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fotoblur

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www.carbonbrief.org 10y ago

Five charts that show how Arctic and Antarctic sea ice is faring in 2015

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data-art.net 11y ago

NewsCloud

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www.lanceramoth.com 11y ago

What People Really Want According to Google

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www.lanceramoth.com 11y ago

Stuff I Did When I Was a Kid

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www.lanceramoth.com 11y ago

How to Multiply Your Developer Team's Productivity

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www.lanceramoth.com 11y ago

What Limits You Defines You

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www.lanceramoth.com 11y ago

Trust in Yourself, Again

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www.lanceramoth.com 11y ago

Trust in Yourself

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www.lanceramoth.com 11y ago

My One Year Intermittent Fasting Experiment

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www.youtube.com 11y ago

This is a butterfly

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www.dailymail.co.uk 12y ago

Smart shirt monitors your workout and tells you how stressed you are at work

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myjson.com 12y ago

Myjson – A simple JSON store for your web or mobile app

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www.evancarmichael.com 12y ago

Believe

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Errors found in https://www.healthcare.gov/js/all.js

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www.nj.com 12y ago

People Fear Freedom

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www.lanceramoth.com 13y ago

Charging for SEO Spam Removal

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betanews.com 13y ago

Whistleblower: AT&T Maintained a 'Secret Room' for the NSA (2007)

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keepthewebopen.com 13y ago

Digital Bill of Rights

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www.lanceramoth.com 13y ago

The Secret to Success

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Software Engineers: What was your biggest ever f*ck up?

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www.lanceramoth.com 13y ago

Why You Should Always Be Testing Your Assumptions

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www.wireblur.com 13y ago

Show HN: Crowdsourced Tech News

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www.nieman.harvard.edu 13y ago

Mastering the art of disruptive innovation

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www.lanceramoth.com 13y ago

Why Do You Matter

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www.lanceramoth.com 13y ago

Social Patterns: The Communication Loop

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www.fotoblur.com 13y ago

FBNews - Discover the most interesting photography news and arcticles

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www.lanceramoth.com 14y ago

Expandable User Interface For Dynamic Content

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Social Networks Killed the Content Providers

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www.fotoblur.com 14y ago

Fotoblur Labs - HTML5 Canvas, Backbone.js, swipe.js, jQuery, EJS

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www.lanceramoth.com 14y ago

The Secret You Keep

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Unfortunately the world is a cruel place, and this guy wants freedom from it. I know, I took the 3-4 months off after quitting a job to do my own thing. I did earn a few dollars but nothing like what a business was willing to pay for my skills.

We'd all like to be free to do what we want to do, but in all honesty only a fraction of 1% ever get to. And even those people serve a master. Did I ever find the answer, no. I think what its going to take is a huge leap in what we call work.

People want some social proof that your community is worth joining. In other words, people like to follow the herd. The fact that you haven't launched tells me there really isn't a substantial community yet. Focus on a private launch of your closest friends or people you know are passionate about your topic. Then, allow those members to invite the next group through an invite system before opening it up to the public. This is how I built fotoblur.com to 60K members.

I see a number of posts saying that you're probably not experienced or qualified enough to hold these other positions. However, I don't think the VP of Eng, Dev Mgr, or OPS Mgr could do what you do...essentially help start and build a company from day one.

Those skills you've developed don't have much value at your current company any longer. They are most likely keeping you around for historical value and once the systems you built get replaced its over pretty quick. Take those skills elsewhere and brand yourself as someone who takes a company from 2 to n employees.

Not everyone has your skill set so learn how to market them. I'm on my second company where I was an early hire. I learned that you're way more valuable in the beginning then you are at the end. Eventually I got pushed out by management types because I held on to the notion that I helped build this company and deserved something for it. Don't wait too long to realize it.

I skip breakfast everyday for the last 6 months and these were my results. Combined with weight training, I got down to 12% bf and lost 15 lbs while still gaining additional muscle mass. Skipping breakfast, keeping my eating window within an 8 hour period each day, while maintaining a 2000-3000 calorie/day consumption seemed to do the trick for me. http://www.leangains.com/2010/04/leangains-guide.html

First I'm the founder of Fotoblur.com, a creative photo community. I just went to check out the site. What I'm concerned with is when I search for fotoblur (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fotoblur), and go to images, it looks like you've slurped the image source and not the source page the image comes from. You're also providing a link to download the image. Don't you have any thoughts for user's copyrights or even content providers of which you've swiped content from? Boooo.

Notice how the questioner seems to have someone else's actions to blame for the problems. This is often a narrow way of thinking and can be a deception in ones own view of the world. What I like most about Mike's responses are that he doesn't blame anyone, per se, but understands that these problems are best described by analyzing the current environment in which they become evident.

Who could blame colleges for raising tuition when the current funding environment begged them too? Who could blame people for not wanting to work shit jobs in the heat but instead go to college and work at jobs that require instead a skilled intellect, pay more, and are more comfortable? And why shouldn't Mike talk about people who work hard, dirty jobs when a show about them made him famous?

At dinner one night I overheard a senior guy tell a junior guy that what he couldn't pay him in salary, he'd pay him in experience. The junior guy was full of excitement. The senior guy was also full of excitement but did his best to conceal it because he had just won a favorable victory in convincing another to do his deeds without an equitable compensation.

I just looked how much we made in Google Adsense in Oct based on the number of unique visitors we received. I calculate that we would have made roughly $42K in Oct based on your unique visitors value. This sounds nonintuitive, but its my opinion that you actually have too many ads on your site to make any money from them. My site is fotoblur.com. You can reach me through the support page if you'd like to chat. I'd love to help you if I can.

Really...I don't get the down vote here. Maybe cynicism is not understood or, possibly worse, overpopulation is not seen as an issue. The links were for entertainment value, a simple metaphor.

The idea is that humans exhibit the characteristics of a cancer within its environment. Its only a metaphor for how humans have treated their environment and is not meant to be taken literally.

"If Germany is to avoid a major labor shortage, experts say, it will have to find ways to keep older workers in their jobs, after decades of pushing them toward early retirement"

Doesn't it suck when a society is forced into valuing its elderly.

It actually seems responsible of a society to balance itself with its environment. Population overgrowth is a major issue in the world and I applaud the people of Europe who, and possibly unconsciously, are reaching a greater balance with their environment in the hopes of securing an actual future in it.

Can't help to think of...

Humans are a virus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Na9-jV_OJI

Humans as Cancer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0R6EvtGnoE

My thoughts exactly. I'll broadcast this to Yahoo right now. Im a desirable hire in the Bay Area, who is working at a 200M+/year profitable company and on mobile. Give me a $1 million signing bonus and Ill leave my current team, and deliver those experiences and successes right onto your lap. The real issue here is this is a reward to investors for there failures. There is some other part of this story were just not privy to. It's a VC back deal. Apple only paid for Color's 20 engineers for $5M.