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Black-Founded YC Companies(ycombinator.com)
2 points by markplindsay 4y ago|0 comments
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by markplindsay 4y ago
Two jobs. One in 2014 (at a YC startup), and the second last year.
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Put the Export Vehicle in a Container(youtube.com)
3 points by markplindsay 5y ago|0 comments
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LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised(bleepingcomputer.com)
559 points by markplindsay 5y ago|316 comments
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by markplindsay 5y ago
It really is so much cheaper. After dropping S3/RDS/ECS for OVH bare metal running Proxmox, my costs decreased significantly. I still use Route 53 and back up to S3, though.
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by markplindsay 5y ago
Using hooks to integrate 3rd party libraries is so much cleaner than using HOCs. The magic (and the learning curve, which I think is where much of the pushback on hooks comes from) is worth it.
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by markplindsay 5y ago
My "one weird trick" for spotting this behavior is using my middle initial on LinkedIn. LinkedIn stores it as a part of my first name, so their spam always starts off with "Hey Mark P.!" Those emails get ignored. I ignor
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Lambda School agrees to end deceptive educational financing practices(dfpi.ca.gov)
448 points by markplindsay 5y ago|272 comments
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by markplindsay 5y ago
Before purchasing and installing your own server, I would try out a bare metal server from a company like OVH for a couple months. You'll get a better sense of the additional setup steps necessary (as compared with a VPS) without buyin
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I had a net art project which exploited a security flaw I found in Flash(twitter.com)
2 points by markplindsay 6y ago|0 comments
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by markplindsay 6y ago
Remaining airlines with 747s in passenger service: - Air China - Air India - Asiana - China Airlines - Korean - Lufthansa - Rossiya - Thai
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by markplindsay 7y ago
This reminds me a lot of PARKROYAL on Pickering[0], a very cool-looking hotel in Singapore. It's probably much easier to pull off this look in a tropical rainforest climate, though. [0] https://www.archdaily.com/363164&
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by markplindsay 7y ago
The PRC's pressure on Muslims is hardly limited to Uyghurs. Please consider this recent NPR report ("'Afraid We Will Become The Next Xinjiang': China's Hui Muslims Face Crackdown") in Gansu and Henan: https:&#
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by markplindsay 7y ago
This morning I'm finding out just how many of our supporting services rely on Cloudflare as well.
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by markplindsay 7y ago
I'm pretty sure I tried this—I think the prompts were even in English, if I'm remembering correctly. However, I gave up after several tries of it looking for a taxi and not finding one while I was standing in the rain on a dark st
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by markplindsay 7y ago
Can you set up Alipay with a non-Chinese bank account or card? It works great for Chinese people and foreign residents of the PRC who have a bank account. However, my experience as a tourist was that it was impossible to link my US credit c
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by markplindsay 7y ago
I was in China (Beijing and Wenzhou) in April. I had NO success finding a taxi in Beijing—the only way to get a ride was to use an app like Didi Chuxing. I was able to install and use it just fine. The problem was that it is impossible to l
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by markplindsay 8y ago
What does the employee's accent have to do with it?
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How We Used Machine Learning to Categorize Parts(octopart.com)
2 points by markplindsay 9y ago|0 comments
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by markplindsay 9y ago
Just because it isn’t kitschy and filled with over-the-top praise of the Dear Leader doesn’t mean it isn’t orchestrated. I think it is a mistake to believe the DPRK isn’t capable of producing sophisticated social media like this.
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by markplindsay 9y ago
I haven’t used ECS scheduled tasks, only the Elastic Beanstalk equivalent (which I don’t like very much). For my “worker” ECS containers, I set them up to run their tasks using an app-level scheduling library. When a task finishes, the app
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Spomenik Database – The Monumental History of Yugoslavia(spomenikdatabase.org)
2 points by markplindsay 9y ago|0 comments
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Flight Ban for Qatar Flights in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Egypt(flightradar24.com)
1 points by markplindsay 9y ago|0 comments
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by markplindsay 9y ago
Yes, academics who (generally) started their careers in the 1990s and are used to listserv-style communication. They kept wanting to interact with Discourse through email, but it wasn't the experience they were looking for.
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by markplindsay 9y ago
I had a lot of trouble keeping Discourse running on my own. There are a lot of moving parts and a ton of configuration to keep track of. Making changes or even updating the instance were tasks I dreaded because of the likelihood something w
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by markplindsay 9y ago
I wouldn't say it's "secret," it's just regular business conducted using a language most Americans can't read or understand. Probably even in dialects that most Chinese people can't speak.
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by markplindsay 10y ago
See also: The Website Obesity Crisis[0] by Maciej Ceglowski [0] http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
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by markplindsay 10y ago
I like Singapore very much! I think it is a very livable city in a fascinating region. They have a straightforward visa process for skilled foreign workers, and a path to permanent residency. But I'm not interested in taking a ~50% pay
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by markplindsay 10y ago
I've always read that Singapore is NOT a great place for startups, and that software jobs don't pay well vs. the cost of living. I would love to hear otherwise because I've always wanted to live and work there.
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by markplindsay 10y ago
Transloadit is great. I'm using it right now with an open-source video project ( https://github.com/xiaofei-mo/mysteriousobjectsatnoon ). The encoding process is just ffmpeg under the hood, but not having to write a

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