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That's why the article is "Getting to Zero" not "Starting at Zero"; the target audience is teams where the opening quotes sound like something you'd overhear. Not understanding the…

As per the article: -Expected exceptions get turned into metrics If it's not a bug, mute it in your exception tracker and measure it.

It's it's own thing now, and still has a very nice looking high-end model: https://vaio.com/products/z/ They just launched their Surface Pro competitor in the US: http://us.vaio.co…

It's a way to imply that the all of the fiddly little details don't suck. Everyone's run into that library, SaaS product, or other bit of software where all of the features sound a…

cielo24 -- Santa Barbara, CA -- Fulltime Developer cielo24 (www.cielo24.com) is a technology startup in the online media space located in downtown Santa Barbara. Leveraging automat…

It's easy* to build a dramatically better performing and more efficient CPU than currently available if you don't have to restrict yourself to the code and compilers currently avai…

Interesting from a biology/chemistry perspective, but also perhaps a really good example of missing secondary effects. "The agencies do recommend using soap and water and scrubbing…

It's a lot of fun, but it's also a bit of a trap in my experience. My previous startup was all custom, my current one is all as hands off as we can be infrastructure wise. Unless g…

It's easier to fabricate a smaller panel. Edit: And by easier I of course mean both less expensive, and more flexible in process.

I've a Dell 2000FP that's still getting 8+ hours of serious use a day, even as it's coming up on its 11th birthday in a few more months. (And still looking pretty great compared to…

Santa Barbara, CA -- Cielo24 Inc ( http://www.cielo24.com ) Full-time Python or HTML/JS/CSS developer, on-site only. Cielo24 delivers searchable captions for large media platform p…

Cielo24, Santa Barbara, California. Office in downtown Santa Barbara. We build crowd/machine hybrid systems, currently focusing on media captioning solutions and seeing significant…

One of the key benefits I get form a dashboard is being able to recognize that something's wrong, even when it's entirely different than anything I've seen on that dashboard before…

Cielo24, Santa Barbara, California. Office in downtown Santa Barbara. We build crowd/machine hybrid systems, currently focusing on media captioning solutions and seeing significant…

The audio version gives a bit more context. It sounded like the reporter was there already doing another story, and the NASA folks were very distracted by this but wouldn't yet say…

That's being explicit, the problem is with wrapper scripts that omit that, assuming a sh compatible shell. Still running fish on one of my systems, excited to see new development w…

Few notes from someone who's built way to many home, and other, servers. You made the right call on the drive, low end hard disk prices hit a wall pretty hard which leaves them loo…

Like I said, it's more abandoned than anything else at this point. Drop us a note. I'll see if he feels like digging it up and tossing it on github or something.

One of my co-founders hacked something similar together in JS using an different technique a few years ago, but never got around to going anywhere with it: http://www.zettabytestor…

Higher FPS = reduced delta between frames = better compression as compared to the raw footage. Doubling the framerate will not double the bitrate. (Though it will increase it somew…

> I kind of want to see what other hackers think of this 'heuristic of conversational originalism'. It's a threaded comment system, rather than a flat comment system. To me this im…

> has named a liquidator to start divesting its assets. So you could say that they've Died In A Fire Sale . That's pretty close to what many people seem to have been wishing they w…

How does "as users lost money, they just dropped off." followed by "filed for bankruptcy", mean "Smart? Definitely yes."? I guess they did make money for a while, so it's wasn't te…

>I'm not even sexist ... and yet in reply to a completely neutral comment proposing that the article might be relevant because one of the two people in it was just featured in a ve…