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by alpha_ori 5y ago
There's a lot wrong with this design. It is perhaps reasonable to use on new wine with pristine corks. But corks are a natural material, so they have a lot of variability, and they do degrade over time. If you open a lot of wine (e.g.,
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by alpha_ori 5y ago
They appear functionally similar, but the coffee made is very different. A standard french press requires a coarse grind and you can only adjust extraction by changing the steep time. The Aeropress pushes coffee through a paper filter with
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by alpha_ori 8y ago
SwiftStack | Software Engineer, Cloud | San Francisco | Onsite | Full-time At SwiftStack, we are building a storage platform that makes data easily manageable and portable between public and private clouds. In the process, we’re tackling s
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by alpha_ori 9y ago
Software Engineer | https://swiftstack.com | SF Bay Area | Fulltime, ONSITE, VISA transfer We’re a small team developing a distributed filesystem built on top of our widely deployed object storage technology. Are you an experien
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by alpha_ori 10y ago
This is absolutely correct. Hotels are optimized for a very particular pattern of travel: individuals or couples who use the accommodation solely to sleep. Many, many other use cases are actually more economically serviced by vacation ren
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by alpha_ori 10y ago
Presumably this is covered by the "Rackspace" entry, which is the last entry on the table.
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by alpha_ori 10y ago
Software Engineer | https://swiftstack.com | SF Bay Area | Fulltime, ONSITE, VISA transfer SwiftStack helps companies address the rapid growth of valuable but unstructured data. We build an object storage system capable of saf
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by alpha_ori 12y ago
SwiftStack - http://swiftstack.com - San Francisco, CA We create large-scale object storage systems based on OpenStack Swift. We help companies who need to store massive amounts of data to do so easily, safely, and cheaply in t
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by alpha_ori 13y ago
But the narwhal is so 2008. The Unicorn is coming back around! Like the 70's...for the third time.
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by alpha_ori 13y ago
Thanks, wpietri!
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by alpha_ori 13y ago
Wanted: Programming Unicorn. We aren't asking for much here at SwiftStack. All we need is someone that's * An experienced, opinionated crafter of scalable distributed systems * Possessed of a deep and abiding knowledge of
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by alpha_ori 13y ago
SwiftStack ( http://swiftstack.com/jobs/ ) is hiring software developers at all levels of experience. Why Join SwiftStack? You’ll work on a product that touches millions of people’s lives even if they don’t know it. The
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by alpha_ori 13y ago
San Francisco, CA SwiftStack ( http://swiftstack.com/jobs/ ) is hiring software developers at all levels of experience. Why Join SwiftStack? You’ll work on a product that touches millions of people’s lives even if they don’t know it. The nu
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by alpha_ori 13y ago
SwiftStack ( http://swiftstack.com/jobs/ ) is hiring software developers at all levels of experience in San Francisco, CA. Why Join SwiftStack? You’ll work on a product that touches millions of people’s lives even if they don’t know it. The
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by alpha_ori 17y ago
What, people in Mexico don't eat the ribs on pigs? Perhaps they take the shoulder to make carnitas and leave the rest of the carcass to rot under the hot, Mexican sun?