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by dsimms 8y ago
OMG, I totally forgot about this book. I loved it! Now, downloading ebook to reread it.
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by dsimms 8y ago
I've never used TAMR, but how about https://github.com/Netflix/metacat ?
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by dsimms 8y ago
I sort of wanted them (NPR) to say "but how can you have a driveway moment on transit?". Listening to NPR is one of the very few redeeming features of driving to work.
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by dsimms 8y ago
For the Wizard of Earthsea books, there's an afterword (at least in the later editions I have around the house) where she says she just sketched out the map first even before any characters, and filled it in with the stories as she wen
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by dsimms 8y ago
Not just in Terminal, but chip and tap in general: https://squareup.com/us/en/press/square-makes-payments-even-...
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by dsimms 8y ago
MCOM (later Netscape) and NCSA were definitely not on friendly terms. There was a lawsuit against MCOM at which point they changed their name.
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by dsimms 9y ago
I was wondering how the arctic melt changes our view on the northwest passage. Was it really ice-free enough in human memory such that it could have been a myth?
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by dsimms 9y ago
My wife's dad is 80 and has been programming for work (and play) since he was 26-ish (1965). Good stories.
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by dsimms 9y ago
so much this, and it's repeated over and over ...and over in the book.
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by dsimms 9y ago
I think Tesla is a great example of toy-first strategy. The roadster is comically niche. But: the electric drive train is super torquey so makes a great sports car, it's not an every day car so the lack of charging infrastructure is
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by dsimms 9y ago
let ye who test all your logging strings cast the first stone
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by dsimms 9y ago
HDF too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_Data_Format
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by dsimms 9y ago
Maybe they don't want the scrutiny, sure, but do seem to need funds. Airbnb last raised money through equity in March: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/airbnb/funding-round... Uber last raised money th
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by dsimms 9y ago
literally a bug! Also, I enjoyed the beta announcement title: CockroachDB skitters into Beta. Good work y'all! I hope Cockroach Labs continued success!
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by dsimms 10y ago
The PR mentions he'll continue to serve on the LinkedIn executive team, so does that mean he'll continue to be based in MV? That'll be quite a change! (and challenge for him, I assume).
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by dsimms 11y ago
It did, but it was totally a toy (since it lacked any authentication of its own). We'd occasionally turn it on in the middle of the night and drop a can behind someone hacking away!
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by dsimms 11y ago
the port number was a gag, also used to illustrate sessions we did on assigned-numbers and service discovery.
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by dsimms 11y ago
Does the coke machine take the swipes from the i-card(I think that's what the id cards are called) like the old one?
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EMV Explained in 2 Minutes [video](blog.squareup.com)
4 points by dsimms 12y ago|0 comments
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by dsimms 12y ago
That doesn't make any sense, no. Instead, they skip the secure element and transmit something non-standard (...by buying a bank and routing those through that, essentially acting as a proxy to the card networks?): http://se
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by dsimms 12y ago
Note that maximum-awesome is for/by the vim crowd -- who could not care less about Ctrl-A being move-beginning-of-line but do want continuity with screen's prefix-key.
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Square Hires Amazon AWS Exec Alyssa Henry as Engineering Lead(recode.net)
1 points by dsimms 12y ago|0 comments
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Square tool lets local merchants drill down into sales data(sfgate.com)
2 points by dsimms 13y ago|0 comments
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by dsimms 13y ago
Also the inestimable pharkmillups, if I correctly read riak-users circa 24 Jan.
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Are haters gonna hate? (washingtonpost.com)
2 points by dsimms 13y ago|1 comments
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by dsimms 13y ago
wonkblog covered this recently: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/27/r...
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by dsimms 13y ago
A friend of mine got hung up by a vendor because the friend said they were being ``asinine''. (No, it wasn't because they offended at being called stupid, but rather they thought it was a naughty, posterior related word...)
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by dsimms 13y ago
The idea of scaling probabilities (by 10^6) misses the point. Log scales are better at revealing orders of magnitude! How about dbMorts instead?
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by dsimms 14y ago
Mark, does CS fulfill the role Luwak formerly did? What's better and/or different about CS vs Luwak?
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by dsimms 15y ago
Q. When does Microsoft announce the acquisition?

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