ancarda

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1. 721.▲
   by ancarda 13y ago

   There doesn't seem to be any indication of usage limits on the API or a pricing structure (i.e free is 500 hits/hr). Free APIs are cool but expensive to run. Where is the money coming from to fund this service?
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   by ancarda 13y ago

   The seed "HN" produces a fairly stable world (1 car makes it quite far). Eventually crashes.
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   by ancarda 13y ago

   If you use Safari (on OS X), you'll get a much closer rendering to the actual device.
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   by ancarda 13y ago

   >Google and its partners in the WebM project want to establish the codec as a royalty-free standard for HTML5 video and for web video calling using WebRTC. They could also remove, as they promised, h.264 support from Chrome. You know, th
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   by ancarda 13y ago

   Interesting to see "NSA Jobs" is 4th.
6. 726.▲
   by ancarda 13y ago

   Perhaps I'm pessimistic but my immediate thought is how much Google is involved, i.e are they providing the backbones the balloons connect to? The last thing I'd want is Google knowing every URL I visit.
7. 727.▲
   by ancarda 13y ago

   Could it be due to the hardware?
8. 728.▲
   by ancarda 13y ago

   I wonder what kind of equipment they use. I can't imagine strapping a Raspberry Pi to my cat to find out what he's up to. Do they use custom built hardware?
9. 729.▲
   by ancarda 13y ago

   Why not sign your own certificate[1]? Is there any reason to trust StartSSL? How do we trust any SSL company? They may well be giving private keys to the NSA, especially if the certificate is free. [1] To clarify I mean for personal use lik
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    by ancarda 13y ago

    Interesting to see how big is house is. I wonder how much money Dotcom made off MegaUpload.
11. 731.▲
    by ancarda 13y ago

    Close, but it still doesn't beat Yvettes' [1] [1] http://websitesfromhell.net/view/yvettesbridalformal.com-10/ (Site is no longer up).
12. 732.▲
    by ancarda 13y ago

    And yet nobody seems to be interested in Dart.
13. 733.▲
    by ancarda 13y ago

    I'd be interested to know what areas jumped out as "fanboy-ish" to you.
14. 734.▲
    by ancarda 13y ago

    It doesn't seem to scale well at large sizes. It's almost unusable in fullscreen Safari on 1920x1080.
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    by ancarda 13y ago

    Are those calculations taking in a healthy amount of redundancy? BlackBlaze Storage Pods were designed without any redundancy as it's done purely in software by the company. They just let the hardware fail and replace the drives. The d
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    by ancarda 13y ago

    Running a regular node is fine as you're routing encrypted information for the Tor network - your unlikely to get any hassle although check your countries laws on crypto first. Running an exit node may be a different story. You could g
17. 737.▲
    by ancarda 13y ago

    You can add # which seems to make it ignore the trailing slash: http://www.example.com/#
18. 738.▲
    by ancarda 13y ago

    Would performance increase with average internet speed (upload), right now it's ~5.34 MBit/s[1] which probably gets worse when hopping through several nodes. It's a shame Ookla doesn't provide latency statistics. I'
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    by ancarda 13y ago

    I've been saying this for years. Pretty much all I've said over the last few days is "I told you so". My biggest concern is come a week everyone will go back to not caring and I'll go back to pestering people to giv
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    by ancarda 13y ago

    My ISP hasn't given me an IPv6 address so I can't play with it easily so it remains a mystery for me. I managed to get a tunnel up and running so I could test & configure the IPv6 address my server had available for years but
21. 741.▲
    by ancarda 13y ago

    Is anybody going to vote Pro or Fence on Hacker News? I'm not sure if we need a poll to understand what this site's opinion on PRISM is.
22. 742.▲
    by ancarda 13y ago

    We want to break into Android as soon as we can but right now there's a lower barrier to entry for iOS apps regarding testing & development. It's also convenient we happened to have Macs to develop on. If we were using Windows or Linux,
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    by ancarda 13y ago

    To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if there was any preference to the platform. The marketshare of iOS is 25% and Android is 38%[1]. In that 25% almost all iOS users have a consistent screen size, DPI and even OS version. Any changes (th
24. 744.▲
    by ancarda 13y ago

    >I let someone else borrow my computer This is precisely why there is a guest account on my computer that other people can use. It's fully sand-boxed in the sense they can't access accounts I'm logged into. It should really be enabled b
25. 745.▲
    by ancarda 13y ago

    Ah, somebody picked up on that. Although, I should point out I generally cringe when I see a Facebook thread or something similar at the bottom of every damn page on every site.
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    by ancarda 13y ago

    Ads, tracking cookies, annoying JavaScript, Facebook like buttons (tracking), inane comments just to name a few. Modern websites are pretty horrible.
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    by ancarda 13y ago

    Since Camino is based off Firefox, is it possible to backport some of the OS X specific code? The primary reason why I'm still using Safari rather than Firefox is because it lacks Keychain support.
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    by ancarda 13y ago

    "backup mode"? That really seems to imply the main way to print is to send everything through your servers.
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    by ancarda 13y ago

    I stopped watching when I realised this printer is "cloud based" and "connects wirelessly to their servers". You know what? Call me when it can connect wirelessly to my computer, just as my 2D printer does right now.
30. 750.▲
    by ancarda 13y ago

    There are a few children who are being raised bilingually with Lojban as a mother tongue so the original purpose may end up being fulfilled. It'll be interesting to see how they turn out. xu baupli la .lojban. .i mi nintadni