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by yanowitz 10y ago
I'm listening to this blast from my past: https://archive.org/download/Kool_DJ_Red_Alert_-_Radio_Mix_9... Even has Scott La Rock up front...
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by yanowitz 10y ago
For Heroku, which has a read-only filesystem for /etc, we did this: https://gist.github.com/yanowitz/8329d8b27d8294ca7027f504326...
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After ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight(nytimes.com)
305 points by yanowitz 10y ago|364 comments
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by yanowitz 10y ago
The documentation is reasonably comprehensive: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=h...
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System predicts 85 percent of cyber-attacks using input from human experts(news.mit.edu)
3 points by yanowitz 10y ago|0 comments
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Calculate your economic risk(nytimes.com)
3 points by yanowitz 11y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 11y ago
ObOriginalTanenbaumTorvaldsConflictLink: < https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.minix/wlhw16... Linus' personality is remarkably intact, 24 years later. More background: https://e
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by yanowitz 11y ago
I think this is a great artistic piece. It made me think about lucky I am to have English as a first language, as it's also the language of CS and thus, computer language keywords. For those learning programming who don't know Eng
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by yanowitz 11y ago
This is a great article (I haven't written a compiler in years but was still able to follow along) that can easily suck up an evening of descending his explanatory links. That's a good thing. Favorite new trivia bit: "C++ has
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by yanowitz 11y ago
A web page devoted to the usability of an object whose main reason for existence was its uber-nerd signaling via poor UX. There's something both amazingly abstruse and disarmingly charming about the whole endeavor.
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by yanowitz 11y ago
It's two detectors, each of which has two tunnels at right angles to each other (and generate an interference pattern when a gravity wave distorts the tunnels length).
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Women in corporate leadership correlates positively with profits(nytimes.com)
2 points by yanowitz 11y ago|0 comments
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Probability of GUID collisions with different versions(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
93 points by yanowitz 11y ago|45 comments
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How Optimizely Almost Got Me Fired (2014)(blog.sumall.com)
163 points by yanowitz 11y ago|78 comments
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by yanowitz 11y ago
Humans evolved meeting their survival needs collectively (in hunter-gatherer times). Language development aided this cooperative mode of production. So too would criticism and praise. I've found reductionist social Darwinism lacks ex
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by yanowitz 11y ago
The arguments the author makes around technological constraints precluding language development seem wrong in a few ways, but I'm not that familiar with the field, so the column may be short handing more sophisticated analysis. Specifi
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by yanowitz 11y ago
I would recommend the following: Assume you can't get the process right to begin with. Therefore, the most important piece of your process is something that lets you modify it as you go. Retrospective meetings (where the topic is how
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by yanowitz 11y ago
I thought the point was that this provides another channel (etiology?) for materialist explanations of "Eastern" medicine. I'm not taking a position on that question, as I haven't studied it sufficiently (though acupunct
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by yanowitz 11y ago
The more expensive subscription displays the pub glass. I don't think sky minds if you want to pay for the more expensive sub and move it elsewhere. Because satellite is one-way, the cheapest option for sky is to pay for enforcers. The
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by yanowitz 12y ago
Fun paper. I conclude that the warning worked: goto is used carefully and with restraint. I suspect you could generalize this to many similar language construct and tool warnings/anti-patterns. Except csh. It's always harmful.
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by yanowitz 12y ago
I think we should automate recovery for error conditions where possible and change business processes to be automatable where not. If neither can be done for some pressing reason, then the failure condition should be defined as an expected
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by yanowitz 12y ago
I agree with these points. I'm a big fan of developers being on call for their application. It puts the pain where it belongs--with those building the systems (modulo lower-level errors--such as power failures or network outages--those
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Getting a woman to talk (about herself)(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by yanowitz 12y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 12y ago
I love the app but I've found the data feed can sometimes be spotty (maybe this is just in Chicago)? For example, it's snowing outside right now and Dark Sky shows no precipitation for the next hour. Yahoo Weather correctly showed
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Confessions of a former TSA officer(theweek.com)
5 points by yanowitz 12y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 12y ago
It's only the previous month of unused data from that month's allotment (and that data gets used first), but that's better than nothing, I guess. Assuming 15GB plan: Month 1 (15, 0 avail): Use 10 GB, roll forward 5 Month 2 (1
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AT&T will let 50M customers carry over unused data to the next month(theverge.com)
2 points by yanowitz 12y ago|1 comments
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by yanowitz 12y ago
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=On+the+criteria+to+be+used+in+decomposi...
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Security researcher rewrites Mac firmware over Thunderbolt(9to5mac.com)
2 points by yanowitz 12y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 12y ago
It is. While not optimal, I just go to google, search for the URL and click on th top link. With referrer set to google, most newspapers show you their content. Bookmarklets, referer spoofing and other improvements left as exercise for the

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