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Show HN: Bookmarklet to 'fix' the Go slide decks(gist.github.com)
3 points by jweir 11y ago|0 comments
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by jweir 11y ago
Would one enjoy the second book without reading the first?
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by jweir 11y ago
The article is incorrect > In every country that does transplants — except one — patients have two legal ways to get a new kidney. One is to have a friend or relative who is a blood and tissue match donate a kidney. The other is to get o
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by jweir 11y ago
Nice work. Large files could become a problem, since any request causes the file to be deleted. There is no chance to retry. But, this is the most secure way handle file deletion. You could offer an option that would delete the file after
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by jweir 11y ago
Not nirvana, but not hell either — if you use vagrant — vagrant share + tmux + vim/emacs works well for remote pairing.
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by jweir 11y ago
Magicians would be out of work if our vision were 'flawless.'
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by jweir 11y ago
https://neil.fraser.name/writing/tank/ This is a classic story of a neural net failure. The net was able to find tanks hiding in the trees with amazing accuracy. Too amazing. It turned out the photos of the hidden
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by jweir 11y ago
Why did it go up to begin with?
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by jweir 11y ago
Here is a Google Street view right underneath the bridge https://www.google.com/maps/@40.842366,-73.93108,3a,75y,310....
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IBM buys Blue Box, adds OpenStack private cloud as a service(zdnet.com)
1 points by jweir 11y ago|0 comments
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by jweir 11y ago
If you are interested `eventsource` is a Server-sent event library that ties into the Go std http library. https://github.com/antage/eventsource
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by jweir 11y ago
I hope this moves into a collaborative space. A whiteboard would have a URL that could be "read only." Other users of the app could collaborate and edit. I am almost never in the same room as clients. `vagrant --share` is a tool(
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by jweir 11y ago
Don't forget herbicides. A GMO plant might require no pesticide but use more herbicide. http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/agri_biotechnology/breeding_a...
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by jweir 12y ago
I like Go, and I am replacing aspects of Rails apps with Go, but for a lot of web app uses, Rails is really, really good. Hashicorp, who has a very high Go competence, migrated away from Go to Rails for their web service. http://
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Announcing the aws-sdk-rails Gem(ruby.awsblog.com)
3 points by jweir 12y ago|0 comments
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by jweir 12y ago
Here is the the criminal complaint: http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-release...
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Criminal complaint against agents in Silk Road investigation [pdf](justice.gov)
60 points by jweir 12y ago|12 comments
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by jweir 12y ago
This is a great piece of design. It works in 2d, 3d, the colors are meaningful, the walk through is informative. Bravo.
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by jweir 12y ago
"Semiology of Graphics" is a great book, but this was published in the 1960s when those graphs where drafted by hand and color printing was probably not an option. I am ignorant as to what tools a draft-mans hand for shading then,
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by jweir 12y ago
Shades of gray would work as well. Also checkout http://colorbrewer2.org/ It has an option for creating color sets which are "colorblind safe."
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by jweir 12y ago
Tufte points out 1 + 1 is 3 or more visually. The two lines create two elements, then the space is another, then the space on either is potentially another. http://csarven.ca/one-plus-one-equals-three-or-more These texture
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Many in Silicon Valley Cannot Afford Housing, Even at $50,000 a Year (2000)(nytimes.com)
1 points by jweir 12y ago|0 comments
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by jweir 12y ago
This is the application http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn I played with this too on a Personal Iris, and Indigo I owned back in the day. It was fun, but not very useful.
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by jweir 12y ago
You can get past the pay wall by linking to the article through Google. https://www.google.com/search?q=Health+Insurer+Anthem+Hit+by...
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Health Insurer Anthem Hit by Hackers(wsj.com)
7 points by jweir 12y ago|1 comments
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by jweir 12y ago
It is no where near 80 lines required to parse JSON. http://play.golang.org/p/H5yFV6VYaT There is some boiler plate, since you have a typed system, so you must define your types. Beyond that two lines of Go will parse
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by jweir 12y ago
IBM has been spending billions buying back its own stock. This increases the earnings per share of stock as IBM's earnings drop. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/28/us-ibm-buyback-idU...
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by jweir 12y ago
If you have a problem with stuff you could do worse than reading up on Mari Kondo - http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/garden/home-organization-a... Never did I think I would be interesting in house tidyi
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What texting does to the spine(qz.com)
1 points by jweir 12y ago|0 comments
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by jweir 12y ago
The funny thing for me — it is less the insects that are off putting and more the sterile environment they are raised in.

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