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codefreakxffon Fecal Transplant Is Linked to a Patient’s Death, the F.D.A. Warns

That’s a grossly misleading title (no pun intended?)

The article clearly states that it has ordered fecal donor material be tested before being transplanted.

Saying “halts clinical trials” implies they are no longer allowed, which is not true.

I can’t imagine who decided to transplant untested fecal matter...

codefreakxffon Ask HN: What tools do you use for note-taking, progress tracking and TODO lists?

Dropbox Paper. Excels at combining notes and todo lists with assignment and due dates. Easy markdown editing, code blocks, embedded content

codefreakxffon Why GitHub Won't Help with Hiring

I don't want to get into a comment war here. Let's just say I respectfully disagree that there is plenty of facts and data, and that what facts and data are there area really more of an opinion with thin data that seems to violate the new guidelines that are being brought up to say that my comment is out of place. In my opinion the author has gone out of his way to cherry pick data to support his claim and has not put effort into finding data that would prove him wrong.

codefreakxffon Why GitHub Won't Help with Hiring

Well, it is an honest question. And I don't think it is uncharitable at all. The premise of the article is that github does not help with interviews but it doesn't really provide facts to back that up.

codefreakxffon Why GitHub Won't Help with Hiring

Why are we reading this post?

"I've only had one job interview in the last decade or so, but as far as I could tell none of the people interviewing me checked out my GitHub profile before the interview"

So that makes this guy an expert?

codefreakxffon Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

Why is everyone critiquing headlines?

The essence is that RedHat bought CoreOS. I didn't realize HN was a place people expected to see purchase prices in headlines.

codefreakxffon Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

my two cents: "Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS" is fact "Expanding its Kubernetes and Containers Leadership" is hyperbole

codefreakxffon Nvidia press conference live at CES 2018

For those not patient to wait for the official YouTube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AGHwSJ9-9o

codefreakxffon Additional JFK Assassination Documents Released

Trump has nothing to do with this. The records were sealed and scheduled to be released today a long, long time ago. There is no political agenda.

waves hand

Move along.

codefreakxffon Django vs. Flask

Nov 2016 https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/how-we-switched-ou...

codefreakxffon Differentiating laptops: How about a decent keyboard? (2015)

I don't normally comment, but this author and I strongly disagree on the ideal keyboard on almost .every. .single. .point., in fact there is no need to enumerate them because I disagree with all of them.

But, the most glaring problem is the idealized keyboard for a laptop being one with a 10 key area. When you sit down at a desktop you can position the external keyboard to center the G/H keys in the middle of your monitor and type comfortably. If you shift the G/H to the left it makes you move your arms to the left for 99.9999% of your typing - unless you still do 10-key data entry for some reason.

The second overall problem I have is the idea that you need dozens of keys that are not essential to the function of your ability to TYPE on the laptop. Sure, you could have a button to disable the wireless on your laptop - but this is exactly the kind of key that SHOULDN'T be on a laptop. I have had to "fix" so many laptops by re-pressing the wireless toggle key that I have been tempted to physically break the key.

I'm only ranting here just incase any keyboard designers think this article has any merit and tries to design a laptop-keyboard-from-hell like this.

Just don't.

codefreakxffon Google and Red Hat announce cloud-based scalable file servers

opensource glusterfs 3.7.6

Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS 3.13.0-24-generic g

read heavy with a mix of 100MB or 15GB files depending on datasets

codefreakxffon Google and Red Hat announce cloud-based scalable file servers

I feel compelled to write a disagreement. I've been running GlusterFS for 6 months with 15TB of data on a 43TB cluster using 5 servers with zero issues. I have no idea what your particular combination of bad luck was, but I don't think your experience is truly reflective of the product, the team, or Red Hat's sensibilities.

codefreakxffon “My tires have RFID tags in them. Yours probably do also”

It really doesn't take very much creativity to abuse this system. How about a database of who bought each tire cross referenced to a monitoring strip in the road to see who is going where? How about that monitoring strip being in the entrance to every fast food joint, restaurant, store, mall, etc - now you can track drivers just like we track browsers. Since we have your name, we can cross reference your driving and browsing history.