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by bbulkow 7y ago
It is a funny old world when the one fact that they are willing to be managed as a technical contributor sets a candidate apart.
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by bbulkow 7y ago
I have two that control fridges for cheese making and aging. I used to have one running a custom news aggregator my gf made for me. I use them as controllers for large scale art at burning man.
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by bbulkow 7y ago
Other points not covered. We need to end off label use. Saying a drug is approved for one diagnosis and then allowing it for any other diagnosis is, in the modern age, simply crazy. One might as well not have fda approval. The problem of ta
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by bbulkow 7y ago
Accutain is some heavy chemistry and you need to be careful. It slows cell growth at a fundamental level. That is why it has pregnancy warnings, and there are concerns about brain growth. It is a reasonably effective anti cancer agent, you
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by bbulkow 7y ago
Very interesting article. I see someone who won the lottery. They have built a huge house and family, based on the single skill of showing up for work, and having the right father. While this happens, this person thinks it is thier right, a
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by bbulkow 7y ago
As a non parent, can you go further on the idea of how it would be hard to prevent a kid from using screens and internet until they were much older, like 14 or so? I grew up in the tv and telephone age, and i simply never had my own of eith
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by bbulkow 7y ago
1. Your job as a parent is to educate them with mature and thoughtful responses to everything that they could experience in the world, say, by the age of 16. At this point your job is over, and you don't keep them safe, they go off and
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by bbulkow 7y ago
Interesting legal point. Whether an api falls under copywrite is still under adjudication between oracle and google. Generally apis are fair game, although that might change. Otherwise, if you published and they cloned, that's the way
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by bbulkow 7y ago
The author keeps saying 'my data' when the data isn't theirs. The fact that they interacted with a party, that interaction, and who you are, is thier data. This isn't a theoretical nit pick, this is the law. And it makes
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by bbulkow 8y ago
It does amaze me that we are ok with foreign intelligence having the data, just not domestic intelligence. The theory being that the fbi and nsa have more power to effect our lives than the kgb, I suppose, but... Really? It is ok for the KG
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by bbulkow 8y ago
This seems the classic 'ease of use' vs privacy. Google has done the right thing for privacy, because an app that can scan for ssid can determine location and report it if it has any outside connection. Good for google to equate t
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by bbulkow 8y ago
This is common and necessary. There are a ton of federal and state laws about what can be considered in hiring, and if one steps an inch off of the legal path, the results are dire. Written feedback is the worst. One simply can't do it
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by bbulkow 8y ago
The Google of ten years ago was the company we should have trusted the internet. The Google of today has essentially removed the founders and become a search for profit. Once they split the company 'for accounting purposes' it mea
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by bbulkow 8y ago
Interest statement: I've been personally involved because my company's database plays a key role. But the launch of this is of greater interest as well.
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ECB [EuroCentralBank] takes on PayPal with instant payment system(uk.reuters.com)
2 points by bbulkow 8y ago|1 comments
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by bbulkow 8y ago
What's funny about this is people could defect to g+, with it's well thought out 'group' structure to promote focus, but Google just killed it.
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by bbulkow 8y ago
Thanks for that, I was wondering if the grounds portion of the ils was hit, or the plane component.
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by bbulkow 8y ago
You know, it's funny, you save the plane, then you get second guessed about whether you used air Force resources wisely, which can have serious repercussions. Or as a professional, have consequences to your career. It is a crap shoot,
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by bbulkow 8y ago
Yeah, I read all these comments and they miss the obvious answer. Pitch large vcs and ask for a lot of money. It goes against the YC grain, but it is the reason there are silicon valley vcs. It used to be that starting a company meant build
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by bbulkow 8y ago
Isn't this all definition? It seems reasonable for three companies to create a block chain only they see. It is public, in a sense, because the transactions span different trust domains. It is not public because it is not on the open i
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by bbulkow 8y ago
I worked for a recommendation engine as a service company called aggregate knowledge in 2007 when they got their second round of funding, 25m from kleiner. It was a remarkably lousy business, and they didn't do well. There was really n
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by bbulkow 8y ago
Since it sounds like you are doing a cold call and pitch, I don't think you know if this vc you target funds at your stage and has a suitable investment hypothesis. While this one could work out, I would set expectations with you that
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by bbulkow 8y ago
Yes, I pay half my us salery for tax and benefits, since you have to include putting significant money away for retirement (10 percent gross minimum ) since we don't have significant pension systems. If you are interested in a less tec
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by bbulkow 8y ago
The aerospike demo Intel did at the event showed 17 seconds vs over 2000 seconds for a restart. The difference being rebuilding a dram index on a many many terrabyte data set. Remembering aerospike has consistency, so you can't have th
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by bbulkow 8y ago
I was on the outside vendor was panel at the event (along with Oracle and redislabs) if anyone would like an engineering view of the technology.
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by bbulkow 8y ago
Facebook's collection system is through share buttons. Those share buttons do cookie share because the domain is Facebook, but the technology is certainly there to track by ip address and device fingerprint, even if you are not a fb us
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by bbulkow 8y ago
Facebook has share buttons on all the world's media. Each one of those views is almost certainly recorded by Facebook, even if you don't have an account. The only way to stop it is put a DNS block ( hosts entry ) on your machines.
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by bbulkow 8y ago
Honestly, I think we use Google docs draw more than anything else. I don't love it, but it is group editable, has a permission system, good comments, and we can just paste urls in tickets and design documents. Many engineers simply use
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by bbulkow 9y ago
I had my first job programming Plato at UofD. I had my second job building hardware for replacing the old expensive terminals with pcs running the same hardware. A few years later, I came to silicon valley to help the people who put tcp&#x2
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by bbulkow 9y ago
I saw a presentation at qcon last week by PayPal about contraband detection using image recognition, the example was a rose for 650 dollars. In the image was a handgun, in front of the roses. So that is a thing, and pp certainly has efforts

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