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by bobf 13y ago
Although you're right that the razor-razorblade model still applies to these laser printers, the cost per page is far lower than inkjets -- and they are much more reliable. Like Pogue, I had one of this printer's predecessors, the
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by bobf 13y ago
Congratulations on launching. Suggestions seem like a good place to start. For revenue, you could partner with venues to offer discounted ticket purchases/admission, promotions, merchandise sales, etc.
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Hospitals profit from preventable surgical complications(nytimes.com)
2 points by bobf 13y ago|0 comments
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by bobf 13y ago
Etsy has a great engineering blog-- http://codeascraft.etsy.com/
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by bobf 14y ago
If you are interested in using this for your own project look at the previous version at https://github.com/overshard/pinry , which has more friendly licensing terms (BSD, vs AGPL).
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by bobf 14y ago
AeroFS is awesome! I've been using it since the alpha release and have had nothing but positive experiences. Like rdl says, it does everything I want in a file sharing system.
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Nutella theft runs rampant at Columbia(nytimes.com)
2 points by bobf 14y ago|1 comments
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by bobf 14y ago
I gave a presentation on zero downtime database migrations at a devops conference in Boston in November 2012. Slides are here: http://www.completefusion.com/zero-downtime-deployments-with... I also wrote a more detailed post about it for
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by bobf 14y ago
I downloaded the Auto Refresh Plus Chrome plugin, set it to auto-refresh the 16GB page ( https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_4_16g... ) every 1s and set the "Popup notification once FIND the target" option using the word
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by bobf 14y ago
While the article is interesting; the following image may bring tears to the eye: http://i.imgur.com/WOCaQ.jpg
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Tomb of the Unknowns' Guards and Hurricane Isabel(snopes.com)
14 points by bobf 14y ago|7 comments
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by bobf 14y ago
There are lots of other great places to work in Boston. Email me (see profile) if you're looking.
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by bobf 14y ago
Curacao is a gorgeous place to visit - not sure if I would want to live there for more than a few weeks. It is incredibly small -- maybe try a bigger/more populous island? I loved St. Kitts, although that's still quite small and there are l
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by bobf 14y ago
Interestingly, this is the second time the reactor has been shut down in a month. The first time was on August 22 following a leak caused by "micro-cracks" in a diaphragm in a pressurized heater bundle within the containment barrier. http:
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Three Mile Island shuts down after pump failure(cnn.com)
2 points by bobf 14y ago|1 comments
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Speed of Sound is too Slow for Olympic Athletes(theatlantic.com)
4 points by bobf 14y ago|0 comments
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by bobf 14y ago
To clarify, bug 678648 was logged in 2011 and is marked as a duplicate of bug 215450 (the one from 2003): "uploading files that are larger the 2GB fails" @ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215450
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by bobf 14y ago
A $300 meal can be 10x better than a $30 meal. Most $30 meals are fine , but a $300 meal may be the best meal you have ever had.
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How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis(foreignpolicy.com)
20 points by bobf 14y ago|1 comments
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by bobf 14y ago
I think they are still going strong. (I'm friends with one of the co-founders.)
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by bobf 14y ago
Here's a video from a BayLISA talk Jordan gave on fpm, which might help clarify things: http://vimeo.com/23940598 Also, see "Use Case - Package something that uses 'make install'" on the fpm wiki at https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wi
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by bobf 14y ago
I couldn't agree more. Graphite is awesome, but the state of its packaging is atrocious. That's probably the biggest barrier to its' widespread adoption, actually. I spent 2 days making my own Graphite packages and automating the install vi
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by bobf 14y ago
Use fpm! https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
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by bobf 15y ago
Running Samba exposed to a public network isn't the only issue here. Even on an internal network, this would allow file/directory permissions to be bypassed.
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Easy slideshows with XML(semicomplete.com)
1 points by bobf 15y ago|0 comments
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by bobf 15y ago
My observation has been that "the latest apps" being discussed are pretty different in SV and Florida.
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by bobf 15y ago
lxc is great for something lightweight that is built into the kernel now. If you need something heavier or with more advanced features, use KVM or Xen.
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Stroke of genius starts later in life today(msnbc.msn.com)
9 points by bobf 15y ago|0 comments
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Deployment Best Practices(blog.lusis.org)
3 points by bobf 15y ago|0 comments
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by bobf 15y ago
#infra-talk and #devops on freenode are solid infrastructure/devops channels.

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