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by afshin 16y ago
In my case, this device is a Mac Mini + a Drobo. The Mini is connected to my TV and a receiver and is pretty much always on ... I can access the files pretty easily with MacFuse using SSHFS.
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by afshin 16y ago
NYC 1010data Job Titles: Web Application Developer and Data Product Developer We're looking for smart programmers for two types of positions to work on and with our application. Our core system, which is a distributed analytics engine, is b
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by afshin 16y ago
I know it's been said here a couple times, but positive reinforcement is good: I used to get annoyed every time a document was linked to on scribd, and only went there grudgingly. In my mind, this is a complete 180 and a very welcome upgrad
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by afshin 17y ago
I have often gone to http://www.morewords.com/ to search for dictionary words that end in a TLD I'm looking at, or contain buzz words I want in a domain.
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by afshin 17y ago
"Code doesn’t rust and it doesn’t go off. Just read it, change it and use it." I don't agree with this at all. In heterogeneous environments edge cases and little used segments of code are often overlooked as other, more frequently used, se
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by afshin 17y ago
I'm not convinced that Buzz isn't just a flash in the pan. The data generated in Buzz seems qualitatively different than the data Google earns its revenues indexing and I don't really see a direct path to how that's going to change.
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by afshin 17y ago
Even if we do develop a sustainable human civilization on this planet using Earth's resources wisely ... the most compelling reason to colonize space is still the inherent precariousness of relying on a single locus. There are any number of
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by afshin 17y ago
J and K both came out of APL ... except they use the normal ASCII character set for their built-in functions. It still seems like magic to me when I saw one line of K execute really quickly and return what takes me dozens of lines of code i
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by afshin 17y ago
Characters can have different accents or modifications on them. For example, the letter "e" can be "é" or "è" or "ë", etc. The interesting thing being done here is layering multiple diacritical marks on top of the slash character and then d
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by afshin 17y ago
My vote would be Arthur Whitney: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1531242
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by afshin 17y ago
I think that largely used to be true ... but nowadays with tools like Perian and Mplayer OSX Extended it's definitely no longer the case. With Snow Leopard, VLC is actually the weakest of the media players in terms of stability and performa