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by aquark 14y ago
My ISP feels it is 'reasonable' to charge $10\month for one. $10 x 4B x 12 months would solve the national debt in just a few years...
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by aquark 14y ago
I switched to ZenDesk when it became too much to manage requests in GMail. It works fine, but I noticed a drop off in user engagement which I think was due to the more 'formal' looking way support tickets appeared. When I was just respondi
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by aquark 14y ago
I did exactly the same thing -- was looking at boottheme and wondering how to generate something other than the default. Never occurred to me to wonder what the dice icon did.
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The dark side of light: negative frequency photons(arstechnica.com)
102 points by aquark 14y ago|52 comments
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by aquark 14y ago
Interesting -- but doesn't all that work to remove the 300ms delay mean make the site totally broken on any browser that doesn't generate touchstart/touchend/touchmove events? I guess you could code around this by catching the click event a
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by aquark 14y ago
Conventional wisdom would be to install conduit in the walls and leave installing the actual fiber until you are planning on using it.
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by aquark 14y ago
I'm looking for something similar ... so checked it out. In an oddly ironic way http://termsfeed.com/terms-of-use and http://termsfeed.com/privacy-policy return empty pages
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by aquark 14y ago
Intel's VTune will measure TLB misses, along with many many other detailed CPU/cache/memory diagnostics and is a great tool to identify these types of issues.
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by aquark 14y ago
Just started up try using filepicker.io and it seems to be down too. Beginning to feel pretty lucky though -- this is at least the 4th AWS-East outage that has made enough of a splash to notice but missed my instances. Upgrading to multipl
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by aquark 14y ago
Looks very feature rich ... but to be honest the aesthetics need work. A huge part of this space relates to appearance obviously and the sample dashboards just don't look as polished as the competitors, even if they offer more widgets and
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by aquark 14y ago
Looks interesting. I looked at Geckoboard a while ago but gave up since the dashboards didn't offer the flexibility I needed at the time, and they were just too slow to render (I don't have a dedicated screen, just want to it the page oft
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by aquark 15y ago
Often the most productive hour of my day design-wise is the hour long run at lunchtime. Not only that it makes the afternoon far more productive too as I am much more awake than if I skip it.
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by aquark 15y ago
I like the new look. I've used DDG as a default search engine on my main computer for several months now and kept Google on others. Recently I've noticed that I am consistently missing some of DDG's features when still using Google so it m
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by aquark 15y ago
The speed of the request is probably not linear with the size either. At 700-800 bytes for an average HTTP request you are below the single packet size. Given the overhead of processing the packet the extra bytes are pretty cheap: a 1 byte
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by aquark 15y ago
From the first paragraph: "In the past decade the amount of data being created has skyrocketed. More than 30000 gigabytes of data are generated every second, and the rate of data creation is only accelerating" How could you even hope to put
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by aquark 15y ago
Note: if you pass the qualifier you need to provide a Skype id to register for the challenge itself.
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by aquark 15y ago
Greengoose looks interesting, but I've just read every page I could find on their site (3 mins?) and still don't understand exactly what the 'sensors' are and what they can 'sense'. How does a sensors tell if I've fed the dog today?
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by aquark 15y ago
My concern is what I'd be signing up for by having one -- does it mean I need to file some US tax paperwork annually even if there is no income?
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by aquark 15y ago
May be available to Canadians, but you appear to need a 'tax identification number' from the IRS to open the account. "Form W-8BEN should be completed by all Non-US developers planning to make their applications available for sale to US cus
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by aquark 15y ago
I'm missing something ... where is the intelligence in how your message gets translated to the hook? As far as I can see the whole 'tell me the top story' bit it fluff ... isn't it just matching 'hacker news' against the SMS? What happens w
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by aquark 15y ago
Intel & HP tried this with the Itanium. A decade (or two) and billions of dollars later and x86 or at least x64 is still king. No doubt they made some mistakes, but it wasn't for lack of trying. (And having debugged code on an ia64 I'm
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by aquark 15y ago
You say that he has "no real set hours, just that he gets stuff done": is he getting stuff done? If he isn't getting the expected stuff done, then that is the discussion you need to have. If you aren't happy with the amount of stuff you are
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by aquark 15y ago
I more or less get this functionality using Canada Post's ePost integration with my bank's web site, though the implementation could be a lot smoother. I don't get a paper tax bill from the City, I get a notification by email and when I log
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by aquark 15y ago
The list of valid cities in the US is likely huge -- having an auto complete list that matched anything would likely make it harder as the users has to scroll past a lot of close but not the right ones. Populating the auto-complete list wit
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by aquark 15y ago
I have a large music/photo collection I sync with AeroFS. I have multiple machines on my network with ten's of GB of spare disk space, so this provides a good backup policy without needing to consider how I should back up all that data off
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by aquark 15y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=2877037
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by aquark 15y ago
Thanks for sharing the data. Can you break this down into how many actual servers you have? Is providing a high level of redundancy the source of the high costs? Why do the S3 numbers fluctuate so much -- that implies a lot of transient da
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by aquark 15y ago
I got an adjustable standing desk a couple of months ago. It took a little bit of getting used to, but less than I expected. At first the sit/stand ratio was around 50%, alternating every couple of hours. Now I just tend to sit if I am eat
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by aquark 15y ago
There was a previous discussion of this last year: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1537825 I also recall (but can't find) another discussion of screen scraping where the consensus seemed to be 'be very careful of the legalities'. If
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by aquark 15y ago
Getting on a plane would be a fairly common use case, and independent of the 'power' level of the user. Disclaimer: I don't own an iOS device, so don't know how intuitive it might or might not be.

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