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I've used JungleDisk, CrashPlan, and now Arq. I left JungleDisk because it went sideways and S3 was too expensive. After that was CrashPlan; I liked its free remote backup option. …

Two guesses: cellular location services and custom radio telemetry systems. Maybe that's one guess.

Following the same procedure, you can also choose not to display your endorsements in one shot: rather than click "Manage Endorsements" instead click the down-arrow next to "Displa…

Homejoy also got a writeup at AZ Tech Beat when they "launched" in Phoenix last month http://aztechbeat.com/2013/07/homejoy-an-online-booking-home... .

I, too, switched to the RT-N16 after my WRT54GL died unceremoniously one day. The RT-N16 is a pretty good router but I want to caution any one who, like me, was awestruck by its 12…

Yet another fun use of watch, one of my favorite tools! I use it daily in combination with curl and grep to look for certain output of my JSON/XML services during development. The …

Same here; and love that it doesn't clear the command line you're currently typing. Does anyone know if there's a key command for clearing the scroll buffer?

I kind of hate to say this but I'm glad there's at least one other person out there who has troubles with TeamViewer on Linux. My remote coworker uses Ubuntu with two screens and w…

I wasn't aware of this, but mildweed posted later that PDO is coming. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4907099

As the article surmised, one of the engines did indeed fail and the craft corrected for the failure. " Falcon 9 detected an anomaly on one of the nine engines and shut it down. As …

Here's one more: Michael Chiklis in The Shield.

Checks are frequently turned into ACH transactions. You may be interested in http://www.occ.gov/topics/consumer-protection/depository-ser... .

Given your scenario, you are indeed correct: throwing implementation-specific exceptions leaks internal details and further couples clients of the API. Can you imagine using such a…

My team consists of four people, two of which are remote, spread across three adjacent timezones. We find that a regular three-way conference call is sufficient. This arrangement h…

I have a fondness for geography and maps, so I am delighted to see this posted here. Big Think covered this back in February, 2011: http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/502-hung-out-to…

> Based on this, I will boldly make the following prediction: in 10 years' time, the most popular languages will still be some variant of Java and C#. Your conclusion may very well…

The Executive Veto power serves this purpose. Every new law may reviewed and rejected by the President. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_veto#United_States

I'm unaware of a specific name, but it's not a new idea. See The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein. (link to Google Books reference http://goo.gl/IdBoU )

Indeed. According to the August, 2012 print edition of Popular Science, there are 500,000 people being transported in air at any given moment.