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by marquis 14y ago
Megaupload's servers were in Virginia. If they weren't, it may have played out differently.
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by marquis 14y ago
Does anyone ever game the system by posting with 2 accounts: one with a really high bid and a lower one, to help the customer 'pick you'? I'm not freelancing nor have ever used these sites, but I'm curious how above-board they are.
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by marquis 14y ago
Right, I was of course being glib about weather.com. It may then be a useful service for something with Watson's capabilities to narrow down to your specific needs and historical data. I am fascinated by weather prediction, it's an interest
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by marquis 14y ago
Has anyone here any real-world experience with this? I'm curious to find out where I can try it.
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by marquis 14y ago
Spend enough time on a farm and it doesn't become that difficult to figure out: you guess, based on what you know about the seasonal weather. Watson is never going to know more about the weather than you can get on weather.com.
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by marquis 14y ago
I've been watching a plane 'land' via cockpit mode in my home town, a surreally genuine experience given how well I know the terrain and have flown in so many times. Each time the plane rolls to maneuver in, it's as if I'm back on the fligh
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by marquis 14y ago
Having experienced emergency care in both Denmark and the U.S., this is also the main reason I won't relocate to the U.S. until this is sorted out. I had what was thought to be a broken ankle in Denmark thanks to icy conditions and I was so
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by marquis 14y ago
Yes, but the Stripe CTF isn't going to compare you to the entire body of humanity: just to the already-brilliant people who want to take a crack at it. I didn't know about the challenge, but I'd consider if I failed at it, that I don't have
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by marquis 14y ago
That's not the same thing: you're not given a time-limited test that has specific answers. A challenge means solving problems in creative ways: that kind of test is fascinating and in no way demoralizing unless you haven't learnt that even
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by marquis 14y ago
The problem with managed hosting is that it's not preventative, at least not anywhere I've found. We use Linode a lot which lets us know when CPU/disk reads are going crazy but that can just be a false trigger. I'd like a service that's mor
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by marquis 14y ago
>Did you have an emotional response when you learned that you could only hold "7, plus or minus 2" things in your short-term working memory? Well, no - because I could use tools to extend that. And it's not about insecurity, as I'm quit
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by marquis 14y ago
Am I the only one who refuses to take an IQ test? I hate being tested - especially with a time limit, I rarely play games (chess and logic puzzles being the exception) but above all I don't understand how anyone could not have an emotional
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by marquis 14y ago
Flask and Angular.js with Solr/MySQL. Elegant and powerful.
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by marquis 14y ago
Install something like http://osticket.com on a small VPS and use gmail as the mail server, so you have a backup. You'll get a similar experience to a paid app. Upgrade to zendesk or something once you get a lot more users and you need to
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by marquis 14y ago
Yachting is a fascinating sport: it's extremely technical as well as exhilarating and team-building. I've had the pleasure of being in the tech area during some races where the GPS equipment is managed, stressful stuff! If you're near a bod
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by marquis 14y ago
Also the Pritzker pavilion in Chicago. It draws you in and even if you are at the back of field you feel you are still in the amphitheater.
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by marquis 14y ago
>large upfront time investment A per-server setup fee and a fee on any sys changes is reasonable, as is having the onus on the user to work with the sys admin service to test failovers etc. You could provide add-on services, like scalin
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by marquis 14y ago
I'm guessing it's also an emotional issue: someone loves Twitter, they use it to communicate in ways they couldn't before. But they are frustrated by Twitter's own apps, and wanted to find a better way to use this service they love.
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by marquis 14y ago
24/7 sys admin service. I often wondered why no-one is doing this, I expect because it would be rather expensive to staff, but the sys admin tools are so advanced these days: get an SMS that a server component is down, fix it somehow. If yo
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by marquis 14y ago
I was going to run the second one in a VM, after downloading the code and taking a look: it recursively grabs the url so it's really not safe.. the first one is ok though if you download it first, it's just ascii. http://animals.ivolo.me/?
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by marquis 14y ago
You might need some kind of browser extension that reads your Media Library, I can't find any other way of automating it at the moment.
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by marquis 14y ago
If you could grab this from your Amazon kindle purchases that would be quite wonderful to have a beautiful reference of the book covers.
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by marquis 14y ago
>just have some unique symbol you can draw Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking. And if you draw the same thing every day you get pretty good at keeping it consistent.
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by marquis 14y ago
I just donated via Paypal given the comments about the 9% vs Paypal fees. However it got me thinking from reading the indiegogo site: "The cost just to book the OR for Ken's surgery is $50,000, and that doesn't include the surgery itself, n
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by marquis 14y ago
>software itself has very little ability to be applied in a way that is directly transformative to the human condition I have to disagree on at least the area of communications. I travel all the time and if I'd have been doing this in
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by marquis 14y ago
Since they are doing recognition of stickers, isn't it also possible for you to invent your own 'tag' and train Evernote to recognise it? Then they could charge for the app and you won't be stuck with recurring sticker purchases.
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by marquis 14y ago
Not at this stage but there are a lot of people using it successfully according to the comments on the (very active and informative) mailing list.
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by marquis 14y ago
I think that these views are going to happen, especially as the Angular-UI project moves forward. The documentation of Angular needs a lot of work, but the fundamentals are sound and I think we might have a framework that genuinely gets us
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by marquis 14y ago
Yes! Not to hijack this thread but I hated building web interfaces with javascript, struggling with cross-browser support for anything remotely non-standard. We've been using Angular.js for the last month to build a very beautiful, complex
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by marquis 14y ago
I love this, I use Kiva and the rewards are wonderful as is their way of keeping my money in circulation. But I'm not a U.S. citizen so I only donate a small amount because it's not tax-deductable in my country. You know what I would love?

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