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- Location: Oakland, CA- across the bay from San Francisco California. I have US and EU dual citizenship. - Remote: yes, preferred - Willing to relocate: probably not - Technologie…

In the US where I live, professional mold testing companies have big expensive machines which supposedly count spores in the air. The results always come back negative, unless the …

There is an easy and cheap test that is actually accurate. You place Petri dishes with a specific medium in them in the room, open, for an hour. Then you close them and put them in…

The idea isn’t to be more or less opinionated, its to learn to respect other people enough that you can manage communication and relationships with others who have different ideas.…

I'm down for any label that sticks on this concept. I would love for this idea to be part of the larger conversation around building software and communities on line. Thanks for th…

I think “organic” is prob the wrong word. It’s already a rather tortured word, even in just the farming world where it’s legislated. My brother, a small organic farmer with about 5…

I think this article might be something a litmus test for determining if you believe in such a thing as a functional software (not just engineering) _team_ or not.

I’ve been building software for 20 years, and in my experience good ideas come from anywhere, especially on a high functioning teams where everyone is bought in. Engineers in parti…

I came here to write this, and also to say that on a software team, for example, where the problem is complex, no one person may have a well rounded enough or deep enough grasp of …

Yes, and emotions help you choose good “anything”s. There’s always an emotional superstructure- yours, or somebody else can choose for you, based on their own motivations.

In a post scarcity world, framing everything as a problem puts you in a needless optimization loop. Emotions tell you why, logic can only answer how, which won’t get you out of the…

How much satisfaction do you really get from checking something off the list? There was some motivation that put the item on the list in the first place, and 9 time out of 10, that…

Any choice we make that is grounded in subjective decision making suffers from this reframing. And, i'd posit that the vast majority of choices are fundamentally subjective. Just t…

If you view life as a series of problems to be solved, then life will become a bleak series of problems needing to be solved. The approach outlined in the parent comment here would…

thanks for this link!

I have- just put the slowcooker on low and started putting my scraps in there. It was a total disaster after i added some Parmesan Everybody in the house was completely unable to h…

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Ruby on Rails Developer- Two Full Time Positions Available Daily Kos is the nation's largest liberal online political community, news organization, and activism hub. Powered by mil…

I graduated in 2000, when microsoft was still king. There was no CS department then, though there was a CS major that you could get through the math department. Certainly there wer…

Amazing. Thanks for the links!

This bites pretty hard on hektor, a graffiti robot: http://hektor.ch I met the kid who built this, year ago. He is a seriously rad ex-demo scene hacker, now art school prof. Lots o…

When I worked for the Exploratorium as an exhibit developer a few years ago, I wrote some software that operated a real life "game of telephone". A voice modem randomly called phon…

Oh, that's a good idea! One possible use for the ux review is something along the lines of uservoice or getsatisfaction for design/ux I will log that one... thanks!

Show HN: SUMMARY: A web app for public design criticism through a simple annotation and voting system overlaid on user submitted comps or interface screenshots. Here's an example: …