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by dankohn1 9y ago
Highly recommend Ender's Game and the many sequels, where the alien insect species is known as the Formics.
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The Human Rights of Women Entrepreneurs by Reid Hoffman(linkedin.com)
31 points by dankohn1 9y ago|36 comments
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by dankohn1 9y ago
Paul Ryan, the primary author of the House healthcare bill, gives out an Ayn Rand book to all of his interns [0]. Fountainhead and especially Atlas Shrugged are engaging works of science fiction. I recommend everyone read at least one. And
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by dankohn1 9y ago
Here is a more straightforward argument for adopting a monarchy, which is that it may be helpful to treat the head of state as necessarily embodying dignity, but the president should be seen as just another politician. https://th
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Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) – Fully Managed In-Memory Cache for DynamoDB(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by dankohn1 9y ago|0 comments
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Vets.gov: A Modern Software Development Environment in Government(medium.com)
1 points by dankohn1 9y ago|0 comments
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Every New York City Subway Line Is Getting Worse. Here’s Why(nytimes.com)
2 points by dankohn1 9y ago|0 comments
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by dankohn1 9y ago
He'll be at New York ComicCon, where I'll be taking my kids in October. http://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/Guests/Entertainment-Guests/
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by dankohn1 9y ago
This is similar to the story of the guy who pranked his roommate by buying Facebook targeted ads that only targeted him [0]. Perhaps in the future, the AIs will know us all so well that every interaction will be filled with little in-jokes.
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by dankohn1 9y ago
OpenSSL is in the process of relicensing to Apache-2.0, which is compatible with GPLv3. Node.js is downstream of OpenSSL, and will pick up the new license when the switchover is completed. https://www.openssl.org/blog/b
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by dankohn1 9y ago
>They could do a huge crackdown, but that's unsustainable and after the crackdown we'll be right back to the same theft rate. Actually, there's evidence that a sustained crackdown can succeed in changing norms. I believe
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by dankohn1 9y ago
Yes, I think community service (like picking up trash) is quite feasible.
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Preventing stack guard-page hopping(lwn.net)
2 points by dankohn1 9y ago|0 comments
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by dankohn1 9y ago
Can anyone explain why police don't do a huge crackdown on bike theft in Amsterdam? I heard repeatedly when I was there about how bad the theft is. Is there something stopping cops from putting out a dozen fancy bikes without locks eve
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by dankohn1 9y ago
I landed in Beijing Sunday and arranged a car from my hotel since Uber doesn't work here. I arranged via email for the Intercontinental to send an Audi for me and my colleague for CNY 780 (USD 114). Included in the price was an expedit
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Removing Some Code(openssl.org)
1 points by dankohn1 9y ago|1 comments
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Securing a laptop for travel to China(mricon.com)
225 points by dankohn1 9y ago|145 comments
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The cruel Catch-22 of being poor with no ID(washingtonpost.com)
71 points by dankohn1 9y ago|87 comments
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by dankohn1 9y ago
My answer would be that any modern software development shop should be using a linter like Rubocop, eslint or gofmt that runs automatically on every commit. It doesn't actually matter what standard a group chooses, but there is real co
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Making Python faster(lwn.net)
28 points by dankohn1 9y ago|0 comments
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Assembling the history of Unix(lwn.net)
3 points by dankohn1 9y ago|0 comments
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Apple's New Podcast Data and Analytics Will Change the Industry(vulture.com)
1 points by dankohn1 9y ago|0 comments
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DC Circuit strikes down Obama-era caps on prison phone rates(twitter.com)
1 points by dankohn1 9y ago|0 comments
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by dankohn1 9y ago
These are shots of my then 1yo (now 10yo) son and I visiting in 2007. Presumably, they don't let you get this close to the tuna anymore. https://www.dropbox.com/s/vjcxk2ajokxxcbd/IMG_1307.jpg https:/&#x
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by dankohn1 9y ago
RethinkDB is still around (present tense). It has been re-licensed under Apache-2.0 and a community is building to move it forward. https://www.joyent.com/blog/the-liberation-of-rethinkdb
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by dankohn1 9y ago
I'm hoping the incremental work to maintain this won't be too much trouble and we can release a new version every quarter or so.
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History of the entire world, i guess [video](youtube.com)
34 points by dankohn1 9y ago|4 comments
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by dankohn1 9y ago
For a very high level overview, I really like this essay: You Could Have Invented Container Runtimes: An Explanatory Fantasy https://medium.com/@gtrevorjay/you-could-have-invented-conta...
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by dankohn1 9y ago
(Author here.) This started as an idea for a clever visualization but turned into a mammoth amount of work. OpenStack, GitLab, the kernel, Chromium and Apache do not use GitHub (or are only mirrored there). I'm happy to hear ideas for
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The 30 Highest Velocity Open Source Projects(cncf.io)
9 points by dankohn1 9y ago|7 comments

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