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by flavor8 13y ago
The oscar nominated documentary Dirty Wars is good background on this program (basically about Jeremy Scahill & his investigation into JSOC).
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by flavor8 13y ago
I just turned off adblock on google to try your tip. Agh my eyes.
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by flavor8 13y ago
That's still a bargain compared to running your own Vertica or Greenplum cluster.
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by flavor8 13y ago
Also maven. It may require an XML manifest, but it's robust, easy to use, and has come to be a solid standard. Python may be a (mostly) nice language, but the infrastructure and tooling badly lags the Java world.
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by flavor8 13y ago
If you're looking for a site like this, I'd recommend nextdoor.com. Bonus: not owned by Comcast.
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by flavor8 13y ago
As a long time maven user who recently started using PyPi, I have to say that PyPi is a mess. I frequently get broken packages, timeouts, etc. Most python users seem to have been trained to keep local copies, and/or to download once a
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by flavor8 13y ago
This entire thread was about hollywood. To say that we aren't interested in what hollywood produces is a strange assertion, or a rather narrow definition of "we".
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by flavor8 13y ago
> What good is protection against piracy from people not willing to pirate? It's about business. Protection that works for 99.5% of the population is good enough for the old content industries. Netflix couldn't exist in its cur
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by flavor8 13y ago
It does, in that it allows business agreements to be signed. Without DRM, old content industries aren't interested in playing.
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by flavor8 13y ago
> The content Hollywood produces is already fully available on the Web. For people willing to pirate, it, yes. However, it's far less convenient to pirate movies and get them to your big screen TV than it was to use napster and list
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by flavor8 13y ago
Odd that they'd include the Bells (Verizon, AT&T) but not TMobile or Sprint.
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by flavor8 13y ago
I'm quite happy with them. I run two production servers and a development server on them. Way more barebones than the AWS ecosystem, but significantly cheaper, which gives me a better margin in my maintenance agreements with clients.
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by flavor8 13y ago
It would be better if the solutions were vetted to be like for like. For example in http://rosettacode.org/wiki/99_Bottles_of_Beer , some of the solutions add special logic for handling case 1 (singular) and 0 (go to th
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by flavor8 13y ago
Ugh, let's hope Elance's CEO doesn't fuck up ODesk. Elance is kindergarten quality compared to ODesk's site.
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by flavor8 13y ago
What was your revenue model? If you were doing it again, would you try to do it lean / w/o VC money?
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by flavor8 13y ago
That's not new either. The US carried out airstrikes in Iraq throughout the 90s despite not being "at war".
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by flavor8 13y ago
Slack is great. I run a few teams of freelancers who are in various timezones; we have a room per team.
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How to bet against the bitcoin megabubble(finance.fortune.cnn.com)
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by flavor8 13y ago
Still, there are significant holes in the parsing engine - once you learn its quirks you can get around it, but it's a long way from natural. It can do, for example: "estimated number of atoms in a liter of water" - http:&#x
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by flavor8 13y ago
I built software that did this back in 2001 for a scammy company called CyberRebate, during a low point of my consulting career. They imploded before they could take it to production.
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by flavor8 13y ago
Right, but by the time he makes $3000/hr he can retire.
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by flavor8 13y ago
That's why you travel in exofficio (or similar) underwear.
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by flavor8 13y ago
If you can sustain 5% interest, that's $500k a year taxed at 15%. That might not be fuck-you but it's certainly good enough for pretty much anything you might want to reasonably do with the rest of your life. (Barring ultra luxury
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by flavor8 13y ago
I'd be interested in hearing from anybody using RedShift in production. Currently shopping around for a database to store 1.5 billion interesting things, and RedShift's at the top of my list. Specifically - how many (small/la
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by flavor8 13y ago
mybatis.
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by flavor8 13y ago
A million recruiters cried out in pain...
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by flavor8 13y ago
My bad, I hadn't heard that update.
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by flavor8 13y ago
$94 Million. Still bad, but get it right.
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by flavor8 13y ago
There's an excellent book that goes into depth around this subject: Implementing Value Pricing by Ronald J Baker. Highly recommend it to any business owner who deals with clients.
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by flavor8 13y ago
As another person who has lived in both places, banking is a lot freer in the UK. Yes, UK banks charge overdraft fees - but so do US banks. Most US banks will charge you to send you replacement checkbooks; many will even charge you a monthl

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