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Passengers are slow to board aircraft, and airlines are working on better algorithms for choosing an order in which passengers should load. - Amit Patel
More recently: http://www.npr.org/templates/s... "boarding passengers randomly is significantly faster than the traditional method of simply boarding them from back to front." and "lining up passengers whose seat assignments are two rows apart and boarding them from the back of the plane to the front then repeating for the other rows is the most efficient way of getting passengers onto a plane." - seth
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Woah! The TSA (much-maligned U.S. airport security folk) have a blog, and it seems decent. - Amit Patel
The TSA is such a farce. It's an exercise in diminishing our reaction to invasion of privacy. It increases our security much less than it decreases our feeling of freedom of mobility. The TSA is much maligned with very good reason. - Jason Wehmhoener via Alert Thingy
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For anyone who might be visiting or interested in Machu Picchu, take a look a this gigapixel image with a zoomable web UI. - Amit Patel
I read this as "Mega Mega Pikachu - 1.5 GigaPixel" and wondered why anyone would that much detail for a cartoon character that can probably be accurately/completely represented with a 128 x 128 image. - Mihai Parparita
Its really amazing to see each and every individual in that mega sized image :) - Krishna
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Thursday at 8:46 pm
Woah! Resig ported Processing to Javascript! Mostly for the next gen browsers. - Amit Patel
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Which of these is most like the future FriendFeed Global Headquarters? - Amit Patel
It's nice to see more companies that get that aesthetics affect behavior. If you build something that looks like a prison, people will act like prisoners. If you build something looks like a farm, people will become farmers, etc. - Ginger Makela
Brilliant stuff. Now I wonder how people's living spaces affect them as well - suburbia vs. urban center. - Jason Kaneshiro
anyone know if it's possible to arrange a tour of the pixar offices? they look incredible - Adam Kazwell
Visiting the Pixar offices is notoriously difficult. That is to say, I'll buy dinner for two (at the SF restaurant of their choice) to anyone who can arrange a tour for my fiancee and myself. - Tudor Bosman
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May 5 at 11:54 pm
Brilliant! A Flash version of Portal. - Amit Patel
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May 5 at 2:04 pm
Several ex-googler startups have three people involved, sometimes two founders and one additional. Google itself had two founders and one extra person. - Amit Patel
Hmm. Many VCs like pairs of 2 founders that are (1) not family related (2) not too close (3) complementary skill sets...This three thing? - Mitchell Tsai
I have seen that occur with 2 partners and then an outside party, usually a CFO or otherwise finance savvy person - Douglas E. Welch via twhirl
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May 5 at 2:10 pm
How efficient are incandescents? LEDS? Flourescents? - Amit Patel
I'm waiting for compact sodium bulbs. Monochromatic dull yellow is the new green! - ⓞnor
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May 5 at 9:36 am
Visualization of all the streets in the U.S. You can see population density, mountain ranges, etc. - Amit Patel
I so want to zoom in. - Sanjeev Singh
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May 4 at 9:49 pm
XML parser that's supposedly almost as fast as strlen. - Amit Patel
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May 4 at 5:22 pm
Fujifilm has an octagonal design for their digital camera CCDs, where the small squares give additional data. - Amit Patel
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May 3 at 11:24 pm
CHDK lets you add new features to many Canon cameras, including high speed photography, motion detection, battery meter, RAW file support, and much more control over various parameters. - Amit Patel
Wow, this sounds really cool. Robby, you should try this. - Paul Buchheit
wow CHDK looks awesome. I've been wanting a compact Canon anyway. You can run scripts on your camera! Even motion detection. I wonder if it works with Eye-Fi - Rex Pechler via Alert Thingy
it does looks interesting - bob
It's neat. I played with the high speed photography last night. I'm still learning about lighting for short shutter speeds. - Amit Patel
so it worked well/was pretty easy? no major problems? - bob
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May 2 at 10:05 pm
What people say when they leave Google. - Amit Patel
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Rocks are slick even when dry
Turtle leaving the pond
Alien looking plant
May 1 at 10:30 pm
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April 30 at 9:20 pm
Resistors, capacitors, inductors, and now … memristors. An electronic component that has memory. Predicted back in 1971, but nobody knew how to make one until now. - Amit Patel
April 30 at 8:44 pm
Another story about the guy who sprinkled pixie dust on his amputated finger, and the finger grew back. This time with video! - Amit Patel
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April 30 at 6:14 pm
To make a successful computer language, you need a beard. - Amit Patel
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April 30 at 5:25 pm
About bump keys, and how they're used to get past a standard lock, and also some other types of keys that are resistant to bumping. - Amit Patel
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Turtles sunning
Gas prices in California
No anything
April 30 at 8:58 am
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April 28 at 10:45 am
What would happen if everyone woke up, and actually did interesting things instead of watching TV with their free time? This kind of thing gives me the chills. - Amit Patel
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April 27 at 9:56 pm
About depression, happiness, and how people estimate effects badly. - Amit Patel
April 27 at 9:50 pm
ROFLcon sounds like fun. A celebration of internet memes like lolcats, tron guy, chuck norris, etc. - Amit Patel
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April 27 at 5:31 pm
Why Google's ”free” lunch could be more profitable for them than not providing it. - Amit Patel
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April 26 at 7:23 pm
Mixing music in Flash using a hack - Amit Patel
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April 26 at 8:41 am
Trying to assign monetary value to nature's resources may lead to people protecting them more. - Amit Patel
Especially if Nature can do something, like filter water for a city, more cost-effectively than developing the land and mechanically filtering the water. - phil.gs
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April 24 at 6:56 pm
The diffraction limit has been broken!! - Amit Patel
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February 3 at 11:39 pm
Kevin Kelly imagines economics in a world where copying is free. What has value? What will people pay for? He has a really good list. - Amit Patel
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April 21 at 10:07 am
Unusual character classes in MMORPGs - Amit Patel
April 21 at 9:37 am
List of charting packages for web applications. - Amit Patel
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April 18 at 10:46 am
It should be possible to make ribosomes act just as if you had a low-calorie diet, so that you could live longer without such a diet. - Amit Patel
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December 16 at 9:41 am
“It's our dream to make everything taste like bacon.” … “Even more improbably, Dave’s 3 year old son Dean provided our first round of financing with this $5000 win on America's Funniest Home Videos” - Amit Patel
Mmmm.... bacon. Good find! - Louis Gray
I just can't believe how wonderful their marketing is. "Everything should taste like bacon." Their blog has some great posts: http://www.baconsaltblog.com/. Great story! - Bret Taylor
Just invested in this company. Makes otherwise great startups pale in comparison! :-) - Richard Chen
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