turbodog

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by turbodog 15y ago
What are "womens degrees"?
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by turbodog 15y ago
As I understand subsidized vs. unsubsidized, yes it is. I can buy the phone without entering into a contract. I can terminate service with VM after 30 days. I can sell the phone to someone else who can choose to buy service from VM or not.
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by turbodog 15y ago
I have the Virgin Mobile LG Optima V, which is $150 now and goes on sale for less periodically. That's $150 unsubsidized and with a month-to-month, no contract plan. It's not the greatest phone in the world but I'm largely satisfied with co
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by turbodog 15y ago
Don't be obtuse. A PhD means you've done research towards improving the ability to educate others.
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by turbodog 15y ago
I disagree, at least in the startup case. In my experience, unless you know the person very well and they have demonstrated that they can deliver what they need to, you're only adding extra headache for yourself. If someone's work is drifti
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by turbodog 15y ago
Maybe they are expecting something more than a worker who can keep in sync with others? If the very small team is the whole company, they may be expecting someone they can brainstorm with at random times without having to get you on Skype.
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by turbodog 15y ago
Paragraph 3 of TFA: That story appears in Mitnick's new memoir, Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker.
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by turbodog 15y ago
Here's a direct link to the PDF: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.arp0015a/Ra...
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by turbodog 15y ago
No, a great team with a lot smarts for using mobile location data for new and creative uses scores $350k.
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by turbodog 15y ago
Nice! I really appreciate the tone of Tim's post in that it acknowledges both the strengths and weaknesses of NOSQL in general and of Cloudant Search in particular in an honest manner.
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by turbodog 15y ago
In Stonebraker’s opinion, “old SQL (as he calls it) is good for nothing” and needs to be “sent to the home for retired software.” After all, he explained, SQL was created decades ago before the web, mobile devices and sensors forever chang
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by turbodog 15y ago
Just get them into the App Store quick before Apple adds them to iOS 5.x or 6.
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by turbodog 15y ago
So I'm supposed to use the NYT's custom API to get articles when RSS has, for years, provided a "general" method for me to do the same thing for not only the NYT but millions of other sources?
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Seven Secrets to Netflix’s Success(gigaom.com)
10 points by turbodog 15y ago|4 comments
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by turbodog 15y ago
Um, no. These people were disappeared: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rettig_Report Apparently her blog was only moved. Inconvenient, yes. Gross human rights violation, no. See also: comparing yourself to Rosa Parks.
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by turbodog 15y ago
"Democrats and advocates of civil rights are using the media to further an agenda". The agenda that America's long record of comparing African-Americans to apes or monkeys, ie sub-human brutes unlike real, white Americans, isn't OK? How ter
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by turbodog 15y ago
Do notice that a MeFite correctly called him on this way upthread. I don't think the mods got involved until Adams outed himself. http://www.metafilter.com/102472/How-to-Get-a-Real-Education...
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by turbodog 15y ago
The museum is awesome. It's amazing what you can accumulate if you put your mind to it and have a ton of money to back up your intentions. They were hoping to get one of the space shuttles, but that didn't work out. Seattle's Museum of Flig
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by turbodog 15y ago
From http://code.google.com/p/cityhash/source/browse/trunk/src/ci... // WARNING: This code has not been tested on big-endian platforms! // It is known to work well on little-endian platforms that have a small penalty // for unaligned read
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Open Source at Google: Introducing CityHash(google-opensource.blogspot.com)
78 points by turbodog 15y ago|16 comments
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by turbodog 15y ago
http://joeloncoal.com/
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by turbodog 15y ago
http://www.rdtn.org/
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by turbodog 16y ago
I also have the VM Optimus V and the main issue I see is losing data connectivity occasionally then the phone not being able to get back onto the data network. However, turning airplane mode on then off usually gets things working again.
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by turbodog 16y ago
Yes, you can use WiFi only without ever activating it or paying VM. I did it myself: http://blog.gerundinganimal.com/2011/01/cheap-wifi-only-andr...
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by turbodog 16y ago
VM USA is owned by Sprint, so you get the same coverage as a Sprint customer minus the ability to roam off Sprint's network.
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by turbodog 16y ago
I got mine at Target this past weekend. Call ahead and they can put one on hold for you if it's in stock.
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by turbodog 16y ago
I have this phone and have no complaints so far. It's not a high-end phone, but the display is nice and performance is snappier than my old G1. What wasn't mentioned in the article is that you can use this phone with WiFi only and no plan i
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by turbodog 16y ago
Is cloud storage the factor that is driving companies to AWS? I'm sure that's huge for NetFlix, but they are an outlier. My bet would be on EC2 usage as being a better growth metric.
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by turbodog 16y ago
It would be more useful if the state diagram page displayed the original regex.
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by turbodog 16y ago
I'm the maintainer of the project and it's homepage is http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/

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