billyhoffman

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by billyhoffman 4y ago
And that reason is IBM
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
I immediately started humming the theme song as soon as I saw this item's title. Anyone else?
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
Hire sales people 2 at a time. If you hire just 1, they will have an endless list of reasons they aren’t making sales (product doesn’t demo well, not enough marketing, bad leads, etc). sales will always say this, but with more than one, yo
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
Get Transports Teleporters, and your troops have a 50% change to bypass the ships in orbit. If its late game, the planet you take should have high population and production, so it can build a bunch of missile bases on the turn after you tak
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
I switched to the Mac about 10 years ago. The biggest pain point I haven't really been able to solve (before this app) is switching between 2 specific windows in 2 different applications. On Windows this was as easy as ALT+tab Perfect
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
I built Kennedy and it was a delight to see it mentioned here. Thank you I particularly like Gemini as a hacker. Currently it is roughly the size of the WWW in 1993. This makes it a lot of fun for making crawlers, full text search with stem
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
This is specifically about Facebook selling Ads. Don't broaden this to be about policing all speech on their platform. If Facebook sells ad space, they 100% are responsible to vet that the ad meets their standards before publishing. No
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
The article talks about this and allows you access Flash as if it was very slow RAM (fronted with a 16K cache of actual RAM). This allows the author to do many things like directly access the levels and textures without loading them into RA
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
The attackers were advertising that they handled the routes for the 2 IP addresses to which developers.kakao.com resolves. They did this so the CA would send the domain validation request to their systems (which is done over HTTP), "pr
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
Do you have data on the efficacy of your solution? How many fewer spam and phishing attempts do your customers receive vs non-customers? What is the rate of successful identity theft against your users vs a similarly technical and privacy c
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
Got it in 4!
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
The full version of Brin and Page's classic paper "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" [1], which describes the early architect of Google and is an interested read in its own right, literally has &quo
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
When will they get to the fireworks factory!?!?
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
I’ve been working on a search engine for Gemini space [1] and have been reading a lot of early search engine papers including this one. This Google paper is pretty good but I prefer the description of Mercator (which became Alta Vista’s cra
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
Reasonable (though fairly hackneyed) advice. Until I get to this: > I let my boss know I was leaving in February, so my commitment to see things through to the end of the year was effectively a 10-month notice period. This, ironically, w
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
> the youngsters seem more interested in insta ... which is owned by FB. Between Instagram securing the audience of the next generation, and Whatsapp gaining huge share as the communication tool of developing world, FB is going to do jus
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
Magic Lasso is what enabled me to finally stop using Chrome on my personal devices and just use Safari. I’ve been a happy (and paying) Magic Lasso user for over a year since I heard you advertise on some Mac podcasts. Thank you for building
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
The bulletin board in the 2nd season also echoed LucasArts “Habitat” which is discussed in length in Levy’s book
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
Which makes the Apple presentations all the more impressive. The camera is head-on, but I don't notice anyone's eye's moving as if reading a teleprompter. I think they've memorize it
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
No it’s not. Deleting 4B objects costs $20, via DELETE and LIST requests. As the article says DELETEs are free and you can do bulk deletes of 1000 objects at a time. However you need to have the object names. You get those using LIST, which
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
Sure, but how do you measure “value delivered?” Even assuming you could measure some quantity that your product delivered (for example time the product saves the user from doing a task) you still are going to have vastly different interpret
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
Apple does like to keep models at certain price points. Just look at the 2nd generation MacBook Air, which stayed with us, un-retina screen and all, from years after the MBP and MacBook, to hit to $999 price point. A 13" M1 MBP allows
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
In isolation, maybe. But it follows the naming convention of their iPhones models: base model < pro model < pro max model
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
True, but you are talking about devices that are 4-6 years old. Storage is now soldered. Ram has been soldered for a while now, and with Apple Silicon its part of the SoC.
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
Seems reasonable. They still sell the Intel Mac mini, despite having an M1 powered Mac mini already. The Intel one uses the old “black aluminum means pro” design language of the iMac Pro. Feels like they are keeping it as a placeholder in t
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
Indeed. The M1 Max can drive 3 6K monitors and a 4K TV all at once. Why? Professional film editors and color graders. You can be working on the three 6K monitors and then Output your render to the 4K TV simultaneously
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
Agreed. @dang can we change the title? The words "billionaire" "sweatshop" or "empire" never appear in the article, let alone the title. Reasonable people can disagree about this approach to building and runnin
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
I think people like Ford, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, are the exception that proves the rule. It is astronomically rare for a CEO to be that involved at a micro-level and be successful.
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
CEOs of publicly traded companies, where a significant chunk of their compensation is stock which can be sold on an open market, sure but not all CEOs. In my entire career the highest paid people in a private company (including multiple hig
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by billyhoffman 5y ago
These are not remotely comparable. One is a company that built a product with a design flaw effecting only one aspect of the product (cell radio) that was only triggered under certain circumstances (placing you fingers in certain positions)

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