joev

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by joev 15y ago
My (former) home network backup solution had a truecrypt volume created locally, and rsync'ed to my offsite backup provider (rsync.net). It did not have to send the entire volume for small diffs; in my experience, Truecrypt keeps local cha
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by joev 15y ago
That's not what the "Entrepenurial Walk of Fame" sitting in front of the Kendall Square Marriott says. http://boston.tumblr.com/post/10274370791
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by joev 15y ago
This. Please, somebody, take my money!
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by joev 15y ago
Buildings also need to be maintained and retrofitted. Around here in Cambridge, there are countless residential and commercial buildings that were built before the days of electricity and air conditioning, and even plumbing in some cases.
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by joev 15y ago
David is spot on when it comes to the complexity of the documentation; it's great that it's exhaustive, but it would be nice to have the "here's how to use it" documentation near the "here's how to implement your own collection type" doc. A
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by joev 15y ago
TI calculators were toys for children. Real Engineers use HP! Lots of good memories with my HP-48G, until it got stolen just before I graduated.
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by joev 15y ago
Oblig: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/restaurant_website
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by joev 15y ago
It would be creepier if you put someone else's head on the doll.
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by joev 15y ago
That reminds me; the saison I've got going in the secondary needs to be bottled this weekend. (Didn't read the article)
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by joev 15y ago
Maybe we should stop kicking out the people from foreign countries with the advanced degrees they earn here.
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by joev 15y ago
They apparently care about a missing hockey puck. "[The] FBI's Regional Crimes Task Force in Chicago reviewed the Chicago police sergeant's video and determined with "100-percent certainty" that Miller picked up the puck." http://sports.es
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by joev 15y ago
The Data Liberation project is at least a token attempt to ward off accusations of Google lock-in: http://www.dataliberation.org/
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by joev 15y ago
It is interesting to see that Apple positions their retail employees more as an extension of their support and brand marketing operations, and less of a simple direct sales channel. Their employees seem to know a lot more about the product
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by joev 15y ago
This contributed to me "switching" to an Android phone, rather than upgrading to an iPhone 4. I had an iPhone 3G ( not the GS), that recently came out of contract (purchased 9/2009). The phone was working fine for me, I had no reason to
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by joev 15y ago
s/easier/less costly/
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by joev 15y ago
Coral cached version: http://www.loper-os.org.nyud.net/?p=401
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by joev 15y ago
Consider that Apple has neglected the non-Pro MacBook for quite a while: it still uses a Core 2 Duo processor, and the MacBook Pro line includes a small-form-factor 13" machine that uses the i5 and i7 chips. If this rumor has any legs, I ca
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by joev 15y ago
Agile development practices are at the point of their adoption cycles where the hype has died down, and the chaff has been thrown out. Organizations of all sizes have adopted agile practices, from small startups, to global megacorps, with
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by joev 15y ago
Cool. There are some classics in there. http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/articles/bstj2...
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by joev 15y ago
This joke is now old enough to drink in the US. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
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by joev 16y ago
I have high hopes for this series; I really enjoyed Peter Michaux's "Scheme from Scratch" series, from which the author says gained inspiration for his series: http://peter.michaux.ca/articles/scheme-from-scratch-introdu...
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by joev 16y ago
I would argue that avoiding vendor lock out is a major reason Open Software exists: with an OS database, nobody can tell you that you can no longer use the DB software unless you pay the proper licensing and maintenance fees. You'll be lo
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by joev 16y ago
The banks seem to have plenty of money sitting in their coffers to loan out. I've never heard of a (healthy) bank- even smaller neighborhood banks- run into trouble because the wealthy aren't stashing all their cash into their checking acc
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by joev 16y ago
The whole thing, from lathering to cleanup, takes me around 15 minutes. Many people can do it faster, but this gives me time to wake up.
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by joev 16y ago
The Futur, choice of Bill Adama! (Though most people think it looks like the Vision, I can't tell) Anyway, you can probably get started on the cheap if you have any living male relatives born before 1950. They probably have some old vinta
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by joev 16y ago
Take a look at the MIT Open Courseware math classes. These are particularly good when you're on the train. You can find them online on Youtube, iTunes U, or at their site: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/ Understanding calculus h
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by joev 17y ago
I agree with geebee. I generally buy new and drive it into the ground. I bought my current car new for $25k in 1998, and I can probably comfortably squeeze another year out of it, before expensive stuff starts to break. I'm in the market
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by joev 17y ago
One killer feature that the iPod had, was a very straightforward way to put the music you already had in "atom" form (CDs) into the device. Even now, Apple does not force you to use their infrastructure or retail establishment to add conte