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by clarkm 12y ago
> If you can't deal with someone going on extended leave for some reason or another, your business is likely going to go out of business for reasons unrelated to maternity soon enough anyway. That's definitely not true. Let&#x2
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by clarkm 12y ago
Raleigh-Durham, Austin, and to a lesser extent Provo, are definitely regional tech hubs. Another interesting observation is that all four of the new cities surround Chattanooga, TN which has had municipal gigabit fiber for years now. I wond
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by clarkm 12y ago
We self-host our own HipChat servers, so they weren't affected by this.
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by clarkm 12y ago
Looking through the customer list, most other sites seem to be working fine: http://www.akamai.com/html/customers/customer_list.html I wonder what makes FB and Instagram different?
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by clarkm 12y ago
Charge your battery!
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by clarkm 12y ago
Interesting to see an investment by USAA. They've really stepped up their tech game lately, partnering with some very cool companies (e.g. TrueCar), so I wonder if some type of Coinbase integration is in the works.
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by clarkm 12y ago
Does having additional children count as using more non-renewable resources, or is it providing more labor?
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by clarkm 12y ago
In general grep seems smart enough that it would do that, but it hasn't been my experience. Just last week I was searching through a couple hundred gigs small xml files. I found that: $ LC_ALL=C fgrep -r STRING . was much fa
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by clarkm 12y ago
You can make it even faster by using fgrep since you're not searching for a regex.
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TrackingPoint Takes Aim at the Future of Firearms Targeting(techcrunch.com)
17 points by clarkm 12y ago|2 comments
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First DNA Tests Say Kennewick Man Was Native American(seattletimes.com)
2 points by clarkm 12y ago|0 comments
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by clarkm 12y ago
This is one of the reasons that Richard Stallman refused to use his RFID card at MIT. If a door was locked, he would just tailgate someone in. Eventually CSAIL just gave him a key to a back door.
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by clarkm 12y ago
Unless of course it's Caltech, which breaks both rules.
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by clarkm 12y ago
The newsletter from The Fountain Hopper (who appears to have discovered this) has some more interesting details: When you apply to Stanford, your application gets assigned at least two admissions 'readers.' FoHo knows you get a t
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by clarkm 12y ago
Isn't Kalyhost Mark Karpeles' company? It looks like sites hosted there used xta.net nameservers, which were used by tibanne.com back in 2009: http://who.is/nameserver/ns3.xta.net
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Technology Has Made Life Different, but Not Necessarily More Stressful(nytimes.com)
1 points by clarkm 12y ago|0 comments
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by clarkm 12y ago
Custom date ranges with a calendar picker!
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by clarkm 12y ago
He's a Professor of Economics at GMU, and is probably one of the top 10 most popular econ bloggers on the web.
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by clarkm 12y ago
Exactly. Just like not everyone can run an ultramarathon, not everyone can program fizz buzz.
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by clarkm 12y ago
This has some good ideas, but it's very similar to HOCON. I think it's more worthwhile to focus on improving the HOCON spec rather than building yet another configuration json superset. https://github.com/typesafeh
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by clarkm 12y ago
Yep. On top of that, I'm pretty sure iPhones use bluetooth tethering by default anyways.
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The Internet Is a Major Driver of the Growth of Cognitive Inequality(motherjones.com)
4 points by clarkm 12y ago|1 comments
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by clarkm 12y ago
Well, you're both right! From Wikipedia: > The bodyshop painter became frustrated with the sample masking tape and exclaimed, "Take this tape back to those Scotch bosses of yours and tell them to put more adhesive on it!"
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Power and Paranoia in Silicon Valley(pdf.yt)
28 points by clarkm 12y ago|19 comments
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2015 Could Be the Year of the Hospital Hack(technologyreview.com)
5 points by clarkm 12y ago|0 comments
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Singapore Wants a Driverless Version of Uber(technologyreview.com)
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by clarkm 12y ago
I think Donald Knuth does something similar.
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MIT indefinitely removes online physics lectures and courses by Walter Lewin(newsoffice.mit.edu)
144 points by clarkm 12y ago|136 comments
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by clarkm 12y ago
The article makes it sound more like Heroku for experiments than Uber, but I guess that comparison is too niche. Some other companies in this space are: https://www.transcriptic.com/ and http://www.emeraldtherape
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by clarkm 12y ago
I've never bought "I'm ignorant of how the world works" as an argument for "I don't expect X to happen". If X does happen with regular frequency, the fact that you didn't expect it to doesn't rea

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