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by troymc 9y ago
"Over the course of the migration we’ve discovered [Google] services that we thought were long dead..." Maybe some Google employees were still using Google Reader?
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The full quote is: "On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of
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GPLv3 is a software license, i.e. not appropriate for data. I suspected the folks behind MusicBrainz would know that, so I did some looking around and found this: "The MusicBrainz Database is split into two components for licensing p
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The word "Lucida" in the title has font-family Lato, sans-serif. I guess one must license Lucida commercially, whereas Lato is available under an Open Font License. Sigh.
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Educational transcripts, patent filings, farmland ownership transactions, small-supply-chain records, lab reports, government transparency reports... Pretty much any records where the total amount of data is fairly small, but you want to sh
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If you find it exciting, who cares if someone else already did it? Do people avoid skydiving because someone else already did it? If you're looking to make an impact, then help with an existing project. Most big open source projects ha
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What you're describing sounds a lot like some kind of coworking space. Maybe something like betahaus in Berlin [1]. When you enter, it looks like a big cafe with lots of tables and many people with open laptops, but that place has lay
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Mars is about 1.5 AUs from the Sun, so light intensity (and solar power) is about (1/1.5)^2 = 44% that of Earth. That doesn't rule out solar power, but it does make alternatives relatively more appealing. One partial source migh
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I think you're worrying about a problem that most users don't care about. Improbable could cap the density if they need to, and over time they can do optimizations to increase the maximum.
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That seems like a reasonable plan to me. The big question is, would that be "fulfilling enough or complex enough" for you? Maybe the answer is yes. I suppose you won't know until you've been doing it for a while. Even if
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This survey from 2014 suggests that a majority of people still use a mouse all the time: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/compu...
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but apparently there is such thing as free hosting
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My example was one many human questions where "math" provides no objective answer, because not every question has an objective answer, particularly some questions of morality, fairness, or personal taste. Some more examples: * I
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"Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don't exactly know what they are! However, somebody killed something: that's clear, at any rate." — Alice
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While math can be used to optimize some function(s) (for "societal optimization"), math is silent about the question of what to optimize. There's no general agreement about that. (For example, should there be regulations to r
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If you read the article, you'll find that Smashing tried many different caching plugins for WordPress, and they all had problems.
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
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I'm surprised at how many of the answers here are rationalizing JavaScript's monopoly, saying that it's a fine language / it's optimized / stop complaining / etc. That seems like the programming-language e
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I suppose you could start with existing underwater caves, lava tubes, or abandoned mine tunnels. In fact, the tech used to dig the Channel Tunnel could be used to make enormous tunnels for this.
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In this photo from 2012, he's inside the Shuttle White Room at the end of the Swing Arm on Pad 39A: https://flic.kr/p/bzh1Ju
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RethinkDB wasn't proprietary. It was open source, licensed under the AGPL v2, the same license used by MongoDB, which is doing just fine. MongoDB is one of the top five in the DB-Engines rankings. One of the key business differences be
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Over the years, they've also had source code in Fortran 77, Fortran 90, C, Pascal, BASIC, Lisp, and Modula 2. More history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_Recipes
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by troymc 10y ago
I guess they don't mean this Fabric: http://www.fabfile.org/
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AWS itself is a great example: Most Amazon Web Services (e.g. S3, EC2) can be controlled and accessed via APIs, and Amazon charges for that API access. Here's a more concrete example --- the pricing page for Amazon DynamoDB: https:&#x
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I think the decision not to have animals in the Cirque du Soleil was also a business decision: animals are expensive and unreliable, so cutting them reduced expenses a lot. The downside was that there were no exotic animals to draw people t
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When I was doing my graduate studies in astrodynamics (spacecraft trajectory design) at Purdue University circa 2003, we worked closely with the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and got to use a lot of their excellent astrodynamics code (used for m
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I'm curious how SpatialOS compares to Second Life's successors -- Sansar and High Fidelity. I gather that they also allocate processing in a more targeted way, to respond to demand. P.S. I'm also a huge fan of SL, and look fo
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Indeed, they somehow managed to resolve the Innovator's Dilemma. As such, they really are worth studying. No doubt there are MBA programs with Microsoft case studies.
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You forgot: Washroom. Lavatory. Outhouse. Mens' room. Little girls' room room. Potty. Half bath. And many more (mostly NSFHN). I suspect there's a deep reason for all the different words, probably because of the basic nature
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I didn't know that over 600 firms have applied to join the Hyperledger consortium. That seems like a large number.

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