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by bconway 14y ago
Having owned both of those cat feeders, for all the improvements made, the new model has a fatal flaw not readily apparent from the pictures shown: The edges of the hopper are not at a steep enough slope to move all the cat food downward (d
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by bconway 14y ago
Yes, but not for the reasons being brought up in the snide replies to your post. As with data plans, there are two types of people that snatch up unlimited deals: A.) Those who want to use a service at whatever pace meets their needs and no
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Do you need a BA, MA, MBA, JD and PhD?(cnn.com)
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Multiprocessing, multithreading and evented I/O: the trade-offs in Web servers(linuxjournal.com)
1 points by bconway 14y ago|0 comments
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Riak_mongo - making Riak act like MongoDB(archi-jab-ture.blogspot.de)
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by bconway 14y ago
There are a ton of MVNOs that sell via AT&T and T-Mobile at superior pricing (and no contract), here's a good thread that covers most of their pricing and features: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1455014
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by bconway 14y ago
It's says right on the Play page: This Galaxy Nexus is an unlocked GSM phone that will operate on more than 200 GSM providers worldwide, including AT&T and T-Mobile in the US. Even if you don't know what a Pentaband phone is, that's p
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Unofficial Google+ Read/Write JavaScript API(plus.google.com)
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by bconway 15y ago
I don't want to take words directly out of anyone's mouth, but here's a link to yesterday's discussion that sheds a lot more light on what is actually happening with the "summarization": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804640
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by bconway 15y ago
So it was like FizzBuzz, then?
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by bconway 15y ago
For anyone curious what this is in reference to, it's the news from a couple weeks ago regarding potential employers asking for Facebook logins as a part of interviews: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-03-20/job-appli...
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by bconway 15y ago
You must be young. Vasectomies are a perfectly normal and routine operation in later life. I'd wager a large percentage (if not a majority) of age 50+ men in the US have them done. It hurts for a weekend, and then it's over, not a big deal.
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by bconway 15y ago
10 months later I'd be interested in seeing the same evaluation 10 years in. I think that's where it makes more of a difference, not in the short term.
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by bconway 15y ago
Same! Apparently I took the article submission guidelines too seriously?
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by bconway 15y ago
Trigger looks to be an interesting technology, unfortunately it also looks like a Gowalla Situation waiting to happen. It would be tough for me to build products for my clients (or a business) on that.
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Social messaging apps "lost networks $13.9bn" in 2011(bbc.co.uk)
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by bconway 15y ago
One thing to be wary of: abandoning the Mac App Store is going to make life much harder for you and your users in the near future. As of OS X 10.8, by default applications cannot be installed outside of the App Store (though a setting exist
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OS X Mountain Lion roars into existence(techcrunch.com)
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by bconway 15y ago
As the author points out, a huge standard library . Sure, Ruby has everything you need if you pull in this gem and that gem, but you better hope the gem you need is working that week or you're going to waste a lot of time reading Github lo
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Announcing JavaScript License Web Labels(fsf.org)
4 points by bconway 15y ago|0 comments
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Welcome to the Parallel Jungle(drdobbs.com)
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by bconway 15y ago
What I find most interesting is the contrast this article's discussion paints with the one we saw only 2 weeks ago, How Much Is an Astronaut's Life Worth? [1]. Some of the highly-rated HN comments included: Space is dangerous. We should s
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by bconway 15y ago
Also, the site appears to requite a minimum current salary of $10K.
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by bconway 15y ago
The article doesn't make it clear, are these direct-link photos still subject to the permissions set on them? Would setting a photo's permission to "Only Me" prior to deleting it work around Facebook's failure? If they aren't subject to t
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by bconway 15y ago
Congrats on your recent Statesman article!
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LivingSocial Lost $558 Million In 2011(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by bconway 15y ago|0 comments
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Btrfs To Go Production-Ready In Oracle Linux(phoronix.com)
2 points by bconway 15y ago|0 comments
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Working long hours doubles depression odds(cnn.com)
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No More Résumés, Say Some Firms(online.wsj.com)
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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul refuses TSA pat-down, turned away from airport(cnn.com)
42 points by bconway 15y ago|16 comments

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