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by augustl 9y ago
No Bitcoin-based protocol that handles money , at least. https://www.civic.com/ is based on the Bitcoin protocol. It's a service for putting signed information about a user in a block chain, so that you don't nee
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by augustl 10y ago
> Google and Mozilla stopped developing a UWP native UI for their web browsers, as it would only be active if the browser was set as the default Woha. That is pretty crazy.
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by augustl 10y ago
I was thinking more in terms of an ecosystem for desktop app developers. Let's say you want to make a game for Linux. How do you package it? Do you have to make RPMs, debs and/or something else? Do you rely on dependencies availab
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by augustl 10y ago
> Here's to the crazy ones. That one hit home.. Based on my lack of options (Windows sucks, macOS is OK but the hardware sucks, Linux lacks a desktop ecosystem) I feel just like a crazy one, a misfit, the ones Apple addressed in tha
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by augustl 10y ago
I wonder why there aren't more pictures and videos of Fukushima. For Chernobyl, we even have youtubers now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kg4vVYKc90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRHnApxVFQU
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by augustl 10y ago
It's unfortunate that the "free" version only supports two peers. No scaling and/or convenience for open source projects, apparently!
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by augustl 10y ago
I think it depends on the platform, and libraries available on said platform. On the JVM, I create webapps using a @ServletContextListener class, which essentially is a "main" that gets the servlet context passed to it. You could
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by augustl 10y ago
In my experience, I've been able to completely avoid the framework, rather than building my own. I end up with pretty much the same controller and db access code, absolutely no implicit logic, a "main" entry point (in my case
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by augustl 10y ago
I've found that without a framework, there is very little to actually connect. I use something like spring-context for stateful things like datasources and queue connections, for clean setup/teardown. In the controller, I call a s
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by augustl 10y ago
All projects will have custom code in it, the business logic, that other unfamiliar developers will have to learn, regardless of whether or not a framework is used. If instead of a framework you use a platform, like Ring on Clojure, Faceboo
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by augustl 10y ago
Cool! I think the moment I can tell my friends to "go here, install this thing and sign up" something will happen. A lot of people will want to produce content without a 3rd party controlling it!
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by augustl 10y ago
Looking forward to the day when we get a decentralized microblogging platform where clicking iOS/Android app store link and installing the app is all you need to get started. Until then, or until something like Sandstorm takes hold as
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by augustl 10y ago
Good point! Just train it with recordings that has no reverberation, and add it later.
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by augustl 10y ago
Good point! Are (some of) the chords completely made up, for example, or is it only using chords it has heard before?
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by augustl 10y ago
The music examples are utterly fascinating. It sounds insanely natural. The only thing I can hear that sounds unnatural, is the way that the reverberation in the room (the "echo") immediately gets lower when the raw piano sound it
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by augustl 10y ago
> Any positive experiences with micro-services here? In my experience, any monolith that can be broken up into a queue based system will benefit enormously. This cleans up the pipelines, and adds monitoring and scaling points (the queues
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by augustl 10y ago
I heard somewhere that when we apply all our knowledge to compute the position of the moon, it is a couple of feet off when we measure it, and we don't know why. I have been trying to find a source for that, but I've failed. Perha
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by augustl 10y ago
Interesting relevant tidbit by Linus Torvalds himself about the packaging and distribution of Linux "desktop apps". Basically, Linus has made a desktop app, and the website distributes binaries for Windows and OS X, but not for Li
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by augustl 10y ago
This is interesting and quite philosophical. Is there a difference between procedures and data? Isn't it all just transistors and capcitors anyway? And is anyting really anything? Isn't it all just really quantum fields? Practical
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by augustl 10y ago
React Native is a React based JavaScript runtime that renders by using React output as a base when talking to the APIs of various different native platforms. As an example, React Native for iOS renders the GUI using UIKit.
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by augustl 10y ago
Hopefully it is just a question of time before we have retina resolution even for panels that are a few inches from our eyes and magnified with optics.
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by augustl 10y ago
About Time by Paul Davies is amazing! http://www.amazon.com/About-Time-Einsteins-Unfinished-Revolu...
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by augustl 10y ago
I'm not sure why, but something makes you stand out. I love that you present without slides, for example, and I can't think of anyone else doing that.
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by augustl 10y ago
It would be interesting to see how many of us that has had conversations with Pieter Hintjens. I suspect a sizable chunk of the HN crowd has interacted with him. I've enjoyed his company on many conferences, and while he presents himse
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by augustl 11y ago
Wow, that's an interesting hack. I can't think of any workarounds either. EDIT: As pointed out in a comment elsewhere in this thread: > The simplest defeat is to require the key ping round trip to complete in N microseconds, wh
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by augustl 11y ago
That's interesting. JavaScript has enough quirks to warrant an is-positive-integer module.
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by augustl 11y ago
Seems that this initial release only supports python. The client is obviously heavy, since it has to run all the queries, etc. Thankfully the protocol is well defined, so it's just a question of effort to support more languages. https
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by augustl 11y ago
The D4 actually have 5 cylinders. All the DX motors on the XC60 has, the difference is in the cc.
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by augustl 11y ago
Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky have their roots in the Windows community, so they used what they were familiar with.
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by augustl 11y ago
I love the phrase "if you're the only one with an idea, it's probably a bad idea" :)

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