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by troupe 3y ago
I thought the idea behind Google Reader was that they would be able to show you ads. They bought Feedburner which was supposed to offer an easy way to put Adsense in your feeds, but it never really took off.
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by troupe 3y ago
Just laying off 10% of your employees is easy. If a company can identify the 10% of their workforce that isn't contributing anything, that would speak very highly of their management processes. And in any sufficiently large company, th
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by troupe 3y ago
In addition to spy photography, pigeons were being trained to guide missiles at one point by pecking on a screen. Project Orcon (for ORganic CONtrol) was the name of the program. It doesn't appear to have been used for any actual bombi
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by troupe 3y ago
It feels like this product isn't a good fit for people who have a free mail client that they are happy with. The probably describes a large portion of HN readers. But there are people who will be happy to pay $3 per month for something
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by troupe 3y ago
> "we're X people valued at $YBILLIONS" is a weird way to open and detracts from the message. The most common argument against simpler architecture is, "but that won't scale and we are going to grow to be a valua
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by troupe 3y ago
Yes, but you are still dealing with situations where other teams are deploying code that you are responsible for. With microservices you can always say, "our microservice wasn't deployed, so it is someone else's problem.&quot
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by troupe 3y ago
> How do you square that with the fact that shit usually hits the fan precisely because of this complexity The theoretical benefit may not be what most teams are going to experience. Usually the fact that microservices are seen as a solu
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by troupe 3y ago
My experience with stones seems to indicate that they come in an almost unlimited variety of sizes. There are boulders that are so large no human can lift them all the way down to stones that can be lifted by a small child or even a dog. Yo
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by troupe 3y ago
I find it helpful to give myself permission decide NOT to do something. The to-do list is a bunch of things that I thought were important when I wrote them down. If the next day I only do half of them, but feel those were the important ones
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by troupe 3y ago
Ah ok. So maybe one of the early Panaplex segment displays instead of bitmap displays that came later.
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by troupe 3y ago
Probably not a plasma screen in the 70s. It looks like a bunch of individual characters. They are probably vacuum fluorescent like what was on calculators and the Speak & Spell educational toy from that period.
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by troupe 3y ago
How many teachers are there and how long do they usually stay at the college? It seems like it would be hard to sustain much of a faculty at that size.
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by troupe 3y ago
The most effective use of taking notes is to actively engage with the content by figuring out how to organize it and what to include and what to leave out. Even though the author says to just capture everything, if you are doing it by hand,
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by troupe 3y ago
Agreed, and if security is an issue, creating network connections between every single piece of your application seems to exponentially increase the attack surface.
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by troupe 3y ago
My preference is to get the raw details I need. I'd rather see a stack trace than, "We are sorry but there seems to have been some type of error." However, I can also see a case for the other point of view. In working on larg
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by troupe 3y ago
Not disagreeing entirely, but don't forget that you used to be able to type ftp://example.com and gopher://example.com into the url to access sites. I think there were others as well. Most browsers have removed thos
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by troupe 3y ago
If someone adds a reference to XSLT template to their RSS feed's header, they can style the page however they want. I rarely see anyone doing that, but if consumers of podcast RSS feeds were asking for something different, it is fairly
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by troupe 3y ago
Blockhead has definitely been hurled at innocent people as an insult.
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by troupe 3y ago
Yes the report sounds like Dartmouth is trying to do a good job of weighting the scores based on things that matter for college success--meaning not the race of the person. The point I was trying to make was that it appears many colleges ma
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by troupe 3y ago
A. People who attend poor high school and get a 29 on his ACT are admitted over students to went to a college prep private school and got a 32. B. People who are of a certain race that get a 29 on their ACT are admitted over people of anoth
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by troupe 3y ago
Honestly I think their is more free test prep resources than funds for people to pay for the test. A student is never going to have enough time to use all the test prep tools and sample tests that are available for free.
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by troupe 3y ago
Harvard, Yale, etc. could set a particular standard and increase enrollment to accept everyone who met that standard and (if logistics allowed) that could possibly be a good thing. In some ways the massive online classes seem to be piloting
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by troupe 3y ago
If a school asks for SAT or ACT scores but, hypothetically, wants to discriminate based on race or some other characteristic, doesn't requiring the ACT/SAT make them more likely to be liable for discrimination because there is an
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by troupe 3y ago
Imagine if Cloudflare went to IPV6 only. Yes, Cloudflare's customers should know what that means, but the end users that are using the service may not be and if the error in anyway says Cloudflare, then it gives Cloudflare a bad reputa
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by troupe 3y ago
My guess is that going IPV6 only for load balancers would make it break for enough people that AWS thinks it would reflect poorly on their service.
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by troupe 3y ago
What snet0 suggested might be your best bet. You can use pandoc markdown but then slip into LaTex if you need to do something more complicated.
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by troupe 3y ago
In the early days of digital photography, the type of equipment you had mattered a great deal. Most phone cameras are now so incredibly advanced that the hardware is rarely the limiting factor in creating incredible pictures
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by troupe 3y ago
Simple, but it seems unlikely, and it is also the scenario that the government would be mostly likely to be up front about sharing.
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by troupe 3y ago
Right, so either the airport is running something that can break TLS, or snapchat is feeding a stream of private messages to the government with location information provided.
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by troupe 3y ago
I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum. I can't imagine how a typical family could get by without having a printer to handle basic educational, correspondence, and hobby needs.

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