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by donretag 13y ago
So basically Spike Lee doesn't do the right thing?
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by donretag 13y ago
For me: Strava (although workarounds exist) and Pebble connectivity.
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by donretag 13y ago
That would mean less sports on OTA TV. For people like me, that is a win/win situation.
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by donretag 13y ago
How does one actually play this "game"? The app is in Czech and the map does not have anything displayed. Has everything been found?
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by donretag 13y ago
I like how they choose songs by Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli to represent the different cities since they are mother/daughter. I am one of the natives (NYC) the article refers to. I was tired of people being surprised that I was actu
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by donretag 13y ago
Screen scraping is now considering hacking? Well, I guess Andrew Auernheimer "Weev" did get convicted for something similar.
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Capture don’t kill - Death by coding exercise(nyctechnically.com)
2 points by donretag 13y ago|0 comments
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by donretag 13y ago
Interesting concept, but how will it work with more dynamic content? You can train the model on a fairly static corpus such as Wikipedia, but what if you content changes with a greater frequency? Since MapReduce is used, perhaps the model i
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by donretag 13y ago
I remember in the late '90s when the latest edition of The Onion would show up on the website every Tuesday (correct me on the date if I am wrong, it's been awhile). The server could not handle the load and would be extremely slow
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by donretag 13y ago
He was given stock in Google, which has more than doubled in price since then.
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Netty 4 Reduces GC Overhead by 5x at Twitter(infoq.com)
2 points by donretag 13y ago|0 comments
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by donretag 13y ago
From one of the postings ( https://weworkremotely.com/jobs/20 ): "We're looking for a younger developer who wants to learn and be exposed to new technologies. " Is it legal to discriminate for an equity-on
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by donretag 13y ago
Many people vote republican not because of their fiscal policies, but because of the social ones like abortion.
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One step closer to a two-hour marathon(allendowney.blogspot.com)
2 points by donretag 13y ago|0 comments
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Scientific Data: A new publisher of Data(nature.com)
1 points by donretag 13y ago|0 comments
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by donretag 13y ago
If /dev/null is fast in web scale I will use it. Is it web scale? Does /dev/null support sharding?
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by donretag 13y ago
I would say that nowadays, if you live 3 miles from "town", then you really are not living in suburbia. Most commuters live at distances far greater. From the second result in Google: "The average commute in miles for America
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by donretag 13y ago
"It's supported by LinkedIn and AFAIK they're not in the habit of shutting things down" You mean besides job agents, Answers, Events, ...
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by donretag 13y ago
"straight to the Apple Mail app on your iPhone." "all in the iPhone Mail app you already use everyday." My iPhone? The wording is a tad presumptuous, especially considering that the majority of smart phones do not use an
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Announcing: LinkedIn Intro(blog.linkedin.com)
19 points by donretag 13y ago|13 comments
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by donretag 13y ago
My co-workers write awful code, including the "architect". I try to review their code, without having a formal process, because I simply do not trust their abilities. It would not be pretty if we did code reviews.
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by donretag 13y ago
Apple maintains many of the same positions, yet they are loved. Apple actually uses a lot of open source, yet rarely contribute back. Microsoft Research contributes a ton to computing research. Note: writing this in Google Chrome on my Macb
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by donretag 13y ago
"There are 9 bank holidays a year You offer 20 vacation days a year (we do, and you should, too) They take an average of 8.5 sick days a year (it happens)" Those numbers are incredibly overly ambitious. Very few non-governmental
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by donretag 13y ago
The author obviously does not live in California. I rarely check the weather since I know that it will be more or less the same as yesterday , or the day before, or the day before that...
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by donretag 13y ago
Most users can easily upgrade their browser if forced to. Upgrading your phone is not as easy.
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by donretag 13y ago
Walmart has a division called Walmart Labs that is based in Silicon Valley. They are working on many complex projects, especially around Big Data. Not sure how big that engineering group is compared to the rest of Walmart IT, but I would as
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by donretag 13y ago
Two things: 1) The article is from March. If they are shilling, they are not doing a good job. 2) The article is the mobile version. The call to action is probably visible on their main site.
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Lists for learning data science(listudy.com)
1 points by donretag 13y ago|0 comments
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by donretag 13y ago
Beer is the new ping pong.
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by donretag 13y ago
The 'lang' param at the end of the url is interesting. The English content is 'uk' not 'en' or 'us'. The values seem to be country codes. Changing the param to a different country only changes the nam

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