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by ratsbane 14y ago
Very nice. This search works with the way I think. I remember being amazed when Kayak came out and again with Hipmunk. This might be next in that sequence.
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by ratsbane 14y ago
It is really nice to have the original author show up and comment on something like this. After looking at this site I started thinking about ways of crawling the whole database. The 500-record limit would make an alphabet tree crawl a bit
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by ratsbane 14y ago
No.
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by ratsbane 14y ago
I have six IBM 2U servers in my home rack (36U). They're really well-designed and the noise level is not too bad even in the room with the rack, but there is also a 1U SuperMicro server in that rack with two Tesla cards and it is so loud a
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by ratsbane 14y ago
I don't think that's entirely correct, at least in the United States. As far as I understand the law, it IS legal to videorecord people, children and otherwise in public places with or without their permission and on private property under
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by ratsbane 14y ago
It could also be an effort to divert attention from some other Wikileaks source.
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by ratsbane 14y ago
Given the nature of the internet, even that's not a fix. If you set up a server, your ISP could shut you off in response to DMCA demands. I suppose you could find an off-shore server, but nothing's foolproof.
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by ratsbane 14y ago
Perhaps someone here who actually is a lawyer can answer this or correct my understanding... Under current rules, any plea bargain offers by a prosecutor can't be introduced into the trial. What if that were changed? What if, at the same
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by ratsbane 14y ago
I agree. This makes it all the more important that we, as a community, "send a message" by calling out her actions as unacceptable and by peacefully petitioning for her removal from office.
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by ratsbane 14y ago
Good points. I like the common-sense approach. Much better than rigid code guidelines that specify precisely when and where how much whitespace goes. If you read a lot of code you'll read code formatted with a lot of minor differences.
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Tips for Code Readability(young-flower-4705.herokuapp.com)
2 points by ratsbane 14y ago|1 comments
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by ratsbane 14y ago
Exactly. This whole article could have been distilled down to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicollinearity (but I still thought it was a good read)
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by ratsbane 14y ago
They're falling to an intrinsic bias - the technological advances we see are the ones that have already been made. Future advances haven't been made yet; effectively comparing sum(past_technological_advances) with sum(future_technological_
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by ratsbane 14y ago
Me too. My Solidoodle 2 arrived last week and I've kept it busy. So far I'm very pleased. The Makerbot 2 does look very nice and I like the high resolution and larger build area - but I'm holding out for one with dual extruders.
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by ratsbane 14y ago
Interesting. I hadn't heard about the Oracle Nosql thing and that link didn't work for me, but this does: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/nosql/overview/in... I wonder what's the story behind that.
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by ratsbane 14y ago
Link to the primary source: http://www.opencyc.org/
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by ratsbane 14y ago
For parking near Nob Hill, the Sutter-Stockton garage is the best I've found so far at $350/month. It's close to the Financial District and doesn't smell as bad as some places around here. SF may have some advantages for tech businesses b
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by ratsbane 14y ago
Any system I've worked with that didn't use SQL directly ended up implementing poorly a system for describing sets of data. SQL isn't a perfect implementation of relational algebra but it's better than a bunch of nested loops.
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by ratsbane 15y ago
That's the shelf life for the uncured liquid. After it's been cured the lifespan is almost forever.
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by ratsbane 15y ago
I share your astonishment. The headline "...from the UK Gov" lead me to expect a comic disaster worthy of The Daily WTF, but this is really good stuff.
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by ratsbane 15y ago
How did you know?
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Taking a Step Back from ORMs(thoughts.davisjeff.com)
18 points by ratsbane 15y ago|5 comments
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by ratsbane 15y ago
"You can't just buy a startup community..." At least, not for that amount of money. But maybe they can. The first step is to try.
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by ratsbane 15y ago
I had never given it much though, but Tuesday my primary gmail account went down. This ( http://douglassims.org/gmaildown.png ) is all I've seen of it since then. My contacts, calendar, lunch plans, flight reservations, all are unavailabl
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by ratsbane 15y ago
Good question. Maybe this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_%28signals_intelligence...
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by ratsbane 15y ago
I'm guessing that when mind reading comes it will be more more of a machine learning exercise based on analysis of speech, vocal inflections, visible features, and previous actions than a portable EKG machine with wires on the scalp. See Po
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Why Stack Exchange Isn't in the Cloud(blog.serverfault.com)
3 points by ratsbane 15y ago|0 comments
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by ratsbane 15y ago
Good point. I do remember someone from Yahoo who spoke at the first Startup School about the webmail redesign - but that was five or six years ago. Why is everything stuck in perpetual stasis over there? Is it that the leadership doesn't
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by ratsbane 15y ago
I'd start with Yahoo Stores. PG, RTM, and Trevor Blackwell's creation was cutting-edge in 1996 but the web has changed a lot since then and Yahoo Stores hasn't. The store editor would proabably still work with Netscape 3, it's so non-web-
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by ratsbane 15y ago
The most recent of my ancestors to have immigrated to the US (I'm American) was Alexander Kerr (b 1694, Roxburghshire, Scotland) although there is some question as to whether or not he was the father of my 6th great-grandfather, John Kerr (

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