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Samsung silently disabling Windows Update(thenextweb.com)
2 points by spatten 11y ago|0 comments
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Better one-to-ones(medium.com)
1 points by spatten 11y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 11y ago
Ahh, good point. That makes more sense.
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by spatten 11y ago
> ...it has been downloaded more than 500 million times and used to identify some 30 million songs ... That doesn't sound right. On average one identification for every 16 downloads? I'm guessing that second million should be a
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Amazon makes warehouse workers sign non-competes(theverge.com)
13 points by spatten 12y ago|1 comments
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Playing with Ruby Constants, Methods, and Superclasses(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
2 points by spatten 12y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 12y ago
Maybe I'm just rationalizing it because I want to think of myself as a calm, non-ragey person, but to me it feels like something else. I agree with others that it feels rude when someone else takes up the whole sidewalk. But it's
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by spatten 12y ago
If you're using AWS Elastic Load Balancer, then the quick fix is: 1) Select the load balancer you want to edit 2) Click the "Listeners" tab 3) Click "change" under the "Cipher" column for the HTTPS row 4)
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by spatten 12y ago
I'm confused by the caption under the photo (and I live in Vancouver, right next door to Victoria): > Victoria MP Murray Rankin: "I heard 10 gunshots at least and huddled with colleagues under a desk." It feels like a mist
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Yahoo Exec Goes Mano a Mano with NSA Director(arstechnica.com)
7 points by spatten 12y ago|0 comments
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EU VAT – how did the first week go?(euvataction.org)
1 points by spatten 12y ago|0 comments
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Robots are starting to break the law and nobody knows what to do about it(fusion.net)
3 points by spatten 12y ago|0 comments
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How much information is there in 140 characters of Chinese?(people.oii.ox.ac.uk)
2 points by spatten 12y ago|0 comments
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Denialgate – Internal Heartland Documents Expose Climate Denial Funding Network(skepticalscience.com)
1 points by spatten 12y ago|0 comments
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The 7k Report(authorearnings.com)
1 points by spatten 12y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 12y ago
I did a bit more reading, and found this crazy and scary graph. It's under "Uranium-232 Series Activity" near the bottom of this paper[1]. It shows that gamma ray output from U-238 increases > 5x a year after U-238 is firs
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by spatten 12y ago
So it's now almost 30 years after Chernobyl, so if I read this naively: > When this photo was taken, 10 years after the disaster, the Elephant’s Foot was only emitting one-tenth of the radiation it once had. the Elephant's foot
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by spatten 12y ago
We (mostly my cofounder at Leanpub, Peter, but I've done it once or twice) do the same thing when talking about "the rise of serial fiction via fanfiction" to a publishing audience. We show them the "books" page of
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by spatten 12y ago
True, and cool (I hadn't heard of zero-crossing before, thanks!) but an FFT gives you the ability to do interesting things like chord recognition. I may have to play around with the code here and see if I can get it to pick out multipl
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Raptor: a new ruby web-server for faster app deployment(rubyinside.com)
3 points by spatten 12y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 12y ago
Interesting. My take on it is slightly different: it feels like a necessary condition of economic progress is that you trust that you will get to keep the fruits of your labours. The way this happened in our history (I'm assuming that
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by spatten 12y ago
If you're interested in the main thesis of this article -- that the reason that our attitudes to violence declined steadily was due to a feedback loop "feeding the output of the Old Bailey the day before to the input of the Old Ba
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Using Siri while driving is not safe(newsroom.aaa.com)
3 points by spatten 12y ago|0 comments
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If growth was good then getting cancer would be good news(jacquesmattheij.com)
5 points by spatten 12y ago|0 comments
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by spatten 12y ago
The end of physics has been predicted many times. I remember reading an article in Sci Am about the end of physics a few months before starting my physics undergrad in the late 80s. The exciting thing is that it has often been followed by h
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by spatten 12y ago
No, it definitely doesn't do that. I use the `limit_posts` option when I'm writing a single blog post, and then have a "rake deploy" task that re-generates the site fully (without the `limit_posts` option) before rsyncin
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by spatten 12y ago
Funny, I looked at the same tech stacks and came to exactly the opposite conclusion. I want to be able to write on my computer, in Markdown, using the tools I want (I blog in either Emacs or iA Writer, depending on whether I want to be in &
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by spatten 12y ago
If your jekyll generation time is getting too large, you can limit the number of posts it generates like this: jekyll --limit_posts 3 It makes your site feel like new again :) I made this into a rake task which I blogged about here
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by spatten 12y ago
We're having troubles on us-west-1b.
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by spatten 12y ago
I really can't remember, but we were all in shock at the time. My vague recollection is that he was trying to protect his brother. People react strangely in situations like that.

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