ben_pr

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by ben_pr 9y ago
> but I dream of the day when I can carry my whole computer in my pocket and be able to use it anywhere. Have you tried the compute stick[1]? http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/compute-stick/i
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by ben_pr 9y ago
I'm looking forward to my first project with GO. It appears to offer a lot with minimal complexity. > Because Go has so little magic, I think this was easier than it would have been in other languages. You don’t have the magic that
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by ben_pr 9y ago
I see that JavaScript has it's place in the browser but the whole back-end thing scares me. The ugly code (callbacks, etc), npm injecting only God knows what into your back-end servers, tons of work-arounds for trying to make JS not s
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by ben_pr 10y ago
I just changed a refrigerator, stove is basically dead, both 8 years old, Whirlpool brand. My Mom is still using the same appliances from when I was a kid. Nearly every family member I have says the same thing, new stuff lasts about 8 - 1
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by ben_pr 10y ago
I'm a little shocked at this decision. The issues faced are all solved problems from PB storage to HA on server clusters even across Data centers. Good solutions do have upfront costs but the math that cloud hosting is 5-10X more than
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by ben_pr 10y ago
A few years ago Bluecross Blueshield in Chattanooga would hire almost anyone that wanted to learn Cobol and train them, I have a friend that got in on this. I also have a relative making insane amounts of $ as a Cobol developer, but honest
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by ben_pr 10y ago
One of the best hires I ever had was someone that was 50+ about 10+ years ago. He didn't have a technical background but wanted to be a programmer. It was a big risk but in two years time he became my top developer out performing tho
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by ben_pr 10y ago
I used to use OVH and most of the time their stuff works but when it doesn't there is very little chance of their tech support figuring out what the problem is and fixing it. They basically deny anything is on their side and you reall
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by ben_pr 10y ago
I use nomachine, works on Linux and Windows. I have a VPN installed at all locations and the software runs behind that.
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by ben_pr 10y ago
Having worked with Phone Systems for call centers and financial services for more than a decade I found this very useful. Interesting uses: You want to use sentiment analysis to automatically pinpoint calls with angry customers and bridge i
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Introducing Twilio Add-ons(twilio.com)
2 points by ben_pr 10y ago|1 comments
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What the Mark of the Beast Taught Me About the Future of Money(buzzfeed.com)
38 points by ben_pr 10y ago|42 comments
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by ben_pr 10y ago
Hmm, kinda odd. Not sure if you are comparing this to Chrome, Safari or Edge but with those you have a lot less control over the start/speed-dial page. Use the gear icon in the upper right to edit nearly everything on the speed dial p
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HN, How did this happen?(hn.algolia.com)
1 points by ben_pr 10y ago|3 comments
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Bangladesh Bank exposed to hackers by cheap switches, no firewall: police(reuters.com)
2 points by ben_pr 10y ago|0 comments
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An AA sized ISM radio Arduino clone(github.com)
3 points by ben_pr 10y ago|0 comments
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by ben_pr 10y ago
What Payment Gateway are you using? If I'm not mistaken this qualifies as a micro payment (< $5) and the transactions fees can be rather high on a $2 purchase.
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by ben_pr 10y ago
I have hired two to three dozen developers over the last 15 years for a fairly boring developer job (finance) in a very big city (Atlanta). Here are a few tips I had for making candidates feel comfortable. 1. Find out as much about them a
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by ben_pr 10y ago
The shocking part is the number of times: "This should never happen": 823,044 This should never happen: 16,946,357 vs. "This is screwed up": 59 This is screwed up: 876,393
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by ben_pr 11y ago
I had both, the MMR and measles. Clearly the shot didn't work and nearly killed me and so did the measles. Yes a small chance but when you are in that small percentage it really stinks.
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by ben_pr 11y ago
I nearly died from an MMR shot. I didn't read the linked doc but I can assure you people can die or have very serious complications from the MMR shot.
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This tree produces 40 different types of fruit(sciencealert.com)
2 points by ben_pr 11y ago|0 comments
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by ben_pr 11y ago
After seeing the title I assumed the verdict would be that MS SQL is way better. If I wrote a comparison that's how the result would end up. I've used MS SQL from 1998 and PostgreSQL from 2001 and have found MS SQL much easier to
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by ben_pr 11y ago
Timeless Lesson learned: The Dymaxion story cautions against falling in love with your own engineering, no matter how smart you are.
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Back to the future of automobiles(marketwatch.com)
2 points by ben_pr 11y ago|1 comments
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by ben_pr 11y ago
Nice work! I'll have to explore a bit more.
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by ben_pr 11y ago
6/ Amazon Cloud 7/ Younited (use this if you care about security)
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by ben_pr 11y ago
I use godaddy for personal test stuff. Cheapest place i've found and really simple. In general i'm not a godaddy fan.
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by ben_pr 11y ago
Looks nice overall. I have a hard time reading the light green on grey or white background. Not sure if it's possible to improve the contrast without wrecking your color scheme.
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by ben_pr 11y ago
Very nice! I was looking for something like this a year or two ago, on my next lua/web project I'll try it out.

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