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by nwatson 8y ago
The setup for this article sounds like a rip-off of Dan Lyons' book "Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Startup Bubble." That was a fun book also about a journalist joining the marketing startup ... this one called Hubspot. Da
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by nwatson 8y ago
Maybe the context is a bit different (that's always the way with the Bible, I guess, which is why getting a "clear message" is always hard) ... but Matthew 13:12-13 ... >> (Jesus' words -->) (12) Whoever has wil
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Three Years Documenting the Daily Lives of Japan's Brazilian Community (2017)(google.com)
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But where are they ranked in BBQ? I moved to North Carolina from SF Bay Area and NC has much going for it ... but North Carolinians think NC BBQ is like top-3 (Lexington style, Eastern style, etc.) -- but I don't see it. I much prefe
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An interesting story about a meteorite, but what struck me was a sign of the deification of Google ... a reader comment after the article reads: "Wonderful description and High Quality Pictures. >>> Thanks Google<<<
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Technology to resurrect [them] won't be around for 200 years and at that point the now current nation-state and international contracts won't have any standing. Welcome to being part of a convenient un-rights'ed anonymous fo
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Humans are the new ecosystem. Animals, plants, beings that live out a symbiotic or parasitic relationship with us and our imprint will thrive ... those that don't likely suffer.
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Art of Noise put out an okay album "The Seduction of Claude Debussy" exploring this revolution a bit ... https://youtu.be/8hLLL6gyUvg . Kind of like Daft Punk's disco homage album, doesn't capture the es
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by nwatson 8y ago
Coincidentally on Hacker News front page right now ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18318647 ... a story about being black while legitimately shopping with no intention of stealing. I'm not sure the author of
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Panasonic designed human blinders to block out open-plan office distraction(curbed.com)
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The article doesn't address whether an individual can request a full report of their own records and those of their dependents from this MIB. I can get a copy of my credit report for free, same should apply here. Hmmm ... might be abl
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by nwatson 8y ago
>>> If the [American] mercenaries had killed a civilian in the street, who would have even investigated? Like what?... is the U.S. government the ultimate arbiter of actions of Americans overseas? Like is there no "local&quot
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> The problem with this is that it's built in the backs of brands who were at one point well recognized brands on Amazon. Amazon took their sales data, determined it was a good market to move into, created specifications and reached
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by nwatson 8y ago
Just use the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux). I was able to install Ubuntu 18.04, do "sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade", install additional packages, all on Windows 10. I also managed to compile and run on Linux&#x2
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by nwatson 8y ago
https://www.squelch.io supposedly links relevant internal knowledge from many sources, targeting support and sales scenarios but presumably could be used in other scopes.
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I appreciated the SF Bay Area for great biking access in almost any place/town there. I had a 3+ year job in SF starting in 2001 where the office was mostly a meeting place and people worked from home-or-coffee-shop all the time. I t
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Sure, and solar panels are made in China, a nice export-heavy industry for them.
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Every Bay Area visit I go back to (a) Shalimar in the Tenderloin and (b) Nini's Cafe in San Mateo near Burlingame. Former has lost some of its buzz but latter going strong still and hasn't changed much in 30 years and I saw many
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by nwatson 8y ago
I'm no expert, but here's my take ... + "Appending cells to a column" ... when writing data to a "table" the columnar database goes through a lot of effort to compress each column of data into separate files on
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It's just evidence for the existence of hell. Dante's Inferno is a physics treatise.
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MSSQL runs on Linux now. There's even a docker image. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-...
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>> The endless stream of crime dramas that make it clear the police never do wrong and if you make it to a trial you are certainly guilty. I've been watching "The Good Wife" seasons 1 and 2 recently. The show deals wit
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>> I think Evernote sucks and they need to refocus ... I don't think Evernote sucks in whole ... I very happily pay for Evernote annually-renewed premium subscription, and it's great at doing what I rent it for ... + it acce
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Plus early stage stock always gets diluted in further rounds of capital raising ... that 6% will turn into 1% or less and some later hires inevitably will end up with a lot more.
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Really? You're applying "quantum computing" (as opposed to perhaps "... simulation")? A candidate with Python experience and interest in quantum computing. BS.
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Great artist painting in "generative" fashion by hand ... one can see her murals in many North Carolina locales especially around Winston-Salem ... Laura Lashley ... https://m.facebook.com/laura.lashley.77/pos
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3 possible scenarios for what a post-Trump America could look like(amp.businessinsider.com)
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This "Defining the Corporate Hierarchy" is a re-hash of the (acknowledged) original, the "Gervais Principle" by Venkatesh Rao. The Gervais Principle is brilliant. "The Gervais Principle" series home: https:&
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She’s world-renowned for studying empathy. Colleagues say she’s a bully(washingtonpost.com)
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>> Statistics and ML/AI math is all the rage these days. What they depend on is correct math. Statistical applications might benefit from more precise rational numerics, but machine learning and AI are piles of imprecise heuristi

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