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110,934karma·51,752submissions·October 26, 2011
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"We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
In life, everything is a wager. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly making implicit and explicit predictions about the future state of reality. To live is to predict.
(No AI is used to write any content within any of my comments)
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Sir, I've worked on/off with Project Gutenberg for over 12 years (since I was 18). I've mailed thousands of CDs/DVDs full of PG's library to people in thirdwave world countries, and I've also reviewed…
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I say this only to help in the future: (Life Pro Tip style) Do your writing/editing in a separate app/editor window, and then copy/paste it in. This applies to important emails as well, to prevent hit…
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Google Voice barely supports MMS messages properly; I think it'll be a while before Twilio supports it (although I could be mistaken). If you're a Twilio folk on here, care to share roadmap?
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My argument is that Wikipedia has more transparency and a lower burn rate than JSTOR. Also, I would accept the Internet Archive as a feasible repository for the data in question vs JSTOR.
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How much does Wikipedia charge me to make a copy of an article? What is Wikipedia's annual burn rate?
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Put it on the side; I think its more natural to pull right or left to "unravel" the eink surface than pulling it up or down.
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Apparently so: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=roflstomp
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Awesome! Let me know how it works out!
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SparkleShare ( http://sparkleshare.org/ ) uses Github to replicate Dropbox functionality; could you use the SparkleShare client on your designer's workstation so that when assets are created/updated/s…
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Thanks Josh!
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IMS?
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24/7 support of complex infrastructure? That's always going to be expensive :)
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Ok, please for god sakes don't think I'm here to toot my own horn, but I'm this person you described. I just want to contribute to the discussion. It's hard sometimes; sometimes its killing you inside…
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Give it time. It took them a bit to hire the Stanford team who won the DARPA self-driving vehicle contest after it was done.
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As promised, I'm back with an update! After thinking long and hard about it, I agree with your premise. Kids should be compatible with the activities I still want to do in my lifetime. Thanks for th…
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I have to drive for the next 2 hours, but I'm going to think about your comment quite a bit. I'll get back to you on this.
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Antartica. Working for the DPW (Dept of Public Works) at Burning Man one year. Zero-gravity flights. Wing-suit skydiving. Living in Amsterdam for a year. This is just a short chunk of things copied fr…
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This is where I'm at now. My wife and I were married when I was 25 and she was 23. I just turned 30, and while back then I was all about having children, I'd like to put it off as I still have a lot o…
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You miss the point; AWS staff say its something they're working on. For two years. Either say you're not doing it or commit to doing it. Don't drag it out. Its a somewhat pathetic way to respond to cu…
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Really? Because Twilio seems to handle it just fine. Charge card when balance falls below certain balance, and you can't get the funds back without a really good reason. You know, just like Amazon g…
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Great work guys! Now can we work on functionality to prepay for AWS services? ;) https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=51931 …
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10 people; 4 people on the actual sysadmin/operations side, 6 people who managed the higher application layer for the distributed filesystem, job management, etc. If you're just talking the spinning d…
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No offense, but I used to work at a DoE lab on data-taking from the Large Hadron Collider CMS detector. It's not as expensive as you'd think. We were dealing with hundreds of petabytes of data, and cu…
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So work with eyeball networks and move your gear to the edge; dumping it all in AWS and hoping for the best is failing (at best). Do all the auth/billing/recommendations/transcoding in AWS, and push a…
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Assumption: Your business uses Amazon's EBS (because heh, you need to store your data somewhere between EC2 instance reboots/creation/destruction). EBS is down. What do you do? Hope AWS engineers ge…
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Netflix: Spitting out 1 of 120 different encoded version of a video to a client device after its been authenticated. So, you've got an authentication layer, which can pass a token to the browser or p…
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You'd think Netflix would learn by now to move back to their own gear. EDIT: Downvote away; its practically dogma on HN to use AWS. How much downtime are people willing to tolerate for a "superior" te…
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Agreed; I'm referring more to the comic book narrative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man#Fictional_character_bi... …
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Iron Man is by definition what a heroic engineer is (with a lot of sex and addiction issues along the way).