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I just want to post the Michael Jackson popcorn gif right now.

Not sure what is really the meaning. I work hard as I am sure we all do. I am reading this thread while chasing around my 4 kiddos. We all need a beak and we are lucky and grateful…

And I find that when you really dig deep and go for the projects that you are truly passionate about you will participate with people who are your friends. Words are words but the …

Congrats! It's amazing to live in an era of employers allowing friends to take a deep breath, reflect and come back to work with a renewed sense of themselves and their purpose. It…

Video that goes into detail about what Calico. https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLlh6TqkU8kg_Eydfk1Nyt6iK...

My wife and I have 4 children, she has insisted that they start lessons at a young age, and now my 9 and 7 year olds are excellent swimmers, with a 2 year old that can make it to t…

So I have to wonder.... why? If I was you I would put the link to https://github.com/andrewromanenco/pyjvm/blob/master/WHY.md front and center. That's great that it was done for ac…

Worst case could you sell it for 1k. Then you lose 500. I say it's worth it.

Who is going to do this in brainfuck?

I would love to know more about this book but it seems to not be released yet and there are no reviews. Not sure what the point of posting it is or why it is up voted. More details…

I fully agree. We track millions of events per day and I use hive and hadoop to do my analysis. Not as user friendly but putting the data into a pivot table helps alot.

very austin powers ish

I wrote www.squarechat.com a while ago as a pet project, but it just seems like there isn't a good way to accomplish this without using flash or a plugin.

me too! Thanks

I/We are also using Hive to process compressed logs, manipulate them and create sub tables, that we can query on. We use Amazon EMR, and storing the data on s3. But mainly we use i…

I can't seem to get the service to work. The page loads but I get a blank screen. Oh well.

Love his articles. They may not be 100% his ideas but with a quick article you can be refreshed and ready to look at the world differently.

One thing I like about products that work... They work, and I don't have to. Which is why I like dropbox.

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Just received an email from Slicehost. Sad to see it go. "I would like to start a dialogue about our plans for the Slicehost™ product over the next year. This email is meant to pro…

They let me cancel the trip so there is no issue with LivingSocial having that as a part of their flow, but it would be nice to have a confirmation page between purchases over a ce…