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Location: Chicago now, Denver in April Remote: Yes, up to 40% hybrid Willing to Relocate: If the location is Denver. Willing to travel up to 20% Technologies: C++, Rust, Java, Pyth…

Nutch/Solr could provide a way to do a crawl, refine parameters, and then feed into a tool to download the actual resources.

Take out your headphones, or mute them before trying it.

Very nice, I like the phrasing of: "Since 2009" instead of 2009 to present, and the fb://username instead of long URL. Mine is on GitHub as well, though in the form of a web servic…

The actual source of the article is below. ZDNet didn't add much to the article other than ads. http://www.withinwindows.com/2011/09/23/dissecting-case-0143...

It's their entire business model as well.

Skype are probably just dropping support for the Asterisk specific plugin. They still have the standards based Skype for SIP ( http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/business/skype-connec…

WSJ Terms about Confidentiality: 3. Request Confidentiality: If you would like us to consider treating your submission as confidential before providing any materials, please make t…

Also discussed by Bruce Schneier here: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/05/nikon_image_au...

When the author starts by describing his local network as a /8 network, I instantly lowered my expectations for the rest of the article.

No, SMS is different, you can receive a text during a phone call, or during a data session.

http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-October... This is the original post by Rémi Denis-Courmont, on the VLC developers mailing list pertaining to the takedown noti…

I agree, I can't help but thinking how awesome it would be just to see the press release: "Fuck it, we're doing 5Gs."

Version control like Git or other would be best for your Rails stuff. The apps should contain your DB schema. As far as your MySQL, you should be able to configure it to dump its b…

This is true, although unfortunately Server 2008 R2 will be the last version of Windows to support Itanium: http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2010/04/02/... Although…

First, before you start, take a backup of the laptop. If you make a mistake during your rebuild, you could lose your drive contents. For Windows, the best way is to have an image b…

@Thomas, thanks for the clarification, I guess I'm just used to companies with more authoritarian policies. Something along the lines of: "If it connects to our infrastructure, it …

The main issue I have with this article is that it describes a very implausible circumstance in my opinion. If you have an application with such sensitive information on the phone …

I find it somewhat ironic that this video will not play on my CR-48.

Could this be a case for stripping the: X-Confirm-Reading-To: Disposition-Notification-To: or Return-Receipt-To:, lines out of the message header? It seems like this is something a…