davidbrent | 4 years ago | on: Light Pollution Map
I love this sort of thing, but like many heatmaps, I wish it had a color blind toggle.
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davidbrent | 7 years ago | on: FBI File for Russell Tyrone Jones (Ol' Dirty Bastard)
I have to wonder if this is on the front page as part of a marketing campaign for the new Showtime Docuseries.
davidbrent | 7 years ago | on: Google's AutoML: Cutting Through the Hype
But when you’re in advertising all that matters are the results.
davidbrent | 8 years ago | on: Giving meaning to 100B analytics events a day with Kafka, Dataflow and BigQuery
Very interesting read, but as more of an analyst, I kept waiting for the ‘meaning.’ Maybe I missed it, but for anyone else who may be considering reading this, it is more about ‘giving business structure’ to analytic events.
Good article none the less.
davidbrent | 8 years ago | on: Waze for Android Auto
I bought my Toyota for the motor, so I didn't pay a lot of attention at the time of purchase. I wish I had though. Entune is absolutely terrible. I'm still mind boggled that a quality manufacturer like Toyota would allow such a terrible piece of engineering in their vehicles.
davidbrent | 8 years ago | on: The Holder Report on Uber
Unfortunate as it may be, sometimes in large corporations, it takes paying an outsider to identify and document something, before anything will be done about it.
davidbrent | 9 years ago | on: The baby MRI: shrinking tech to help save newborn lives
What an interesting take away. This is why I like online forums, because I would have never expected such a response.
For better or worse, I read the headline and hoped someone had made some progress that would make those dealing with ill babies, lives just a little easier.
davidbrent | 9 years ago | on: Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com
Think much harder about power and cooling. A few points:
I've only ever built desktop machines, and this top comment drew a surprising parallel to most help me with my desktop build type posts. Granted, I'm sure as you dig deeper, the reasoning may be much different, but myself being ignorant about a proper server build, it was somehow reassuring to see power and cooling at the top!
davidbrent | 9 years ago | on: $1M VotePlz Sweepstakes
This list of known browsers(cookies) would be worth well over $1mil to US advertisers right? I can only assume they're selling it, according to the privacy policy.
davidbrent | 10 years ago | on: How we use Slack in our family
Someone at work was recently giving me the slack pitch, and mentioned the cool bot that be configured to announce people, answer questions etc...
It made me very nostalgic for my old IRC friends, both people and eggdrop bots alike.
davidbrent | 10 years ago | on: HTT Breaks Ground to Make Hyperloop a Reality
As a Carolinian I can't help feeling left out when I look at their proposed map. Even if this is just fiction at this point, I would be interested in hearing their reason for completely bypassing both Carolinas.
davidbrent | 10 years ago | on: Zenefits asks court to drop ADP lawsuit
How else would she show her appreciation for all of these emails between the two parties?
davidbrent | 10 years ago | on: Stuff in Space
This is just beautiful. Definitely put all of those things in a new perspective for me. Well done.
davidbrent | 11 years ago | on: Logitech K480 – Bluetooth Multi-Device Keyboard
Very cool and useful product. I can't help but feel like I'm in some kind of cycle though, because I felt the same way about a KVM Switch 20 years ago.
davidbrent | 11 years ago | on: iCloud Hacked: Here's What We Know About the Celebrity Photo Hack
"...almost certainly safe" Is that similar to "definitely maybe"?
davidbrent | 11 years ago | on: Dash – Beautiful instant offline docs for almost everything
This is awesome. Although an excellent resource, there are many times I get very distracted using Google to get this kind of information. This could help me stay on task.
davidbrent | 11 years ago | on: How the Recession Reshaped the Economy, in 255 Charts
If you can make it to the bottom, I found those simple charts, segmented by Industry, the most interesting and easiest to digest.
davidbrent | 12 years ago | on: Odoo: The new OpenERP
OpenERP could've really benefited from some usability expertise, and if this site is any indication, Odoo may suffer the same fate. If you're going to put this much time/money into a new brand, how could you miss so badly?
In my experience with OpenERP, the end users always took a back seat to the developers. Granted, ERP software is inherently complicated, but with each new version you could tell they made an attempt at a simplified interface and never hit the mark.
davidbrent | 12 years ago | on: Regex Golf
I have the most trouble with regex, and something about seeing my matches as I type made this incredibly useful for me!
davidbrent | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Hacker side of Insurance Exchanges going live today?
Unfortunately, the only exchange I've tried to access, out of pure curiosity, times out.
http://www.healthsourceri.com/
Looks like they're using Amazon AWS
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