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by Mahn 12y ago
You are looking at this from the point of view of the user (where ads are not a big deal in exchange of consuming the content for free), but step for a moment in the content creators' shoes. While Ads can still be profitable, they grow
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by Mahn 12y ago
Despite the click-bait title, the article makes valid points which are very often overlooked or downright ignored by hardcore bitcoiners. As someone who's been watching bitcoin for the past few years, this is in my opinion the plain re
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by Mahn 12y ago
Design wise it looks fine, but I feel the page doesn't do a very good job at explaining what it is and why should I be interested. I got it after reading the blog post, so I would suggest to condense that information and make it glance
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by Mahn 12y ago
Out of curiosity, in which ways did your life change? How did you adjust or what do you do differently now that you know?
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by Mahn 12y ago
I'm not sure if I'm alone here, but while I've been loyal to Thunderbird for many years, nowadays I find its speed atrocious: 3-4 seconds to load the application and connect to the google apps email servers, 3-4 seconds until
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by Mahn 12y ago
Exactly, this is the thing people keep forgetting. IE has a market for people who don't change the default browser from their computers, and it's a good thing they are getting a better, modern browser (not that IE11 is bad, mind
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by Mahn 12y ago
> Make one version of Spartan and keep it AUTO-UPDATED, instead of shipping a new version every couple of years that is, more or less, completely decoupled from the previous version. This is what IE 11 currently does, so I would imagine
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by Mahn 12y ago
Could be worse. I still remember when Microsoft maintained both "Windows Messenger" and "MSN Messenger" as separate apps with separate update schedules and version numbers even though it was the same product. That was co
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by Mahn 12y ago
> but is Chrome Android better/as reliable as Safari? Absolutely, not sure what would make you think otherwise. Older versions (a year or two ago) used to have some minor inconveniences ocasionally, such as scrolling lag after using
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by Mahn 12y ago
Sounds like a pretty standard process, I was actually expecting it to be more convoluted for a company of their size.
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by Mahn 12y ago
If I understood correctly, I think his point is that unlike HHVM, which replaces the interpreter altogether, Recki and JIT-Fu can be used for a specific piece of code or algorithm while retaining the original interpreter for the rest of the
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by Mahn 12y ago
That's how internet works. One bug that happens once in a million cases and suddenly the service is no longer reliable and cannot be trusted.
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by Mahn 12y ago
Came to this thread looking for insightful, lengthy comments by people with expertise in DNA and/or the human brain adding information to the original article, found only references to Pinky and the brain. What is the world coming to :
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by Mahn 12y ago
> I think more importantly, most people will stop caring if hotels provide wifi. I will stop caring once international roaming fees stops being a thing. I hope that like you mention it eventually dies off, but right now, I have to assume
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by Mahn 12y ago
Personally I'd love to try it, but all my work email is on Google Apps, not GMail, so no dice. I wish they had prioritized this because for me Inbox makes no sense for a low volume personal email account, which is what I use GMail for.
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by Mahn 12y ago
I doubt Nobel Prize winners procrastinate on HN as much as we do. They are probably busy making things happen.
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Mainstream Use of Bitcoin May Be Plateauing at a Low Level(technologyreview.com)
4 points by Mahn 12y ago|0 comments
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by Mahn 12y ago
My startup, that shall go nameless, provides a service used mainly by the tech illiterate. Early in our first beta we determined we needed to log client side errors since there is quite a lot going on in there, so we quickly implemented a s
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by Mahn 12y ago
Not a big fan of being forced to sign up to see the results of the free test.
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by Mahn 12y ago
It's not that big of a deal to have these fields visible in the first place. The post is a nice trick, but I doubt it has a market for a startup.
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by Mahn 12y ago
For those curious: > "The game would only start if the word was correctly in place in the ROM. If anyone wanted to produce a game without Nintendo's permission, they would be claiming to use the word 'Nintendo' withou
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by Mahn 12y ago
Just a heads up, the font there renders to me as an ugly times new roman, you should probably use something like Google Fonts to load the custom fonts you are using on demand.
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How we really use the web (2000)(sensible.com)
33 points by Mahn 12y ago|17 comments
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by Mahn 12y ago
Everything is relative. If you define "evil pattern" as a design that encourages a certain action that you (the makers/owners) want the user to do for your own benefit, then practically every single sign up form or landing pa
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by Mahn 12y ago
What problem does this solve? Can't you just simply declare the "loosely coupled" methods as functions and call them wherever needed in vanilla javascript? Perhaps I'm missing something but judging by the examples, and a
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by Mahn 12y ago
How did he go from economist at Valve to finance minister in Greece?
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by Mahn 12y ago
Personally I find a couple of hard drives in raid at home the most reliable photo backup strategy. It doesn't protect them from natural disasters, but these are much less likely than a cloud service being bought/sunsetted. I can n
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by Mahn 12y ago
Kind of surprising that Bill Gates would go through the trouble of setting up an amazon referal link for his article.
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by Mahn 12y ago
That would be node-gecko (if it existed), wouldn't it? But yes, it's a bit misleading, by node-firefox I was expecting the full blown browser written in javascript myself.
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by Mahn 12y ago
> and the source code from WRK is easily available on the internet : ( http://gate.upm.ro/os/LABs/Windows_OS_Internals_Curriculum_R... ). These are sources from 2005-2006 timeframe, but they are tremendously help

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