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by jboggan 13y ago
I hope Musk would have better business sense than lifting hydrocarbons from Venus back to Earth in order to burn them in cars! This would be for fueling transport and exploration of the solar system, it's always cheaper to make it the
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by jboggan 13y ago
Sweet. Venus has a very dense CO2 atmosphere with negligible amounts of oxygen and about twice the insolation of Earth. Let's set up some high altitude blimps above the cloud layers as floating solar syngas factories. I'm a li
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by jboggan 13y ago
I found myself in that exact situation recently, struggling with finer points of Capybara, trying to nail down critical behavior in my controllers . . . then I realized, why had all of this crap crept into my controller in the first place?
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by jboggan 13y ago
This quote from NEPTR (The Never Ending Pie Throwing Robot) made me sad and touched in a very deep way and made me realize that Adventure Time isn't just a kids show: "Creator, I am eager to commence the creation and propulsion of
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by jboggan 13y ago
Hungarian is thankfully very regular when it comes to pronunciation, though the vowel harmony rules take some getting used to (but are very beautiful once you learn them). I also really enjoy the agglutinative aspects of the language and u
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by jboggan 13y ago
I'm going to be in a position soon to start hiring people and I've been thinking long and hard about this. I do think that engineers tend to get the short end of the stick when it comes to options, even when the nominal percentag
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by jboggan 13y ago
I don't really agree with this characterization of GitHub's target audience. After spending the last 18 months working with a distributed team of ~40 engineers and ~20 bizdev/salesfolk I cannot imagine a suitable replacement
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by jboggan 13y ago
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/221/
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by jboggan 13y ago
J is really fun. There are a lot of Project Euler problems you can hypothetically do as one-liners and that's highly amusing to me at least. Edited to add examples: http://www.hakank.org/j/
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by jboggan 13y ago
I really, really want a beach laptop. The ultimate accessory for Silicon Beach. I've looked into rigging up my own with leftover Pixel Qi demo screens and older netbooks but I haven't had the time. Someone please liberate us fr
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by jboggan 13y ago
Very cool story, thanks for bringing it up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Aaron
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by jboggan 13y ago
Really good question. I would guess that the states issuing MSB licenses are going to keep doing whatever they've been doing. This is taxation guidance, not necessarily a definitive ruling that Bitcoin shall be treated as property by
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by jboggan 13y ago
Did you guys already get registered as a designated contract market?
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by jboggan 13y ago
What's the legality of this operation in terms of your base of operation and location of customers you are serving? Did you guys have to get a MSB license or similar oversight? Or do you think this falls into an unregulated area? Edi
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by jboggan 13y ago
The doge version is by far the best of all the iterations.
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by jboggan 13y ago
When the NSA revelations were first revealed many of my coworkers said "so?" - thinking they and most citizens had little to hide. My first complaint was that the incredible power this would afford a sitting president (or any pol
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by jboggan 13y ago
Won't let me input BTC greater than 1000, though it had no problem with my satoshi@mtgox.com email. Given the lack of confirmation I don't see how this is useful.
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by jboggan 13y ago
I think moving south to Silicon Beach is a better idea. http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/santa-monica-ca/90401/daily...
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by jboggan 13y ago
There is no programmer so intelligent and so experienced that there does not exist a framework which makes no damn sense to them. I think I'm a decent programmer but the scope and complexity of Rails (especially with all the great conc
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by jboggan 13y ago
I was talking about the trailing decimals after the hundred-millionths place. It's an obvious sign that someone was doing calculations on them as floats and not integers (and dividing by 100,000,000 for display purposes).
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by jboggan 13y ago
That should be 4474.26636916 . . . who is doing BTC calculations with floats?
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by jboggan 13y ago
Choosing not to have a certain level of health insurance or any health insurance at all is also a choice. Or rather, it was.
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by jboggan 13y ago
Factual is currently hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Shanghai. Factual’s location platform enriches mobile location signals with definitive global data, enabling personalized and contextua
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by jboggan 13y ago
I love these kinds of glitches, always makes me laugh until I cry. Reminds me of the best one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zs4yxkRI6U
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by jboggan 13y ago
Orange or gold will complement against the blue/green background, especially when you are popping/zooming out. They get lost in the background when the view pulls out.
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by jboggan 13y ago
I love these topics. ~ 2007, working in a large bioinformatics group with our own very powerful cluster, mainly used for protein folding. Example job: fold every protein from a predicted coding region in a given genome. I was mostly doing
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by jboggan 13y ago
Drop me a line, we do sometimes hire folks straight out of school (I'm a software engineer on the data team at Factual), you'd definitely get a great exposure to a large range of technologies here.
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by jboggan 13y ago
I am very supportive of the Bitcoin Foundation, but it doesn't look good to have your Vice Chairman [1] taken down on money laundering charges. 1 - https://bitcoinfoundation.org/about/board
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by jboggan 13y ago
I've been ready to ditch bitcoin-qt . . . this is fantastic.
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by jboggan 13y ago
Bloom filters and count-min sketch are awesome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count%E2%80%93min_sketch

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