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mikeklaas

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Co-founder and (former) CTO of Zite. Now at Flipboard.

mike.klaas at gmail.com

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medium.com 9y ago

The last grapefruit La Croix

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www.benfrederickson.com 10y ago

Matrix Factorization

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differentkindofhuman.blogspot.com 12y ago

Because this needs to be said, too

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differentkindofhuman.blogspot.com 13y ago

Why Kickstarter was wrong to apologize: seduction guides can be good for women

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blog.zite.com 13y ago

Google Reader is dead, so we rebuilt it for you in Zite (in six hours)

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zedshaw.com 13y ago

Zed Shaw: Indirection is not Abstraction (2011)

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blog.zite.com 13y ago

Introducing Zite 2.0

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www.kickstarter.com 13y ago

The D Conference 2013 raises $30,000 on kickstarter.com

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www.slate.com 13y ago

Why I'm bearish on Apple

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thegamedesignforum.com 14y ago

Reversing the design of Chrono Trigger

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twitpic.com 14y ago

Draw Something CEO badmouths team member who turned down Zynga's offer

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heroku.com 14y ago

Massive multi-AZ EC2 outage takes out Heroku, reddit, others

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news.cnet.com 14y ago

IPhones are for days, iPads for the nighttime

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www.youtube.com 14y ago

The world's most important 6-sec drum loop: The Amen Break

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www.marco.org 14y ago

Marco Arment: "I'm not sure Firefox can be saved"

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www.salon.com 14y ago

Are urban cyclists elite snobs?

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venturebeat.com 14y ago

How VCs can solve the woman problem, if there is one

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finance.yahoo.com 14y ago

IPOs stoke SF real-estate market

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computationallythinking.wordpress.com 14y ago

In Defence of Algorithms

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projectzomboid.com 15y ago

How one project got less screwed by Paypal than Google Checkout

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www.readwriteweb.com 15y ago

If You Like Flipboard, Check Out Zite - It's Easier to Use

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kara.allthingsd.com 15y ago

When Media Giants Attack. C&D Letter to News Reader Zite

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news.cnet.com 15y ago

Our Flipboard competitor Zite is on almost 1% of all iPads after one week.

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zite.com 15y ago

Show HN: Zite, an iPad magazine driven by machine learning

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hunch.net 15y ago

A machine learning researcher's view on the Bing/Google debacle

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www.stephenfry.com 15y ago

Stephen Fry launches a web-wide commenting service

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scienceblogs.com 15y ago

The Uselessness of Pundits and other Experts

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vimeo.com 15y ago

Stephen Fry on language prescriptivists

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On being tired 4 years ago

Most weekends rather than recharging for the rest of the week, I end up more tired than I started.

As a parent, it's hard to remember that ending a weekend "recharged" is a common experience.

There are projects that use LSMTs as the storage engine for RDBMS' (like RocksDB); I'm not sure it's accurate to say "they can't be use as an RDMBS".

Multiple databases in postgres fundamentally share the same underlying infrastructure (i.e., WAL), and so do not offer much in terms of scalability or blast-radius protection compared to putting all tables in the same database.

The "good reason" is that considering 12am the "middle of the day" only makes sense if the typical sleeping window was 8pm to 4am (making midnight the "middle of the night").

Charging at night isn't great for using solar power without storage. Ideally, we'd incentivize people to use their car's battery to store excess solar power during the day and smooth out the duck curve (perhaps slowly recharging again at night)