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MikeSchiraldi

  1. @KeyserSosa @ZachWeiner Sure. I'll pepper Chris's explanation with illustrative sound effects. (Hint: function returns = explosion noises)
  2. OH on HN: "Does anyone find 'driverless car' to be the 21st century equivalent of 'horseless carriage'?"
  3. Idea from HN: Scour the web for undiscovered musical talent. Buy "stock" in the artist. Get rich if they make it big. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3853814
  4. Ever wanted to give Google's UI team a piece of your mind? Now's your chance: redd.it/s8n3m
  5. Prediction: Over the month of December 2012, reddit will get more pageviews than LinkedIn. Anyone wanna bet against me? goo.gl/DGbuO
  6. The Tuesday Boy Problem restated in brief, clear, unambiguous terms: mikeschiraldi.blogspot.com/2011/11/tuesda…
  7. From the Hacker News comments: "the unit test for this thing must be awesome" maxwell.com/products/micro…
  8. Pretty much the coolest database fact-checking I've ever done: plus.google.com/10919138235470…
  9. Siri in your phone? That's *so* 2011. I want Siri in my front door. plus.google.com/#1091913823547…
  10. @dmoren The actual scientists behind the "standing desks considered harmful" study came to the opposite conclusion;see redd.it/kfjet
  11. @ketralnis Scissors and cardstock
  12. @ketralnis See also: The opening clarification on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_of_J…
  13. OH: "I can't tell if that's a graph of my service's uptime or memory usage."
  14. Researchers teach a computer to arrange furniture: redd.it/j3d3i
  15. Every programmer should read the source code to abort() at some point in their life. redd.it/iu0f7
  16. @ketralnis Write the worst-selling book series ever?
  17. reddit gold, one year later (spoiler: the naysayers were wrong) redd.it/isk36
  18. The U.S. census asks Americans which demographic they self-identify as. Wikipedia made a map: redd.it/ihucy
  19. A brief suggestion for laptop manufacturers (especially Apple): redd.it/ifi9p