changing the world one daily deal at a time. what has nuclear engineering ever done for society?

You can find Aerons online (ebay, craigslist) for a fraction of retail. I am currently sitting in a full-featured Aeron that I got for $400. I bought it 6 months ago and have no complaints so far.

Is there a reason why r/trees is the only subreddit with a chat group ;-)

I predict you would get many more users if you could get an email reminder (with link) when new high-quality movie torrents hit piratebay

I agree with all your points and would like to hire you to code up my idea for mashing up internet memes and home improvement supplies. I have already purchased the domain name: lolcatphotosharinghomedepot.com. Although I have made this much progress already, I am prepared to offer you 5% equity in this endeavour. The combination of my prestigious Harvard MBA and my 1 year of consulting experience at prestigious Bain, Co. will assure our success. Please let me know when we can begin. Your first step will be to deploy an Oracle/Microsoft cloud server in the cumulonimbus formation off the coast of East Africa to handle the user traffic that I am sure will arrive shortly.

no i just made this yesterday, it only takes snapshots of current deals. If you want to collect revenues going forward I would set up some kind of cron job and run it every night at a reasonable time (11pm Eastern US time would probably work, but you'd underestimate on the West Coast deals)

Ha yeah the code is a mess. I have used BeautifulSoup before but I don't understand how it works well enough and just wanted to get something out the door

Yes but I wanted to be able to collect sale statistics, so either way some scraping would need to be done on the links

Wow. Google revolutionized the way we entertain ourselves, learn information, and interact with each other. Groupon has revolutionized paying $5 less for a pedicure on Sundays before 1pm.

because there are far more people who don't care about such trivialities as profitability or sustainability than those who do

Great idea, but I think this would be much improved by some standardized test cases, especially for the algorithms. I saw a lot of haphazard 3-input tests.

After choosing a different way to find the angle, my answer matches yours. Kudos for having a much simpler answer.

wow that's an interesting and counterintuitive result. I need to figure out why my integral doesn't line up with that

2 pi R h gives you the surface area of the side of a cylinder with height h, since you are taking the circumference of a circle and multiplying it by h

Ah you're right, I missed a factor of 2 in the top integral. Will edit shortly.

Assumptions: 1) Earth is a sphere with radius r 2) "Sky" is a hollow spherical shell with radius R

The surface area of the entire spherical sky is: 4\piR^2

This can be represented by a spherical integral that I'm not sure I can write cleanly here.

We just need to change the bounds of that integral to find the area of the observable part of that shell. The Intersecting Chord Theorem along with some trigonometry can be used to find these bounds.

The answer I get is:

(1 - cos(x)) / 2 where x = Arctan(sqrt(r(R-r)) / r)

This seems to have the correct asymptotic behavior (as r approaches 0, cos(x) approaches cos(pi/2) = 0, and the answer approaches 50%

EDIT: My previous answer assumed the shapes were cones instead of spheres. Sorry about the confusion.

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As someone who fits that profile with scary accuracy, I can maybe elaborate on the phenomenon. Asian-American children grow up with much external motivation, which gives them a sense of purpose and work ethic. The problem is, external motivation alone can only help in accomplishing mechanical goals that require little creativity or thought and have clear cut evaluation systems. This is not a problem for taking tests, banging out classical piano pieces with no expression, gaming the college admission system, or editing financial models.

But of course after the shelter of academia is left behind, we find ourselves in a world that has no strict system of evaluation. This is where Asian-Americans seem to struggle. I know I do. What makes a trend take off? What does success even mean anymore? I think this is what makes Asian-Americans grasp for job options that are able to provide external motivation and reward which manifests itself in a more conservative attitude.

Amazon went public in 1997 for $18/share with 1996 revenues of $16MM and $(6MM) net loss.

Google went public in 2004 for $85/share at about 100 P/E

I participated in one of the trials for Lahiru's project. The system was very intuitive: it's basically a metal detector that interacts with a computer to store state. As you approach the edge of metallic object and the metal detector beeps you can click a button to store the current location of the detector. By moving the detector along the edge of the object and storing more points you can map out the shape of the object to determine whether it is a mine or just debris.

It's nice to see this solution is getting close to shipping. Definitely a smartphone app whose value we can all appreciate.

Barry Eichengreen...what else is new. Career Fed-monger. I remember reading his book in college about how the gold standard was the cause of the Great Depression. Later on that year I attended a guest lecture he gave in which he made fun of Joseph Stiglitz.

Status-quo economists have too much power in this decadent society.

link repost: http://future.rouli.net/?query=cubs_win_the_world_series

that graph looks awesome. thanks for introducing me to flot

also: http://future.rouli.net/?query=cubs win the world series

"ignorantly slam some code together and nugde it until it works"

haha pretty sure I still do that most of the time...followed by rewriting everything and calling that "refactoring"

Does anyone else think it's a travesty that the AP Computer Science curriculum is taught in Java? Java was my first programming language and I've spent the past 8 years trying to unlearn most of it

what do you guys think is better for long term health, an exercise ball chair or a standing desk?

ooh cool idea. you could also specify significant factors like gender, smoking/non-smoking, bmi, etc. Good excuse for me to get into arduino

After I discovered AirBnB I was hoping someone would implement a food-based version. Well done!

I like the photosharing idea and your home page setup has that minimalist feel that's trendy right now. I'd get rid of the uninspired "Most Likes" sidebar title/tab title though. Something more snappy like "Top Chefs" would pop out more and be less confusing IMO.

Agree completely, coding >>> poker although it is possible to merge the two by making a bot.

Anyone curious enough should check out http://code.google.com/p/openholdembot/

that eliminates all the nuts and bolts of botting (screen scraping, action-taking, etc.) and leaves you time to figure out strategy. About a year ago I made a bot that 12-tabled at low stakes and made about $10 an hour...and then I realized I could be doing more interesting stuff with my life instead of staring at a screen, making minimum wage to make sure my bot didnt crash and lose my whole roll

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