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by klint 11y ago
I've been trying to track down copies or PDFs of Electric word and Language Technology to no avail. I'm really curious what the design and contents were actually like. Best I've found are some scans of the covers and a little
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by klint 11y ago
I think a lot of people miss that it was in in part literally a joke. It seems a lot people look at that "R.U. a cyberpunk" bit and think that it was meant to be serious. Hell, it was all right there in the editor-in-chief&#x27
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by klint 12y ago
Voxel8 is a spin-off from Harvard's Lewis Lab. More info on their work: http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/526521/microsc...
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by klint 12y ago
That does seem to be the biggest limitation -- you have to trust that the issuer is running an unmodified version of the open source code. "Another problem is that your employer will know that you signed up for an anonymous gossip&#x2F
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by klint 13y ago
Zim and nvPY are cross-platform and save everything as plain text, which you can open and edit on iOS with Dropbox or something similar.
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by klint 13y ago
+1 for Zim, even if you don't much like wikis. You don't actually have to use wiki markup or anything with Zim if you don't want to. You can just organize things with folders, subfolders and tags and never worry about creatin
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The Phone Call That Changed the Face of Big Data(wired.com)
2 points by klint 13y ago|0 comments
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Hogwarts for Hackers: Inside the Science and Tech School of Tomorrow(wired.com)
5 points by klint 13y ago|0 comments
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by klint 13y ago
I think he is, or was, a researcher for the Singularity Institute [1] (now known as the Machine Intelligence Research Institute). [1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/9t8/the_singularity_institute_needs_...
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by klint 13y ago
Find paid speaking gigs.
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by klint 14y ago
Another possibility: the demand for high quality journalism is as high, or higher, than it's ever been. But the demand for tabloid journalism is also higher than ever. It's easier than ever to graze on low quality, tabloid journalism -- "li
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by klint 14y ago
That's what I was thinking. On the other hand, Microsoft has already ported some of the functionality to JavaScript to make Office 365 -- maybe they could offer cross-platform support via an Office 365 client that could run offline? It wou
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The Longest Hunger Strike(guernicamag.com)
1 points by klint 14y ago|0 comments
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by klint 14y ago
As noted in the OP, Berkeley DB was released in 1991 (see the sidebar). Neo4j, a graph database, was also mentioned.
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by klint 14y ago
Yep, as briefly mentioned in the OP: http://blog.sym-link.com/2009/10/30/nosql_whats_in_a_name.ht...
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by klint 14y ago
Be that as it may a Salesforce.com representative told me that the hiring is related to the Heroku Postgres service, not a migration from Oracle to Postgres [1]. Perhaps the person writing the job ad was embellishing by calling it a major p
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by klint 14y ago
That's no differentiation -- there's just writers. I can't speak to why that's the case -- maybe because they don't want to make anyone be the person who does nothing but crap work. I don't think anyone sets out planning to do a bunch of re
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by klint 14y ago
I'm a tech journalist -- I write for both TechCrunch and Wired Enterprise. I didn't write either of those pieces mentioned, but like many other tech journalists you'll find plenty of re-writes in my portfolio. I'm speaking for myself and n
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by klint 14y ago
Thanks for the info. Looks like he switched back. I've updated both pieces of the article.
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by klint 14y ago
A spokesperson for AWS confirmed this for me for an article [1] I wrote for Wired: "For a single request the billable peak rate is the size of the archive, divided by four hours, minus the pro-rated 5% free tier." [1] http://www.wired.com/
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by klint 14y ago
No, I was already talking to them about the story. They just lucked out on the timing.
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by klint 14y ago
Thanks, fixed it.
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by klint 14y ago
Heroku told me it was just released today.
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by klint 14y ago
I can also confirm that neither StackExchange nor Jeff Atwood paid for this post. I met Jeff Atwood while I was in San Francisco last month and thought he had a good story that hadn't gotten much mainstream press (for example, StackExchange
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by klint 14y ago
Sorry, this is an error. It should have been 100,000 per month by the end of 2008 and 10,000 per day currently (so around 300,000 a month).
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by klint 14y ago
"Does this person not realize that wikipedia is also run on a web server." The difference is that you don't have to run your own server to edit or otherwise participate in Wikipedia. You don't need your own server to have a blog on Tumblr o
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by klint 14y ago
Here's the one-click installer if you're interested: https://stackhammer.cloudsmith.com/tools/quickdeploy.html#fe...
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by klint 14y ago
I agree that some way to remove links to forks that are spam or that you find reprehensible is a good idea, but the whole point of forking instead of editing is that the forks aren't approved. As I said elsewhere, I (nor the people I quot
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by klint 14y ago
I'm the author of the article, and I can see why people got confused. I don't think Max Ogden was implying that it's a bad thing that you have to give up your view point on Wikipedia - and Ward Cunngingham definitely didn't imply that in my
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by klint 14y ago
This works, but as I journalist I'd like to add that we hate being scooped and we hate hearing about news for the first time on a competitors site. An alternative approach would be to give one publication an exclusive, and then as soon as t

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