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wooster
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About wooster
http://apptentive.com/ (TechStars Seattle 2012, Sold in 2022)
http://planetaryscale.com/
http://uncorkedapps.com/
Ex-Apple. Worked on software updates, many parts of OS X, Parental Controls, Time Machine, other stuff. Sometimes cattle rancher.
Mars-shot investor.
http://twitter.com/wooster
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Interesting… https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/pull/10156
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Comment #23048270
The format plists used before XML was very JSON-like. It had its own set of issues, however.
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Comment #17584624
The photo looks like it's of a cask firing at Ariake Sangyo [0], which manufactures barrels for a variety of uses. About 10 percent of their barrels go to domestic whiskey producer…
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Comment #12510958
There is a George T. Haymaker Jr. who "served as an Executive Vice President of Alumax Inc. from 1984 to 1986 and Vice President of International Operations at Alcoa Inc. from 1982…
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Comment #12403302
Have you been to southern Italy? The homeless/squatter situation I saw there was very similar.
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Comment #11557588
What's your experience of art like (especially paintings and other visual art)? Does it ever evoke strong feelings? Is there some art you like more than others for reasons you can'…
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Comment #11546976
CHM is great and the docents there are fantastic. The Cantor Center at Stanford has a great little collection of art. There's also a TeamLab exhibition at PACE in Menlo Park that I…
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Comment #11379649
The trekking part of my Nepal trip I found a lot easier (and interesting) than my Kilimanjaro hike. The trek to EBC lends itself to a lot of flex days being built into itineraries …
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Comment #11377364
The study shows no lesions on the Kilimanjaro trek, which is more akin to an EBC trek than to climbing Everest, even if you climb Kala Patthar on the EBC trek. Even then, Kilimanja…
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Comment #11242724
I've seen US-grown wasabi at some specialty stores in San Francisco. It looks like there's actually a farm in Half Moon Bay producing it: http://www.foodgal.com/2014/04/californias…
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Comment #10719848
It looks like Yahoo Messenger for iOS was released on December 3: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yahoo-messenger-chat-share/i... And apparently there's a native OS X client coming…
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Comment #10597764
A navigation controller presenting a tab bar controller presenting a navigation controller with a child controller presenting a tab bar controller… on an iPad. Or any set of permut…
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Comment #10597169
It's been awhile since I looked at this, but tab bar controllers (selectedViewController), navigation controllers (topViewController), and child controllers are probably going to c…
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Comment #10368264
Based on what you've said above, I would believe them. I have heard, second-hand, of another person getting a very similar warning. That person is taking it extremely seriously, an…
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Comment #10364692
I can confirm this, having flown through airports in both places. I flew into Ushuaia from Buenos Aires and out of Punta Arenas, taking a bus between the two (since Chile and Argen…
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Comment #10263624
What crops do you grow? Growing up near the Salinas Valley, I always associated row crops with produce and not grains, so a <600 acre "row crop" farm can generate pretty massive re…