jobenjo

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by jobenjo 8y ago
In the future, I hope there's a blood test to check for susceptibility... There is already talk of a gene that many people who get fluoroquinolone toxicity have in common.
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by jobenjo 8y ago
I had a single pill of levofloxin about three years ago (for pneumonia). I woke up the next day, barely able to walk, with mass tendonopathy (tendon loss) in my arms and legs. I did the research and found out the dangers immediately, but on
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by jobenjo 10y ago
As an "anti-fluoride person", I just want to go on the record to state that it's ridiculous to be more concerned with riling up a particular group than having safe drinking water. In fact, counter to common opinion, we have a
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by jobenjo 11y ago
All these physics-debunking conversations seem to assume a single source. I naively assumed that UBeam will work sort of like the Gamma Knife ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosurgery#Gamma_Knife ), where there are ma
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by jobenjo 12y ago
Well said, Josh. It's about constant iteration and improvement.
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by jobenjo 12y ago
Likewise. It amazes me how long it's lasted. I agree with your sentiment about famous people. It feels really generic. I'm sure there's something better. We tested lots of interest-based versions, but they also underperformed
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by jobenjo 12y ago
I wrote this flow about 3 years, ago, and my face is still the Twitter teacher (see twitter.com/finkel). I haven't worked at Twitter for over a year. A few things. At least when I wrote it, the very first step you'd see the f
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Primo: the beautiful, colorful, mathematical board game(kickstarter.com)
17 points by jobenjo 12y ago|5 comments
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by jobenjo 13y ago
Love this essay. I read it years ago when my brother was working with Paul Lockhart, who deeply influenced him as a math teacher. My brother and his wife have since started an organization called Math For Love ( http://www.mathfor
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by jobenjo 14y ago
That's a great solution, actually. Think of it more like a credit card processing fee.
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by jobenjo 16y ago
Anyone tried snapixel? http://www.snapixel.com/ Looks like it could be a decent Flickr alternative.
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by jobenjo 16y ago
What card is that? (Just curious--sounds like a great deal).
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by jobenjo 16y ago
I've been happy with Backblaze. Good cpu usage, and I restored files easily with a nice web interface. I switched from Mozy because the client was much more efficient. If you're looking at Mozy and Carbonite, definitely check out Backblaze.
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by jobenjo 16y ago
I agree that this is a crap study, but I still wouldn't be quite so dismissive of any possible effects of WiFi just because it is so low energy. Why? Because the assumption that everyone makes here is that the only cause of this damage is f
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by jobenjo 16y ago
San Francisco, CA Fluther.com is looking for an new designer and a server engineer. We're in the mission, and we love darts. jobs@fluther.com
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by jobenjo 16y ago
After a long stint with Vim (and a brief one with eclipse), I too have been using Komodo Edit. The vim bindings are good. The app is OS X is fine. (Though I had to hack the source to make the "Go To file" not look in the history, which was
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Why Stack Exchange Didn't Work(blog.fluther.com)
6 points by jobenjo 16y ago|0 comments
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by jobenjo 16y ago
Fluther ( http://www.fluther.com )
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by jobenjo 16y ago
We've been using bazaar at Fluther for a while and I have to agree with the author's sentiment for the most part. The whole "Git is better" thing annoys me. Dvcs _are_ better, but I think it's mostly a wash between bzr, hg, and git. Yes, bz
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by jobenjo 17y ago
We've been using a different nagios alternative, zabbix, for quite a while and I'm always surprised how few people have heard of it. The UI takes getting used to, but it's full featured and dependable.
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by jobenjo 17y ago
Thanks, jimmybot. Yeah, something tailored would definitely be better. Google custom search is pretty weak, but it gets the job done for our users until we find the time to improve. We'll probably switch to lucene or solr (with some secret
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by jobenjo 17y ago
- We've been matching questions using an a sophisticated algorithm since before Aardvark launched. - We've been using real-time interaction also for years, and more recently added IM notification and chat (not saying I don't think parts of
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by jobenjo 17y ago
I agree with you about the Q&A wars shaping up, but I think you should include Fluther, which falls smack dab in the middle of this fray. It's also worth noting there are a number of other large incumbents like WikiAnswers (which is now
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by jobenjo 17y ago
Yeah, I tried to address that in the end of the post. You'll notice links to two other site's data where the chunking is present but not nearly enough to make a horseshoe. Without Google's chunking it would look different. but it actually m
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The Horseshoe of Loyalty - How sticky is your traffic?(blog.fluther.com)
14 points by jobenjo 17y ago|2 comments
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by jobenjo 17y ago
Well done. I've been craving this kind of tool forever. All the previous implementations I've seen failed by having stale data. If you can solve that, this will be a hit.
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by jobenjo 17y ago
Fluther.com is looking to hire someone with backend/architecture/database/python experience. (You will be employee #2). jobs@fluther.com
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by jobenjo 17y ago
Any way I can do this in Django? (Or--how hard is this to do by hand?). Seems really promising.
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by jobenjo 17y ago
We've been using MogileFS for the last few years to host all our avatars. It's fast and powerful, and has had very few issues. It's definitely a solid system, though was certainly overkill for our needs (if I could do it again, I would just
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by jobenjo 17y ago
I was just thinking about this. Slicehost hasn't changed their prices in the 3ish years we've been with them, but the price of computers and memory has dropped considerably. As their profit margin expands, I hope Slicehost will lower their

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