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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 co…

Why do tabbed browsers not copy over your browsing history when you click on a link to open in a new tab? I often open up a lot of links in new tabs and then am frustrated when I a…

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: lo…

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 a…

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

https://github.com/jxchen/DailyDealScrapers On the Groupon IPO thread someone mentioned people selling scraped groupon deal data. To satisfy my curiosity I made my own. Pretty inte…

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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 befo…

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.