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by yanowitz 13y ago
we migrated recently (last week) using the new mongo2toku bridge. it was relatively painless.
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by yanowitz 13y ago
Agreed it was a clever comment, but it's a mom/daughter thing (not dad/daughter).
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by yanowitz 13y ago
I've taken to using http://couponfollow.com/checkout (the chrome extension). It helpfully colors the coupon code box red if it has a suggested coupon code. Eventually, I suppose, everyone will move to one-time coupon c
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by yanowitz 13y ago
When looking at the terminal screen shot, I can't help but think of the classic "csh considered harmful" ( http://www.perl.com/doc/FMTEYEWTK/versus/csh.whynot ) (Which is itself a classic "meme" before "memes" were a misused "meme").
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by yanowitz 14y ago
Is the story here that we have new corroborating evidence for what has been well known for a long-time: Nixon and Kissinger conspired to sabotage the peace talks? Hitchens wrote about this in The Case Against Henry Kissinger (in the article
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by yanowitz 14y ago
I think that's a total misreading of the criticisms. This actually is a hard problem and the science well short of consensus. The surface area of the problem seems to grow every year as scientists publish new research. That seems like a g
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by yanowitz 14y ago
My biggest take away was that, and I can't believe I didn't know this already, the Voyager probes relied on once-in-a-couple-centuries planetary alignments. I wonder how long until propulsion technologies make that irrelevant.
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by yanowitz 14y ago
Any discussion of Sneakers is incomplete without pointing out the anagram: NSA reeks
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by yanowitz 14y ago
Is it just coincidence that this is essentially e? I know the natural log pops up in all kinds of unexpected places. Is this one of them?
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by yanowitz 14y ago
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2012/05/17/facebook-sho... Unusually short lockup period.
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by yanowitz 14y ago
As the saying goes (roughly): "correlation doesn't equal causation, but it's a good place to start looking". Are cancer incidence rates higher among those around nuclear explosions? Yes. http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/radiation/health-effe
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by yanowitz 14y ago
The odds that we all evolved to that point of technology at the same time is tiny. It's far more likely that there are many civilizations in advance of us and far enough away that we'd detect something. Unless they already went quiet (del
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by yanowitz 14y ago
Sanebox.com offer visualizations of your email, broken out by useful vs time wasting. It's a side effect of them managing your inbox. They'd probably be open to additional data viz ideas
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by yanowitz 14y ago
Fascinating. Also reminds me the Doctor Who (4th Doctor) story, the City of Death ( http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/City_of_Death ). Perhaps sci-fi writers really are pre-cogs.
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by yanowitz 15y ago
From the notes: "by late 1998, the NASDAQ was at about 1400—just 400 points higher than it was in August ’95. " A 40% increase in a stock index in ~3 years is an amazingly huge bull market and the sense of frothiness was everywhere at the t
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by yanowitz 15y ago
The beauty of this writing is a wonderful tribute to a man who loved language.
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by yanowitz 15y ago
Would this really be telling us anything? Presumably, they've chosen 5-sigma for a good reason (they make so many observations?). So what would a 3-sigma result signify?
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by yanowitz 15y ago
This is a great list. I've noticed that I always hate whatever option I'm on that's short of "the condo." And even if you have a condo (or a subdivision of blades), there are still the inevitable screwups that leave you cursing your colo.
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by yanowitz 15y ago
Virtual Servers (item 2) are essentially a form of this, albeit with slightly more protection. Debugging application performance in a virtualized (and opaque) environment is...a challenge.
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Pledge support to Wikipedia if they do a SOPA blackout(wikipediablackout.com)
143 points by yanowitz 15y ago|24 comments
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by yanowitz 15y ago
(Three replies essentially all said the same thing. I'll respond to this one.) Enslavement should not be the standard by which we assess the effect of such actions. Under capitalism, we should expect to see people trading their labor (or
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by yanowitz 15y ago
I came here to post this too. I felt bad for them until I got to the "girls" part, at which point I didn't feel bad. Although they didn't go out of business because of their sexist business practices, I don't shed a tear for them. Yes, thi
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All Hacker Monthly issues free for next ~24 hours(hn.my)
247 points by yanowitz 15y ago|98 comments
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by yanowitz 15y ago
Their customer support has also been great. I ordered an early batch, they discovered it had some problems and proactively notified me, explained they were manufacturing replacement batches and then sent me the bug fixed version. And I ha
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by yanowitz 15y ago
If you haven't watched this video about reverse engineering the 6502 (and how the decoder works, etc.), find the time. It's well worth the ~50 minutes. Mind blowing stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reIYvmuWHhk&sns=tw
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by yanowitz 15y ago
Please build this. It sound fantastic. You might even find a market for selling information about what AstroTurf campaigns are being run.
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by yanowitz 15y ago
I do too. I think it's faster than a cycle of :p, verify it's what you want and then reexec. It's also mentally less taxing (albeit a tiny amount). But summed over a day of shell work, I think it makes a difference.
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by yanowitz 15y ago
Anywhere, USA Looking for a developer. Sanebox, start up for handling email overload. Stack is Ruby, Rails, Mysql as well as interacting with IMAP, WebDav and EWS. Full job post: http://blog.sanebox.com/post/9564725105/sanebox-is-looking
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by yanowitz 15y ago
Given that the account was just created, I tend to agree. Which is sad, as Crashplan is a genuinely good product (disclosure: I've been using it for 2+ years and am paid up for the next few years). It gives fine grained (up-to-the-minute)
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by yanowitz 15y ago
There are lots of people using rspec with MRI-1.8.x. How would this be a reasonable resolution?

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