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by earl 15y ago
Well, Egor's hack accomplished two things: (1) it has seemingly embarrassed some rails committers into taking this seriously, whereas they dismissed the issue before; (2) I bet there were at least 20 devs who saw this on HN, said fuck my li
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by earl 15y ago
The author has what looks like two mac laptops plus an external monitor. At least one of the macbooks is a macbook pro from the image in the article, so conservatively $3.5K in hardware? And $50 -- less than 1.5% of hardware price -- is t
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by earl 15y ago
My Shure e2c aka scl2 -- $100 on amazon or so -- have survived 4+ years of daily use, and my storage method is to wind the cord around my hand and toss them in my backpack. The wire is pretty robust. One of the connections to the earbuds
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by earl 15y ago
since I was unaware: Tesla S seems to practically cost (with the large battery that still only gets you 300 miles) $70K after a $7.5k tax credit [1] and the Nissan leaf costs $35K but that seems to be before the $7.5k tax credit. [1] htt
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by earl 15y ago
There's some big problems with individual high-limit coverage: (1) $10K is a big deductible if anything actually happens; if there's anything serious, you should assume you'll hit the $10k. (2) Some of the better medical offices (eg my or
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by earl 15y ago
My employer (not posting the name since I don't care to be directly googleable) de facto forbids open source work. In order to share essentially any code we're supposed to pre-clear it with our internal "open source council" by filing a ji
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by earl 15y ago
Here's another article about jewish appliances in general [1] with more detail about the restrictions. Essentially, jewish law differentiates between direct and indirect responses to actions. And I can verify you'll occasionally see this
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by earl 15y ago
from the article: Grant Viklund, who is married to board member Sophia Viklund and serves as a volunteer mentor, says PyLadies matters not because its members are women but because getting more people into programming is a good
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by earl 15y ago
I learned to stay the fuck away from any company where Andrew Hsu or relatives are involved. And until we see a bunch of ex Airy folks saying this article is full of lies, it's fair to assume it's accurate.
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by earl 15y ago
to upgrade bash on OS X: brew install bash then follow directions at [1] [1] http://concisionandconcinnity.blogspot.com/2009/03/upgrade-b...
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by earl 15y ago
Hi Rob -- Perhaps you could broadly discuss how you made the economics work? As I understand it they had a site that they were putting virtually zero effort into, so they must have wanted a pretty hefty multiple of the annual income. Beca
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by earl 15y ago
I wrote M/mumps/cachescript professionally for 2 years at epic systems. I think most sane people's opinion of M can be summarized as BAD TOUCH! BAD TOUCH!
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by earl 15y ago
Another interpretation is visual polish matters. Zynga's game definitely looks better to me.
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by earl 15y ago
no, flickr is exactly in Y!'s core business: content driving O&O pageviews. Better yet, users often pay flickr to push this content!
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by earl 15y ago
chuck: fyi, your email address is not public. You have to copy it into the about area if you want other users to be able to see it. Other than that, AFAIK HN has no way to contact users.
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by earl 15y ago
if you go here: https://products.sel.sony.com/opensource/ you'll see other products such as webkit with updates in 2011
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by earl 15y ago
Try R: > s <- sample(c(3,3,3,3,3,4), size=100, replace=T) [...] output elided > table(s) 3 4 86 14 In order: this samples size times from a vector created by c with 5 3s and one 4 (you could also say c(re
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by earl 15y ago
Google+ is close to blackmail. Read what Rand from seomoz has written about it [1:2] (example quote: "[...] if SPYW continues to roll out to all logged-in Google users and Google stays as aggressive as it's been in the last 10 days with pu
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by earl 15y ago
While it is possible that most landlords don't have rent-controlled properties, I think the majority of renter-occupied housing is subject to rent control. FYI almost anything built prior to 1979 is rent controlled. Also, what sf calls re
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by earl 15y ago
part of the reason why: Bay Area leads nation in rental price increases http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2012/01/bay-area-leads-natio... At a previous startup, a ceo was out drinking beers with some engineers. Now this ceo is quite a nice
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by earl 15y ago
Nothing you said contradicted the fact that an unaccountable person in the government broke their business without any opportunity for megaupload to defend themselves. And so it is exactly like Russia. Unless you think that a grand jury i
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by earl 15y ago
What I find far crazier is how does the government get off stealing domain names and servers, taking Megaupload's business dark, and of course encouraging all users to leave, without a conviction. Or any adversarial representation from meg
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by earl 15y ago
Not really. Look at google + mocality: it's easy to understand why the contractors where doing what they were: it helped them sell something or hit quota. Compare to Google contractors + open street map: what incentive does a contractor hav
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by earl 15y ago
So what you're saying is most open source communities are like the onion article: "Report: 98 Percent Of U.S. Commuters Favor Public Transportation For Others" [1]. Someone should step up and provide hosting and maven repos and blah blah
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by earl 15y ago
tl;dr: David Pollack created lift. He also created and ran scala-tools.org, a maven repo and documentation host for scala stuff. He's recently decided to transition off much of his scala involvement, in part because his new startup visi.p
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by earl 15y ago
There is a famous rejection, not in CS but in econ, that I know of: Milton Friedman, one of the most influential economists of the 21st century, winner of the John Bates Clark ('51) and Nobel ('76), and preeminent monetarist was fired by th
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by earl 15y ago
Fair, but just like the twitter dude who founded banksimple, it's a hell of a lot easier for them to say, "Hey, you guys should be focused on making the world a better place instead of making bank" after, well, having made their own money.
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by earl 15y ago
I think the parent is referring to this: Google pays $.5B to settle w/ DOJ over illegal drug ads [1] [1] http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/24/technology/google_settlement...
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by earl 15y ago
In theory. Do the nontechnical people in your life even know other search engines exist? I doubt those in mine do.
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by earl 15y ago
SimpleGeo building an innovative service and then abandoning its paying users well, that's what companies do when they fail, go out of business, or are acquihired, ie a business failure by another name

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