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by Ologn 5y ago
> IPv6 dates back to 1997 and it really should have been adopted more urgently. I went to the NANOG meeting in October 1997. Many (most?) of the people who were responsible for administering the core routers using Internet Protocol at t
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by Ologn 5y ago
I am just window shopping to some extent, but I just looked to see how long it would take to get the no-frills (standard wheels), cheapest Tesla 3 delivered - August ( https://www.tesla.com/model3/design ).
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by Ologn 5y ago
The market also said 14 years ago that subprime mortgages were worth over $1 trillion. This year it says Bitcoins are worth $1 trillion. There is a language of such bubbles - not, here is why it has value, like a loaf of bread or chair or
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by Ologn 5y ago
> having done absolutely no effort in understanding what Bitcoin is To see its value, I don't need to make an effort to understand what a pear is, or a bar of gold, or a house. I and others have looked at Bitcoin, and its trillion d
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by Ologn 5y ago
I agree. Two years ago a slide at a Google I/O talk said "Coroutines first", and coroutine scopes like lifecycleScope are Kotlin only. Jetpack Compose is the future of Android UI and is Kotlin only. Insofar as bringing it in
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Crew leave China's space station for Earth after 90 days(chron.com)
3 points by Ologn 5y ago|1 comments
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by Ologn 5y ago
> One of the problems of having multiple servers is that netsplits can occur. In the early/mid 1990s, the IRC servers in Australia would split from the IRC servers in the US all of the time (sometimes Europe would break from the US
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by Ologn 5y ago
My company assigned me Macbook with a VPN to do programming work. If it were up to me I'd use Linux. I can still get to that BSDish MacOS Unix. I have an Ubuntu desktop and laptop for my personal work.
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by Ologn 5y ago
I have run into this problem more than once. Usually I am not creating the initial data, but am importing it. Usually I have ignored optimizations initially and just loaded and processed the data. Then I go back and hack on the subroutin
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by Ologn 5y ago
Similar with me. Also like you this was over 2 years ago. I looked to advertise on Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit. Facebook didn't seem interested in SMBs and I didn't even advertise on them, it seemed very complex just to
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by Ologn 5y ago
Yes. Officially, every version up to Android 2.3 was for phones. Samsung wanted to make a tablet and made one with 2.2 and 2.3, even though Android did not officially support tablets for those versions. Android 3.x was a version just for
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by Ologn 5y ago
This is what System76 engineers say. That their motherboards are made by an ODM (Clevo), and Clevo sells similar motherboards to customers other than System76 - but that most other OEMs (other than Apple) have their motherboards made by OD
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by Ologn 5y ago
> Linux on the desktop is now around 1-2% by some estimates. I don't think it will ever reach the market share of windows 20 years ago, Linux was an attractive way to be able to work in a Unix environment on the desktop. With the re
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by Ologn 5y ago
> it has historically never been prestigious I would say the M1 is prestigious. It pushed tablets and notebooks forward. You can also go back to 1977, the design of the Apple ][, and all the prestigious innovations (or bringing innovati
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by Ologn 5y ago
There was a paper in Nature where scientists did magnetic imaging of the brain of grandmaster chess players, as well as of advanced amateur players. They found that when evaluating a move, for grandmasters the frontal and parietal cortices
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by Ologn 5y ago
For me the Aeron chair. When you're working from home for a year, shelling out a few hundred dollars for a nice chair is worth it. I bought mine from a chair repair shop which usually deals with commercial clients, it is a refurbishe
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by Ologn 5y ago
> A lot of smart people are invested in crypto: a16z, USV, Paradigm. These aren't greedy VCs -- it's their job to make returns for institutional investors who are often pension funds or charitable endowments, so if it a "P
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by Ologn 5y ago
> Bugsnag have published metrics on what median app stability scores look like: > 99.46% for apps built by 1-10 engineers > 99.60% for apps built by 11-50 engineers > 99.89% for apps built by 51-100 engineers > 99.79% for app
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by Ologn 5y ago
I have been aware for a while how accounting companies had sidelines of IT consulting, some of which grew large and sometimes overshadowed the accounting end (Accenture/AA). What I was not aware of until more recently how the big adver
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by Ologn 6y ago
> I was always surprised [AFS] (or a similar mechanism) was not available in corporate offices. In some ways it was self-fulfilling - corporate offices didn't use it, so there wasn't a great ecosystem, so corporate offices did
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by Ologn 6y ago
One difference between the stock market now and 25 years ago, is back then a hot tech company might IPO at a $1 billion valuation, and a stockholder could buy in and ride it up to $100 billion. Every $1 put into Cisco at its IPO in 1990 tu
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by Ologn 6y ago
I write apps for Android for a living. This summer I wanted to hack with LineageOS or something like that. XDA developers said there was a good build for a new Samsung Android tablet so I bought it. I guess I should have read more as Sams
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by Ologn 6y ago
> Stock markets exist so that companies can raise money to fund their projects The amount of money corporate America raises from initial and secondary offerings in the stock market is negligible relative to corporate bonds, lines of cred
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by Ologn 6y ago
So? I've sustained a bubble for 20 years - that an old, now ripped shirt I used to wear is worth $1000, because I would always be willing to pay $1000 for it if I did not own it. My ripped shirt - 20 years old going strong. I think t
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by Ologn 6y ago
> Companies IPO mostly because they need money not because investors want liquidity The amount of money US companies that need money get via initial or secondary public offerings is minuscule compared to other methods companies raise mon
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by Ologn 6y ago
> First it was over 1 cent, then over $1, over $1000, now over $50k.... when will you consider the possibility you may have been wrong? At $100k? At $1M? (which most models indicate as a plausible target price in 10 years) This is the wr
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by Ologn 6y ago
What I learned is there was not. I got the idea for it one day and four days later I released the first version. One reason for doing it, despite an unknown but probably small market, was I could do it so quickly (I used an free open sour
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by Ologn 6y ago
I began releasing my own Android apps in 2011, and the first several had little or no success. One piece of knowledge I learned from someone is that advertising paid decently for apps with moderate success. Knowing this steered me in a goo
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by Ologn 6y ago
I like Clean Code and Code Complete. Clean Code has a narrative and is opinionated. It explains the experiences that formed those opinions. It is a better read. Code Complete is dry, academic, and comprehensive for its scope. It referenc
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Ask HN: Investing in Renewable Energy?
2 points by Ologn 6y ago|0 comments

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