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pshapiro

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Software and electrical engineer based in Brooklyn.

Nature enthusiast.

Lead Mobile Engineer at Rubenstein Technology Group - http://www.rubensteintech.com

Co-founded Piqtr - http://piqtr.com

Creator of the Enlightenment app for iOS - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/enlightenment/id431554133

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www.jacobsingh.name 15y ago

Appcelerator's Titanium: A truncated review

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signup.linktamer.com 15y ago

Personalized news startup Linktamer comes out of stealth mode

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www.piqtr.com 15y ago

Visual Q&A app Piqtr has launched (feedback welcome)

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kstenerud.github.com 15y ago

ObjectAL - iOS Audio development, minus the headache.

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www.kobold2d.org 15y ago

Kobold2D - Cocos2D on Steroids

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www.microcosmologist.com 15y ago

The Cost of SETI Infographic

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www.zmescience.com 15y ago

SETI shuts down due to lack of funding

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spaceweather.com 15y ago

Space Weather

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www.engadget.com 15y ago

Apple Announces Final Cut Pro X

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www.microvision.com 15y ago

How a laser HUD can make driving safer (PDF with pics)

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www.reddit.com 15y ago

Reddit: Why is Vimeo so much better/smoother than youtube?

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www.quora.com 15y ago

Ask HN: How does HN need to change to prevent its quality members from leaving?

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paulshapiro.livejournal.com 15y ago

MongooseJS 1.0 Upgrade Woes

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www.jsonlint.com 15y ago

JSONLint: The JSON Validator

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www.iobound.net 15y ago

Visualizing the Price of a Used Laptop

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Why is the Android emulator so slow?

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github.com 15y ago

FuturesJS: A JS lib which (when used as directed) simplifies asynch programming

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metaduck.com 15y ago

Asynchronous Iteration Patterns (in Node.js)

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piqtr.com 15y ago

Piqtr: A visual Q&A iPhone app. We launched our signup page the other day.

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cocoawithlove.com 15y ago

Cocoa with Love: IMP of the current method

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Bug HN: HTTPS links differentiated from HTTP

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convore.com 15y ago

Hacker News on Convore

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jonathanmaim.com 15y ago

Storing password data with MongoDB and Node.js

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blog.sprawsm.com 15y ago

Which side-projects should be pursued and maintained?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: What are you working on over the winter break?

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secrets.blacktree.com 15y ago

Blacktree Secrets: Mac OS X Hidden Settings

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allseeing-i.com 15y ago

ASIHTTPRequest: GET/POST Requests in iOS

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www.quora.com 15y ago

Quora: How valuable is Hacker News karma?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Why doesn't the HN user's submissions list show number of comments?

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www.ted.com 15y ago

Seth Godin @ TED: "We're just waiting for someone to lead us"

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DNA 15 years ago

Sounds great but,

"There is no amount of training that would make up for the talent we’d extinguish by teaching them how to write annual reviews."

Leadership has nothing to do with writing annual reviews.

I heard that leadership means gathering people's power to accomplish a goal.

So while leadership may mean management, management is not inherently leadership.

The following might seem somewhat far fetched to you, but then again, when I was in your position it seemed that way to me too. One thing non-religious people are able to report about God is that what we call a god means the consciousness which is generated by activities. Consciousness is like an electrical signal in that it will transmit any information input into it. Something recorded in a consciousness can be said not to have very much mass compared to the actual object which was met, so curiously (and not coincidentally), people calling the Higgs particle the god particle is actually as wrong as the religious accounts of gods ability because god doesn't have the ability to change massive things by itself. Hope this makes more sense..

From the article:

Dorigo — who said he doesn't have access to the full ATLAS memo — gives several reasons for this viewpoint. He points out, for example, that scientists at Fermilab didn't see the putative Higgs signal in their Tevatron data, which covered similar ground as the ATLAS experiment.

Dorigo feels strongly enough, in fact, to put his money where his mouth is.

"I bet $1,000 with whomever has a name and a reputation in particle physics (this is a necessary specification, because I need to be sure that the person taking the bet will honor it) that the signal is not due to Higgs boson decays," he wrote on his blog today. "I am willing to bet that this is NO NEW PARTICLE. Clear enough?"

HTTPSNow 15 years ago

Probably because he's not a Blackberry user... :)

This is a great idea in part because of the incredible stagnation in the upgrade path for a restaurant's POS technology. In my experience the entire hardware+software system gets upgraded only once every 5-10 years at a typical restaurant. Probably because the two (hardware and software) are sold together, making upgrades a big investment.

You can't do that 15 years ago

Free electricity may be a pipe dream, which is understandably dismissed, even IMO (how could you get free energy from nowhere?). But a gizmo which pulls electrical or magnetic energy from the sun or surrounding space by some heretofore unimplemented and unaccepted method is not as much of a pipe dream. However it's just as quickly dismissed by academic physicists as a pipedream even though they don't know what specifically they are dismissing.

So I agree! Keep your confidence if you think you've got an idea that may work, especially when there's a bunch of people who have a vested interest in your device not succeeding, telling you that it won't work.