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by PLenz 12y ago
At least in North America you should not source your logs from as close as possible and no more then 50 miles away (possibly much closer based on your area) to prevent spread of any of these 53 pests or wood diseases spread by moving logs:
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by PLenz 12y ago
Nice - I've been looking for something exactly like this lately. I have some weekend hack to do now!
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by PLenz 13y ago
One isn't needed. New York is very happy being New York. It's San Fran that isn't happy being San Fran.
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by PLenz 13y ago
Amen! I'm the same way - I know that I'll never climb the corporate ladder this way, but it does mean that I have a happy home life - I actually get to spend quality time with my wife, get to travel, tend my garden, and just be, w
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by PLenz 13y ago
This is ultimately the thing got me to switch the DDG about 2 years ago.
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by PLenz 13y ago
I've used this in a few production projects where I work - it does the job it needs to do.
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Show HN: Explore every Winter Olympic medal since 1924 with D3(urger.org)
1 points by PLenz 13y ago|0 comments
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by PLenz 13y ago
Well there are these things called Treaties that can cover this sort of stuff . A few years ago there was one signed in Kyoto and...Oh - I see your point.
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by PLenz 13y ago
So it's just pining for the Fjords? No - it's dead and responsive and mobile load times in the graphic heavy sites it produced have killed it.
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by PLenz 13y ago
And now I stop using your product. I already paid - I won't be paying again.
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by PLenz 13y ago
duckduckgo.com
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by PLenz 13y ago
Thanks-now, I'm reading, everything-aaaahhhh,this way
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by PLenz 13y ago
No comparison - New York is a better city and the reason is pickles. Not once in my time living in California did I ever encounter anything like a good half-sour. I also feel that the NY tech scene is humbler then SF. In SF there is a feeli
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by PLenz 13y ago
Poetry should trump technical reasons: BY day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and has a soul. Prairie and valley, streets of the city, pour people into it and they mingle among its twenty floors and are poured out a
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by PLenz 13y ago
I built a heat-map demo in CartoDB a while ago. Very nice tool - if a bit pricy if you need more data then free service level can provide.
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by PLenz 13y ago
A neat little toy - but to me flat doesn't just mean a certain color scheme - it also means having a certain elegance to site interactions and a design philosophy that trends closer to minimalistic. None of these sites meet that criter
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by PLenz 13y ago
Another point for Cloudflare here. Seriously boost in site responsiveness after we went with them on our site. They also have a CDN of JS and CSS libs that we use extensively at http://cdnjs.com/
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by PLenz 13y ago
The oldest item on that list is one day older then I am...
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by PLenz 13y ago
Well it's definatly not serving anything in lower Manhattan or in Atlanta (where our other office is)
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Network Solutions DNS is down, taking a couple million sites down with it
6 points by PLenz 13y ago|3 comments
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by PLenz 13y ago
If an impossible event is occurring 40 times then perhaps your baseline of possible needs to be reviewed.
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THE FLOPPY ROM: Software Distributed on Records [1977](blog.modernmechanix.com)
2 points by PLenz 13y ago|0 comments
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The Navy’s newest warship is powered by Linux(arstechnica.com)
191 points by PLenz 13y ago|162 comments
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The power of standardization: The Janney Knuckle coupler(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by PLenz 13y ago|0 comments
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by PLenz 13y ago
On roads and bridges paid for by the government.
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by PLenz 13y ago
I think this is the perfect counterpoint to all the articles over the last week about letting the government fail as long as tech keeps making money. We only make money because a huge infrastructure of transport and a mass of non-sexy indus
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by PLenz 13y ago
They just fired the person who updates their website
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by PLenz 13y ago
And the bandwidth from HN has killed their server...
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by PLenz 13y ago
That's what you need the expert for
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by PLenz 13y ago
The PLUTO database is fascinating - but it also isn't a new thing - the real development is that the city has finally released it gratis under the open data law.

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