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Wherein we're currently not doing deliveries, because Uber sucks(dnalounge.com)
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“Why We Didn’t Use a Framework” (Case Study)(smashingmagazine.com)
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by iokevins 10y ago
A wide-ranging summary at The Computer History Museum's 05/13/2010 video, "Robert Taylor: Network Visionary": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0MsrrTo8jY I echo luckydude's comment--sad to see
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by iokevins 10y ago
The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1, has an extended section, "About General Grant’s Memoirs"[1], describing Grant's financial particulars, at the end of his life. The "Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant"[2]
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by iokevins 10y ago
Second the suggestion to move original link, from CNBC, to Medium. The former has added a number of CNBC content ad links which the author didn't seem to have in the Medium source.
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by iokevins 10y ago
Near the bottom, the article currently states: "Other vendors using Atom C2000 chips include Aaeon, HP, Infortrend, Lanner, NEC, Newisys, Netgate, Quanta, Supermicro, and ZNYX Networks. The chipset is aimed at networking devices, stora
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by iokevins 10y ago
For what it's worth, the footer reads, "Submission to NOOL / 2015/10/12". NOOL seems to stand for "New Object-Oriented Languages", a workshop of the ACM SIGPLAN conference on Systems, Programming, Lan
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by iokevins 10y ago
To save you a click, the definition: "DNA origami is the nanoscale folding of DNA to create non-arbitrary two- and three-dimensional shapes at the nanoscale. The specificity of the interactions between complementary base pairs make DNA
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by iokevins 10y ago
Title seems a bit off, per caveat below...why not use the original title, "WinFsp Performance Testing" (?) "The comparison to NTFS is very important to establish a baseline. It is also very misleading because NTFS is a disk f
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by iokevins 10y ago
The U.S. Foreign Service Institute's School of Language Studies publishes this list of languages: https://www.state.gov/m/fsi/sls/orgoverview/languages/ They break languages (note: that they te
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Dopamine (?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReRcHdeUG9Y
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Summary: "...[T]he technology uses a complex suite of algorithms and an array of ultrasound emitters to produce the sensation of touch. Critically, unlike other haptic control systems, the technology enables users to receive tactile fe
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by iokevins 10y ago
Same feeling, here. In 1998, I interned in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, working for SGI acquisition, "Cray Research, a Silicon Graphics Company". From 2000-2005, I worked in Sacramento, California, for HP, in a division which would
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by iokevins 10y ago
Links to radio program, which doesn't seem to have a summary. Alternatively, here's a Microsoft Developer Network post: "What's New in SQL Server 2016" (last updated 2016-06-30) https://msdn.microsoft.com
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by iokevins 10y ago
I wish the article included an image of this desk : ) "While procrastinating on writing my MFA thesis, I found an ancient wooden desk on the street, pulled it into my apartment, and started shellacking it with hard-earned rejection sli
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by iokevins 10y ago
"If you want to get more symbols into Unicode, please use our Open Source Guide." https://github.com/jloughry/Unicode Note: glad to see they documented their process. : )
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They convert CO2 to calcite: "[S]cientists at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University and other institutions have come up with a different way to store CO2.... Their approach involves dissolving the gas with water and p
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by iokevins 10y ago
Details seem a bit short, currently, but found this: "What product category it belongs to? Ultrabooks / Convertibles / Mighty Tablets Like Surface Pro 4, Mac Book Air, Dell XPS 13 Purpose: Use it for the whole
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by iokevins 10y ago
For Google Chrome RainyScope error "Sorry, but your browser does not support WebGL!": https://superuser.com/questions/836832/how-can-i-enable-webg... Note: I'm running Google Chrome Version 51.0.270
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by iokevins 10y ago
Mandy Edwards belongs to the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences of the University of Manchester, and she claims..."The [iron] sphere could have actually been produced by a natural occurrence known as concretion, wh
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by iokevins 10y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11749338
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KPCB Looker page: http://www.kpcb.com/companies/looker Looker Blog, noting Mary Meeker's inclusion of Looker: https://looker.com/blog/catching-third-wave "Looker Secures $48 Million Seri
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by iokevins 10y ago
Water supply: what's the latest (?) Lake Mead still seems really low: http://arachnoid.com/NaturalResources/ An AZCentral article, from August 2014, which lays out some good news/bad news points, including th
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by iokevins 10y ago
Excellent question; thank you. I'd like to know, but I don't. At least one of the Supplemental documents, from the City of Santa Cruz December 2015 City Council meeting, mentioned microtrenching. I've also seen mention that t
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@jmspring--please see my earlier reply, to @beachstartup; thank you. I enjoyed reading your successful history. : o )
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by iokevins 10y ago
The City of Santa Cruz December 08, 2015, City Council Meeting Agenda has a number of freely available Supporting Materials, which describe the case for the Cruzio public-private partnership: http://scsire.cityofsantacruz.com&#x2
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by iokevins 10y ago
@kazinator, some people might prefer the ability to have video-conferencing sessions, from the comfort of the home and/or home office. That fills a real human need for connectedness.
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tn13, see @justinlaing, above, in response to yompers888, as a start. The City of Santa Cruz has ~62,000 people, as of 2013. [1] A 2013 boosterism whitepaper, "Broadband Infrastructure in the Monterey Bay Region" [2] [note: publis
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The July 2015 "Santa Cruz Waves" issue had an article by Peter Gregg, page 76, which talks about living out of a van and surfing, in Portugal: https://issuu.com/santacruzwaves/docs/scw2.1/1 Seems to
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by iokevins 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070584 What might you say to the Starry skeptics (?) For example: "hurdles of needing line of sight, weather and obstacle sensitivity, degradation due to expo

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