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by qohen 7y ago
Hopefully not too much of a derail, but: the "Streisand effect" had nothing to do with nude photos [0]: It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose 2003 attempt to suppress photographs of her residence in Malib
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by qohen 7y ago
Ninite[0] (YC W08) is a useful site for setting up a Windows PC. It allows you to install (or update) your choice of around 100 apps and tools in 13 categories (including Compression, where you can select WinRAR) for Windows 10 (also 7 and
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by qohen 7y ago
An article about the site, from New York Magazine: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/07/kiwi-farms-the-webs-b...
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by qohen 7y ago
Relevant recent XKCD cartoon: https://xkcd.com/2180/
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World-class diagnostics for low-income communities in sub-Saharan Africa(news.mit.edu)
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by qohen 7y ago
Unfortunately I don't know enough to know what's special about the Erlang scheduler (if anything) Bon appetit: :-) Appetizer (blog post): http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-erlang-does-...
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by qohen 8y ago
The author set up a GoFundMe, if you're moved to help: https://www.gofundme.com/deadoralive
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by qohen 8y ago
Michael Lewis wrote an article about Sergey Aleynikov for Vanity Fair which led him later to write, "Flash Boys" -- it's online and worth your time [0]. Some interesting bits include: * Advice and information that could keep
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by qohen 8y ago
If you write a nice email -- perhaps not referring to this thread -- I expect one could hope for a decent outcome. :-) (You're welcome for the idea and, again, good luck).
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by qohen 8y ago
FYI, in case it helps, there are many accounts online of people emailing jeff@amazon.com and getting a helpful response (though not necessarily from Jeff Bezos himself). Obviously, it's not guaranteed, but, if you've tried everyt
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by qohen 8y ago
FYI, you can watch Shiri online for free on Sony's TV and movie site, sonycrackle.com: https://www.sonycrackle.com/shiri/2481139
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by qohen 8y ago
For anyone wondering about the price[0]: Experience Day fees start from only $10,000 per person per day with possible discounts for groups and full training costs approximately $60,000. [0] https://jetpackaviation.com/fly-
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by qohen 8y ago
As a reminder, Paul Graham's On Lisp is freely downloadable, in PDF or PostScript via links on this page at PaulGraham.com: http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html
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by qohen 8y ago
Relevant XKCD (from Monday of this week): https://m.xkcd.com/2116/ (And this was interesting, linked from the XKCD cartoon page above: https://twitter.com/openelex/status/853977391747801088 )
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by qohen 8y ago
Sonny Scroggin of Bleacher Report gave a talk about writing NIFs in Rust (using Rustler) at last year's Code BEAM SF conference -- the video's on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F86JXaCPowo
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by qohen 8y ago
I was taken with the main idea of this paragraph from the essay when I first encountered it a while back: A cluttered room saps one's spirits. One reason, obviously, is that there's less room for people in a room full of stuff. B
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by qohen 8y ago
You're welcome. I don't know if you need more, but here are a few other games that can handle 6 players, can be played in close to 30 minutes and are in your price range. The first set is probably the best for gifting, i.e. they a
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by qohen 8y ago
The first version of Metro [0] is on sale now at Miniature Market for $11 [1] (shipping is a flat $5.95 for orders up to $99; after that, shipping is free). Metro is a tile-laying game by Dirk Henn, who also designed Alhambra and some othe
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by qohen 8y ago
In case it helps, from Wikipedia[0]: TLA+ (pronounced as tee ell a plus, /ˈtiː ɛl eɪ plʌs/) is a formal specification language developed by Leslie Lamport. It is used to design, model, document, and verify concurrent systems. TLA
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by qohen 8y ago
never once in all her years of being in classrooms with computers...has there been any opportunity to learn to type...I'm agog we don't invest in such a basic skill in our schools. I know typing used to be taught in typing class
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by qohen 8y ago
Steven Zeitels is one of the best vocal surgeons in the world -- he's operated on Adele, Roger Daltrey and others. Prior to becoming a physician, he did leather work, selling his creations on the street and that appears to have allowed
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by qohen 8y ago
I was just looking it up -- here's the original paper, from 2007: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17309970 And, if you don't want to read the paper, here's a piece about it and some related studies (
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by qohen 8y ago
In case it's of interest, Sonny Scroggin gave a talk last March at Code BEAM SF (i.e. the rebranded Erlang Factory) on writing NIFs in Rust, if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F86JXaCPowo (Sonny
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by qohen 8y ago
Reading tip: "Attack of the 50ft Blockchain" That book's author, David Gerard, has a blog [0], where you can get his take on cryptocurrencies, and he's on Twitter [1] too (there's a tweet linking to his popular bl
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by qohen 8y ago
And, interestingly, there are Github repositories of people implementing the material in this book, e.g.: https://github.com/rm-hull/wam (WAM in Clojure) https://github.com/rupertlssmith/hak_wamboo
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by qohen 8y ago
MIT Press published a book called "The Warren Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction" by Hassan Ait-Kaci. This short -- 114 pages -- book about the Prolog VM has been made available for free download by the author (it's
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by qohen 8y ago
s/silmite/samite Per Wikipedia[0]: Samite was a luxurious and heavy silk fabric worn in the Middle Ages, of a twill-type weave, often including gold or silver thread. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samite
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by qohen 8y ago
Speaking of "a great stepping stone to playing with k8s", there's a free, scenario-based site called KataCoda.com out there that gets you putting Kubernetes (and Docker and other things like TensorFlow) through its paces -- n
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by qohen 8y ago
The Blues Brothers scene in question is on YouTube [0] (this 5-ish minute version sets up the musical number; the shorter versions don't). That version, btw, is embedded in this interview of John Landis, the director of the film on Dea
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by qohen 8y ago
The author, Marshall Brain, has the novel online: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

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