Malic

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by Malic 11y ago
I worked for a short stint at a product development company that was getting into IoT. I came to the realization that IoT products are going to be just like the WWW in the early days - we are going to have a lot of dumb ideas before we have
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by Malic 11y ago
Yes. I run a private Fever install - http://feedafever.com/
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by Malic 11y ago
Perhaps of deeper interest is the opening paragraph: Yesterday, the 46-year-old Google veteran who oversees its search engine, Amit Singhal, announced his retirement. And in short order, Google revealed that Singhal’s rather enormous shoes
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AI Is Transforming Google Search. The Rest of the Web Is Next(wired.com)
7 points by Malic 11y ago|1 comments
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by Malic 11y ago
It was that way back in the 80s - there were other networks. BITNET connected some universities but not all of them. ARPANET connected some government contractors and researchers but not all of them. There were others but my memory gets fuz
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by Malic 11y ago
We've seen this before. Apple's silence in the past is because 1) they are doing their due diligence in fact gathering and 2) if change is necessary, coming up with a plan to do so. Meaning you'll hear nothing from them until
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by Malic 11y ago
> It's possible to use VR to implant false memories. Prove to me that is not happening to you this moment. ;)
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by Malic 11y ago
I'm not sure where that thinking ("...Enterprise customers just want to buy...") comes from. It happens a lot where I am asked to "come up with a plan, in broad strokes and ballpark figures, by Thursday" and if I ca
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by Malic 11y ago
Brunel makes occasional appearances along side Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage in Sydney Padua's alternative-history web comic "2D Goggles", which is worth your time... http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/c
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by Malic 11y ago
And here I thought it would be about whether ZSNES or SNES9X was better at emulating Donkey Kong Country.
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by Malic 11y ago
DeMarco and Lister's "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams" was published way back in 1987 with 2 new editions over the years. And even the first edition untouched is still completely relevant. While its focus is "g
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by Malic 11y ago
...fly safe!
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by Malic 11y ago
As a sci-fi author, Stross is known for having a t-shirt that reads "I tell lies for money." (One of multiple reasons that I'm a fan of his!)
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by Malic 11y ago
And here I thought, "Steven Levy's book has been out longer than 20 years..."
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by Malic 11y ago
I do think the loss of visual affordances was a mistake on Apple's part. But enabling Button Shapes does offset things quite a bit. However, I do suspect that not all developers test with Button Shapes enabled. The native Twitter clien
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by Malic 11y ago
I see what you did there. For the rest of you: 418 I'm a teapot (RFC 2324)
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by Malic 11y ago
More AWS specifics here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerg... ...and GitHub hosted backends: https://github.com/awslabs/dynamodb-titan-storage-backend
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Amazon Releases DynamoDB Storage Back End for Titan(thinkaurelius.github.io)
2 points by Malic 11y ago|1 comments
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by Malic 11y ago
It's been brought up here before but relevant again in case you missed it the first time. The original developer for R-Type for the ZX Spectrum wrote up a detailed story of the technical challenges for developing the game. Shaving cycl
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by Malic 11y ago
Software flaws have been know to kill, so "killing software" has been with us for awhile. For more details, check out Peter G Neumann's "Computer-Related Risks". Automatic doors crushing people, radiation equipmen
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by Malic 12y ago
I suspect that @SwiftOnSecurity will have something to say about this.
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by Malic 12y ago
Probably, yes - and yes.
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by Malic 12y ago
"long-term-view.cfm"!? Cold Fusion? That's still a thing?!
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by Malic 12y ago
Sounds about as much fun as FOOF: http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_won... Joke Q: Where do you look to find chemists that have discovered FOOF on their own? A: A cemetery.
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by Malic 12y ago
There was a time where computers was available only to "the priesthood of computing." You had to be in a special group in a very big company (or military research setting). Because no one else understood these so-called electronic
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by Malic 12y ago
Wow. I am surprised too. However, the site is display responsive. Shrinking the browser width to mobile device proportions reduces impact of the shocking color scheme - maybe non-desktop access was the designer's intended primary audie
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by Malic 12y ago
I would view it as a "code smell" - if you aren't concerned about mixed single/double quote usage, then what ELSE aren't you concerned about?
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by Malic 12y ago
I thought 'suspended jacuzzi' would have been the name of a IDM musical duo.
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by Malic 12y ago
It seems there was a licensing problem using ZFS on OSX: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2009/10/apple-abandons-zfs-on-m...
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Record-Breaking Nanowire Transistors [using Gallium Arsenide](cen.acs.org)
1 points by Malic 12y ago|0 comments

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