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by biot 10y ago
Does that mean you're running your own ad network that movie studios bid on, and when someone watches a YouTube/Facebook video they are playing your ad?
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by biot 10y ago
It's an excellent point, but people don't tend to care about pirating software (and writing articles admitting to such) or license terms, except when it's a company like BMW distributing GPL software... then the pitchforks co
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by biot 10y ago
You said "considering that Twilio hosts with AWS" as if that's the competitive disadvantage they face vs. Amazon. However, their cost structure would be the same if they hosted on Azure, Google Cloud, Rackspace, or anywhere e
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by biot 10y ago
The cost of CPU and bandwidth to process 160 byte messages is a rounding error compared to the fees from the mobile networks.
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by biot 10y ago
Some good advice here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12002315
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by biot 10y ago
I almost heard Flight of the Bumblebee at one point (0:50 in the video). I think something like this could be useful as a music transcribing device -- listen to a piece and move your pen up/down as the pitch rises/falls while the
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by biot 10y ago
The primary consideration for DC location is where your customers are located. If a startup is focused on the US market, such a move would make no sense. So, as with anything engineering, it depends.
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by biot 10y ago
Do you ever sleep? Or is your account used in shifts by a number of people in a moderation team? I'm genuinely curious.
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by biot 10y ago
I'd say they added a dash of Erlang to C# with the tuples and pattern matching.
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by biot 10y ago
Please edit your comment and add http:// in front of the link so that HN will abbreviate it. Without that, your comment messes up the page width on mobile.
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by biot 10y ago
They conducted airflow tests in order to understand and model how airborne material would spread. They didn't conduct bioterror research.
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by biot 10y ago
Thank you. I hadn't run across that... it looks amazing.
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by biot 10y ago
Any best practice guides for running Elixir in production? How do you handle deployments, hotfixes, multi-node scaling, etc. in an automated way?
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by biot 10y ago
Sure, but we're straying pretty far from the intent of my original comment, which is: Trial it in a popular game as an entertainment device to ferret out any bugs. Once it's sufficiently stable, then you introduce it into the re
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by biot 10y ago
> The authors seem well aware of marketing, calling the > fastest growth cluster "viral" Viral is a description of rate of growth. It makes no statement about the reason for the growth, so much of the viral growth
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by biot 10y ago
Their conclusion states "... confirming the importance of a large base of contributors to the success of open source software". Also note that my questions are facetious and are my own. My apologies if that wasn't clear. Over
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by biot 10y ago
I skimmed through this, but their conclusions are far too simplistic to be of any use. A company repo is more popular than a personal one? Are they implying forming a company around an unpopular repo will make it popular? It's likely t
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by biot 10y ago
https://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/eve-onlin... Regardless, I'm sure most people have no trouble understanding the practical difference between a video game and what The DAO advertises.
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by biot 10y ago
Wonderful illustrations. However, I'm going to dissent on its benefits as a guide. For me, this makes a common mistake in "simplified" technical writing: it assumes you already possess the knowledge that the author does. An e
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by biot 10y ago
DAO needs to be battle tested in EVE Online for a year before letting loose on the real world where money is at stake. Much like ponzi schemes and other exploits of the past, the EVE Online developers just consider it part of the game. Cave
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by biot 10y ago
Though if someone offered FreeSteam with the exact same interface, convenience, selection, etc. as the official Steam, but the only difference is that everything was free... people would use that instead. It's not just about convenie
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by biot 10y ago
Tulip bulbs were once at an all-time high as well, much like the people who bought them.
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by biot 10y ago
That's a distinction without a difference. If another family member picked up the phone while you were dialed up, they certainly heard it.
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by biot 10y ago
The comments on that page are more fascinating than the article itself. Many people chiming in and describing their own personal brand of time/calendar visualization.
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by biot 10y ago
write != overwrite
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by biot 10y ago
The morality is already clearly established: in exchange for a very small monthly sum, you get the property when the owner dies. The property may be a dedicated rental unit already, so whether or not the owner lives there has no bearing. So
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by biot 10y ago
"The data used by the researchers was anonymized, meaning it did not carry identifying markers like a user name, so the individuals conducting the searches could not be contacted." As when AOL or Yahoo released th
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by biot 10y ago
Yeah, by "variations on the theme" I was referring to all kinds of shapes and arrangements, like in a square, circle, triangle, dots orbiting each other, ribbons, and so on. Just like the "thing with a swoosh/crescent&qu
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by biot 10y ago
Primary colors arranged geometrically has been a thing since Office 95, predating Google: http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/Microsoft_Office Since then, variations on the theme have been heavily reused for all kinds of logos
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by biot 10y ago
Very clever, young man; it's simulations all the way down.

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