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by achompas 14y ago
The strictest policy would prevent licensees from pre-loading shovelware onto new PCs to begin with. But that's an argument for another time.
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by achompas 14y ago
Ha yeah, good one! Bone-in meat is probably bad too (more than 20% edible, but still...)
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by achompas 14y ago
Approximately 0% of Microsoft's target customer base will wipe and install Linux. People buying this thing want Windows. I would normally agree re: Marco (I've had to move on as he further embraces Apple linkbait), and there's no chance the
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by achompas 14y ago
And Microsoft doesn't go out of the way any more than any other company at "hiding" that information from you. No, but the problem lies in the valley between the Surface's maximum capacity and the capacity available to users. Have you eve
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by achompas 14y ago
Can't think of a vegetable that is only one-third edible.
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by achompas 14y ago
The probability that he, or any other decent, civilized person, would make that comment is very, very low. Let's admit that parent, GP etc. are trying to pick on pg and move on.
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by achompas 14y ago
Are serial killers who actually kill people really shocking to people? Yes, universally so. Because they kill people and murder is a Bad Thing. Social networks that index information produced willingly by members aren't in the same coun
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by achompas 14y ago
No, as far as I can recall.
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by achompas 14y ago
It's true that some people (like me) only use Facebook for its usefulness as a social tool. In that case, just strip your account of any serious personal information.
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by achompas 14y ago
Those "online footprint" type of websites already exist, and they're very popular with due diligence firms.
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by achompas 14y ago
The Facebook Graph Search article making the rounds mentions that (a) posts are not searchable at this time, and (b) FB is launching a suite of new privacy settings for Graph Search. Here's a link: http://www.wired.com/business/2013/01/the
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by achompas 14y ago
Nothing good can come out of applying dumb algorithms (that is, any algorithm) to a sufficiently rich "social graph"; it will always lead to situations like that which are, at best, embarrassing, and at worst, dangerous, for whoever is in
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by achompas 14y ago
Awesome! Thanks for adding instructions. You could do much worse than a hardcoded Four Tet tracklist, but I'm looking forward to listening to other stuff. :)
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by achompas 14y ago
Excited to use this, but I don't have installation instructions...
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by achompas 14y ago
I can confirm this because (a) I too lived in a tiny studio in a super convenient area for a while and (b) after shopping around for a while I can confirm that $1.7k in Manhattan is definitely a steal.
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by achompas 14y ago
How does one go about finding a great place in Brooklyn or Queens without getting fleeced by brokers?
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by achompas 14y ago
Better account planning (with Safe-to-Spend + goals), excellent UI, instant report generation using searches, humongous network of free ATMs. The inactivity fee takes a long time to kick in--we're talking a year of not posting any transac
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by achompas 14y ago
How many mass murders has it taken to get to this point? How is that "drastic" or "very fast"? The same issue was addressed by the Brady Bill 18 years ago, so it's not like the issue hasn't been addressed before. That response's effective
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by achompas 14y ago
Man, I don't want to make this point here, but comparing this to bullying is ridiculous. There's a difference between a child who is victimized while growing socially and emotionally and an adult man who allegedly broke the law knowingly.
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ANALYST: 'Foursquare Will Fail By The End Of 2013'(businessinsider.com)
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by achompas 14y ago
Google for Warby Parker. They're arguably the fastest growing online eyeglasses retailers.
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by achompas 14y ago
Here's another list: http://nytm.org/made-in-nyc There are companies on each list missing from the other.
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by achompas 14y ago
I'm a big fan of Twyla Tharp's "The Creative Habit" for one reason: it completely does away with the whole mystification of "creativity" as some gift from a divine source. The plot is simple: creating stuff requires work. Figure out how you
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by achompas 14y ago
Better for Pinterest too. It means they need to develop services that can be launched and terminated quickly, and that their services are much more resilient during times of high load.
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by achompas 14y ago
Very interesting, thanks! I've spent a bit of time working on a library to accomplish this, and Boto has been extremely helpful. The watchdog isn't very sophisticated -- it just checks to make sure that the correct number of instances are
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by achompas 14y ago
Thanks! How do your watchdog instances monitor other hosts? Do they track usage/load via snmpd, or something else? Also, are they directly calling the EC2 API to launch or shut down hosts, or do you have an in-house deployment system?
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by achompas 14y ago
I'd start by looking at Github and Pycoder's Weekly for some possibilities. If you see something that catches your interest, send the author a message!
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by achompas 14y ago
We recently saw "Why use SVM" hit the front page of HN, but I feel this is a much more rigorous treatment of the same topic. In particular, Andreas does a great job discussing the relevance of the kernel to SVMs, its computational complexit
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Kernel Approximations for Efficient SVMs (and other feature extraction methods)(peekaboo-vision.blogspot.com)
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