than | 1 year ago | on: Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS
Missed opportunity to call the successor `whodat`
than's comments
than | 7 years ago | on: Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation
We’ve been using https://MJML.io and Handlebars and owning the rendering on our end. It’s been a breeze.
than | 7 years ago | on: Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims
If you're interested in prions and some heavy science, I would highly recommend reading the research blogs of Eric and Sonia.
http://www.cureffi.org/ and http://www.prionalliance.org/blog/
> Wife-husband team Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel are on a very personal mission to find a cure to prion diseases. When Sonia was diagnosed as a genetic carrier of a rare disease called Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI), she and Eric quit their regular jobs and began studying molecular biology to learn as much as they could.
Theirs is an incredible story so far. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-prion-love-sto...
than | 7 years ago | on: Introducing Multi-Leg Options Strategies
Yes! And the results have been outstanding! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...
than | 8 years ago | on: Pinboard Acquires Delicious
It's more like the Polish Acquisition.
than | 9 years ago | on: Thousands of Low-Income Americans 'Donate' Blood Plasma to For-Profit Centers
Radiolab had a fascinating segment on US blood banks and how cutthroat the blood economy can be. In many cases, your local blood bank might be arbitraging blood from different areas of the country.
than | 9 years ago | on: Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded
Nobody goes there anymore.
than | 9 years ago | on: How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools
Reading the post, it just seemed like an interesting and feasible challenge, as well as a learning opportunity — not an ideological purity test.
than | 10 years ago | on: Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens
Real bugs don't have fancy websites. http://heartbleed.com
than | 10 years ago | on: New Procedure Allows Kidney Transplants from Any Donor
It's so amazing that it works! (Donor here as well.) I would love to see the support system expanded. Even with the recipient's insurance footing the bill for the surgery, there's still a significant burden on donors to be able to provide the time off to do the transplant in many cases.
I'm starting with my own state to help find ways to lower that threshold for potential donors here: https://www.change.org/p/minnesota-state-house-give-minnesot...
than | 10 years ago | on: Trap Streets
My new favorite trap is the MOUNTWEAZEL, a lexicographical trap street embedded in dictionaries to catch infringers.
Good episode of the The Allusionist podcast: http://www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/mountweazel
than | 10 years ago | on: Capabilities and Services
No up-selling travel insurance? They're leaving money on the launchpad.
than | 10 years ago | on: Harvey's Casino Bomb
How did he arm the darn thing without setting it off?
than | 10 years ago | on: Opening the Instapaper API
This is perfect timing. I've had a back-burnered project waiting for a response from the API folks.
than | 10 years ago | on: FBI operating fleet of surveillance aircraft flying over US cities
Not to mention the tell-tale flight paths: http://publicradio1.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/newscut/files/20...
via http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2015/05/mysterious-plane-ha...
than | 11 years ago | on: Periscope by Twitter
White Bear
than | 11 years ago | on: Bill Watterson talks
Exactly as much good as Bill Watterson wanted it to.
than | 11 years ago | on: Afterglow: Dark Theme for Sublime
This looks great.
Here's the best Sublime replacement icon I've found: http://dewith.com/2014/muir-yosemite-icons-volume-ii/
than | 11 years ago | on: Bill Watterson talks
It's in the form of a book, which is a companion to an exhibition of his work at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449460364/ref=as_li_tl?ie=...
than | 11 years ago | on: Bill Watterson talks
Honest question: Why do you feel entitled to more of his work?
I believe it's more useful to be thankful for something that was given than to be angry that you didn't get more.
Watterson:
> This isn't as hard to understand as people try to make it. By the end of ten years, I'd said pretty much everything I had come there to say. It's always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, ten, or twenty years, the people now "grieving" for Calvin and Hobbes would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them. I think some of the reason Calvin and Hobbes still finds an audience today is because I chose not to run the wheels off it. I've never regretted stopping when I did.
Source: http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/02/bill_watte...
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