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by kator 12y ago
Lawyers are notorious for not understanding the underlying things like this. Could be the crack in their armor that they didn't see. It just takes a $5 per customer class action suit to get their attention.
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by kator 12y ago
Aren't they stealing electricity from these users? It sounds like nothing but one of the ways laws developed around FAX machine spam was judges said you were costing the end person real money in sheets of paper. Certainly running the
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by kator 12y ago
Isn't this just RADAR applied at higher resolutions and indoors? I'm sure they've done some really interesting stuff if you dig deep but this doesn't seem like "Wireless" as much as it's transmitting and
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by kator 12y ago
LOL One day working on a very old machine many years ago in a galaxy far far away at the end of a 12 hour coding binge I accidentally typed: rm -f *.c instead of: rm -f *.o I then typed: make I saw tons of missing fi
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by kator 12y ago
Related but fun commands to try along same vane (as root). (WARNING: These make a mess don't do this on a system you care about) (NOTE: Spaces matter here watch if you cut-paste) yes > /dev/mem dd if=/dev&#x
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by kator 12y ago
I used to live in Los Angeles (talk about Carmageddon) and I moved to New York 4 years ago. Since then I've sold my car and use subways, trains and my legs to get me to almost everywhere I need and once in a while I use a taxi or car
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by kator 12y ago
My favorite NLP/Computer Language problem: Moe: Hey is Curly back from Vacation yet? Larry: I saw a Red Lamborghini in the parking lot. Moe: Cool We all assume Curly now drives a Red Lamborghini meanwhile most computer lan
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by kator 12y ago
Someone please add [2008] to the title. I was excited when I saw this and thought maybe Eric was updating it. In general of course this is a great book to read, I have a hard copy (gasp) on my shelf and when it came out I had been working
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by kator 12y ago
Exactly, but my partner wasn't the most patient person and in all fairness it was typical to 3,000 or more connections active to the database. With that many queries outstanding and the dead locks it was always a bit hairy trying to f
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by kator 12y ago
Well in all fairness we did have replicas and sadly something was broken there.. Not pointing fingers but I checked it all before going on "vacation".. :-)
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by kator 12y ago
No offense taken, the reason he went this path is the web sites involved seemed to be non-responsive. The core issue was actually a deadlock but he wasn't trained in detecting that and in the past just restarting the db "fixed it&
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by kator 12y ago
Two amazing words: SELF EMPLOYED I can go on for hours about those two words, everyone wants to be their own boss until they don't want to be... :-)
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by kator 12y ago
This was a core cluster db for about 150 web sites that had high profiles and user traffic. It was a long time ago and the client didn't want to pay for 20 more boxes to do something more durable. These things are always a balance be
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by kator 12y ago
In the postmortem it seemed that by issuing the shutdown but not waiting for it to complete the database ended up in a strange state that we could never fully recover from. I guess the moral here is tread lightly and take the time to be inf
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by kator 12y ago
That's the point I don't want aliasing. It softens things too much. I tried it in iTerm2 without anti-alias on and it was horrific.
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by kator 12y ago
This was years ago and trust me it was corrupt. I think there may have been some issues with InnoDB in those days that made it a bit fragile in that situation.
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by kator 12y ago
I think caution is still key, if you don't know what's going on Slow is Fast here. Several years ago while I was on an airplane flying to spend a nice vacation break with my family my admin partner tried to shutdown a MySQL db th
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by kator 12y ago
I find I prefer fonts that I don't have to anti-alias. It seems all of these look quite horrific in iTerm2 unless you turn on anti-alias which then makes them feel to soft and fuzzy to me.
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by kator 12y ago
All I know is I lost a loved one last weekend to Cancer and until you've been that close to the process you have no idea how you hope and pray for anything that will help no matter how radical.
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Is This How We'll Cure Cancer?(forbes.com)
167 points by kator 12y ago|116 comments
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Google S.E.C. Filing Says It Wants Ads In Your Thermostat and Car(mobile.nytimes.com)
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Woo-Hoo Hoverbike Goes On Sale 2017(news.discovery.com)
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by kator 12y ago
Would rather have our own hosted environment as we expect to do a lot of customizations...
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Ask HN: Mobile App back-end CMS?
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by kator 12y ago
It's called Ryan Air[1] [1] http://www.ryanair.com/
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by kator 12y ago
I recently got approached to help build an IOT related business. Some of the questions that come up for me are what happens to all these Lithium coin cell batteries, the PCB boards and chips as all these $5 devices die and are discarded?
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by kator 12y ago
The death star explosion?
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by kator 12y ago
DRM is a fantasy that uninformed media executives cling onto with a dream that it will put the genie back in the bottle. It's sad to see this stuff but totally understandable considering the divide between the technology people who un
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by kator 12y ago
Interesting, when looking at it with BLExplr I see it presents a Battery and Current Time service. Are you using iBeacon basically just to discover nearby devices? Pretending to be an iBeacon and then listening for your uuid to wake up the
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by kator 12y ago
Is the root issue here that they stored remote server database passwords in their source code? I'm always hesitant to have source code with hard coded passwords, I know at some point you have to have them "somewhere" but anyt

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