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by dbarlett 12y ago
Samsung's purported rationale for dropping the FM radio in the Galaxy S4: Our studies show a trend shift of interest to digital broadcasting, specifically – focus on listening to music content in social networks or on the channel
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From https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-new-c4-instan... : In some cases, your workload might not need all 18 of the cores (each of which runs two hyperthreads, for a total of 36 vCPUs on c4.8xla
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8223732 ?
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Counterpoint: If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dtg/DUNN%20GILBERT%20%26%20WILSO... (PDF)
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NASA published a comprehensive (if a bit dry at times) ebook, X-15: Extending the Frontiers of Flight [1] that covers the development and test program. If you're ever near Dayton, Ohio, the National Museum of the USAF has X-15A-2 [2
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande http://www.amazon.com/Being-Mortal-Medicine-What-Matters/dp/...
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Werner Vogels on the excess capacity myth: The excess capacity story is a myth. It was never a matter of selling excess capacity, actually within 2 months after launch AWS would have already burned through the excess Amazo
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by dbarlett 12y ago
As of 2012, apparently IPv6 support/performance: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2012-June/...
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Did anyone else donate to appear in the New York Times ad? https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2004/12/mozilla-foundation-pl...
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Likely the International Geophysical Year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Geophysical_Year#...
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pg: http://paulgraham.com/stypi.html
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Some napkin math - as of late 2013, GitHub's main Elasticsearch cluster had ~128 shards of ~120 GB [1]. Obviously they have more data now, and it's not clear whether the number of shards includes replicas, but at current EC2 on-de
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by dbarlett 12y ago
Exploiting mechanical weaknesses in Master dial padlocks to reduce the search space from 64,000 to 100: http://www.markedwardcampos.com/files/gimgs/13_mcamposfinal....
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"By the late 1960s they did the technical ability, not to mention the requisite madness, to send three guys to the moon and back. They did not have the technology to fake it on video." https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by dbarlett 12y ago
The "LOL" (Little Old Lady) method https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P12r8DKHsak#t=38
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I agree with most of Vinay Sahni's points: http://www.vinaysahni.com/best-practices-for-a-pragmatic-res...
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2, per http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/#Europ...
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"An Analysis of Facebook Photo Caching" [1] discusses CDN usage and complements the original Haystack paper [2] [3] well. [1] http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~qhuang/papers/sosp_fbanalysis.pdf [2] https:&#x2F
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Clifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage http://www.amazon.com/The-Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Espionage/dp/...
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Yes, famously. Bill Gates sent his "Internet Tidal Wave" memo in 1995 and admitted they were behind: Some competitors have a much deeper involvement in the Internet than Microsoft. All UNIX vendors are benefiting from the In
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The current default, ELBSecurity Policy-2014-01 [1] enables ECDSA/PFS and is close to the Mozilla TLS recommendations [2]. Getting an A+ on the Qualys test requires the HSTS header [3], which isn't an ELB issue. [1] http:/&#
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Towards the end of the program, a "jumper cable" was carried to get around that: The cable would connect an avionics bay in Discovery's middeck with the controls one level up on its flight deck, effectively allowing fli
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by dbarlett 12y ago
At least in the U.S., you take them to a Tony Robbins seminar [1] or bring in someone to set it up on the lawn outside [2]. [1] http://www.tonyrobbins.com/events/unleash-the-power-within/ [2] http://fir
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http://www.theonion.com/articles/even-ceo-cant-figure-out-ho... (2007)
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Reminds me of the sadly-defunct It Plays Doom site https://web.archive.org/web/20070320131602/http://www.itplay...
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That was the idea behind PiCloud [1], which was acquired by... Dropbox [2]. [1] http://www.picloud.com/ [2] http://www.wired.com/2013/11/dropbox-piclou/
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Sort of. WordPress provides the gallery; the carousel comes from the Jetpack plugin [1] which is included on wordpress.com sites and can be installed [2] on self-hosted sites. [1] http://jetpack.me/support/carousel&#x2F
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Isn't that what a maquiladora [1] is? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maquiladora
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The "Tick-Tock Model" http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/silicon-innovations/i...
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Similar: http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2013/c-is-for-chromecast-hackin...

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