Splines

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by Splines 9y ago
The reason why AWS isn't a threat is that AWS is a platform and doesn't have any screws to turn against Netflix - they can't raise prices to fight against Netflix because AWS hosts many other customers, and Netflix has a lot
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by Splines 9y ago
I think they understood the economics of depending on an external source for a core part of their business. Much like Netflix, they understood that the way forward was to generate their own content.
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by Splines 9y ago
Appreciate the ideas - I'll look into this. Thanks!
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by Splines 9y ago
Here's an open question that I'm having a hard time finding an answer for: I have a series of images that are basically screenshots of a visual novel (pretty much a comic book). Most of the space of the screenshots are identical
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by Splines 9y ago
> If you follow the right folks on Twitter, you'll get to overhear a lot of conversations about the important issues in Python, R, or what have you, and gain a context that eludes most people who learn programming languages from bo
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by Splines 9y ago
Getting into the enterprise business smashes any remaining cultural whimsy.
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by Splines 9y ago
I agree with the article, at least in that our values and beliefs end up embedded in the examples (e.g., all the emp/dept examples). You need to use some kind of data to help the reader, an abstract concept isn't going to work.
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by Splines 9y ago
Chromecasts are a non-starter for families with children. How are they supposed to stream to the TV when they don't have a phone?
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by Splines 9y ago
> When you say "I would leave immediately", you do mean that you would physically intervene to remove your child, correct? Doing this at 2 years is pretty easy; you can just pick them up and leave. How do you do it at 6 years
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by Splines 9y ago
There's two parts here: a.) What would I do, as the parent, if my child were to throw a tantrum, and b.) How would I react, as a parent, to another child throwing a tantrum. For A: As stated, I would leave immediately. I'll hedg
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by Splines 9y ago
> is that the tantrum isn't shameful or "wrong," it just is. Wait.. it is wrong. If we don't get something that we want, we don't throw a tantrum. Yes, it is an emotional reaction, and it's one that is
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by Splines 9y ago
> Is it okay to make end users addicted to your services? How much of a moat does uber really have? It seems to be only made of money - there is nothing inherent in their product that makes it sticky, only "is this the cheapest r
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by Splines 9y ago
They don't necessarily know that. Imagine you've used this FB feature in the past. You get a mail from @facebookrnail.com that tells you you can just email them the photos without even opening the app now! Well isn't that
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by Splines 9y ago
> Before we reduce this to a slippery slope, what scenario do you envision in which FB could coax its userbase to upload nude photos? I know the OP is about taking a selfie to prove existence. What would FB use as the basis to mandate t
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by Splines 9y ago
The attack against the uploaded hash approach fails with default-deny, which seems like a good thing for users. The current implementation can be attacked by uploading thousands of legitimate images delaying takedown requests - therefore an
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by Splines 9y ago
I disagree: - It sets a precedent for uploading nude photos to FB and for them asking for it. - You need to trust FB to delete the photos when they receive it. Yes, I understand that they probably will, but really, how many systems are t
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by Splines 9y ago
I've always wondered if it were possible to express legal things via code. I imagine that there's a lot of ambiguity that needs "filling in" by a human, but there must be some set of legal arguments that can be literall
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by Splines 9y ago
Are there any easy to use self-hosting packages for this kind of thing? There's also http://www.jollyrogertelco.com/ that is this thing turned into a service. I'd like to use these things but would like somethin
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by Splines 9y ago
Do you manually kill all browser processes? It's certainly plausible that there's a zombie process around so any singleton-thing that does cleanup on last process exit never got a chance to run.
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by Splines 9y ago
I don't understand people in this thread defending Apple when AOSP is clearly more open. Yes, Apple has done well so far, but at the end of the day what are you going to trust? A talking head, or the actual code running on your dev
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by Splines 9y ago
It seems like its more than that: > The progressive clinical presentation of this patient during the prior 24-48 hours, including symptoms of somnolence, lethargy, irritability, nausea, seizure and respiratory depression are consistent
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by Splines 9y ago
> And from personal experience its much easier and more fun than you could dare to expect. Honestly curious - how is this fun? I try to eat less meat for a personal medical reason and finding non-meat dishes is a hassle, and at some r
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by Splines 9y ago
> The performance test has a reasonable amount of noise. At first, 10% of test runs fail it, and people just rerun them. Eventually 90% of test runs fail, and people need to start dealing with it, but the effort required to get it all t
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by Splines 9y ago
Performance is usually death by a thousand cuts, and (imo) the best way of mitigating this is by standardizing some measurements and making that automated. Block changes that move performance past this bar, make sure the organization buys
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by Splines 9y ago
Honestly curious - does the US spread propaganda to the rest of the world? If I had to guess it would be that hollywood historically did most of the work - exporting "American" values and culture to other nations, but I don'
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by Splines 9y ago
How's the performance on it? I tried it recently and found it pretty unsatisfactory. Maybe it was the media - I read somewhere that if the file needs transcoding it's all in software.
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by Splines 9y ago
I feel like Snapchat is aging out of coolness and there's nothing they can do about it. First adopters are in the workforce and probably starting families by now. Do kids want to be on the same social media platform their uncle or au
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by Splines 9y ago
Ugh, that's a really disturbing strategy. Is this a common tactic for freemium games? I've seen "daily login rewards" type things which give you an incentive to play daily, but I've never before seen something tha
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by Splines 9y ago
I've only visited a few times, and someone local could probably give a better idea of how the area is, but my impression of downtown Toronto was that while it is car-accessible it is also very pedestrian friendly. Lots of sidewalk and
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by Splines 9y ago
A little OT, but personally I'm tired of hearing the term "growth mindset". It's a business buzzword that has become as meaningless as the inspirational posters of the 80's and the "hang in there" cat of

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