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bogrollben··on Software Engineer Like Qualities
To me, this list describes a unicorn. Not surprising since the list was generated from job descriptions. These are desired software dev qualities, not actual observed ones.
bogrollben··on Doom Rendered via Checkboxes
this is gold
bogrollben··on The Carrington Event: not something to worry about (2020)
The fact that Texas crashed so severely over snow this year makes me think all bets are off with another Carrington Event that could potentially impact an entire continent.
bogrollben··on Facebook Q3 2020
The $39.6 per US/CA user is per quarter, correct?
bogrollben··on Did rookie robinhood trader commit suicide because of bad UI?
OP here: Not meaning to be inflammatory by this post, but I can't help thinking part of the blame for this should be on Robinhood.
bogrollben··on Unusual, evidence-based ways to get better at a new language
It's called a "quiet time". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_Time
bogrollben··on Intention to fine Marriott more than £99M under GDPR for data breach
Key part of the article is that the data breach occurred 2 years PRIOR to the acquisition. How can due diligence possibly discover this? Seems like government overreach to me.
bogrollben··on Pregnancy alters woman's brain 'for at least two years'
Whereas the child itself alters the brain for the rest of your life.
bogrollben··on Ultra-Thin Skin Sensor Can Tell How Fast Your Blood Is Pumping
I saw this tech presented at Compute Midwest (KC) a week ago and it was mind-blowing. It can do amazing things, including serving as a true EKG. The article seems to focus more on the blood speed measurement, perhaps because that's one of the more novel abilities of the device, but to answer the core of your question - it can already relay EKG-quality statistics about a potential heart condition.

Another exciting capability (IMO) was that they've also experimented using the sensor to emit specifically-tuned electrical pulses from the sensor into your skin, basically triggering a haptic response. So a haptic suit with VR goggles is now in the realm of possibility.

bogrollben··on Ask HN: I need to transfer 10TB of Data across Pacific
Mail it to me at the hacker house in Kansas City. We do uploads for people all the time using Google Fiber. Probably take a few hours (YMMV). Google Homes for Hackers. My cell is right there on the site.
bogrollben··on What’s the best way to spend $20K to help the common good?
Give it to Charity:Water or Water.org. Save lives, prevent disease, 4x economic multiple return on investment.
bogrollben··on Amazon Dash Button
Just don't put it where your kids can reach it.
bogrollben··on MICA – Intel Smart Bracelet
"Discrete" should be "Discreet".
bogrollben··on What's New in C# 6.0 [video]
yeah that happened to me on Chrome. Try IE.
bogrollben··on Ask HN: What's your best startup idea that you're not going to pursue?
I started a site just for ideas like this, mostly for hackathons: http://www.freeideas.co
bogrollben··on A $650M Donation for Psychiatric Research
ok, ok I'll take the bait...

That's crazy!

bogrollben··on Uncharged phones, laptops to be banned on US-bound flights
Tomorrow's headlines: Passengers forced to crap in a bag to prove they aren't hiding explosives.
bogrollben··on The Curse of Smart People
Finally: an article that makes me glad I'm not smart.
bogrollben··on AMC Theaters to go public using Social IPO Platform Loyal3
OP here. I just received this email as a Stubs member of AMC Theaters. The link embedded in the email goes to: https://ipo.loyal3.com/amc
bogrollben··on Wow. I really didn't expect that to work
So why are you just sitting there? Endorse it already! :)
bogrollben··on Use Google Analytics on your blog? Check your bounce rate
Just my opinion here but I think this is a bad idea. You'd have to research to make sure that your hack isn't also artificially inflating the number of pageviews, increasing the pages / visit and artificially deflating the Avg Visit Duration. By screwing with one metric, you're probably affecting several others.

Better to just leave it as is and do a better job interpreting the data. If you run a blog, you're simply going to have a high bounce rate. But as long as your avg visit time is still high, you can interpret the data in a positive way and effectively ignore the bounces.

bogrollben··on Send money with Gmail
Dwolla killa?
bogrollben··on The Onion releases fartscroll.js
My visit duration to the fartscroll page was increased by about 1000% because of this plugin.

I normally would have clicked away long ago, but now I find myself wanting to just leave it open in a side tab all day long.

bogrollben··on Bing doesn't support SSL
Stackify created this exact thing after the last time this happened with MS Azure about 2 months ago. It's called certalert.me (http://certalert.me) and is a free service.

It's not a huge business, but it was almost trivial to setup with all the advanced monitoring & diagnostics that stackify typically does anyway.

bogrollben··on Fertilizer Plant Explodes in Waco, TX
Live video of the explosion. Watch the 0:29 second mark. http://www.kwkt.com/news/caught-camera-fertilizer-plant-expl...
bogrollben··on Fertilizer Plant Explodes in Waco, TX
I thought this was a nuclear explosion at first:

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaker/status/324705609314340867/ph...

bogrollben··on Dwolla founder Ben Milne - Empowering A New Transaction: The Future Of Money
It's simply ridiculous that ACH takes as long as it does in the US. I have a friend who works at the Federal Reserve Bank in KC who admits the same.

It's about time someone like Dwolla disrupted the industry.

bogrollben··on Email-First Startups
This reminds me of this article I read a month ago: The Most Underrated Digital Marketing Tactics. http://www.digiday.com/brands/the-most-underrated-digital-ma...

Surprisingly: 2 of the 6 marketing directors interviewed said "Email" was the most underrated technique.

There could be something to this email-first idea.

bogrollben··on Windows Azure Storage certificate expired?
Don't worry - they found the guy that did it: http://memegenerator.net/instance/35258710
bogrollben··on The Disruption Institute unveils a Google Fiber idea scholarship
Big Kudos to KCITP doing this for KC!
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