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weinerk··on Microsoft acquires Citus Data (YC S11)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18295756
weinerk··on What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?
Thanks. Great read. Among other things this particularly resonated: You are easily annoyed by imprecision in talking about the quantitative or logical. This is mostly because you are trained to quickly think about counterexamples that make an imprecise claim seem obviously false. On the other hand, you are very comfortable with intentional imprecision or "hand-waving" in areas you know, because you know how to fill in the details.
weinerk··on Eskil – a GUI front end to diff
Can it diff remote locations? sftp://user@host/path
weinerk··on Thinking the unthinkable
Interesting interpretation.

Apropo:

תהילים פרק כג' פסוק 4 גַּם כִּי-אֵלֵךְ בְּגֵיא צַלְמָוֶת לֹא-אִירָא רָע כִּי-אַתָּה עִמָּדִי שִׁבְטְךָ וּמִשְׁעַנְתֶּךָ הֵמָּה יְנַחֲמֻנִי

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me; {N} Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me.

weinerk··on Show HN: www.WikipediaTop.com - what's hot
Here is the link: http://www.WikipediaTop.com
weinerk··on Google Plus - aprox 40 million users as of 9/25/11
According to this [1] - "Some 31 percent of Google+ users polled said they have already abandoned their accounts or not written any posts yet on the site"

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-05/google-may-pass-twi...

weinerk··on Meg Whitman to be named new HP CEO
Probably they are trying to prevent phishing/scamming.
weinerk··on Databranches: using git as a database
Giddy - Schema-less, versioned media/document database based on Git. http://search.cpan.org/~idoperel/Giddy-0.013_001/lib/Giddy/M...
weinerk··on China's Cell Phone Pirates Are Bringing Down Middle Eastern Governments
Yes. They are great phones for the price! I have a couple and I love it. See here for example: http://www.etotalk.com/Wholesale-android-phones_c1001?zenid=...
weinerk··on The Quora post that killed Bitcoins. Please discuss if his arguments are valid.
Since this post - the value of Bitcoin went from aprox $2 to over $10 :-)))))))))

proof: https://mtgox.com/trade/megaChart