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110,919karma·51,749submissions·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.
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And what if it doesn't offend them? Just because it offends you doesn't mean it should condemn them. Men like women. Men are, speaking factually, the extreme majority in the tech industry. Don't be sh…
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Tech population =! world population. To not recognize that the tech population is dominated by men is to put your head in the sand. I like to code, I like to look at scantily clad women, and I fully b…
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Thank you!!
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Has Linux cost more than Windows Core to build? In dollars or time?
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How can I go about publishing my own genetic data to the NIH GenBank sequence database? If I've already done genotyping with 23andme, is the raw data acceptable for submission?
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Let's assume it costs $5/month per instance of Office 2000-Whatever. It's really more than that with the MS ASP licensing, but let's use $5 for round number sake. Let's also assume they have 500K user…
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Why don't more Desktop as a Service organizations get together and refine LibreOffice to heavily compete against Microsoft? It clearly works; look at other open source solutions that are a collaborati…
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Based on non-persistant disk IO tests on an EC2 instance, yes, it appears you are getting a raw disk.
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The Cloud isn't infalible; doesn't solve all the problems like everyone says; news at 11. *Downvote if you have legitimate technical reason I'm wrong, not just because you throw a hissy fit that your …
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Makes sense to run 2U servers; more room for independent disks; no RAID, no redundancy, 1 disk per virtual machine "slice", so you don't have contention issues when someone else on the box tries to do…
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I'm already a Global Entry member and wasn't able to simply apply for this, but as you said, there is additional criteria to meet.
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Amazon also gets to subsidize their AWS business with their primary business: retail logistics. Organizations that do hosting as their primary business do not have this luxury.
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Could you not have used Cloudmine instead of a virtual machine slice to handle the email webhooks/content conversion?
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Perhaps they're using OpenCV: http://code.opencv.org/projects/OpenCV/wiki/WikiStart
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Feature Request: Designate a gesture to turn Flutter off.
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Once you guys have that down, take my money and I'll bolt an iMac to my wall.
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This.
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If it really bothered folks (like me), we could always just write our own interface using their public API.
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The Pirate Bay should commit all its magnet files to git; you then have a distributed, versioned hash library. Then, build a package that lets you seek out one of the repos, pull it, and integrate it …
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Agreed. Now I'd rather manage my files with my local OS file manager instead of Dropbox.com (vs before the design change).
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Volunteer positions? =)
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This makes me want to buy a bunch of AIS receivers and take a week or two off to travel to far flung locations to setup remote receiving locations. Nerd level: Extreme Bonus points that you cite Calcu…
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http://distraction.gov/research/PDF-Files/Comparison-of-Cell... "Using a cell phone while driving - whether it's hand-held or hands-free delays a driver's reactions as much as having a blood alcohol…
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Probably by preferring storage nodes on faster connections.
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Doesn't the current scan take 3-5 seconds, and then you have a wait upwards of 20-30 seconds to get the "all clear" from the TSA agent in front of you who was radioed from the agent viewing the body s…
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When the house is burning, some are dumb enough to pour gas on it.
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Although it could know what you paid for if it tied into your credit card statement with Yodlee and gave you some sort of points or reward system for doing so. Same system as Amazon's reviews and "Ama…
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Correct.
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What are the chances the TSA wouldn't select you for additional screening upon detecting any metal on your person going through a body scanner? Serious question, no snark intended.