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by all_usernames 8y ago
"CE CEO Steve Oldham told the National Post that a 30-acre commercial negative-emissions plant could scrub one megaton of CO2 from the atmosphere each year — the equivalent of planting 40 million trees."
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by all_usernames 8y ago
We can surmise your gender from this comment :-D
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by all_usernames 8y ago
https://support.pagerduty.com/docs/platform-release-notes https://support.pagerduty.com/docs/release-notes
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by all_usernames 8y ago
Title isn't quite right: "As was the case with Java and OpenJDK, our intention is not to fork Elasticsearch, and we will be making contributions back to the Apache 2.0-licensed Elasticsearch upstream project as we develop add-on e
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by all_usernames 8y ago
In SF, most of the drivers I've met have been commuting from places 1.5-2 hours away to drive in the city all weekend. Is this a good thing? Depends on your point of view. Certainly the crush of additional cars double-parking in bike l
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by all_usernames 8y ago
"Staff engineer" is used differently at different companies. Some, I understand, use that as the external-facing title to mask specific job rules as obfuscation against cold-calling recruiters.
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by all_usernames 8y ago
Covey's "7 Habits" taught me everything I needed to know. I use the app Things to throw new items into an Inbox. This takes half a second and doesn't distract me from whatever it is I'm working on at the time. Later
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by all_usernames 8y ago
GoPro does develop its mobile apps, camera software and hardware, and cloud offerings. You can get a flavor for what the company is working on here: https://gopro.com/careers/jobs
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by all_usernames 8y ago
Anyone thinking about or considering working on these technologies owes it to themselves to read Charles Mann's The Wizard and the Prophet. Whatever you may think of the author's various statements on Peak Oil etc., the book is a
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by all_usernames 8y ago
I recently heard about Carbon Engineering, a B.C. Canada based firm that is extracting carbon from the atmosphere and making liquid fuel -- they call it "recycled fuel." Apparently it can be used in existing combustion engines.
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by all_usernames 8y ago
The discussion about how DevOps is an overloaded term is definitely now meaningless, in that it's been discussed ad nauseam. In the meantime, interesting work continues to be done developing the ideas of DevOps and extending them. [1]
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by all_usernames 8y ago
"Implement continuous delivery (CD) of your software to any cloud, including Azure, AWS, and GCP." Interesting move!
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by all_usernames 8y ago
This site is blocked by openDNS for malware distribution :-/
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by all_usernames 8y ago
GATech brought in $68M from their $6,800 CS degree? "OMS Cybersecurity is Georgia Tech’s third at-scale online degree program. It will follow the same model as the groundbreaking online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS) pro
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by all_usernames 8y ago
Surprised there's been hardly any mention of Michael Pollan's new book. He's the author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food, and most recently How to Change Your Mind -- mostly about the recent advances in t
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by all_usernames 8y ago
EKS may be appealing for a shop that has AWS expertise, automation, and monitoring set-up already and that doesn't necessarily want to manage a completely different stack for k8s. EKS has some form of integration with IAM, EBS, ALB, Ro
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by all_usernames 8y ago
When the Tubbs Fire happened north of the SF Bay last year, it cut off the few Internet links to the Eureka area in Northern California. ATM machines were down as a result, as were the phone lines. If you were stuck somewhere without gas, a
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by all_usernames 8y ago
Thank you for the list! I've read and enjoyed 6 of your top 10, so naturally you've now given me a great reading list for the rest of the year!
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Ask HN: Companies saving the world
2 points by all_usernames 9y ago|0 comments
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by all_usernames 9y ago
Docker?
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by all_usernames 9y ago
In his (really great) book Four Fish, Paul Greenberg says that research shows it takes today's modern fleet roughly 36x the effort to catch the same amount of fish that the fleet of 1900 could catch with sail power. So even radar, sona
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by all_usernames 9y ago
Be prepared to read a lot more of this topic in the coming years. With 2 of the main food species (Tuna, Salmon) de facto endangered, we're going to be thinking about our seafood much differently from now on.
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by all_usernames 9y ago
>7. "It is my understanding that..."
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by all_usernames 9y ago
Tax advisor from Intuit just advised me the other day, "it doesn't matter" if I report a dollar or two of savings interest.
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by all_usernames 9y ago
Coinbase may or may not send you a 1099 form. "Coinbase provides Form 1099-K to certain business customers and GDAX customers that have received at least $20,000 cash for sales of virtual currency related to at least 200 transactions i
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by all_usernames 9y ago
Is there anything to the notion that the Trump administration putting a 30% tariff on imported solar panels is an attempt to bolster the coal or other fossil fuel industry?
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by all_usernames 9y ago
It would be useful to know your workload or primary services used (EC2, CloudFront, RDS, S3...) in order to point to advice. My top 3: - Buy reserved EC2/RDS/Elasticache capacity - this can be done even with no upfront payment, bu
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Ask HN: Why has no one disrupted the DMV?
3 points by all_usernames 9y ago|4 comments
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by all_usernames 9y ago
A good read on the topic of electricity production and distribution in the age of renewable, distributed sources: https://www.amazon.com/Grid-Fraying-Between-Americans-Energy...
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by all_usernames 9y ago
There are at this time 112 comments on this page. I searched for "emotion" and got zero hits, and only one comment mentioned "bonding." A problem with any scientific assessment of the human condition is the narrow focus,

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