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by firemanx 3y ago
I have a friend in the Seattle area who has been trying to find it even within an hours drive. Do you mind sharing where you found inventory?
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by firemanx 4y ago
Read the article, and many of the comments here. I have a hard time squaring a lot of the hard and fast rules against my own experience. Certainly one persons life can’t detract from large scale statistics. However, I have 6 children. They
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by firemanx 4y ago
I visited Japan for the first time a month ago, and basically followed this advice. Got lost in Tokyo. Well as lost as you can be considering Apple or Google Maps and SUICA are pretty much universal wherever I went. And cash. Didn’t speak t
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by firemanx 6y ago
This was mentioned in one of the other threads about this - but you can purchase XBox games outside the Microsoft Store platform just fine - Best Buy, Amazon, Walmart, even resell on eBay, and Microsoft doesn't take a cut. Apple does n
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by firemanx 7y ago
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by firemanx 11y ago
My wife had me buy her a poster this year which I have found to be particularly profound in a variety of life's situations. It says, simply "The grass is greener where you water it." We've since had it framed.
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Ask HN: How to enter the Chinese web market?
4 points by firemanx 11y ago|5 comments
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by firemanx 11y ago
> Building the era of custom tools just for your company, only to do specific jobs is long gone. Isn't that the biography of 99% of the open source projects in the big data and distributed processing world? I understand they are op
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by firemanx 12y ago
They can absolutely fine them, and if Yahoo's experience is any indication, fines for this kind of stuff are beyond what billions will cover: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/09
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by firemanx 12y ago
I was expressly hired at my current gig (re-startup) in Pioneer Square to migrate from an existing .NET solution to JVM on AWS with a heavy Cassandra component (all on Linux). I started a company up here some years ago and we opted for the
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by firemanx 13y ago
I'm 31. I was 25 when I got married, which was also the same year the company I co-founded hit the skids and eventually a brick wall. That first year was really rough on us (we started with 1 child and had another in the middle of tha
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by firemanx 13y ago
The University of Washington educates midwives alongside do tors and nurses: http://nursing.uw.edu/node/371 My wife's cousin is going through the program right now and will graduate with the equivalent of an MD. S
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by firemanx 13y ago
I live in central WA and pay $80 for 100mb symmetric. We have local public utility districts in the central counties of the state that are all interconnected by local fiber optic networks. It's pushed the price of internet access way,
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by firemanx 13y ago
That tweet would suggest to me that someone's credit card was stolen via another method and used to purchase Linode services, rather than the other way around. Ie, I don't think that was related to Linode breach.
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by firemanx 13y ago
I've visited China through Beijing and Hong Kong numerous times over the last couple years, and without a doubt the best way to do it is through a Visa intermediary such as travisa.com or A Briggs ( http://www.abriggs.com ). I've used othe
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by firemanx 14y ago
When I took a CPR class a few years back, we were told that the point of "Samaritan CPR" was really just to keep the person going until a first responder got there, but that the chances of survival past 5 or 10 minutes got increasingly low
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by firemanx 14y ago
I think the recent Rails, Java, RubyGems and other vulnerability issues have been an absolute boon to the industry. And not just for the increased business I think most security consultants are going to be seeing. The exploits have happene
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by firemanx 14y ago
I found Beijing to have poor air, but not nearly as bad as other places in China. Travel out west to Xi'an, and for much of the year it seems as though you can't even see the sky. I heard it told that living there is equivalent to smoking
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by firemanx 14y ago
We bought a Vizio 42 inch on sale last year for about $300, and it plays everything we've ever needed - Netflix, Amazon, Vudu, Hulu, YouTube, Pandora. It's definitely more expensive than a Roku, but did the trick. Come to think of it, the
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by firemanx 14y ago
That's an excellent point, though it's always interesting to me just how much many energy companies try to market to consumers, despite the optimal markets :)
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by firemanx 14y ago
Thanks for the reply, Danielle. We are indeed a battery-based system for now, though we aren't necessarily tied to that technology long term. We've focused on building a strength is in flexibility and ability to distribute storage wherever
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by firemanx 14y ago
To be fair - you end up having to make statements like that a lot in this industry. Like it or not, there have been some very large, high profile failures lately (Solyndra being one of the more prominent, but certainly not the first or las
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by firemanx 14y ago
I think there are many more players than you hear about, in this space. The company I work for builds distributed, large-scale energy storage (I work on the management and monitoring system that controls the "distributed" part), though we'
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by firemanx 14y ago
I work for a company that operates in the energy industry. We utilize both RDBMS and "NoSQL", both have their purposes that they fit in well. We store customer account and configuration data in Postgres, and use Cassandra to store time-se
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by firemanx 14y ago
Lessons I took away from the Mythical Man Month: Version 1: Get to market, prove your product, make a big mess Version 2: Make a ton of mistakes, screw everything up trying to clean up the mess but get sidetracked with all the great ideas y
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by firemanx 14y ago
People have been using scented fragrances to cover up both body odor and other odors for thousands of years. I don't believe they had advertising convincing them they smelled bad. Certainly, the idea of what smells "good" and "bad" is subj
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by firemanx 14y ago
I think it already delights users. Wikipedia is so absolutely content and hyperlink driven that it hardly needs much else. It's immense popularity and ubiquity is proof of that. I draw my delight not from some invasive graphics and UI wo
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by firemanx 14y ago
We use TeamCity and deploy right from our build server. We have a build configuration called "Deploy" that requires a couple parameters - the artifact to deploy, the environment to deploy to, and the build number (so we can deploy past bui
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by firemanx 14y ago
Echoing the above, I don't have timeline yet either. Does it have something to do with the age of the account, I wonder? I've been on FB since sometime in 2006.
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by firemanx 14y ago
How big are the flatfiles that you're storing in HDFS? I've looked at it before for such a use, but for durability I want to write events in an isolate manner, which means lots and lots of small writes, either to single files or as a serie

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