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"Hold Control and Option while clicking on a window to switch focus to that window without raising it." TIL. Amazing little hack.

"Ikaria...named after the Greek island where a close-knit community helps extend people’s lifespans." "Bader met Dadashi through an offline men’s group for discussing life, love an…

Great concept! Bookmarked for future reference. Nitpicky copy edits: In the headline, it should be "value" not "values". Also, I'd update the job buttons to just say "Apply". "Appl…

You're on the right track with that, although I'd say it's centered around order, rather than entropy. It's hard to do it justice here, but the book builds off of existing informat…

Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies - César Hidalgo (2015) Fantastic read that gave me a new way to understand the world.

When facial recognition is ubiquitous we will all wear masks.

We should be suspicious of all ideas.

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"Stay the hell out of my kitchen" comes to mind. :)

I'm not sure why I would care to defend him, but it seems that his claim that the data is not real time can be verified by the first image in the parent comment's list. In that sho…

I'm not going to buy it until it goes on sale for 90% off.

It's because he's spending a lot.

Seems like it would be a pretty good business model for utility companies.

One bank to rule them all?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?rlz=1C1CHMR_enU... Google is your friend.

I launched http://practicalinterviews.com , where I'm posting my interviews with entrepreneurs, business owners and creative folks of all sorts. I'm still working on my recording s…

Replace Facebook with Google Search and Twitter with Gmail, then add in Orkut for good measure. That would be an interesting graph.

Yes, just like all the other hackers...

I don't mean to be a jerk, but this post was lifted wholesale from Jonathan's actual blog: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2011/05/23/on-snuggies-and-bu... And this is the actual li…

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/23/groupon-u-s-revenues/

I think there's good advice here for almost anyone, you just have to adapt it to your situation. Not all of these work for everyone, but many will work for most. Let's take your si…

There's actually a current model at Ikea that works awesomely as a stand up desk: The Fredrik. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00115992 I own one and enjoy it greatly.

There's a bit more info in one of the articles he linked to. Specifically, in the HufPo piece ( http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tonya-plank/meet-mega-bestsell... ) she's quoted as sa…

I was under the impression that Hotmail is accounts you can throw away.

"One very important point that William fails to mention about his email to us - he spent the time to track down every Tumblr employees email and sent it to the entire team. It was …