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by msisk6 13y ago
Nearly all flat-bed tow trucks here in the US have a winch. Be it a dead Tesla, broken Ranger Rover, or a wrecked car with it's wheels pointing in different directions, the winch will just drag the car up the ramp.
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by msisk6 13y ago
At some point this whole exercise gets rather silly. No matter how open and secure the phone is, there's the software that runs on the towers and in the telco system that tracks personably identifiable data and metadata. The solution i
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by msisk6 13y ago
Most RVs over 20-foot or so have showers with hot and cold water. A lot of campgrounds for RVs also have showers along with laundry facilities. Gym memberships are common, too.
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by msisk6 13y ago
I don't know -- while I admire what he's trying to do here, it's just a little too cargo cultish. There's a lot of engineering in internal combustions engines and all that info is readily available. Things like compressi
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by msisk6 13y ago
Yeah. There's a guy currently in solitary confinement serving time for felony hacking. The hack? Executing GETs against a public API. He got a 41-month sentence for that. By any definition that's just crazy.
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by msisk6 13y ago
Our DNS support is greatly expanded since then. The control panel lets you enter all the records you need (including PTR) and you can automate it as much as you want with our Cloud DNS API (which is what the control panel actually uses unde
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by msisk6 13y ago
We have a ton of positions open at Rackspace ( http://rackertalent.com ). But I'm specifically looking for a Linux Systems Engineer to help me with our Cloud DNS API product. We practice DevOps and agile and work very closely with developer
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by msisk6 14y ago
I learned to type on a Selectric in high school a few years back (maybe more than a few, actually). The thing I remember about them, besides the hum, is the smell -- a warm machine oil scent. I should probably get one of these while they're
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by msisk6 14y ago
Sounds like a variation on coal gasification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gasification The article is a bit scant on details like by-products or the emissions from the combustion of the syngas in the secondary combustion process. An
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by msisk6 14y ago
Yet. ;)
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by msisk6 14y ago
I don't know where in the world you are, but at my daughter's high school nearly everyone has an iPhone. Theft is rampant, too -- my daughter's iPhone (one of my hand-me-downs) even got jacked once and she's very careful. And this is not so
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by msisk6 14y ago
Rackspace is hiring. I've been here a year in the Austin office working on new cloud products and I have to say it's the best place I've ever worked. The Rack is very family friendly with great benefits and lots of cool folks. In my team we
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by msisk6 14y ago
Ward Cunningham and I built something similar with an old Mac mini and an external firewire iSight camera when we both worked at AboutUs a few years back. We pointed it at the train tracks behind the office and got some cool images of train
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by msisk6 14y ago
They talked about this during a press conference today. Theoretically it could operate at night, but the power draw to heat the motors and joints would be excessive since it's so cold after sunset. So they don't and allow the MMRTG to charg
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by msisk6 14y ago
Well, there's been a few accidents involving these things, including Apollo 13. They're designed to survive reentry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_gen...
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by msisk6 15y ago
I did this back in the '90s. I was working for a software company in the north bay. I spent most of my awake time at work and most of my weekends in the mountains or visiting my girlfriend in LA. I realized I was spending a large sum of ren
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by msisk6 15y ago
Rackspace publicly discloses its number of servers. The latest investor presentation slide deck on the Investor link from the front page of rackspace.com lists the number of customers at 170k+ on 79k+ servers. [Edit to fix typo.]
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by msisk6 15y ago
No kidding. I just put 8GB into my '09 MacBook Pro and it was $45. That's insanely cheap -- just max your system out and don't worry about it.
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by msisk6 15y ago
Back in the early 80s at high school in chemistry class we had a beaker full of mercury we'd float nuts and bolts on. The teacher would just let us grab 'em out of the beaker with our bare hands. Crazy stuff -- I'm still not sure how I feel
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by msisk6 15y ago
I tried working from an RV via satellite link years ago. Very frustrating -- life is too short to deal with the latency. Nowadays with git and puppet this might actually work -- make changes and edits locally and deploy over the low-bandwid
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by msisk6 15y ago
I have a laminated wall map of Oregon from Raven. It sure is pretty but a bit lacking in details that the Imus and Benchmark State Atlases provide. I might have to get one of the Raven maps for Texas, though. Thanks for the reminder -- I'd
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by msisk6 15y ago
The Imus maps really are fantastic. I used his Oregon map for years for charting trips around that state. My 2nd favorite map maker is also in Oregon: Benchmark Maps. I just moved to Texas and haven't been able to find a map of this state t
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by msisk6 15y ago
All the companies they surveyed are less than 100 people. I'm actually surprised it's that high.
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by msisk6 15y ago
We use git at Rackspace.
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by msisk6 15y ago
I never thought about it before, but I grew up in Missouri and we all called it the "front room", too. I still do.
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by msisk6 15y ago
The regions aren't really that close to each other -- it's over 1000 km to the other West region down in the bay area.
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by msisk6 15y ago
Yeah, it's a very cool region. I worked in Bend for a few years and got the chance to explore a lot of Eastern Oregon. On my drive east to Texas I actually drove by Steens Mountain and stopped in for burgers and ice cream at Fields Station.
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by msisk6 15y ago
Flat and boring with cheap land, abundant hydro and wind power, and low-humidity -- makes a good place for datacenters. Google, Amazon and Facebook are already here with a few more in the works. I just moved to Texas from Oregon and folks h
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by msisk6 15y ago
I don't know -- this article at FastCompany linked from Wikipedia puts a different light on his move to Belize: http://www.fastcompany.com/node/1615167/print Hard to say what the truth is here, but it's an interesting story nonetheless.
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by msisk6 15y ago
I bought the PDF of this book this morning, printed it out, and read it during lunch. I think it's actually very good and plan on giving it to my kids to read. The discussion on number bases and converting from binary, hex, and decimal syst

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