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by dcreemer 14y ago
I think you can set Ghostery to block by default: see Ghostery prefs > Advanced > Auto Update > Block new elements by default.
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by dcreemer 14y ago
This is very interesting -- my son uses cochlear implants, which currently use external batteries and induction to provide power to the internal components. I wonder if there is enough power available to enable fully implantable hearing?
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by dcreemer 14y ago
Palo Alto, CA; (or potentially New York, NY). Flipboard [1] is hiring. We have specific openings listed on our jobs page [1], but are always looking for great engineers of all sorts, and can sponsor H1B visas if needed. We're located in dow
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by dcreemer 14y ago
Sorry to be a bit confrontational, but can you please substantiate your claim of "Most areas of Silicon Valley are militantly opposed to anything that looks like high-density construction" with data? Are you involved in a local Bay Area gov
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by dcreemer 14y ago
As I have come to reply on Flipboard more and more over the last 18+ months, my Google Reader / RSS usage has dropped quite a bit. Flipboard is a great Google Reader and general RSS client, but I find the Twitter streams to be much more val
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by dcreemer 15y ago
Can I suggest the "Tor Browser Bundle[1]" -- I've only tried it on Mac OS X, but it seems to nicely, and easily integrate a Tor proxy and a pre-configured Firefox for one-click anonymous browsing. [1] https://www.torproject.org/download/do
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Reddit timeline [4/1](reddit.com)
4 points by dcreemer 15y ago|0 comments
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by dcreemer 15y ago
curl -v -H 'User-agent: Mozilla/5.0' 'http://www.kurlak.com/john/source.html'
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by dcreemer 15y ago
Thanks for posting this! I found it some time ago and found it useful and enjoyable.
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by dcreemer 15y ago
I've never had that problem, though I do have a memory-foam mattress. Sleep Cycle has always worked exactly as advertised for me.
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by dcreemer 15y ago
For a slightly cheaper approach (assuming you already have an iPhone): I have been successfully and pleasantly using "Lose It!" [1] to track all of my food and exercise for about five months now. So far I've lost 20 lbs and 2% body fat. For
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by dcreemer 15y ago
I use bottle on top of gevent for two RESTful services, one of which sees peak 100's of requests per second. Bottle is perfect for my use case: basic routing, and a simple management / monitoring UI. I'm quite satisfied.
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by dcreemer 15y ago
Lab126 (which develops the Amazon Kindle) and A9 (Amazon's search technology firm) both are located in the SF Bay Area, and from the outside appear to operate as Amazon divisions. In addition, EC2 offers instances in Northern California, th
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by dcreemer 15y ago
In fact that exact strategy is specifically addressed in the article. The answer is yes, but only until you get good at it. Then you need to move on to something else.
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by dcreemer 15y ago
minor nit: the author is female.
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by dcreemer 15y ago
For what it's worth, Bruce Schneier says use one: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/password_advic...
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by dcreemer 16y ago
I will say this about Bertrand -- the guy works all the time. It's become a running joke with my wife... Every single time we go out to dinner & coffee in downtown Palo Alto, we wonder which coffee shop we'll see him in, working away on
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by dcreemer 16y ago
any clues if broadcast / multicast will be allowed on my private subnets? The article makes no claims one way or another...
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Ask HN: Co-working "nerd-space" in London, UK?
4 points by dcreemer 16y ago|2 comments
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by dcreemer 16y ago
I love pianobar- I use it daily and love the fact that it uses very little emory especially compared to the Flash-based official clients. I'm not sure what the official Pandora position regarding pianobar is, but I did hear from an employee
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by dcreemer 16y ago
Been using it as a replacement for MacPorts for many months. Works well, easy to maintain. I like it.
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by dcreemer 16y ago
I have had pretty much the same experience, though I can't say for sure how much of my behavior is due to the 2008 election season being long over.
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by dcreemer 16y ago
Though these products/ projects are certainly doing very well and look promising, I'll call them "massive successes" when they start to make significant contributions to Google's profit or even at least revenue.
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by dcreemer 16y ago
Well they do have "Ping" but that probably just proves your point. I brought this up because the article seemed to me to be about hiring and retention, and the author cited (poor) social networking as contributing factor for Google problem
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by dcreemer 16y ago
What a bunch of crap... By that same measure, Apple should considered as doing horribly as well -- where are the tweets / blog posts / check-ins from Steve Jobs or other senior execs?
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by dcreemer 16y ago
Are the primary and backup DBs in the same data center? If so, how would you restore from an "unplanned event" there? I ask because I faced that situation once years ago, and very quickly learned that uploading 10's of GB of data from an of
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by dcreemer 16y ago
That's simply not true. Yes you have to be smart and know which Python libraries can block (typically those that do their network calls in C, or those that do disk I/O). In practice however this is not a difficult task. After writing severa
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by dcreemer 16y ago
Thanks for the reply -- I think your comment about Palo Alto being a "finished painting" has some ring of truth to it. There are some "tricks" to getting things done more efficiently in Palo Alto. For example if you ask every stakeholder th
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by dcreemer 16y ago
I'm sorry you're put off by the inefficiencies of Palo Alto, but can I politely ask: How are you helping? Coincidentally, I just returned from 3 hours of participation in Palo Alto city business (working on the city airport plan at the coun
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by dcreemer 16y ago
Indeed. I noticed that Hooters (between Aquatic Park & Pier 39 in SF) had 27% more women.

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