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by meritt 12y ago
Does slack have native clients yet? And by native I mean a native application not a thin wrapper for a browser.
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by meritt 12y ago
He works for Treasure Data. This post, while providing some information, is most likely a shill for their NoSQL platform. If not, I genuinely hope the rest of the NoSQL crowd isn't so incredibly ignorant about what a RDBMS is capable o
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by meritt 12y ago
It's not simply provisioning the server. It's also installing all the relevant packages, configuration, and deployment. The value is toward people who don't have the sysadmin/devops skills (or perhaps time) to manage tha
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by meritt 12y ago
Meta to the article itself but this SumoMe stuff is incredibly annoying. It breaks the flow of reading. There are highlights on here which end in the middle of a word [ http://i.imgur.com/6zQjwvW.png ]. And now I just had an
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by meritt 12y ago
Or alternately: Why wasn't the JSON parsed into normal form if the intent was to search & filter across that data.
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by meritt 12y ago
Your screenshot looks like you're already in classic maps, this is the bottom right of the new version: http://i.imgur.com/K9PJI5V.png
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by meritt 12y ago
You can still switch back to Classic Maps via the question-mark icon in the bottom right. Classic for life.
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by meritt 12y ago
Fair points. Quora though seems pretty well aimed at the same subcategories which Stack Exchange excels.
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by meritt 12y ago
Direction probably. Quora has floundered for nearly 5 years, burned millions of dollars and still has a questionable product. Meanwhile Stack Exchange has been around only a year longer, a fraction of the funding, and pretty well owns the e
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by meritt 12y ago
Has there been any High Scalability articles on their infrastructure? We have a similar need: storing a large volume of text-based content over a period of time, with versioning as well. On top of it we have various metadata. We're cur
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by meritt 12y ago
Sennheiser. Excellent engineering and numerous budget options that compete on price and destroy on quality versus Apple.
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by meritt 12y ago
Amazing how big of a company they are. This list is missing http://www.1688.com/ and http://www.alibaba.com/ which are B2B wholesaling.
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by meritt 13y ago
A locally owned pizza shop in Portland, OR successfully ran a campaign to move to a larger location. Backers got all sorts of pizza and schwag. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atomicpizza/atomic-pizz...
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by meritt 13y ago
Is there a better way to purchase prepaid credit cards (perhaps with BTC, check, cash, etc) that isn't likely to be reported?
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Hipchat downgrading free tier?
2 points by meritt 13y ago|2 comments
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by meritt 13y ago
Unfortunately, bikes aren't stolen by picking the locks. They are stolen by busting and/or cutting the lock.
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by meritt 13y ago
This is almost as horrendous as someone adding fluoride to Portland's water supply!
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by meritt 13y ago
I have a feeling it's a bit of customer service / risk mitigation. Obviously there are numerous exceptions but the sort of people that execute a lot of fraud, DDOS'ing, or simply amateurs playing around are also the sort of p
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A College Degree Does Not Make You a Million Dollars(mises.org)
1 points by meritt 13y ago|0 comments
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by meritt 13y ago
AirBNB is Ruby/RoR and Java.
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by meritt 13y ago
Might be? This thing is 100% snake oil.
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by meritt 13y ago
Religions change over time. Traditional Judaism and early Christianity both allowed slavery and had laws governing it. Today they completely abhor the notion of slavery. The current pope is backing off on Catholicism's stance on homose
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by meritt 13y ago
Many of us view being anti-gay just as absolutely unacceptable as being pro-slavery or denying suffrage to women. It's not simply a "political view" in 2014. It's not an opinion. It's flat out wrong and supporters o
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by meritt 13y ago
It was a broad statement against higher education in the US. There are exceptions, CS being a very notable one as this article points out.
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by meritt 13y ago
While the author, Fred Wilson, does indeed use the term "engineering", he shouldn't be using it. The source data is explicitly about Computer Science degrees: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive
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by meritt 13y ago
It's precisely that line of thinking which has resulted in the most debt-laden, over-educated and under-employed workforce in history. Getting a degree can be a good thing, absolutely, but it's by no means a requirement to success
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by meritt 13y ago
You can also make an incredible ROI by not paying for an expensive degree and instead gain knowledge & experience through other means (teach yourself, free online courses, open-source projects, paid internships, etc). Just take a look a
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by meritt 13y ago
Same way you convert one-character hex to binary. Then you simply do it again.
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by meritt 13y ago
If this is the same "bug", the emails were not leaked. Someone already had an email list which enabled them to exploit an information leak to obtain names.
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by meritt 13y ago
Yep. It's just a GUI that generates scrapy (python) code.

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