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Log-Structured Merge Trees (2015)(benstopford.com)
5 points by atdt 7y ago|0 comments
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by atdt 7y ago
Five bucks says it's an Israeli company. The IDF's Unit 8200 is basically a Y Combinator for spyware start-ups at this point.
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The 9/11 Tribute in Light Is Helping Us Learn About Bird Migration(allaboutbirds.org)
1 points by atdt 7y ago|0 comments
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by atdt 7y ago
Wikipedia has a huge impact in people's lives, particularly in non-English languages, and there's so much work to do, and so much of it feels urgent and necessary. I really responded to that, and I wasn't careful, and burnt
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by atdt 7y ago
And they're hiring! https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/jobs/#section-8 I worked there for four years and I miss it every day.
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by atdt 7y ago
But it's such a trivial change...! What could go wrong?
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by atdt 7y ago
Travel time isn't everything. Negotiating a series of scenic turns is often more pleasant than inching along on the highway, even if the latter takes less time.
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by atdt 7y ago
Wikipedia article on USA-224: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-224
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by atdt 7y ago
This is a good decision, reflecting the wisdom of Silenus, who, legend goes, once mused that the best thing is not to be born, and if already born, to die quickly. Google is intent on gaining the lead in Cloud, and this was a distraction fr
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by atdt 7y ago
Could you please explain what you mean when you say diversity is a fad du jour? I'd like to believe you didn't mean to say something this ugly.
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by atdt 7y ago
The TrueType font is still embedded in the specimen PDF.
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Teaching Technology in 2019(fo.am)
3 points by atdt 7y ago|0 comments
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by atdt 7y ago
It's a little galling that the proposal makes no mention of Hack ( https://hacklang.org/ ), which is also an evolved PHP with static typing that is designed to coexist with PHP 5/7 code on top of a single runtime
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by atdt 7y ago
Can you recommend a good starting-point for learning emacs internals?
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by atdt 7y ago
It is probably too much to hope for that the exfiltrated data includes tax returns for the country's kleptocratic elite. Bulgaria has the worst corruption in the European Union. Seeing just how little tax is paid by the rich could star
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by atdt 7y ago
It bothers me that so little is known about the company. See https://community.bitwarden.com/t/who-is-hosting-bitwarden/1...
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by atdt 7y ago
And New Yorkers prefer the sound of ocean waves to the sounds of car traffic and jet engines. So what? What the public prefers is irrelevant. The content of public discourse is dictated by the acoustics of the media environment. We are trap
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by atdt 7y ago
"Shell manages one of the largest fleets of oil/chemical tankers and liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers in the world" https://www.shell.com/business-customers/trading-and-supply/...
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by atdt 7y ago
> I disagree with “math is not for everyone”. Math is vast and diverse. Surely there is enough math for everyone. Are you the author? That's a great sentiment and you express it well. In fact, the whole article is engaging. Good job
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by atdt 7y ago
Paper: https://weis2019.econinfosec.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/...
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by atdt 7y ago
Why stop there? Maybe the decline started with the invention of writing. Here's Socrates: But when it came to writing Theuth said, 'Here, O king, is a branch of learning that will make the people of Egypt wiser and improve their
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by atdt 7y ago
Yes, no one was more surprised than James Damore when his memo, Google's Ideological Echo Chamber , provoked the ire of his coworkers.
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by atdt 7y ago
Sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination are real and urgent issues, but the path forward will not be lit by Facebook COO Cheryl Sandberg and SurveyMonkey marketing material. She has no moral credibility.
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Ask HN: Where can I get a virtual number that can receive short-code SMS?
7 points by atdt 7y ago|8 comments
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by atdt 7y ago
How is Dropbox better than rsync+vps? A lot of innovation in tech consists of making things that are straightforward for a technical person to do and making them trivial for an ordinary person to do.
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by atdt 7y ago
Decompile the apk, and run 'strings' on assets/flutter_assets/kernel_blob.bin. Poke around and you'll find code for POSTing JSON-encoded credentials to http://35.246.158.51:8070/auth/getUrl . (G
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by atdt 7y ago
Do REITs provide exposure to rental gains?
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by atdt 7y ago
This is very cool. Congratulations! How did you beat Peffers' team? Did you simply start the computation sooner, or did you reach some insight that eluded them?
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by atdt 8y ago
> Somehow every internet forum had this figured out within hours Assuming "figured out" was not sarcastic: can you recommend any particular threads? I'd love to go beyond the coverage in major newspapers.
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by atdt 8y ago
I spent over four years as an engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation, which trained me to expect the double-take most people do when they hear the name for the first time. They either think they misheard you, or worse: they think you represen

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