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by mml 13y ago
He's certainly on to something. As he pointed out, it's been around since about '73, and many people are happy with the design of such systems. Amazon even has an actual for-real implementation of one (see Simple Workflow), h
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by mml 13y ago
Good up Steve, happy to see another frostbitten northerner do well!
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City worker painting streets is a true craftsman [video](twentytwowords.com)
3 points by mml 13y ago|0 comments
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by mml 13y ago
I had 3 interviews with google about 9 years ago. totally failed the on-site in mountainview. sorting a balanced tree on a whiteboard is tricky (quiet you!). In hindsight, I'm not sure why I was excited to work at a post-ipo cube farm,
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by mml 13y ago
Anecdata: My father is nearly 70, and still writes & maintains those horrible departmental VB+Access apps. He started in his late 40s, having noodled around with spreadsheets & databases since the 80s (from whence my fascination
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Yahoo: Introducing Our New CISO Alex Stamos(yahoo.tumblr.com)
2 points by mml 13y ago|0 comments
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by mml 13y ago
39.5 here, have been a 1 man shop for 12 years. At this point, someone would have to be insane to hire me as FTE, and I would have to be insane to take it. The money is better than ever, and I'm getting more and more interesting things
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by mml 13y ago
No OSX port until the surpass their initial goal. Meh.
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by mml 13y ago
I once was hired to a gig because of the following words that came out of my face hole: "Some people see a giant hairball of code, and think to themselves 'I don't want to deal with that'. I see the same code and think &
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by mml 13y ago
I once challenged Scott Fritchie to give an Erlang talk at our local ruby group (rum.mn) without implementing Eratosthenes' sieve, and sure enough he did, using elevators of all things. I was so impressed with Erlang that i'm stil
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by mml 13y ago
nb: crashplan will encrypt & back up your stuff locally & remotely (in multiple locations) and keep a version history, which pretty much nips this sort of crap in the bud. (not affiliated with those guys, just a happy user)
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by mml 13y ago
Attodonica: "Splitters!"
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by mml 13y ago
I have residential fiber from a local isp @100mbps up & down, and have definitely noticed netflix has been horrible for a few weeks (appletv). I took a look at my airport stats, and it seems the atv had connected at 1mbps to the AP, whi
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by mml 13y ago
that's how i sleep at night. 2 years ago i turned over my bitcoins at 5x return in 3 months. there's no way i would have held on to them for a 5000x return.
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Bad news for Yutu rover(planetary.org)
3 points by mml 13y ago|0 comments
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Automakers and Aftermarket Move to Preserve Consumer Choice in Auto Repair (sacbee.com)
2 points by mml 13y ago|0 comments
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by mml 13y ago
I feel bad for John Smith.
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by mml 13y ago
My question as well. Every perf benchmark I've seen of jruby over the years, it's much faster than MRI (given time to boot & JIT anyway). I think this guy's numbers are very suspect.
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by mml 13y ago
Would be cool if they distributed via torrent (though their d/l speeds are pretty impressive anyway).
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by mml 13y ago
Reminds me of when Best Buy discovered people wardriving their parking lots and plucking CC#'s out of the air via their unencrypted, wireless POS network. Surprised Target got hit, they're pretty rabid about security/loss pr
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by mml 13y ago
Nice troll. I give it a 6.
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by mml 13y ago
yes. they are lazy. that's why they are good programmers.
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by mml 13y ago
Yup. I'd really hate to be in the bulk email business today. Perhaps google will sell them back the data they used to create themselves.
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by mml 13y ago
Someone should probably point out that it's homoiconic too.
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by mml 13y ago
Seems a bit pricey for me. I think the future is Amazon's storage drop lockers in every Super America (insert your regional chain here). Works for we city dwellers (there's one every 3 blocks), and even suburbanites. There's
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by mml 13y ago
Do Japanese use anglicized "colour" & "favour" etc? If so, I would only expect an inconsistent application of this spelling if he were impersonating a Japanese person writing in English (though the same could be assu
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by mml 13y ago
Only counts if you forbade them to communicate with each-other.
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by mml 13y ago
Stuff and nonsense! The only reason the lamestream media promulgates such poppycock, ist das it makes the maths easier!
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by mml 13y ago
I've found that the main problem is that people do think. About things that they've seen on tv, or read, that are just plain fictional. Humans have a huge advantage in being able to communicate knowledge across generations, and a
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by mml 13y ago
My wife posited that perhaps their gravity suits kept them on the ground (which i found charming, at least she was thinking of gravity, and/or science fiction). My 8 year old daughter thought for a second and said the rock would fall,

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