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   by api 10y ago

   "The Earth has no memory for the dead-ends of evolution. In a few hundred thousand years glaciers would grind our works and our bones into gravel, would grind the gravel into sand, and in a few hundred million years the movement of con
2. 12302.▲
   by api 10y ago

   I think this is more the fault of Apple than the devs of this. So far my experiences as a developer with the app store have been horrific, and I've heard many horror stories far worse than mine. I've also had several occasions to
3. 12303.▲
   by api 10y ago

   It's a trial that lets you install a number of OSes from pre-built images. It's $39 to unlock the ability to install from ISOs or import from Parallels, etc. But I agree. Better to just charge for the damn thing.
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   by api 10y ago

   Dunno, but I'd guess that no chance of winning equals no chance of genuinely sending a message. The objective from what I've heard people say is to cause genuine disruption, like Brexit or electing a blowhard casino boss as Presid
5. 12305.▲
   by api 10y ago

   I know several people who are voting for Trump even though they can't stand him because they think it will send a message. It's basically a "F-U" vote. I even know one who supported Sanders and is now voting for Trump. T
6. 12306.▲
   by api 10y ago

   This is all good news for our industry. Soft numbers among the top players trickle down in the form of reduced demand and investor interest for earlier stage companies. Good numbers send a signal that the industry is healthy. Edit: wow step
7. 12307.▲
   by api 10y ago

   Maybe not in isolation. It has to be taken as part of a larger picture. There is tremendous downward pressure on wages and has been for a long time due mostly to outsourcing, foreign competition, and automation. All those things are deflati
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   by api 10y ago

   Thanks, taking a look. If you had a Linux client we would consider using this for a lot of things.
9. 12309.▲
   by api 10y ago

   The pedigree of the founders probably factors into it. Many VCs take the "we invest in people first" idea very seriously. For them a super-impressive team sells itself, while a less impressive team could only get funded with a ton
10. 12310.▲
    by api 10y ago

    Hole punching still exists in the V6 world if you want an app to do P2P from behind stateful V6 firewalls. It requires a three party handshake just like V4 NAT traversal. But unlike NAT traversal it nearly always works since there are no sy
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    by api 10y ago

    Investments in innovation are a much harder sell. The HN crowd is a minority. Most people alternate between fear and incredulity regarding anything new.
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    by api 10y ago

    > Attacks that can go from inside the network are in practice quite rare (AFAIK) This is not true. Most real world attacks I've seen begin by infiltrating malware via the web, e-mail, social media, or phishing. Once inside existing
13. 12313.▲
    by api 10y ago

    I really passionately hate clueless security FUD.
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    by api 10y ago

    "management is throwing away investors' money on hot cars, bikes, parties and travels etc (only for themselves of course)" Can't comment on whether this is true in this case but I've seen it before and I always wond
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    by api 10y ago

    It's not just financial. Those things are incredibly hard for ordinary people (or busy technical people) to understand and use. Only nerds with lots of time on their hands use such systems. My UX rule of thumb is: every step required t
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    by api 10y ago

    What I've seen is that the vast majority of even top developers don't understand much about how networks work. It's a big barrier.
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    by api 10y ago

    Nearly all the "second tier" clouds support IPv6: Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode, SoftLayer, etc. AWS's services are great but many people just need compute. I don't understand why people who just need compute use AWS, sin
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    by api 10y ago

    Until almost the entire Internet has IPv6 at the endpoint, you're making your stuff unreachable to most people. You will still need an IPv4 gateway. I have IPv6 at home now but still don't have it at our tech-oriented co-working s
19. 12319.▲
    by api 10y ago

    I talk to a lot of people who think lack of NAT "exposes everything" and is a big security problem. I try to explain that firewall is not NAT and NAT is not firewall but people do not seem to be willing to hear or understand this.
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    by api 10y ago

    This is really just a pro-skeumorphism rant. I'm personally not a fan of skeumorphism, especially when taken to extremes like the silly leather calendar in previous OS X versions. The real problem I have with Apple is the abysmal devel
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    by api 10y ago

    A friend of mine recently said something similar. He said that there's basically no new music or movie plots because antidepressants and abundant entertainment have killed everyone's muse by doping them up and making them... well.
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    by api 10y ago

    Commodore Amiga had by far the best chance. Commodore could have been Apple with better management.
23. 12323.▲
    by api 10y ago

    Hardware companies are really really traditional in their business thinking and do not understand virality or 'priming the pump' at all. They do a straight-up market size analysis, conclude that the (current) market is small, and
24. 12324.▲
    by api 10y ago

    I think humans will eventually visit a few planets and maybe live on the Moon or Mars. To go further will require either radical bioengineering or AI / brain upload. (The distinction gets blurry there.) We are just too fragile and we d
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    by api 10y ago

    Running a server is annoying and requires a level of technical expertise beyond what most people possess, and Medium is pretty and easy to use. It's really the new blogger.
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    by api 10y ago

    But nuclear had far scarier edge case failures, and the industry has discredited itself by constantly claiming these are "impossible" as they continue to happen. I don't disagree that coal is worse. Coal is one long protracte
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    by api 10y ago

    I am the author of parts of it, namely the network virtualization engine. A mod can retitle it if they want.
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    by api 10y ago

    Blog announcement: https://www.zerotier.com/blog/?p=910
29. 12329.▲
    by api 10y ago

    I'm not going to say don't write crypto. Instead I will give more useful advice: if you do write crypto, make it boring. Really boring. Do not invent anything. Do not be creative. Use an established modern construction with modern
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    by api 10y ago

    I'm not convinced there are no good options. The problem has not been thoroughly studied.