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This jumped out at me, too. Here's how Unroll.me describes their service: Clean up your inbox Instantly see a list of all your subscription emails. Unsubscribe easily from whatever…

Meta: it might be worth updating the title to mention this was published in 2011.

A lot of people think Gladwell created the 10,000 hours theory, but he merely popularized it. The original research comes from K. Anders Ericsson. Here's a link to the original pap…

Surprised no one's mentioned Bublecam: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bublcam/bublcam-360o-ca... . Instead of six Go Pros, you can just use one Bublecam to capture 360 degree…

I agree. But as the article goes on to point out, we are not more trusting of complete strangers, but rather strangers who've been vetted by many AirBnb reviews, background checked…

If the noise levels are too high, why not let the neighbors call it in? It seems like a waste of time to proactively try to find parties when they could just wait around at night f…

The book touches on this. Basically, the human brain is biased towards novelty. It's much more likely to remember something if it's unique or interesting or different -- if it stan…

Here's a clip from the documentary Objectified where Moggridge talks about designing a laptop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHEA-jbo1aI .

Right. USPS PO Box was just one example. It's my understanding that the other services have the same requirements. E.g. I checked and UPS offers a service called My Choice: > The U…

> Visa charges Square 1.76% + 6 cents Last I checked, Square had not published the transaction fee they negotiated with Visa.

I always thought there were laws against running a service like this in the US. For example the rules for registering a USPS P.O. box are very stringent: > To rent a PO Box, two di…

As far as I know, this feature already exists -- pg just needs to add github.com to the list of well-known URLs.

Anyone else wonder how the author made the white outlines on the Yahoo Maps text? Seems super tedious to do this by hand.

The first few minutes sounds like a collaboration between Brian Eno and Deerhunter. Very ambient and atmospheric.

If you search the page for "You mentioned you used Erlang in GitHub." and click the link, it'll fast-forward the video right to where they they talk about what's mentioned in the t…

I think this is probably an excellent example of what can be done with a comprehensive set of automatic regression and performance tests. I'm guessing most bugs are caught immediat…

Yet another Wikipedia article with graphic pictures that I agree should be there, but are not something I want to see while eating my morning bowl of cereal...

Same here. I'm hoping that enough other people are hooked that someone will create a Firefox extension for it.

This is basically of a rip-off of this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=615088 .

I always thought it was taboo to use the default samples that came with an app, but she seems to be perfectly fine with it. I thought one of the things DJs prided themselves on was…