turnersauce

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by turnersauce 2mo ago
This is basically Conway's Law in practice: microservices aren't created because of technical boundaries, but they emerge because organizations need team boundaries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_la
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by turnersauce 7y ago
I agree, such a positive tone encourages complacency. And the reality is that we could do so much better: https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2018/8/30/the-moral-egregio... "We shouldn’t be looking at
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by turnersauce 15y ago
Grad students: (not that our salaries are all that secret...) http://salaryshare.me/be795b5770029320591ac9a1730a9932
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NASA Gives Up on LISA(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
67 points by turnersauce 15y ago|40 comments
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by turnersauce 16y ago
It's funny that this is coming up now - just this week, there was a pre-print on arxiv.org that explored the possibility of a planet being heated (possibly enough to become habitable) by dark matter annihilation in its core: http://arxiv.o
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by turnersauce 16y ago
You could change the settings to a location at the equator, and maybe one or two timezones to your west. (I understand that having more customizable settings would be a better alternative, but I thought I would offer up my hack).
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by turnersauce 16y ago
This has been posted before, and there was much interesting discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2041675
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8 Stupid Mistakes Smart People Make (marcandangel.com)
5 points by turnersauce 16y ago|0 comments
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Apple's Giving its Customers a New Kind of Screw(tomshardware.com)
1 points by turnersauce 16y ago|0 comments
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Is the American Dream Over?(spiegel.de)
3 points by turnersauce 16y ago|0 comments
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by turnersauce 16y ago
In response to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1945340
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No evidence for circles in WMAP claimed by Penrose and Gurzadya(arxiv.org)
2 points by turnersauce 16y ago|1 comments
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Bug #8584363: Bug reports to [Apple's] Core Audio developer list are ignored(lists.apple.com)
2 points by turnersauce 16y ago|0 comments
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Wikileaks just made the world more repressive(theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by turnersauce 16y ago|1 comments
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by turnersauce 16y ago
Unfortunately, it still asks for a login.
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by turnersauce 16y ago
Maybe something like Reddit's "rising" page would help. Basically, somewhere that would catch all of the stories that only got ~4 upvotes on the front page, but would filter out the ones that didn't get any.
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The Laws Underlying The Physics of Everyday Life Are Completely Understood(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
4 points by turnersauce 16y ago|4 comments
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by turnersauce 16y ago
Link to the paper in Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;science.1... Edit - If you are lacking a subscription: http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0518
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by turnersauce 16y ago
I don't find the Nook's touch screen to be "balky" at all, at least in comparison to any touchscreen phone. In fact, I think that the use of a touchscreen instead of a hardware keyboard opens the door for a lot more design flexibility.
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by turnersauce 16y ago
Follow-up to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1628639
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NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Two Planets Transiting the Same Star (nasa.gov)
8 points by turnersauce 16y ago|2 comments
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Don't be a dick(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
1 points by turnersauce 16y ago|0 comments
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by turnersauce 16y ago
Original source, with some explanation: http://www.strudel.org.uk/blog/astro/000943.shtml
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by turnersauce 16y ago
This guy went from a paperclip to a house: http://www.oneredpaperclip.com/about/ . A couple of my friends actually got a barbecue from him off of Craigslist. Sadly, I think the transaction only involved money.
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by turnersauce 16y ago
What I want to know is why the latest Apple OS doesn't come with a paint program.
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Planck telescope reveals ancient cosmic light(news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by turnersauce 16y ago|0 comments
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Movies shouldn't have better science, because science is complicated(nature.com)
1 points by turnersauce 16y ago|0 comments
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by turnersauce 16y ago
From my experience, the male characters in Big Bang Theory aren't far off from reality. However, I don't like how the two women physicist characters portrayed have both been complete nymphomaniacs.
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by turnersauce 16y ago
The state of wireless in Canada is depressing, although slowly improving. The instant that Wind goes live in Victoria, I'm switching!
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by turnersauce 16y ago
I certainly can't think of a lonelier place to die than the moon.

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