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by ytjohn 10y ago
His other business will be marketed using direct mail. A day or two after the anonymous post card is sent, another post card is sent, offering the boss a chance to pay for the identity of the previous card's sender.
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by ytjohn 10y ago
Then you learn about hstore and json store in postgresql and you realize it's the best of both worlds.
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by ytjohn 10y ago
Eventually, they will be so efficient at gerrymandering that they will be able to redraw districts live as people register to vote.
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by ytjohn 10y ago
Today you have learned something new about your Senator.
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by ytjohn 10y ago
Agreed. For me though, my biggest concern with having "everything" in a handful of providers. At least once a month, we get a story about someone having their account shutdown with no way to get ahold of customer service without c
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by ytjohn 10y ago
I hope that next year they will fill it back in. Or maybe even this holiday season if they can get enough funds.
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by ytjohn 10y ago
I remember seeing a few years ago when Carnegie Mellon ran the entire series of Star Trek through facial recognition. They were able to tag every instance of each character on screen. http://gizmodo.com/5228470/carnegie
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by ytjohn 10y ago
A lot of times, I see an interesting quote or word on reddit, and I google to find out more, and the first (sometimes only) result is the comment itself. That even happens with comments that are less than an hour old. Try adding site:reddit
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by ytjohn 10y ago
I wonder how useful this actually is. Since I like my current, remote-based job, I have tried to signal to recruiters that I'm not interested. In the "Advice for Contacting" section, I state: "I am currently satisfied i
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by ytjohn 10y ago
One nitpick (I'm sure you've gotten many). If I go to https://mastodon.social/users/Gargron there are no follow buttons. If I'm logged in and I add you to follow, then I can click on your name and get th
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by ytjohn 10y ago
I'm a landlord. I have this clause in my agreement under late fees: If Tenant fails to pay the rent in full before the end of the 20th day after it's due,Tenant will pay Landlord a late charge of $20, plus $10 for each additional
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by ytjohn 10y ago
I think in this case, "home" encryption is what I use. Most Linux systems when you install will offer to encrypt your home folder. When you login, your password unlocks a key which ecryptfs uses to virtually mount a directory fill
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by ytjohn 10y ago
I always use the example.net/example.com domains for my documentation. It drives me crazy when I see a tutorial using something they just made up like "myfakewebsite.com". Almost always, these lead to an actually registered d
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by ytjohn 10y ago
Salesforce has this weird hosted private social network called Chatter. It's closer to facebook statuses than twitter. I'm not if there really could be a tie in, but one thought is that if a company could take an internal chatter
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by ytjohn 10y ago
Probably would take up a lot less space than the article's proposed mega intersection.
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by ytjohn 10y ago
Sure. Maybe not for a company, but a lot of times, people put logos on individual projects. Maybe not around the current price of $500, but at the earlier lower prices, I could see someone looking at a logo and impulse buying it for a publi
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by ytjohn 10y ago
Thanks, I was trying to remember that one. I think that for any new, non-profit, search engine to be viable, it has to be decentralized. deusu.com takes 2-3 months to crawl 2bn pages. Yacy claims to be at 1.4bn. I don't know how long i
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by ytjohn 10y ago
For "head down" type of work, it often helps me to start on that before looking at my email. If you have some work that you already know you want to finish today, start on that right away for a couple hours, with your phone/e
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by ytjohn 10y ago
I checked to make sure my dropbox app is updated. Is this feature only available on iphone, or is it part of their paid service?
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by ytjohn 10y ago
Till we have to deal with self-replicating, protein destroying, nanobots.
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by ytjohn 10y ago
I can confirm. Linux on HiDPI still has a lot of scaling issues that OSX and Windows does not - OSX is far superior here when it comes to handling their "retina" display. On my 1440p 23" desktop, things seem to render just fi
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by ytjohn 10y ago
That is exactly what I do. I think that the combo I would normally try (Cmd+L) logs you out. I remember at one point trying to find the correct key combination, and the primary results were to put the lock icon up. That works find enough fo
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by ytjohn 10y ago
This has really been my main complaint of HN. Nearly impossible to have a conversation if I don't notice a reply until I randomly decide to click the number beside my username.
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by ytjohn 10y ago
As someone who spent years maintaining Solaris systems, it always amazes me that there are people out there that like Solaris. Especially in the context of a hobby/experimental system.
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by ytjohn 10y ago
This is exceedingly cool. If someone wants to play with lower bandwidth data (text, basic file transfer) over sound, it's a pretty active area in the world of amateur radio. You can download the open-source program fldigi ( http:&#x2F
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by ytjohn 10y ago
After reading over their landing page a few times, I think that this is writing assistant "service". You start writing out your proposal and some automated "asssistant, not a bot" is supposed to analyze your writing and
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by ytjohn 10y ago
I went down the LFS path a year ago, but then I found buildroot ( https://buildroot.org/ ). I had a super old desktop system (running dos and jnos, an amateur radio packet bbs). We have repurposed it as an APRS node and no lo
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by ytjohn 10y ago
This looks pretty interesting. It looks like the main use case is to make worksheets that students have to solve. I feel like this project shares a lot in common with ipython notebook[1], though I don't know of a way to publish interac
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by ytjohn 10y ago
In the US at least, and other countries have adopted it, the Anderson power pole is becoming the standard. Anderson power poles are genderless and keyed. In other words, you can connect any similar amp connector to any other, and you can&#x
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by ytjohn 10y ago
I don't know how monetizable it is, but yahoo groups is still very actively used. It's amazing the number of times I'm trying to find information about a bit of software or hardware, and find myself landing on a yahoo groups

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