martian

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by martian 10y ago
I meant: the companies are giving numbers to the spammers so their calls show up as local numbers.
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by martian 10y ago
Do automated systems / robots have first amendment rights? (Honestly curious if this has been brought up in the courts)
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by martian 10y ago
Do Not Disturb mode is surprisingly great at this.
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by martian 10y ago
You can complain to the FTC. I haven't had much luck with it actually stopping the calls but it's better than nothing and gives the government something to work with. https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/
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by martian 10y ago
Why aren't these kinds of calls straight up illegal in the first place? Telecom companies who hand out numbers to spammers should get fined like crazy, and the burden of proof goes on them for dealing with the people they give US phone
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Should farmers or city pay to clean the water? Iowa may decide(mprnews.org)
1 points by martian 10y ago|0 comments
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How economists rode maths to become our eras astrologists(aeon.co)
8 points by martian 10y ago|0 comments
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How America's Coastal Cities Left the Heartland Behind(theatlantic.com)
1 points by martian 10y ago|0 comments
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Kevin Kelly on Technology forces shaping the future [video](rjionline.org)
23 points by martian 10y ago|0 comments
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by martian 10y ago
Prions are both beautiful and terrifying. One of my favorite science fiction stories is Kim Stanley Robinson's "Aurora". He makes great use of the prion concept, and its consequences for human life, in relation to space explo
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by martian 11y ago
True innovation happens in amazing places. I'm really excited to see the future of agriculture enhanced by robots and AI. One Bay-area company doing awesome stuff, not mentioned in the article, is Blue River Technologies. They make let
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by martian 11y ago
It's easy enough to disable all these emails in FB's notification preferences.
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by martian 11y ago
The number of companies that have bad unit economics is, I agree, substantially higher than it should be. But I'm not sure this explains the bubblegum expansion of valuations and rounds we're seeing today. There are many thoughtfu
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by martian 11y ago
Also: never underestimate laziness. Typing in a credit card takes work. Re: Netflix/Spotify price differences. The relative size of the libraries (vs all content in the domain) is something to keep in mind. Netflix gives users access t
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Edward Snowden's Fermi Paradox Solution(kottke.org)
9 points by martian 11y ago|3 comments
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by martian 11y ago
Our mission is to help people accomplish personal projects by matching their needs to the best service professionals in their area. From wedding photographers and DJs to home contractors or French tutors, Thumbtack can help. We are backed b
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by martian 11y ago
Thumbtack - San Francisco - Software engineer and data science Our mission is to help people accomplish personal projects by matching their needs to the right service professionals in their area. From wedding photographers and DJs to home c
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by martian 12y ago
Thumbtack - San Francisco - Software engineering Our mission is to help people accomplish their personal projects by matching their needs to the right professionals in their area. From wedding photographers and DJs to home contractors or Fr
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by martian 12y ago
I think this is easier than you think. About 8 years ago I was working on a big project in Qt that was two parts -- one part a 3d rendering engine, one part an interactive web view. Having the two interoperate was surprisingly straightforwa
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by martian 12y ago
Thumbtack - San Francisco, CA Join a small tight-knit engineering team that is changing how services are bought and sold. Thumbtack's audacious dream is to do what eBay and Amazon did for the consumer retail economy, but for the consum
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by martian 12y ago
Aldo's project is awesome. I remember reading this a few years back and was really curious to see what would happen if you plotted color spaces other than RGB on a Hilbert Curve. Plotting colors in YIQ and HSV spaces turns out to be re
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A romance of a single dimension: linear git history in practice(thumbtack.com)
9 points by martian 12y ago|0 comments
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by martian 12y ago
I thought the same thing, but some say otherwise: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4497569
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by martian 12y ago
Edward Tufte (original creator of sparklines) hosts a long-running discussion of theory and practice: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
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by martian 12y ago
Yeah, I hear you. My first jobs out of college were also not as inspired as they could have been, partially because I didn't have a great mentor to guide me through the process. My advice for finding a mentor is to look for a job at a
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by martian 12y ago
Yes, websites are for humans. But, for better or worse, humans live in a world that is driven by advertising, media, and funny concepts like SEO. If you want to stand out, you have to not only provide a great website (that works for humans)
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by martian 12y ago
This is great advice. Starting a business is difficult work, though. My advice is always to get an internship at a big tech company that you respect. Learn from the masters in your industry. There is so much to being a developer that is not
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by martian 12y ago
Thumbtack - San Francisco Thumbtack helps people accomplish personal projects central to their lives. Thumbtack can help you remodel your kitchen, get photographs taken at your wedding, or teach your daughter how to play the piano. We are a
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Do More and `make` Less with GNU Make and Less.js(thumbtack.com)
27 points by martian 12y ago|16 comments
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by martian 12y ago
Thumbtack - San Francisco - Software Engineer Thumbtack is a new way to hire local services. The same way other companies have brought B2C retail commerce online, we have brought the B2C services industry online. Some numbers: - 10M mon

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