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A list of vendors at the PyCon job fair that hire remotely(github.com)
39 points by kungfooey 12y ago|15 comments
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by kungfooey 12y ago
Thanks for posting!
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by kungfooey 13y ago
Just a note from experience: when devs see someone talk about an app that is "eighty percent complete" that throws up all kinds of red flags. The first 80% is the easy part. Why does it need to be "taken over"? Did you h
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by kungfooey 13y ago
In NY, it was illegal to discriminate based on pre-existing conditions, which meant it was higher there than other states in which it was legal. I used to live in NYC and was under Freelancers Union insurance, which ran about $400 a month w
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by kungfooey 13y ago
This is good news. As I understand, there is city-owned fiber in Nashville (from NES?) that is currently unused. Not sure if that's related to the current legality of municipal broadband or not. If you're in the Nashville (mid-sta
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States working harder to collect income tax from telecommuters(city-journal.org)
1 points by kungfooey 13y ago|0 comments
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by kungfooey 13y ago
How does that apply to the wage disparities in, say, the UK? From what I gather the wages there seem depressed moreso than, say, in the US.
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by kungfooey 13y ago
Wow, I love how this is presented. Kudos to the NYT for creating new ways for us to consume this information.
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Driverless cars are further away than you think(technologyreview.com)
91 points by kungfooey 13y ago|103 comments
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by kungfooey 13y ago
I'm disappointed that this fails to mention the impact on locals who relied on the food as a staple and can no longer afford to eat it. http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/quinoa-boom-offers-hard-less...
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by kungfooey 13y ago
I hate to break it to you, but the amount of work that goes into a product is completely irrelevant. It's all about the usefulness to the end-user. If the amount of work mattered, we would be digging holes with spoons instead of backho
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by kungfooey 13y ago
Seeing the same thing in Firefox 24. http://d.pr/i/6uwO
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by kungfooey 13y ago
In my case, this was inadvertently a good comparison. Most of the "ad-hoc" queries we're doing are AVG, SUM, or similar operations that require scanning the entire table. I may try to edit this post to compare those operation
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by kungfooey 13y ago
Interesting. I will definitely check out Impala. Thanks for bringing it up.
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by kungfooey 13y ago
It uses similar data types and has a similar API. The differences between the two are summarized in the documentation. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c_redshift-and...
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by kungfooey 13y ago
> These are very different databases.. Sure, they are. The point is that the API is similar, so developers already familiar with SQL, or libraries that speak SQL (SQLAlchemy in our case) can speak to Redshift. I attempted to make that po
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by kungfooey 13y ago
Whoops, thanks for catching that. I didn't actually have a space there, but it did get interpreted that way.
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Amazon Redshift - What You Need To Know(dailytechnology.net)
62 points by kungfooey 13y ago|19 comments
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by kungfooey 13y ago
He mentions that they dropped the RSS functionality, but this is not the case at all. If you edit one of your existing alerts, you can change it to a feed. Ref: http://www.google.com/alerts/manage
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by kungfooey 13y ago
Is this just a link to the Firefox OS marketplace? I had no idea these could be installed to the desktop, too.
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by kungfooey 13y ago
You could set it up on a tablet.
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National security called in to bust student rigging election results(thedailybeast.com)
1 points by kungfooey 13y ago|0 comments
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by kungfooey 13y ago
Am I the only person in the galaxy that wants a car that simply gets me from point A to point B with reliability? The more gadgets and whiz-bangery built into the car, the more possible points of failure, which leads to a higher cost of mai
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by kungfooey 13y ago
I'm rather surprised this hasn't already been mentioned, but if you want to read more on this thread of thought written by an economist, check out the ebook, "The Great Stagnation" by Tyler Cowen. Alternatively, watch hi
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A comical series on scalability(highscalability.com)
5 points by kungfooey 13y ago|0 comments
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The court of public opinion(schneier.com)
10 points by kungfooey 14y ago|0 comments
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by kungfooey 14y ago
Now if we could just get a JS version of the Johnny Castaway screensaver, reliving my youth would be quite possible.
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by kungfooey 14y ago
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻. http://cl.ly/image/1e143q1g1H3S I got a technical error on checkout, but when I re-submitted it went through. Go figure.
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by kungfooey 14y ago
USAA has the same policy, too. They refund your ATM fees paid to /other/ banks, up to $15 a month.
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by kungfooey 14y ago
I know a lot of Memphis residents who have relocated to Nashville. One guy described it as "life-changing." The cities are completely different. The problem with Nashville is the same as the problem with Austin - it's surrounded by rural hi

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