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AnyBots founder and CEO Trevor Blackwell (quoted in the third section of the article) is also one of the Y Combinator co-founders, and I believe both companies are in the same offi…

Yes, I agree it would be a nice way to do some personal time boxing ("How do I divide my free time between projects A, B and C"). But as I already noted in the parent post, this la…

While I like the general idea of your 'schedule as a bar chart' solution, I see several issues: 1) There is very little space to write down appointments. I'd like to be able to wri…

Moleskine has something like this, called the Weekly Notebook. Each spread has a page for appointments on the left (one week), and room for notes or to-dos on the right: http://www…

That would also allow for a more even wear across the mattress. The center (from left to right) of our current mattress becomes soft and saggy over time, which can not be solved by…

The font rendering varies wildly between browsers: http://i47.tinypic.com/1125ssp.png From left to right: Firefox (Win), Chrome (Win), Safari (Win), Safari (Mac) Firefox renders th…

Not YC funded, but the guys from YellowBird, Yunoo, and E (My Name is E) are Dutch, and might have some interesting stories to share.

Nice cycling lanes and impressive statistics, but I don't get the impression that bicycles are as ubiquitous (yet) as they are in Amsterdam. I wonder how they handle bicycle parkin…

For me, the most important thing is to stick to my daily schedule. Every single day of the week. Once I skip one or two meals, work long hours, or stay up late, my life starts spir…

Most of these seem to be easy means to rather shallow ends, to me at least. Paying my sixteen-year-old nephew to do these things for me would be easier, and just as satisfying. The…

Sure his method sounds easy, but are the results actually worth anything? It looks like an over-simplified version of ACT-R, with some made-up cost values. To me, this has no advan…

Let's not reinvent the wheel and use a framework that has been developed since the seventies. Anderson's ACT-R framework is based on cognitive theories and models, and can deliver …

It's the cheap kind ($5 or $10) you can get at sport outlet stores or even large super markets. They have a TPR (rubber) outsole and an EVA (foam) insole (which I removed). The upp…

About two months ago, one of my shoelaces broke. I was still three miles from home, and walking wouldn't get me back there in time. So I took off my shoes and socks, and continued …

Here's an anagram-sorter. (I'm no Python ninja, but I quite liked my idea.) def sort(s): listt = list(s) listt.sort(cmp=lambda a,b: cmp( ord(b)%len(s) , ord(a)%len(s) )) print ''.j…