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by shrike 14y ago
I'd recommend Three Felonies A Day by Harvey Silverglate. It's a good review of exactly this issue. http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Innocent-ebook/dp/B...
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by shrike 14y ago
Is it done yet?
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by shrike 14y ago
If you're serious and would like to talk about the ways third-parties can leverage DirectConnect let me know, contact info in profile. For a great example see http://www.zadarastorage.com/ .
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by shrike 14y ago
What about search? If Facebook could ship a search product somewhere between the quaility of Bing and Google wouldn't that change the search and social space tremendously? It would increase the amount of time each user spends on FB/day, Fac
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by shrike 14y ago
In California they collect DNA at arrest, not conviction. Your DNA can be collected and stored in CODIS without your ever having been convicted of a crime. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/eff-again-reminds-cour... http://law.onecle
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by shrike 14y ago
I use SpiderOak, it is a lot like DropBox with client side encryption. If you lose your password you lose you data. https://spideroak.com/
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by shrike 14y ago
All masks come equipped with an anti asphyxia valve. They are a very simple flap that fails open in the case of a power outage or other failure, a (C|A)PAP mask cannot asphyxiate you. [1] https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ant
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by shrike 15y ago
Check out Path Finder - http://cocoatech.com/pathfinder/ . I've been using for a while, it's light years beyond Finder. You can't completely kill Finder, OS X won't allow it but Path Finder makes it a lot better.
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by shrike 15y ago
According to the article he was charged with "...disorderly conduct and indecent exposure." not any sort of sex crime. Has that changed?
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by shrike 15y ago
Washington / California / Virginia / Singapore / Cape Town / Tokyo / Europe / Australia / REMOTE Amazon Web Services is hiring! Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a dynamic, growing business unit within Amazon.com. Since early 2006, Amazon Web Se
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by shrike 15y ago
The federal government does have a process for this sort of thing, if they seize an alleged drug dealer's house and that house has a mortgage the United States Marshals Service will pay the mortgage. If they seize cars, furniture, other ass
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by shrike 15y ago
I recently moved to Seattle where CondoInternet offers unmetered 1Gbps symmetric Internet access for $200/month or 100Mb for $60. Having access that fast changes the way you think about using the Internet; I'm able to host TOR bridge nodes,
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by shrike 15y ago
I haven't found anything for Mac/Linux to do it but on Windows Visio can actually do a good job of visualizing a schema and SP structure.
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by shrike 15y ago
How about just never changing your address? I use Virtual Post Mail but there a a bunch of companies offering virtual mailing addresses. I couldn't be happier.
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by shrike 15y ago
I've been a Pinboard customer for a long time, I think it is an example of a well executed, very well designed service that just blends into the background even when I use it a dozen times a day.
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by shrike 15y ago
I've got plenty of Linode, prgmr and EC2 cycles to spare, you are welcome to any/all of them. My contact info is in my profile, please get in touch if I can help.
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by shrike 15y ago
TaxiMagic does exactly that. Apps for Android and iPhone, free to use if you pay cash, a fee to pay with CC thru the app. I use it for short trips in SF and Uber for longer trips. It always takes less time for the Ubermobile to show up than
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by shrike 15y ago
A side note, Charles Stross's Accelerando is a great Sci-Fi book that deals directly with the ideas of a DDOS using the legal system and courts. Really a great read.
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by shrike 16y ago
NOTE: I work for Gluster. We have had a lot of success stabilizing EBS by creating mdadm arrays out of lots of smaller EBS volumes. There is minimal additional costs and you can get better performance, stability, and protection (RAID 5, 6).
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by shrike 16y ago
We're looking for someone with Python experience, you could work mostly from home as soon you've proven your ability to deliver on time, otherwise we're in Sunnyvale, right off the CalTrain. Get some code posted up at GitHub. You don't need
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by shrike 17y ago
Amazon has a very strong subscriptions/reoccurring billing system with a nice of API for subscription management. https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business?sn=devfps/adv...
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by shrike 17y ago
We all spend days designing web forms that won't scare away customers, page designs that keep important content above the fold, bits of CSS to deal with buggy browsers, and rewrite the same sentence in an email template 20 times before we w
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by shrike 17y ago
How do you know that?
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by shrike 17y ago
Is it really faster? I always assumed that the additional client side DNS lookup would eliminate the increased bandwidth advantage that the CDNs have. Anybody know if anyone has A/B tested this?
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by shrike 17y ago
That's a funny equivalent, MacDonalds was an initial investor and majority owner of Chipotle[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipotle_Mexican_Grill
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by shrike 17y ago
What is temp-to-hire?? I think the "temp" part is an extended probationary period, right? I don't think you could fire someone 45 days into a 60 day probationary period and then expect to not pay unemployment because of some agreement betwe
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by shrike 17y ago
A contractor is a very different thing than an employee. In most circumstances employees and contractors are not interchangeable [1]. Companies that hire Permatemps [2] can get bit hard. As a regular contractor I work hard to keep that line
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by shrike 17y ago
I assume this is due to Blogger? Link to the NetCraft report - http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/01/07/january_2010_we... How the stats are calculated - http://news.netcraft.com/active-sites.html
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Google Web Server (GWS) runs 13% of all active sites?(theregister.co.uk)
4 points by shrike 17y ago|1 comments
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Just in case you fall out of a plane without your 'chute(origin.popularmechanics.com)
129 points by shrike 17y ago|32 comments

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