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Time-lapse video of a rocket launch seen from space(syfy.com)
341 points by slyall 8y ago|57 comments
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by slyall 8y ago
According to the media companies it is just important to cover those century-old texts as the latest Star Wars movie. People are exactly as guilty (and should feel exactly as guilty) download one as downloading the other.
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by slyall 8y ago
The problem is that the site is using a depricated json file to get the instances/prices. This is no longer being updated. AWS has a new API that is getting the updates but ec2instances.info is still working on updating. More info in t
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by slyall 8y ago
OTOH I getting a feeling that these days pinboard is running on autopilot.The Owner seems mostly to be concentrating on political causes. There is a feature (tweet search) that has been broken for over a year and seems unlikely to be fixed.
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Tesla, software and disruption(ben-evans.com)
117 points by slyall 8y ago|125 comments
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by slyall 8y ago
I use some software that requires 6 characters to be inputted before it'll search for a name. At least that includes the comma and space. A pain since I have a lot of people with short Asian surnames (and a "first" name which
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by slyall 8y ago
Maybe the tech industry will pay them billions to adjust earth's rotation to eliminate leap seconds.
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by slyall 8y ago
It depends. ie one dictionary definition: Asian 1. belonging to or relating to Asia or its people 2. in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, belonging to or relating to China, Japan, or countries near them 3. in the UK, belonging
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How we spent $30k in Firebase in less than 72 hours(hackernoon.com)
307 points by slyall 8y ago|237 comments
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Lennon or McCartney? Can statistical analysis solve an authorship puzzle?(eurekalert.org)
30 points by slyall 8y ago|14 comments
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Scaling Kubernetes for 25 million users(medium.com)
3 points by slyall 8y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 9y ago
On the other hand a company that I worked for some years back had published a summary of recent accidents in the monthly newsletter[1] A significant number were for office workers who had tried to change light bulbs or similar by standing o
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My Twitter Following Strategy(xaprb.com)
2 points by slyall 9y ago|0 comments
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SourceForge Hiding Fact That They Have Lost the Latest Revision of SVN?(medium.com)
101 points by slyall 9y ago|90 comments
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by slyall 9y ago
I have a few. On in New York used by to confirm a doctors appointment (with some information on their condition). They also gave my address to their broker who sent an account summary. Bond portfolio in the millions. Some lunch delivery ser
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by slyall 9y ago
Reading : https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/CRSRA/licenseHome.html I'm guessing: * They don't want the satellite taking and selling photos of secret US government stuff (or Israel or other areas that would cause th
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by slyall 9y ago
Where did you hear about that story? TV News, Radio News or the local newspaper?
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by slyall 9y ago
Of course widespread use of this will mean tweets are less useful. You won't be able to find that book/movie that somebody talked about or their great analysis of some topic. ie also on the front page today: https://ne
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One take on working in some of the major tech companies(marginalrevolution.com)
146 points by slyall 9y ago|33 comments
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Are We Running Out of Trademarks? A Study of Trademark Depletion and Congestion(harvardlawreview.org)
1 points by slyall 9y ago|0 comments
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How to tell if a tech company is prepared for female engineers(blog.woo.io)
1 points by slyall 9y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 9y ago
> One thing I would like to add is that public transport is too very difficult to scale A quick check show the Piccadilly line is doing 21 trains per hour and they have a capacity of 684 people. Around 14,000 people per hour. That is rou
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How Backblaze Got Started (2017)(backblaze.com)
101 points by slyall 9y ago|68 comments
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by slyall 9y ago
They say most of the pictures of bare shelves are from customers
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by slyall 9y ago
Previous Discussions in last few days: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15985775 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15981338
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Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creators will lose patrons(techcrunch.com)
410 points by slyall 9y ago|305 comments
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by slyall 9y ago
Nexus 5x and 6p was always 2 years of Android version updates plus another year of security. They have recently increased that by a month or two. https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705?hl=en Add me to the
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Where the STEM Jobs Are (and Where They Aren’t)(nytimes.com)
1 points by slyall 9y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 9y ago
I'm not sure which network they use at the office but I think he was mainly talking about reading email.
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by slyall 9y ago
Talked to a guy who worked for [a large tech company] and he said that the company doesn't allow phones to connect to the network if they are more than 1 month behind security updates. Unfortunately of the Android vendors only Google a

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