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by jacobkg 9y ago
I remember how excited I was when she received the award as a role model for women and immigrants, and a reminder of how great minds can come from places the US considers enemies. My wife (33) spent most of last year being treated for Breas
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by jacobkg 9y ago
Or pretty much any used car for that matter. My Lexus and my mom's Audi both needed the Takata recall performed (circa 2007). There were supposedly 60 million cars affected
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by jacobkg 9y ago
Reference to an episode of "Black Mirror"
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by jacobkg 9y ago
My wife made ribs in the oven using a similar technique a few weeks ago. They were delicious! This was the recipe she followed: https://smittenkitchen.com/2015/06/oven-ribs-even-better/
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by jacobkg 9y ago
Our experience with a Google Meet (formerly Hangouts) is that it is almost always good but during any given 30 minute meeting the audio will drop out for one person at least once. It breaks up the flow for sure but isn't a deal breaker
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by jacobkg 10y ago
It's amazing how far we have come in the past decade. I took 6.034 with Professor Winston in Fall 2006 (and agree completely that he is an amazing teacher). I remember there being only one lecture covering Neural Networks on which was
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by jacobkg 10y ago
I took my MacBook Pro in for a battery replacement and got the same thing. They replaced the keyboard, logic board, and battery all for $300. I was told though that my computer was manufactured in a narrow window of time where the battery a
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by jacobkg 10y ago
+1 We are continuously rebalancing customers between database servers. An added benefit is that doing a pg_dump/pg_restore removes all accumulated database bloat which decreases size on disk and improves performance
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by jacobkg 10y ago
Everyone's experience is of course their own, but I wanted to provide a counterpoint from my experience over the past 5 years. At NationBuilder we do schema-based multi-tenancy with Postgres. We have over 30,000 schemas spread across o
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by jacobkg 10y ago
Any reputable software company would post a partial outage on their status page, even if it only lasts for a few minutes
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by jacobkg 10y ago
What's especially cool about this technique is that unlike most crypto proofs it does not assume the existence of one-way functions (none have been found yet) nor does it require a computationally bounded adversary. Instead this techni
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by jacobkg 11y ago
A major predictor of how easy or hard it will be to quit is how long the person can wait after waking up before having their first cigarette: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2933747/
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by jacobkg 12y ago
From the article: "Before you speak with the person, get them a spreadsheet breaking down your offer, and be accurate. Show what percentage equity they can expect to get in the company. Show them your current valuation. Lay out the cas
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by jacobkg 12y ago
Most blackjack card counting strategies are no more difficult with a higher number of decks. Instead of counting actual 'cards', one instead keeps a running total of points based on the cards that come out. In fact a higher number
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by jacobkg 12y ago
What's the advantage of this system over a one-time pad? Does it have any properties that a OTP does not have?
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by jacobkg 12y ago
This appears to be an implementation of a 'One-time pad': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad . The difference is that we are using publicly available streams of data (book text, encoded youtube video by
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by jacobkg 12y ago
Try their instructions for cooking Trader Joes 'Mandarin Orange Chicken'. So good!! Better than any I have had anywhere. I'm probably making it like once a week now.
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by jacobkg 12y ago
Generally, one would use a Hybrid Encryption scheme: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_cryptosystem The file would be encrypted using a symmetric encryption scheme (like AES), and then the key for decrypting it would
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by jacobkg 12y ago
Some Background: The RailsConf keynote that started it all: http://www.confreaks.com/videos/3315-railsconf-keynote-writi... David's thoughts in blog post form: http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/20
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by jacobkg 13y ago
This is a very appealing concept. It would make the CircuitBreaker pattern a lot simpler to implement: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CircuitBreaker.html
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by jacobkg 13y ago
"A 'specific' power of attorney imposes limits upon the named representative, and may restrict the scope of that person's powers to a single type of conduct or a single transaction." http://www.expertlaw.
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[pdf] Mickens - This World of Ours(research.microsoft.com)
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by jacobkg 13y ago
If you liked this article, you would probably enjoy a previous one about how Spotify scales teams: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1018963/Articles/Spotify...
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by jacobkg 13y ago
Any recommendations for a good place to play chess online?
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It's probably worth mentioning that Morris is now a mild mannered (and talented) MIT professor in the Computer Science department. The word on the street was that he did _not_ want to talk about this chapter of his life.