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I've never used TAMR, but how about https://github.com/Netflix/metacat?

I sort of wanted them (NPR) to say "but how can you have a driveway moment on transit?". Listening to NPR is one of the very few redeeming features of driving to work.

For the Wizard of Earthsea books, there's an afterword (at least in the later editions I have around the house) where she says she just sketched out the map first even before any characters, and filled it in with the stories as she went.

(How many more stories would she have written in that world? I wonder)

Also: collection to her maps

http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Maps/Index.html

as well.

Not just in Terminal, but chip and tap in general:

https://squareup.com/us/en/press/square-makes-payments-even-...

MCOM (later Netscape) and NCSA were definitely not on friendly terms. There was a lawsuit against MCOM at which point they changed their name.

I was wondering how the arctic melt changes our view on the northwest passage. Was it really ice-free enough in human memory such that it could have been a myth?

My wife's dad is 80 and has been programming for work (and play) since he was 26-ish (1965). Good stories.

so much this, and it's repeated over and over ...and over in the book.

I think Tesla is a great example of toy-first strategy. The roadster is comically niche. But: the electric drive train is super torquey so makes a great sports car, it's not an every day car so the lack of charging infrastructure is less critical, nor would the inevitable reliability problems dissuade that use, quite a few investors were Roadster owners first.

let ye who test all your logging strings cast the first stone

HDF too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_Data_Format

Maybe they don't want the scrutiny, sure, but do seem to need funds.

Airbnb last raised money through equity in March:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/airbnb/funding-round...

Uber last raised money through equity last June

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/uber/funding-rounds

(but has taken on other financing since then).

literally a bug! Also, I enjoyed the beta announcement title: CockroachDB skitters into Beta.

Good work y'all! I hope Cockroach Labs continued success!

The PR mentions he'll continue to serve on the LinkedIn executive team, so does that mean he'll continue to be based in MV? That'll be quite a change! (and challenge for him, I assume).

It did, but it was totally a toy (since it lacked any authentication of its own). We'd occasionally turn it on in the middle of the night and drop a can behind someone hacking away!

the port number was a gag, also used to illustrate sessions we did on assigned-numbers and service discovery.

Does the coke machine take the swipes from the i-card(I think that's what the id cards are called) like the old one?

That doesn't make any sense, no. Instead, they skip the secure element and transmit something non-standard (...by buying a bank and routing those through that, essentially acting as a proxy to the card networks?):

http://secureidnews.com/news-item/host-card-emulation-enable...

Note that maximum-awesome is for/by the vim crowd -- who could not care less about Ctrl-A being move-beginning-of-line but do want continuity with screen's prefix-key.

Also the inestimable pharkmillups, if I correctly read riak-users circa 24 Jan.

wonkblog covered this recently: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/27/r...

A friend of mine got hung up by a vendor because the friend said they were being ``asinine''. (No, it wasn't because they offended at being called stupid, but rather they thought it was a naughty, posterior related word...) Good times.

The idea of scaling probabilities (by 10^6) misses the point. Log scales are better at revealing orders of magnitude! How about dbMorts instead?

Mark, does CS fulfill the role Luwak formerly did? What's better and/or different about CS vs Luwak?

Q. When does Microsoft announce the acquisition?

It could be that the techie tendency to not be able to put them(our?)selves in others' shoes makes this kind of communication much more difficult.

I have to agree that the reporting was really unclear if the ask was to forgo unvested options, forgo unexercised but vested options, or give back stock from already vested options. I assume it's the unvested options under consideration, since the latter two seem impossible.

Then I've seen no discussion of AMT anywhere. Say you have vested but exercised options but for currently illiquid stock, and that someone threatens you with dismissal. You can exercise but then owe a bunch on AMT that you might not have the resources to cover. Does that make you more likely to go along?

This makes it seem like an even more hardball move to me.

SCPD is generally aimed at people with training budget money to spend that need some kind of certificate to show for it. There are a few more (Stanford Advanced Project Management some in financial engineering and risk management, some in bio engineering, IIRC).

The OpenCourseWare classes, which have a lot of spiritual overlap and more delivery system lap with SCPD, are aimed at everyone else.

Oh, the SCPD GPA requirement is not particularly strict, it seems, if you have a professional background in the area or a degree from ``top tier'' school or such. They just don't want to let anyone in who will reflect particularly poorly. (Which you might argue the corporate orientation defeats, but that's a different argument entirely.)

"Error establishing a database connection". heh.

I took those via HCP (which is like SEE but for 3x the usual grad student rate) and he's a great teacher. He's not one to let his smarts get in the way of teaching, which is not true of all the professors at Stanford.