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I have a friend in the Seattle area who has been trying to find it even within an hours drive. Do you mind sharing where you found inventory?

Read the article, and many of the comments here. I have a hard time squaring a lot of the hard and fast rules against my own experience. Certainly one persons life can’t detract fr…

I visited Japan for the first time a month ago, and basically followed this advice. Got lost in Tokyo. Well as lost as you can be considering Apple or Google Maps and SUICA are pre…

This was mentioned in one of the other threads about this - but you can purchase XBox games outside the Microsoft Store platform just fine - Best Buy, Amazon, Walmart, even resell …

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My wife had me buy her a poster this year which I have found to be particularly profound in a variety of life's situations. It says, simply "The grass is greener where you water it…

I'm consulting for a small bootstrapped startup right now that is trying to build a web-based business that serves customers in mainland China. The business model itself is a non-m…

> Building the era of custom tools just for your company, only to do specific jobs is long gone. Isn't that the biography of 99% of the open source projects in the big data and dis…

They can absolutely fine them, and if Yahoo's experience is any indication, fines for this kind of stuff are beyond what billions will cover: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/th…

I was expressly hired at my current gig (re-startup) in Pioneer Square to migrate from an existing .NET solution to JVM on AWS with a heavy Cassandra component (all on Linux). I st…

I'm 31. I was 25 when I got married, which was also the same year the company I co-founded hit the skids and eventually a brick wall. That first year was really rough on us (we sta…

The University of Washington educates midwives alongside do tors and nurses: http://nursing.uw.edu/node/371 My wife's cousin is going through the program right now and will graduat…

I live in central WA and pay $80 for 100mb symmetric. We have local public utility districts in the central counties of the state that are all interconnected by local fiber optic n…

That tweet would suggest to me that someone's credit card was stolen via another method and used to purchase Linode services, rather than the other way around. Ie, I don't think th…

I've visited China through Beijing and Hong Kong numerous times over the last couple years, and without a doubt the best way to do it is through a Visa intermediary such as travisa…

When I took a CPR class a few years back, we were told that the point of "Samaritan CPR" was really just to keep the person going until a first responder got there, but that the ch…

I think the recent Rails, Java, RubyGems and other vulnerability issues have been an absolute boon to the industry. And not just for the increased business I think most security co…

I found Beijing to have poor air, but not nearly as bad as other places in China. Travel out west to Xi'an, and for much of the year it seems as though you can't even see the sky. …

We bought a Vizio 42 inch on sale last year for about $300, and it plays everything we've ever needed - Netflix, Amazon, Vudu, Hulu, YouTube, Pandora. It's definitely more expensiv…

That's an excellent point, though it's always interesting to me just how much many energy companies try to market to consumers, despite the optimal markets :)

Thanks for the reply, Danielle. We are indeed a battery-based system for now, though we aren't necessarily tied to that technology long term. We've focused on building a strength i…

To be fair - you end up having to make statements like that a lot in this industry. Like it or not, there have been some very large, high profile failures lately (Solyndra being on…

I think there are many more players than you hear about, in this space. The company I work for builds distributed, large-scale energy storage (I work on the management and monitori…

I work for a company that operates in the energy industry. We utilize both RDBMS and "NoSQL", both have their purposes that they fit in well. We store customer account and configur…

Lessons I took away from the Mythical Man Month: Version 1: Get to market, prove your product, make a big mess Version 2: Make a ton of mistakes, screw everything up trying to clea…