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by 9999 13y ago
Answer: Maybe in 6 years, and even then not so much. The author here plays very fast and loose with the figures. The claim about h.265 encoded 720p video vs. h.264 encoded video is particularly egregious. From the article: "For example
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Can HEVC/h.265 save Netflix from future ISP shakedowns?(slate.com)
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by 9999 13y ago
An interesting addendum to Rumsfeld's categorization of knowledge is Slavoj Zizek's notion of the unknown known: What he forgot to add was the crucial fourth term: the "unknown knowns," the things we don't know that
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by 9999 13y ago
I've actually always wanted to use Erlang and I've worked on quite a few projects where it probably would have been the best solution possible (massively concurrent websocket backends for example). The two things that made Erlang
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by 9999 13y ago
Interesting article. I have a few comments/questions: HLS support on Android is incredibly spotty. Do you mean in-app HLS support? The Android Chrome browser doesn't support it at all, and only a select few versions of the regular
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by 9999 13y ago
Great article on Tcl, I wasn't familiar with it before but the event driven model and the ease of network programming is really appealing.
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by 9999 13y ago
With the number of comments about never having seen/used a typewriter before, I'm guessing they're mainly grumpy young people. I'm not at all a fan of facebook, but the design here is really solid and the marketing sells
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by 9999 13y ago
It would be interesting to read more about what you did. In particular it would be interesting to hear the details on the 5 year long espionage plot. Have you written about that somewhere?
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by 9999 13y ago
I didn't read the by-line initially, got about two paragraphs in and thought "Jesus, is this by Dvorak?" And it is. And I smiled. I remember howling with laughter at his anti-mac articles more than a decade ago, and this is f
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by 9999 13y ago
Are split keyboards really that much better for avoiding carpal tunnel syndrome? It seems like I just don't hear that much about carpal tunnel any more, and I wonder if the general wisdom of taking frequent breaks is a bigger factor th
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by 9999 13y ago
It took me quite a while to get used to using the function key to access the arrows, and I'm still not entirely happy with that. If you get the Lite version that does have arrow keys, but the Lite is inferior to the Pro in every other
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by 9999 13y ago
I use a Happy Hacking Keyboard which has no capslock key, control is automatically mapped there. On every other keyboard I've applied that same mapping in the OS. I would hate that weird split key set up that Lenovo has done there thou
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by 9999 13y ago
Yeah, the product name, copy, and the router design are pure nightmare fuel.
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by 9999 13y ago
I would have been a Nest customer, now I won't be. Oh well.
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by 9999 13y ago
More accurate than what? Cringely's claim is that various subsidies and tax breaks, totaling 200 billion dollars, were given to telco operators with the understanding that a 45 mbps symmetrical connection would be developed and offered
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by 9999 13y ago
"It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theolog
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by 9999 13y ago
Yeah, the Expo Line puts Culver City in serious competition now too. That would be my top pick for anyone looking to start a company in the LA area. Koreatown could be interesting for slightly more adventurous people. Downtown's rents
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by 9999 13y ago
Los Angeles consists of a lot of cities within cities. The downtown core is actually remarkably accomodating for pedestrians, train riders, and bike riders with the exception of this stupid and wrongheaded new enforcement policy. It's
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by 9999 13y ago
I'm an LA local, and from my own anecdotal experiences and those of my friends, I partially agree with your assessment. There was a a period about 8 years ago when the LAPD and CHP waged an aggressive campaign against automobile driver
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by 9999 13y ago
http://codingforinterviews.com http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.htm...
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by 9999 13y ago
It seems that one of them committed a violent act here. They're not all doing that.
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by 9999 13y ago
If your larger point is that they are representing themselves as being of one population (poor minorities), I would offer this counterargument: Let's assume that they are all shiftless, white, dreadlocked, trustafarians. They are not r
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by 9999 13y ago
And they do claim ownership?
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by 9999 13y ago
I agree with everything you've said there. The skyrocketing rents are a product of inflated tech salaries (which will deflate eventually) and greedy landlords that can ask for whatever they want and find people to pay it for the time b
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by 9999 13y ago
The Longview comment is from the Longview, Washington Union rep, not Oakland. The driver interviewed there is also not a longshoreman, and very likely not repped by a union at all. The Occupy Oakland movement was not a monolithic group of d
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by 9999 13y ago
Re: The port shutdown: The longshoremen's union supported the Occupy shutdown, but were contractually obligated not to participate in the protest. Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/occupy-oakland-shuts-down-port&
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by 9999 13y ago
If you worked on a personal project on a Google bus (on your own laptop, without using their wifi), would Google be able to claim ownership?
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by 9999 13y ago
In the get started section, the background style you have doesn't seem to work properly on Firefox (fine on Safari), so it appears as white text with a drop shadow against an all white background. Looks like an interesting tool though.
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by 9999 13y ago
I'd like to see the statistics that lead you to believe that very few of the people that "do graffiti" have anything to do with gang activity. Perhaps you mean the fully commodified art form which is practiced on building wal
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by 9999 13y ago
I'd like to see this done with some kind of climbing ivy or moss and trellises since the air scrubbing ability does not interest me much at all, and the loss of working space/increased footprint seems non-negligible. EDIT: After s

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