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Encourages co-habitation anyway.

No one should carry that much in cash ever.

This is important and often omitted information by journos.

They are paying now, in spades, for what they failed to pay for in security.

Makes Oracle's sqlplus command line usable... ;)

Great book. Named my Manx cat (with a 'bunny tail') Hazel-Rah. She's never forgiven me... ;)

Showing someone an order from Newegg is not the same as actually having any orders from Newegg… it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

This, exactly, is what works well in my experience after coding for 25 years.

While we're at it, let's give lawyers a lifetime word limit too...

I really do wish that the part of the money I pay Spotify that goes to royalties ONLY went to the artists I listened to...

If each radio spin at 347,820 spins hit 10,000 radio listeners average (a Denver hit station has about ~250,000 weekly listeners, a popular rush hour/drive time show with mixed talk/music format has ~80,000 listeners) , then the $53,000 was at a rate of 0.00001524 dollars per listener.

If Pandora paid that, his royalty would have been $582.55...

So it looks like the industry from a streaming point of view assumes about 20,000 radio listeners per play on the radio.

This might even average correctly across the US market.

Ummm, Oracle isn't competing with Slack, Oracle is paying Slack -- because Oracle is a Slack user... and Slack runs on AWS... ( https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/slack/ )

See the logos under "More companies who love Slack" on the page:

https://slack.com/customer-stories

Quite a lot -- I actually take notes after each read to remind myself what I thought of the book -- the very act of doing so strengthens recall very well, even if the notes are just a few sentences.

I've been tracking just my entertainment reading (fiction and nonfiction/history/biography etc) (not my tech book reading) on Goodreads the last four years, and I'm averaging just over 16,000 pages a year on entertainment reading... (the high point was over 18,000 a couple years ago, but I've decided to take some of my reading time and use that time to write music now) -- ~8000 pages every six months.

I usually read another 1000-1500 pages of tech reading on top of that every six months.

Certainly doable.

I'm pretty sure text like:

  ``quoted''

Is how you're supposed to write short quotes in the TeX/LaTeX typesetting system.

[edit: My point being that the author seems to think this type of quoting originated with X11... which is actually newer than TeX (X11 was first released in 1984), and that the prevalence of this type of quoting likely originated with TeX when it was released in 1978... which isn't mentioned at all in the article. In fact, since TeX/LaTeX is what all the CS, Physics, and Math types were using for journal articles, it is likely the X11 font bitmap glyphs were intentionally shaped like curly quotes to make editing your TeX source files prettier.

At least, that's how I remember it...]

I have to disagree specifically with health care costs... the way the system is structured, with the costs involved, decent healthcare for most sub 26 year olds would break them financially... because the healthcare system is broken, not because the young people are. As a parent with a 17 and 19 yr old, I'm happy I will be allowed to continue my children with decent healthcare at a time when the system is so screwed up, and they will be primarily students in university and grad school.

Nice paraphrase of the famous Yogi Berra quote... ;)

Googling Houston metropolitan population gives 6.5 million. For Tokyo you get over 37 million. So Tokyo is 5.7 times Houston. Having been both places, Houston is much smaller. Houston also can't build subways, they'd always be flooding.

Ad blocks article on moble, can't read it. Have another source?

I used to on a daily basis; nowadays it is mostly gone. I got to a point in life where I took over my own narrative from my insecurities a little before turned 40 (about 9 years ago). So empowering.

I have a friend from college who is a former therapist and now life coach who recently wrote a book about this very thing, taking back your narrative. I've been reading it and realize that this is more or less what i figured out how to do.

Her book is called "StoryJacking" and is available free on Amazon Kindle for the next few days. Maybe it will help, who knows?

https://www.amazon.com/Storyjacking-Change-Inner-Dialogue-Tr...

This is definitely getting to be a major problem. I've removed several apps for this reason as well.

Code bloat = lost users

Nifty. But is there any purpose beyond nifty?

Nothing like trying to get out of a contract by destroying your vendor's business. Kinda glad these people are on the hook for what they did.

I really hope Spotify can succeed - it is by far my favorite streaming service thanks to the social playlist discovery aspects of the odd little genres of music I like.

See previous discussion on HN:

6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851790

3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8034389 (no comments on this one surprisingly)

Yikes. A sexy building with an anti-developer environmental setup. I'll stay in my high-walled cubeland.

Interesting. Are there any obvious implications?

ZFS, at least on Solaris, has issue with many multiple readers of the same file, blocking after ~31 simultaneous readers (even when there are NO writers). Ran into this with a third party library which reads a large TTF to produce business PDF documents. The hundreds of reporting processes all slowed to a crawl when accessing the 20Mb Chinese TTF for reporting because ZFS was blocking.

I can't change the code since it is third party. The only way I saw to easily fix it was on system startup to copy the fonts under a new subdir in /tmp (so in tmpfs, ie RAM, no ZFS at all there ) and then softlink the dir the product was expecting to the new dir off of /tmp, eliminating the ZFS high-volume multiple-reader bottleneck.

Never had this problem with the latest EXT filesystems on my volume groups on my Linux VMs with the same 3rd party library and same volume of throughput.

Range is key to me... I live in the southwest us, a drive to see family is 450-700 miles.

Autechre. Monolake. Aphex Twin. Boards of Canada. Spahn Ranch. Tycho. μ-Ziq. Loscil. Plaid. Kangding Ray. Emptyset. Shackleton. The Black Dog.

Also an assortment of Psy-Trance, Coldwave, and Industrial generes.