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Good idea. I make a point to check to see if any used, Fulfilled by Amazon copies are available when I'm about to buy a book. It's used pricing and the weight of Amazon behind the purchase without the cost of shipping thanks to my
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There have been a few other articles on the hardware and software behind EVE over the years [0][1][2]. Python, Infiniband, interesting stuff. 0: http://www.slideshare.net/Arbow/stackless-python-in-eve 1: http:/&
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>Spark may be a great system, but this article doesn't do much to settle the issue. Wired is a mainstream technology magazine.
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Reminds me of SoundBow [0]. 0: http://www.binaura.net/stc/wrx/soundbow/
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Right, that's certainly logical, but if they are doing something like that, particularly considering their big breach last year - wow.
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Interesting. Being primarily a Gmail user I never realized that LinkedIn will ask for a password directly when it doesn't recognize a service associated with the domain. The site appears to spend some time trying to do something with t
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Nice. No Starch is probably my current favorite tech book publisher, I've yet to run across anything less than great under their label and I've been using DrRacket recently to work through SICP.
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I like to think I became pretty adept and being unconcerned about other's opinions and honest yet selective about voicing my own relatively early on. Though I was quite happy internally and I do believe it was a net win socially, livin
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>Are you willing to work nights and weekends to get an assignment done on time? As an interviewee, I'd probably see that question as a huge red flag suggesting a disorganized, "last minute" culture. Don't get me wro
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>"Do people actually Google names expecting good information?" Anecdotally, no. In my experience, the people who are quick to Google the new hire/candidate are salivating for a way to pre-emptively discredit "the ne
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So true. All kinds of work would benefit from being restated in terms of goals rather than specific tasks.
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*">I was thinking before, how in the hell is a sys admin contractor making $200k/year???" That's not a stretch in my experience. Unless there's something particular about a Hawaii assignment that depresses rates,
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>Snowden did have a difficult time in HS and he does not possess a formal CS/technical education. He was a sys admin, not an engineer. His claims, in that light, do seem bizarre and uninformed. I mean, ffs he seemed to insinuate in
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Absolutely. I'd recommend reading the Culture series (3 of the above mentioned books are part of it) in order if possible [0], they all have something to offer. By the way, I'd recommend against reading any reviews for his books p
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Agreed. For some incredibly interesting reading on the history of battle against cancer I highly recommend The Empreror of All Maladies [0]. 0: http://www.amazon.com/The-Emperor-All-Maladies-Biography/dp/...
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>This is a not for profit organization that is strictly mandated by government procedures. It has a large budget. It has been around several decades. It serves tens of thousands users a year and enjoys monopoly on the services it's use
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I don't really pay attention to names and have never felt a desire to block or even ignore anyone. Now that I think about HN extensions, I could really use something that correlates articles and HN discussions in both directions. More than
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>I guess some places have such a low crime rate that people just forget basic security precautions? Yes. I've lived most of my life within 25 miles of where I was born in the US. Within that area there are places where your windows wi
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Off the top of my head, their investment of $175M in LivingSocial [0] comes to mind. Also, though they're generally considered successes now, I recall no shortage of naysayers trying to claim the Kindle, Prime and AWS as failures. 0: http:
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Well, the article at least acknowledges how questionable this application of the term is. "Whether or not this really is a legged robot (or a quadruped) is perhaps debatable: these are wheel-legs, more commonly known as whegs." I was cer
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>But, it's fun to point at "elastic" and tell people they're "doing it wrong" because they don't take a name chosen 7 years ago literally. It's not an arbitrary name, elasticity is a defining concept of "cloud". >As if somehow th
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The Google bar on Android devices works toward this a bit. You can just type or hit the voice action [0] button and say " note pick up milk at 8 o’clock" and have the action completed with the note handling app of your choosing. 0: http:/
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I've been dabbling with docker quite a bit. I'm finding it solid despite the disclaimer against production use.
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>Then there's a third company that keeps continually sending recruiters my way every so often despite rejecting me with no reason given every single time. Same deal here. Most frustrating is that I don't know how they found me as I do
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Brings back memories of an in-house correspondence application I once encountered - 16 million TIFFs in a single directory. The lead dev responsible for the app was also fond of hard-coding IP addresses and wouldn't even entertain talk of d
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DevOps Dave hits close to home. A few years ago I had this conversation nearly word for word [0]. Looking through the strip, it's consistently on the money. Particularly Gartner as a deity, managers raving about concepts and acronyms they d
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>I felt that, if I could get my foot in the door, within a year, whatever studio that hired me would realize that I would be quite an asset for their audio team. I know several people who've been pretty successful in the gaming indust
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>At $25 per picture there must be 40 000 people as excited as you for this project to get funded. Not really. Take away all the backers over $1000 (because I notice you complaining about that in another post), scale up the number of b
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I like the lack of comment scores on HN. I don't even want to see my own scores or usernames. Personally, I tend to associate discussion scores and counters with competitive/adversarial commenting, "bandwagoning" and "crowd-pleasing".
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This is where my original question was going. To question whether there's some lower level function to this behavior. If it's developing consistently, independently I would think there's some base, primal desire being satisfied through it.

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