Phlarp

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by Phlarp 7y ago
That South American manual labor workout.
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by Phlarp 7y ago
My experiences were all with their "dedicated" or "managed" cloud services. Although I did notice that their marketing seemed to shift in the last months I was working with them for that employer from "let us help
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by Phlarp 7y ago
+1 for Rack support. A previous company I worked for was heavily invested in Rackspace infrastructure and while I often opined not getting the equivalent experience with AWS for the resume, I was regularly floored with the quality of their
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by Phlarp 7y ago
So Soviet characters that speak English with a slavic accent would be less distracting? Surely if you are bothered by this they should be speaking Russian with English subtitles.
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by Phlarp 7y ago
Password managers seem like somewhat wasted effort when you pass all the plaintext around on Android. Feels like a security minefield; only a matter of time until a vulnerability or outright malicious app starts reading them. Obviously if y
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by Phlarp 7y ago
What about the baseband?
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by Phlarp 7y ago
Internally there is nothing rigid to crack, they should bend with enough force. Catching fire is a real concern, but if you can get the battery voltage down real low they should be inert enough to pry out if you can manage it without punct
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by Phlarp 7y ago
Haptic feedback. I don't understand how they can understand how essential this is and implement it with increasing sophistication in both phones and trackpads but abdicate it entirely with the Touch Bar. To the point that third party
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by Phlarp 7y ago
Expectation of privacy. Roads are mostly public, Google Glass can go all kinds of places
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by Phlarp 7y ago
I think the prevailing wisdom is that engagement suffers more from latency on mobile.
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by Phlarp 7y ago
Still plenty of room for custom configuration and plugins. Lots of things people want that you can charge for outside of VPS administration.
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by Phlarp 7y ago
Because there is some glut of smart qualified people gunning for those public sector jobs?
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by Phlarp 7y ago
If they are a UK company with a prominent young leader it seems just as likely to get you investigated or indicted.
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by Phlarp 7y ago
We aren't being presented any evidence that they are playing both sides of the table that brazenly. However, I can't see a situation where if the firm were in a position to stop the ransomware globally that they would actually do
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by Phlarp 7y ago
I would agree the resume prestige has diminished from what it once was, but I think it's a little far to suggest that any rank and file ENGINEER would have compromised ethics just from choosing to work there. Facebook uses cutting edg
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by Phlarp 7y ago
Hey, at least they are going to roll "Nest" accounts into "Google" accounts so hopefully the app can stop asking me to set up sms based 2fa everytime I try to change the temp. All that employee stock from the acquisition
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by Phlarp 7y ago
I've never had an 18650 Li-ion cell go off on me, but I have had LiPo cells decompose while still strapped to my drone and those produce copious amounts of thick smoke (which I'm told is not great for you in confined spaces)
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by Phlarp 7y ago
They don't have to know how any of it works, they just have to buy one on a chinese website and plug it into their 12v car port
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by Phlarp 7y ago
Sounds like a booby trap, which would carry some nasty liability here in the states.
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by Phlarp 7y ago
If you really feel this way, go read the comments in the thread about Eric Schmidt leaving the Alphabet board of directors. Larry and Sergey are far from an "ideal" and the blind hero worship is unlikely to serve you. It's
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by Phlarp 7y ago
Is there anything about this staff of writers that qualifies them to give valuable advice to the types of people that frequent hacker news?
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by Phlarp 7y ago
>Would you be okay if apps with the same capabilities were marketed as a way to catch cheating spouses? Aren't apps with these same capabilities (and more) being marketed as a way to track and spy on a spouse? (regardless of their f
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by Phlarp 7y ago
Apple's motivation to grow Apple Maps is the same as Google's motivation to grow their maps product-- commoditize the complement. They both spend lots of money on maps in the hope that users will use those maps on each corporation
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by Phlarp 7y ago
I honestly don't understand the fear of usage based billing. It's the only sane way to charge for this kind of thing. The marginal price for a "unit" of data is just too high. The real "cost" of delivering a te
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by Phlarp 7y ago
Mine is 1tb/month, but $50/month to get unlimited. The sooner internet gets treated like a utility the better.
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by Phlarp 7y ago
Driving a semi-truck remotely? What could possibly go wrong!
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by Phlarp 7y ago
My home connection has a data cap now (fuck you comcast) so the first 5g provider to sell a real unlimited plan will get my money.
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by Phlarp 8y ago
It's a shame google maps is so much better than the alternatives, but it's probably somewhat related to the amount of data they collect.
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by Phlarp 8y ago
Likely an understanding that she would unwind the company gracefully without touching the shiney glass case full of $BABA and a trust that should would execute that understanding faithfully.
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by Phlarp 8y ago
Google talk/hangouts chat still works and does this. Although you are also correct in that case as Google is distracted and doesn't care about Google talk. And of course fragmentation-- Even if Talk, Signal, Whatsapp and Telegram

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