alsothings

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Agile, etc.(medium.com)
1 points by alsothings 11y ago|0 comments
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Containers Don’t Solve Infrastructure(shoreditchworks.com)
5 points by alsothings 12y ago|2 comments
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by alsothings 12y ago
First thought: Why are there no references anywhere? Second thought: Must be because it's so difficult to put links in a webpage.
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by alsothings 12y ago
this was my first thought and it's driving me nuts. It's just a bunch of floating assertions.
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Machines: Global Village Construction Set(opensourceecology.org)
2 points by alsothings 12y ago|0 comments
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by alsothings 13y ago
USB was defacto standard for data transfer, especially on PCs, but the /connector/ on the phone side was not at all standards compliant or uniform across makes and models, and up until the passage of that law, it wasn't uncom
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by alsothings 13y ago
CANBUS +1. Would love to nudge the ardunio-ish end of the IoT community in that direction.
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by alsothings 13y ago
I find it notable that this article entirely ignores the EU's Common Electrical Power Supply law ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_External_Power_Supply ), which effectively mandated that all smart phones sold i
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Is healthcare.gov really 500 million lines?(talkingpointsmemo.com)
10 points by alsothings 13y ago|14 comments
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by alsothings 13y ago
possible, I'm much less sure about my use of passed versus past here then the use of which instead of that in the title. That said, I had thought 'get' did not indicate motion across the sentence here 'passed' did,
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by alsothings 13y ago
I thought you were right for a second, but I'm fairly certain that 'passed' is what I meant. It's the past tense of pass, and thus the correct word. see http://www.grammar-monster.com/easily_confused&#x2F
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by alsothings 13y ago
I cannot get passed the title. Unless the only cold emails the author sent were the ones that got the meetings, s/which/that. (Actually I did read the article, and in it she says "cold emails produced 7 meetings at Twitter, K
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by alsothings 13y ago
“The raw height data is stored in metres and must be scaled down to fit within the 256 block height limit in Minecraft. A maximum height of 2 500 metres was chosen, which means Ben Nevis, appears just over 128 blocks high. “Although this ex
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by alsothings 13y ago
I mean, this http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/the-re... was not comedy and it happend all of a few days ago.
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Obama’s ‘outside experts’ for NSA review are former intel and WH staffers(washingtonpost.com)
17 points by alsothings 13y ago|0 comments
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by alsothings 13y ago
tl;dr - nothing on the web is private.
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The Thing I Didn't Build(tomscott.com)
18 points by alsothings 13y ago|6 comments
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How to trap a whistleblower(salon.com)
289 points by alsothings 13y ago|113 comments
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by alsothings 13y ago
It's perhaps worth mentioning that there's a pro-cyclist campaign around this issue that's been going for a few years (full disclosure, I have one of their jerseys) http://ipayroadtax.com/
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by alsothings 13y ago
I believe this headline is a very clear example of Betteridge's law of headlines[1], since the answer is 'No'. I'll also just add that road surface wear and tear is to a significant extent and function of vehicle weight.
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by alsothings 13y ago
A bit of context, these bins tracked wifi enabled devices as they passed by for various targeted marketing things. http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/londons-smart-bins-track-4m-...
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City of London Bans 'Smart' Trash Cans(techcitynews.com)
1 points by alsothings 13y ago|1 comments
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by alsothings 13y ago
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5933422
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by alsothings 13y ago
Is it meant to be an amalgam of 'solution' and '-ify'? Can you differentiate between other similar already in use terms like 'yak shaving' http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving or &#x2
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One of the worst patents ever just got upheld in court(washingtonpost.com)
192 points by alsothings 13y ago|109 comments
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Controlled by Guns: This is about Defense Distributed’s plastic gun.(medium.com)
1 points by alsothings 13y ago|0 comments
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The Abstracted Negroni(aanandprasad.com)
5 points by alsothings 13y ago|0 comments
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The Economics of Evil Google(krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by alsothings 13y ago|0 comments
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On PyCon2013 and Equality(griffin.oobleyboo.com)
1 points by alsothings 14y ago|0 comments

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