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dropbox paper?

Not exactly. It turns out, AMZN cuts 4 jobs for any 1 job that it adds. The full report is truly alarming and has pretty disturbing implications for the overall economy: https://il…

yeah this is the mongoDB gridFS bug that keeps crashing my website.

Just deployed a new version of the app with optimized images. Thanks so much for the thorough, constructive feedback.

thanks for letting me know - is it better now? I just enabled oplog.

My custom packaging startup Packlane ( http://packlane.com ) uses Meteor. Really grateful for this update since the old Mongo version had some major issues.

Hey HN! Would love to hear any feedback or comments you have regarding Packlane. P.S. We're also on Product Hunt today :) http://producthunt.com/posts/packlane

You can't be serious. First of all, wildlife and the rich biodiversity of nature has its own intrinsic value without needing to be "useful" to humans. Second, we're constantly lear…

Couldn't agree more. Protecting wildlife is like protecting nature's most valuable works of art, and it's a real tragedy that they have become so marginalized in our anthropocentri…

I'm pretty sure a gondola can hold its own in a hurricane (as long as it isn't running). Most urban systems use the same technology as alpine systems, which have to withstand harsh…

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ⚛ Berkeley, CA Web Developer | full-time or part-time Berkeley Lab is looking for a talented web developer who will work on building powerful …

"The problem with your comment is you assume everyone can dabble in everything." How is it unreasonable to assume that a designer should dabble in web development? That's hardly 'e…

hmm I suppose it seems obvious to some people, but I've met a number of people trying to become programmers for reasons that won't get them very far. Just my two cents.

Learning anything new is all well and good, but the thing that's actually valuable to society and "america's future" isn't really more coders, it's people who are really fantastic …

Lawrence Berkeley national laboratory is always hiring hackers: http://cjo.lbl.gov/ . I currently work there building software that helps scientists discover new lithium batteries.…

Replace the word 'black' with any other color you can think of in this article and it's pretty clear how dogmatic this is. I'm all for setting rules and constraints for a given des…

He's already an investor with a considerable equity stake.

I read the book last night. Pretty cosmic to wake up to this news the next morning. Earth shattering.