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by erikig 8y ago
Final step, post it all on NYTimes! Seriously though, the toughest part about seeking anonymity is working against human nature and one's need for social validation.
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I really enjoyed watching the aerial video of the sheep and cattle, it was just sooo satisfying. I've been tinkering with ProcessingJS's Flocking visualizations and the similarity is striking: https://processing.org&#x2
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Well played sir, well played...
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by erikig 8y ago
That 41 Ulam Spiral is quite beautiful...
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"...AltaVista was essentially a test case for one of Digital’s supercomputers, the AlphaServer 8400 TurboLaser." I loved the seeming technical excesses of Digital so much. Nothing they did seemed as calm and staid as Cray, Sun or
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by erikig 8y ago
This gave me a good chuckle!
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by erikig 8y ago
I found this article enlightening but not as much as the feedback. The number of developers that seem to recoil at the thought of empathy as part of their job description and the reasons why they do is very interesting.
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by erikig 8y ago
(: forget The Avengers, the true heroes are The Archivers
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I can also imagine the sound and moving air being masked by safety gear making it even more likely to note the movement.
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by erikig 8y ago
Is this is the famous ouroboros growth model I've heard so much about?
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by erikig 8y ago
This is pretty great! I don't know you personally but having been on both sides of the business/solo-developer relationship I can attest to how often I've needed a go-between, a tie-breaker and someone impartial to assist in
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by erikig 8y ago
Haven’t used Brave, how do you like it?
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by erikig 8y ago
I really liked the rest of the comments but I’d like to offer an alternative to all of the advice about limiting the amount of work. I suggest finding a project, feature or initiative at work that ignites your passion and puts you into flow
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by erikig 8y ago
For those that prefer primary sources the original paper from Oct 2018 is available at PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) here: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2018/10/30
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by erikig 8y ago
It would be nice if Amazon provided an API to access the data via SQL alongside the MongoDB API; I've seen quite a number of organizations migrate from mongo to Postgres once they get out of the rapid development phase. This would make
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Dindim goes off for months at a time, swimming thousands of miles, avoiding predators, encountering other penguins, better looking and more interesting penguins, but in his mind there's a picture of a man, and a location, from many yea
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Wait till you try Impossible Burger 2.0...OMG
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I wonder if any of the 10,000 people are actually named Alexa, and if so do they get any preferential treatment?
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Has anyone made a self-sustaining system w/out using the cloner?
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Labor is not easily fungible and is difficult to treat as a commodity.
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And not just software either. I strongly believe that this monitor-and-replicate methodology is part of why Amazon Prime Video has legs. Any content provider that uses AWS is just helping to train the beast. That beast might not seem like a
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Yeah, that would be pretty helpful. It would be nice to hear a few bars at the beginning to show how it all comes together and then let the me go at it from there. I also think, this would be a great bar game that could be played on the now
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by erikig 8y ago
Speaking of Hermit Crabs, I was also blown away by their communal shell exchange process. Many hermit crabs will come together and work as a team to change shells in hierarchy. If you've never seen it, you are in for a treat. https:&
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I'm pretty sure that's included to irk Trekkies.
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The Boring Co isn’t giving up on LA entirely. This was just one test tunnel. They have already succeeded on their other 2 mile test tunnel (Dodger Stadium) and are working to extend that.
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“He says his goal was not to cure or prevent an inherited disease but to disable a gene, called CCR5, that forms a protein doorway that allows HIV to infect a cell. People who inherit this trait naturally resist HIV infection.”
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The Google Products Wikipedia page is also a great resource for this as well as a history of the missions, founders, acquisitions etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
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Just for comparison 6kg of plastic in a 60 ton animal is the same as 6g of plastic in a 60kg organism (or a little above one teaspoon of plastic ingested by a teenager).
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"The Art of Electronics" Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill. Electronics for people who want to do stuff. I loved this book as a teenager and recently got reacquainted with this after years by the almighty AvE on youtube when he took ap
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Hackernews comments and YouTube were build for just these types of rabbit holes

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