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by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago
What I like most about MongoDB is that it's "web scale" http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/ It's because of shards. Shards are the secret ingredient in the web scale sauce. They just work.
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by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago
Yes we did! How have you been?
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by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago
I used to be in the R&D department for a large company that included a major movie studio. They wanted to develop a system that would find people filming the screen in theaters. The system worked by exploiting the fact that all cameras
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HomePod Owners Still Plagued with Setup Issues(macrumors.com)
2 points by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago|0 comments
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Insider trading has been rife on Wall Street, academics conclude(economist.com)
459 points by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago|417 comments
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by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago
Because you want to run real software, too! There's nothing like the Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, plus great backup utilities, media playing and management, etc. If you're targeting Linux, run it in a VM so if you screw
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by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago
I develop on Windows 10, and I don't try to "Linuxize" at all, even though we often deploy on Linux. I do use ConEmu, but I use PowerShell as my shell, don't run WSL or Cygwin. All our devtools (Erlang, CUDA C/C++,
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by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago
Windows 10 closed this hole.
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America's Other Housing Crisis: Undercrowded Suburbs(theatlantic.com)
6 points by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago|0 comments
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In Praise of Elon Musk(freebeacon.com)
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by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago
I graduated college (Hofstra University) debt-free. (B.S. (Math) and M.S. (Computer Science). I took the bus to campus, live at home, and worked while in school. So part of me says "why should kids who wanted to live in a country-club
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Cryptocurrencies Come to Campus(nytimes.com)
3 points by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago|0 comments
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The Rise of a Visual Internet: Welcome to the Post-Text Future(nytimes.com)
6 points by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago|2 comments
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NeverSSL(neverssl.com)
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What Bitcoin Reveals About Financial Markets(nytimes.com)
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by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago
Here's how it can be exploited: A popup that says "Intel has detected your computer is vulnerable to Meltdown. Click here to install the fix."
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by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago
For software developers, the best way to communicate is through the bug database. Developers don't use "slack" at our company. Of course, it may be different for sales and support people, etc.
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Anti-tromboning (telecommunications)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago
> An ex-YouTube insider reveals how its recommendation algorithm promotes divisive clips and conspiracy videos. Did they harm Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency? So the reason people didn't vote for Hillary was that they were
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by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago
The ADT company hired and trusted convicted serial killer Dennis Rader to install alarms. He'd then defeat the alarms and go in to the houses to bind, torture, and kill his victims. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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Lawsuit Exposes Internet Giant’s Internal Culture of Intolerance(quillette.com)
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by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago
I've subscribed to Scientific American for the past 40 years. I'm dropping it now. To claims someone is no longer credible because he accepted an invitation to hear a President's State of the Union speech is outrageous. You k
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Microsoft Office 2019 will only work on Windows 10(theverge.com)
3 points by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago|4 comments
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California Considers $1,000 Fine for Waiters Offering Unsolicited Plastic Straws(reason.com)
6 points by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago|1 comments
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Hawaii emergency chief resigns, officer fired over false missile alert(usatoday.com)
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by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago
What always puzzles me are those seat-belt extenders. I've seen passengers on planes that probably couldn't fit through an overwing exit door without getting stuck. Think how dangerous that could be! The seatbelts should be long e
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by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago
The majority of the people in San Francisco just don't see auto break-ins as a priority. In fact, they sympathize with the people who break into cars, as they seem them as an underclass that is forced to do this to survive.
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Coincheck Says It Lost Crypto Coins Valued at About $400M(bloomberg.com)
76 points by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago|46 comments
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The Internet Is Not a Children's TV Channel(quillette.com)
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by Bitcoin_McPonzi 9y ago
But this isn't really another browser engine. They do server side rendering. They're just displaying images on your phone.

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