aboodman

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by aboodman 7y ago
Say "hashed sequence" or something instead :-).
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by aboodman 8y ago
Flutter does its own painting. It's different, and closer to a game engine than what React is doing. That results in different tradeoffs.
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by aboodman 8y ago
> There's no travel guide for how to find that one great off-the-beaten-path spot that you'll remember for the rest of your life while still making it back to your job on Monday. That's pretty much what the Rick Steves boo
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by aboodman 8y ago
I used to work on Chrome. There have been periodic sandbox escapes, and chained exploits that escape to userland are routinely performed at pwn2own. This is just notable because there is a live exploit in the wild.
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by aboodman 8y ago
I'm not sure I completely follow you, but there's nothing preventing a party from making use of the legal system or contracts or whatever in addition to a blockchain. I still think that making some common classes of dispute imposs
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by aboodman 8y ago
> a database and a contract between parties are a superior solution. Do you believe that this is a permanent state, or a temporary one? Is there a potential blockchain-like thing that could exist which would be better than a database and
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by aboodman 8y ago
People say this because blockchains are currently extremely complex and expensive in exchange for the value prop "don't need to be hosted by a trusted authority". That doesn't mean the value prop doesn't exist - it
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by aboodman 8y ago
... Spanner? It's by the same company.
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by aboodman 8y ago
This also means that it will be impossible for third parties to limit access to your articles. ?? I don't understand. Somebody, somewhere is hosting the reading UI at vitriol.co, right? That's the chokepoint to attack. Political
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by aboodman 8y ago
I think you have your answer: the stock market has had massive declines, and yet people still pursue and invest in stocks.
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by aboodman 8y ago
Of you watch the video on the landing page they describe that olivine is a very common by-product of mining for other stuff. Currently the practice is to just pile it up, as it's worthless. So you don't even need to mine it (at le
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by aboodman 8y ago
I just looked and here are some of my ex-regular haunts from ~16 years ago that are still kicking: https://www.yelp.com/biz/japonica-new-york-2 https://www.yelp.com/biz/irving-farm-coffee-roasters-
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by aboodman 8y ago
I lived there for years and loved it. It makes for an incredibly vibrant neighborhood feel. Everytime you go for a walk there's someplace new to stop. Yes, lots of places don't make it, but lots of places do make it and stick ar
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by aboodman 8y ago
This is just about implementation, not shipping. It's still extremely early in the process. See: https://www.chromium.org/blink/launching-features
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by aboodman 8y ago
https://github.com/attic-labs/noms Import two snapshots of data like this: csv-import --dest-type="map:0" dump0.csv /noms/mydb::data csv-import --dest-type="map:0" dump1.csv /no
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by aboodman 8y ago
Looks like Atlantia is a conglomerate that has a large controlling interest in Autostrade per l'Italia and similar businesses. Autostrade per l'Italia is still a business entity, so it seems appropriate to me for the article to re
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by aboodman 8y ago
You read a different article than me: > He warned the company that manages the bridge, Autostrade per l’Italia, or Highways for Italy, but he said that it never followed up on his recommendation to perform a fuller computer study and to
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by aboodman 8y ago
> They're just not useful for all the things that are being promised (yet). Also, just like the internet wasn't. Exactly. The early internet was full of promises of taking over retail. None of that worked, at first. Instead the
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by aboodman 8y ago
1/ I think people assume that self-driving cars will "succeed" in a binary sense. I do not think that is how it plays out. I think there is a long, slow process of self-driving cars working a little better in a little more pl
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by aboodman 8y ago
> Slightly different abstractions here, but yes, in most cases a "diff" is a tail of an op log. On request, it gets compacted and sent. I guess, in noms you leverage immutable data structures for that. What happens in the case
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by aboodman 8y ago
Hi gritzko! I hadn't seen RON It looks really interesting - I'll definitely take some time to play with it sometime soon. It's so great how much work is happening in this space right now. > 1-3 is generally true for ORDTs
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by aboodman 8y ago
The history is stored such that shared data is mostly shared between snapshots. So it generally grows much more slowly than the logical size. But yeah, you have to store history for as far back as the amount of time you want to be able to b
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by aboodman 8y ago
Hi archagon, Have you checked out Noms ( https://github.com/attic-labs/noms )? > But studying Differential Sync further, I realized that a number of details made it a non-starter. First, though the approach seems simp
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by aboodman 8y ago
Ah, so I was. Fair enough.
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by aboodman 8y ago
No you need to work 15-20 years, depending on tax rates. Unless you meant 130k after tax (which is doable today for many engineers).
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by aboodman 9y ago
(not widely used though)
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by aboodman 9y ago
https://github.com/attic-labs/noms (full disclosure: my project)
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by aboodman 9y ago
IIIUC the fundemental datamodel here is a log of changes. A "query engine" is layered on top to get reasonable query performance, but that amounts to maintaining a materialized view for any data that might want to be queried. Othe
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by aboodman 9y ago
As a consumer you likely wouldn't -- you'd buy the tokens as needed and liquidate them immediately. As an investor you might for the same reason you would invest in any other enterprise. If you believe that the application is like
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by aboodman 9y ago
It depends on how they are used, but frequently, yes. Even so, you can sell to accredited investors totally legally. A few ICOs have worked this way.

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