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I think you're confused about the politics of the region. The US isn't a major factor in the decision making of central Asian countries. China however has taken a much more active …

I think this is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQXRiP6XQdo The one embedded in the presentation didn't work for me.

it's strange that Kraft Heinz wasn't included. It had sales of 26B last year

The "Watch our video" link on the landing homepage is broken, or at least broken for me. Great work on the site design though, it looks great

said the office creep.

Nerves looks very similar to Balena [1] which is definitely worth checking out if you want to manage a fleet of micoro-computers. Balena also uses light-weight docker containers wh…

It has to be for customers and this site mislabeled it as "employee holiday bonus". It's just too embarrassing... a bunch of coupons for magazines and software.

Check out the employee holiday bonus from 1983: https://www.applearchive.org/1983-feed/apple-holiday-bonus

Julia is compiled using LLVM.

that's awesome, thanks for sharing. It's amazing how much variability there is between years

Maybe, but the map error is too large. There would have to be 20+ miles of ice from the shoreline. And why isn't there ice anywhere else?

This is very troubling. I can't imagine why this would be done if they had good intentions. Makes me want to check their financials. Here's their most recent public tax forms which…

you linked to a fork of libvips the original is https://github.com/libvips/libvips

Since kdb is SO good with time series data, I would need a lot of tech details to even know if AWS is worth testing. It's a LOT of work to test a time series db at scale.

If you're not in the US, what could a company do to stop you from scraping?

I know of a company that scrapes craigslist in bulk. The owner insisted that he's had no problems. Importantly, his company is not based in the US. Maybe he just ignores their c&d …

In the blog post, the link to their product page is broken...

Small world; I grew up in Petoskey too. What year did you graduate?

The amount of money SF spends on homeless people is outrageous. $230M / 6,700 homeless = >$34K per homeless person per year

In other news: Google should pay all of us. Yahoo should pay all of us. ...

Philip Glass's music is great to code to. I don't care much about musical critiques of his work, he is one of the few artists whose music is consistently great to program with. I c…

If VirnetX were on the verge of winning 1% of iPhone revenue, their stock price would reflect it. However, it does not. https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSEMKT%3AVHC&ei=h-WTU4DYNs…

Turntable suffered a similar fate. Fred Wilson recently stated as much. It had high user turnover masked by a an even faster growing user base. At least until the potential user ba…

well, obviously...