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by yanowitz 15y ago
I bought one on that book site with a river name. Don't skimp on it (there are cheapies available but avoid them). Also, I wish I had bought a 6 foot one to improve pairing (right now, the person with the keyboard gets the mat).
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by yanowitz 15y ago
Also: user: anasoto created: 17 days ago
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by yanowitz 15y ago
As the last Space Shuttle flight flew, I remembered this essay as well. I never saw a launch live, unfortunately. But 14 years later, this writing has stuck with me. Others have also written about the experience, but none (that I've seen
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by yanowitz 15y ago
I find the actual sexism far more annoying than the posts about it.
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by yanowitz 16y ago
I can't speak to your specific use cases, but on hacker news (or a blog about scalability) I think it's completely reasonable to have such a title. It's not link bait. Anyone building a system (e.g., for a startup) or maintaining/extendin
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by yanowitz 16y ago
Agreed - answer by first calibrating the scale. Or run screaming, if you can afford to blow off the interview.
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Review of new Intel 510 SSD(anandtech.com)
2 points by yanowitz 16y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 16y ago
I believe your monitor has a Displayport-in, which means you only need a $5 cable from monoprice that is mini-DP to DP. I have one and it works quite well. Much cheaper than the $100 adapter.
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Symlink race bug/attack with Ruby FileUtil(ruby-lang.org)
1 points by yanowitz 16y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 16y ago
Anyone remember the 3-2-1 Contact episode (PBS show in US) where they showed this? It blew my min as a child. Which leads me to: are there any science shows of comparable or better quality for kids today? Reruns of an 80s show won't cut i
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by yanowitz 16y ago
Facebook has yet to really monetize it's 500mm users. Example: in just a couple of years from when it chose to, it can eviscerate a $37 billion company: eBay. Hell, it could do it as a hobby at first. Then it can start to make real mon
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by yanowitz 16y ago
It was a very funny line in the article and I didn't down vote you, but I suspect people did because your comment added nothing to the discussion not out of maliciousness. Even: "If you are on the fence, reading this article for the one li
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Why Facebook is Undervalued(ug.ly)
1 points by yanowitz 16y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 16y ago
This should be at the top of HN for a week.
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by yanowitz 16y ago
The problem is (at least) three-fold. One: The tail wags the dog. Since No Child Left Behind, schools have had one major metric: test scores. They have now geared everything else towards making test scores improve, from curriculum to teac
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Epilepsy's Big Fat Miracle(nytimes.com)
1 points by yanowitz 16y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 16y ago
I was considering purchasing one for Chicago loop weather, but reviews on amazon indicate that if your wind is non-uniform (and in Chicago, it is), the umbrella fails as it constantly tries to turn into the wind (and they tend to be shoddil
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by yanowitz 16y ago
This study smells of FUD. Has there been on overall spike in schizophrenia that one would expect? What's the sample size? What's the hypothesis on the mechanism (just saying correlation isn't good enough)? Etc. It also has little to do w
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Charles Stross' polemic against steam punk(antipope.org)
2 points by yanowitz 16y ago|1 comments
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by yanowitz 16y ago
At the risk of sounding like a fanboy, thank you. I'd much rather read another book in the Laundry series or Merchant Princes (or a return to the universe of Singularity Sky) than a retread of Iron Man. Even if Downey is brilliant as Star
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Many sexy photos of new macbook air(boingboing.net)
2 points by yanowitz 16y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 16y ago
I think this is incorrect speculation. Black&Decker, for example, sells a similar looking device. I've had one on my meter for months and no one's said anything.
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by yanowitz 16y ago
You should take ~45 minutes and go through their "Riak Fast Track." https://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/The+Riak+Fast+Track It's fantastic (all software should be so well documented!) and will give you a much better idea of what it can
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Did loose lips actually sink any ships?(straightdope.com)
3 points by yanowitz 16y ago|2 comments
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by yanowitz 16y ago
I like how calm his spoken voice is versus his written voice. (And then there's a discussion of this dissonance at the end of the interview)
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by yanowitz 16y ago
They are the claims that don't reference other claims. All the claims are bundled together towards the end of a patent.
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by yanowitz 16y ago
Robert Sawyer wrote a great book on this subject, Calculating God. He has a way of writing about science and philosophy that's incredibly engaging and accessible because it's in the form of fiction. It's one of the few scifi books I can r
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Posterous rolls out varnish(blog.posterous.com)
3 points by yanowitz 16y ago|0 comments
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by yanowitz 16y ago
Dammit. I keep resisting the lure of the iPad, but when jwz weighs in... Must. Wait. For. Next. Version. You know, the smaller one with the front facing camera. So my kids can do FaceTime with their grandparents. Or the one with a (d
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Serious questions for super angels(feld.com)
3 points by yanowitz 16y ago|0 comments

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