johnny99

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by johnny99 13y ago
If someone is hosting an actually infringing image elsewhere, but using your site to display it, it seems to me that you're at least complicit, and at worst a sort of fence. If someone sends a polite, specific, with-links-and-supportin
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by johnny99 13y ago
Right--that's the assertion made is this well-done and damning post: https://medium.com/hackers-and-hacking/b839268fb82d
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by johnny99 13y ago
You're not the opposite of everyone here. I've driven a company into the ground and was an early employee at another where I watched someone else drive us into the ground--not sure which was worse. Have two little kids and after o
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by johnny99 13y ago
The Robbie Robertson album came out in 1994, this in 1992--Robertson credits the creator of the cricket record. A number of Amazon commenters mention it, for whatever that's worth: http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Chorus-Cric
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Someone Recorded Crickets then Slowed Down the Track, And It Sounds Like a Choir(truthseekerdaily.com)
2 points by johnny99 13y ago|2 comments
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by johnny99 13y ago
For some reason the color gradients changed the intonation with which I read it--so the whole thing sounded, in my mind's ear, like an eighties valley girl, replete with uptalk, aka the "moronic interrogative."* "BeeLine
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LinkedIn Payola: Selling out employers and job hunters(corcodilos.com)
39 points by johnny99 13y ago|18 comments
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by johnny99 13y ago
It wouldn't be unprecedented. Symphonies regularly use "blind auditions," with the performer behind a screen, to prevent bias (typically against women). Blind auditions significantly improved women's chances of being sel
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by johnny99 13y ago
Not true for newspapers and never has been. Even in the days when print was predominant stories would get edited between printings as new material came to light. As earlier commenters have noted the original story was pushed out quickly, an
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by johnny99 13y ago
That link claims that global temperatures have declined since 2002, which is untrue. Will hunt for more authoritative sources, but a quick search turns up this story from Forbes, refuting that non-fact: http://www.forbes.com/sites/petergle
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by johnny99 14y ago
In my experience a MSc often pays more, but a PhD sometimes pays less--some people equate a PhD with someone who prefers theory to shipping code. Personally I value work experience, solid demonstrable code (ie, what you've posted on Github)
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by johnny99 14y ago
So your the smart aleck whose been inserting the word 'balls' into all my ebooks. Damn you, drostie!
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by johnny99 14y ago
Interesting piece, though they focus only on what they call "rock star" professions, like music, publishing, and the movies. Professions which have always used their supposed status to prey on the young. One solution: become an account or p
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by johnny99 14y ago
This violates the five-year rule, so if I was ever in a position to consider something like it, I wouldn't. Whenever anyone, in any field, posits anything on a greater than five-year timeline, it is more than likely bunk. An engineering fea
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by johnny99 14y ago
Perhaps having public housing adjacent makes them less desirable to developers?
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by johnny99 14y ago
I may be an asshole, but I'm not callous or indifferent. Like I said, I think rising rents and other boom dislocations hurt people and are problems to be addressed. But attacking the Asian kid who worked hard, got a job at Google, and takes
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by johnny99 14y ago
Forced myself to read to the end so that I would be justified in saying what I had the impulse to howl from the third sentence: Rebecca Solnit, FUCK YOU. It's actually quite well-written, but christ, what a pretentious, clueless, holier-tha
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by johnny99 14y ago
Kudos, I adore this idea. You should see if YC will fund η-Reduce during the next cycle. I can imagine them getting a kick out of funding their own disruption.
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by johnny99 15y ago
I've been programming for about 30 hours straight now, I'd say.
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by johnny99 15y ago
Well, there are similarities, but I think the dissimilarities are kind of the point. This distribution model worked in one instance for a big name. The Dooley's are leveraging the similarities--super easy distribution, no DRM, very low bars
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by johnny99 15y ago
Yes, but when will he put people on Uranus?
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by johnny99 15y ago
Here's to GitHub being around in a decade :-)
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by johnny99 15y ago
I'm using an early version of this for a project, and it works a charm. If you work within its (sensible) constraints, it accomplishes much the same thing as Chef, with less effort and less overhead.
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by johnny99 16y ago
Your question strikes me a flame bait. Nothing in the article says nosql is the only solution, and in fact Wordnik also uses MySQL. But I'll bite. The number of requests/day might not be as important as what's going on around in and around
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by johnny99 16y ago
I agree, the site as a whole would benefit from those. But I was referring to the documentation for each API call, and specifically the way you can make test calls to the API from within the docs themselves. I've seen API sandboxes before,
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API docs done right(developer.wordnik.com)
14 points by johnny99 16y ago|9 comments
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by johnny99 16y ago
Some of these questions are answered in a separate set of slides, which the author links to in the comments of the post. Hardware looks like a single server, 2x4 core CPUs, 32 GB of RAM, and a FC SAN.
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B is for Billion: Wordnik passes 9 billion record mark with MongoDB(blog.wordnik.com)
32 points by johnny99 16y ago|13 comments
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by johnny99 16y ago
Uses more storage, but faster by an order of magnitude the way we're using it. Worth it, in our case.