FrankyHollywood

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World’s first virtual reality cinema(hotrecentnews.com)
1 points by FrankyHollywood 11y ago|1 comments
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
Yes, but for Apple it is easy. Just change 1 line of code, recompile and patch the phones firmware. Than some FBI intern can try 10000 lockscreen codes and they're in. No big deal. My whole point is, this is not a technical issue. It i
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
We live a western society, not China. If more than 50% of the population wants the phone to be cracked it should be done. That's what we all agreed on living in a democracy. Law is formed by the wishes of majority. I'm not a lawye
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
so if a phone can be cracked in 1 hour it is allowed, but if it takes a month the government can't? this discussion is not about complexity!
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
The discussion about encryption is getting completely out of context, like 'encryption' is something magical. We're talking about cracking a 4 digit access code of a phone, which is extremely easy. Apple knows this, that&#x27
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
I still like BGs argument (and do consider myself a hacker haha) "It is no different than [the question of] should anybody ever have been able to tell the phone company to get information, should anybody be able to get at bank records.
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
"but the day-to-day workflow was tedious and torturous". I guess what you describe is something every oldtimer in every discipline recognizes. How do you think a dentist feels after 30 years of 'could you open your mouth a bi
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Composing the Windows 95 startup sound, Brian Eno (2013)(mentalfloss.com)
3 points by FrankyHollywood 11y ago|0 comments
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
Very sad indeed, have been an Opera user since the very beginning. When IE's only feature was having bookmarks, Opera had tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, etc. It was a great browser designed by great people, not by some corporate desi
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
Very nice! I also liked "documenting America". Photo's about American life between 1935 and 1944. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/documentingameric...
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
This question was asked to some top programmers and computer scientists. The answers are collected in this book: http://www.worldofbooks.com/catalog/product/view/id/2366045/...
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Will a robot take your job? (2015)(bbc.com)
2 points by FrankyHollywood 11y ago|0 comments
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
Besides that, the parts will be stressed with a lot of force. I doubt whether plastics are strong enough. Look at it working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiRgdaknJCg (at about 2:30 it is just computational art :)
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
well, scan a bit further, the 'replica' is the only one ever made! :) "... a design never built by Babbage that only existed in his plans and sketches"
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
tnx for the article, very interesting! Hyperinflation is definitly not what I would opt for. Still I'd like to have a system where every earth citizen has equal rights to earths resources and one where people who actually make the worl
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
well, what I want is that everybody has the same 'right' to get some of the worlds resources. But once you have used them, you got your share and the money must disappear. However, if you work for something and add value to the wo
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
well, he has to destroy a certain amount by using the earth resource, but he can raise the price of the resource with his 'service' part. How much a resource is actually worth is the most difficult question. Perhaps environmental
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
A lot of people see problems in getting basic income funded. But is there is a simple solution :) Generate the money, just print it! Everyone on earth will get an equal quantity of money, every month. Now this money can be used in two diffe
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
haha, classic stuff!
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D5_6I8Z_LA (creating a wooden marble track)
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
(and I don't hate my job btw, there is a lot of technical challenge in what I do. Creating a wel performing system for milions of customers is a big puzzle to be solved. I just can't stand corporate environment with way to much un
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
"the bosses are fantastic"... you guys have openings for a good c# dev? :)
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
Paul Graham writes about this in his excellent book 'Hackers & Painters' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_%26_Painters ). There often is a big difference between doing what you love, and doing what m
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
Yes, "thermo acoustic wall heater" would have been more clear. I tried searching for more detailed specs but they are not around. They expect it to be on de market in 2 years, so they want to stay ahead of competition I guess. but
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ChucK: Strongly-Timed Music Programming Language(chuck.cs.princeton.edu)
93 points by FrankyHollywood 11y ago|20 comments
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NET Memory model and the volatile keyword (2010)(igoro.com)
35 points by FrankyHollywood 11y ago|3 comments
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by FrankyHollywood 11y ago
talking about software engineering: "Negative sides include, above all, that the field is so terribly new and undeveloped... time tables seem to be far to optimistic" That problem has not been solved over the last 40 years! :)