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This is pretty cool but lower-tech than i was expecting when i saw the link. I went by their loft a few times in 2008 or 2009 but haven't followed them since. I think Makani is a s…

They probably don't have to say that stores are closing everywhere. Every week there's news about possible store closings. This week it's Staples and Safeway, last week it was Guit…

You could look at the appendixes in texts by Bishop, MacKay, Barber and Rasmussen/Williams to see what they expect (and they expect a pretty thorough understanding. The last 3 are …

Here's some things with more substance (I don't think the blog author is doing any SEO machinations, but there's just not much to learn from his last few posts. Essentially he's wr…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5647310

If you spent a few days in (central California belt of) Stockton, Modesto or Fresno looking for a job, you might learn some empathy

There are ~2,500 institutions in the U.S granting bachelors degrees, and you're happy to make sweeping generalizations about all of them.

There's lots of case studies on akka in production, and people using are generally happy but also honest about bottlenecks they hit (more than a few thousand messages in message bo…

Yes, but the silver lining is that you'll open your thesaurus and learn words like "jeremiad" "screed" "phillippic" "tirade" MOC is a strong advocate for scala and clojure, so I fi…

Hmm, i should read this book, I probably have a different perspective. I worked in the banking group at one of the 2 major rating agencies, then structured some large ABS transacti…