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by trimbo 13y ago
I think I must be the only person ever who read Atlas Shrugged and thought it was a very entertaining book, but didn't either love it or hate it because of the politics. Is there anyone else out there who just loves the book like I do
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by trimbo 13y ago
> can you imagine what it's like to have the company you work for called "evil" because they shut down a RSS reader or move away from using XMPP in their chat app? I worked for EA for 7 years. We were called evil for every
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by trimbo 13y ago
> very appealing option in a number of cases. What cases do you have in mind?
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by trimbo 13y ago
So true. My take, in my role as VP engineering at Radius, I have hand-written every recruiting email I've ever sent . No template. I personalize it to you. A lot of people discard it as spam, or don't accept the in-mail, or whate
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by trimbo 13y ago
Crush tools. https://code.google.com/p/crush-tools/
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by trimbo 13y ago
It's not even true in SV.
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by trimbo 13y ago
The entire 5 hour documentary I think this is from about the 777 is awesome and definitely worth the watch. It was on PBS, called "21st Century Jet"
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by trimbo 13y ago
That is AWESOME! It's a shame we won't get to see the code for it anytime soon.
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by trimbo 13y ago
No keyboard controls!
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by trimbo 13y ago
This has been thoroughly discussed: http://androidandme.com/2013/07/hacks/new-android-malware-fo...
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by trimbo 13y ago
"Is Amazon overpriced" Well, yeah. If you use it as just commodity servers. At Radius, we migrated our index build process over to using Elastic Map Reduce on spot-priced servers and it's been a huge cost savings. Long story
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by trimbo 13y ago
I see. I thought you were wondering if a point release ever got a marketing blitz.
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by trimbo 13y ago
Windows 5.1 was "Windows XP" It only came out a year or so after Windows 2K, which was 5.0 technically.
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How Pivoting Our Business Almost Killed Me(forbes.com)
3 points by trimbo 13y ago|0 comments
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by trimbo 13y ago
If you are interested in this subject, check out "The Sociopath Next Door". It changed my perspective quite a bit.
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by trimbo 13y ago
Oh man, that's definitely one thing Apple got right. The little "VPN" icon "just works" once you set it up.
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by trimbo 13y ago
Only for work. That's what everyone seems to use around Silly Valley now so I just go with the flow. I tried at Groupon to use Linux for a bit and gave it up.
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The Shadow Factory: The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America(amazon.com)
4 points by trimbo 13y ago|0 comments
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by trimbo 13y ago
Well, I actually see that as an advantage vs. placing trust in an abstraction you have no control over that can provide security problems for you. So I guess we'll agree to disagree on this one. Curious though, in what would you implement t
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by trimbo 13y ago
> We already have a problem with a massive, unreliable, insecure ecosystem of legacy C code A ton of the world's software with the highest reliability requirements is written in C and C++. Nuclear power plants? Yes. [1] Joint Strike Fig
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by trimbo 13y ago
Specs on page say 8ms response time.
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by trimbo 13y ago
I've read post after post about Dart. It looks really neat. I want to try it sometime. Now can Google use it to do something big and important? Please? We want to see that it works for you . Invest in it by building products with it and sh
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by trimbo 14y ago
This is what desperation looks like, and why we need to be adamant about our privacy.
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Why and how we switched from Stripe to Chargify(radiusintel.com)
2 points by trimbo 14y ago|0 comments
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by trimbo 14y ago
Guantanamo has nothing to do with congress. It was effectively authorized in this 2001 executive order: http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/eo/mo-111301.htm
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by trimbo 14y ago
I have no information except what Google says publicly. In the absence of any information about whether Google is using it, I have to assume they are not when making a decision on that basis.
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by trimbo 14y ago
Assuming this is not April 1 con'd. Dart is really cool. Awesome, in fact. I want this project to do well. But there's just no way I am going to base my business on it when not even Google uses it for their own stuff. It's just way too earl
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by trimbo 14y ago
Yeah, really a critical PR mess that Oracle hasn't stopped installing the browser plugin. Who uses that anyway? It's not worth the confusion anymore.
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by trimbo 14y ago
If Dropbox hasn't been working on a way to get off S3 this whole time, well, that's a huge oversight on their part.
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by trimbo 14y ago
San Francisco, CA -- SOMA -- Full Time Radius: radiusintel.com Radius collects information about 22 million[1] businesses in the US. Our subscription-based tool lets sales and marketing people plug this data into their processes, saving tim

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