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by biot 9y ago
No need to rely on memory. From the KickStarter page [0]: "$2,134,374 pledged of $500,000 goal". However, it looks like the graphic showing $6M achieved combines the $2M from KickStarter plus additional funds they raised directly
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by biot 9y ago
I see from the few page previews that this book discusses, for example, the medical interface that killed the cancer patient. Does the book do critiques of various existing designs and then show the corrected designs that result from the ap
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by biot 9y ago
> they've successfully predicted 9 of the last 5 recessions Have you transposed the numbers or is this an amusing reference to something?
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by biot 9y ago
I always thought http://www.zerovm.org/ had a lot of potential. I recall an HN story where someone used this to spin up a ZeroVM instance for each request that came in over an API and tear it down once the request was fin
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by biot 9y ago
Was it intentional that the air hose spells out the initials "jm" in cursive?
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by biot 9y ago
Yep, agreed. This means that Dropbox's minimum engineering count will be larger than WhatsApp's, but I still maintain that once you have sufficient engineers to tackle the problem, it's still largely independent of user count
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by biot 9y ago
Famously, WhatsApp supported 900M users with only 50 engineers: https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us... While support staff definitely increases with users (paid or not), beyond a certain s
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by biot 9y ago
This issue should have been called Ant-in-the-Middle.
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by biot 9y ago
Is a driver unreliable because they have to continuously adjust the steering wheel due to changes in the road? Is testing software unreliable because it has to continually adjust due to changes in the functionality of the software it tests?
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by biot 9y ago
HN shortens the link placing ellipses at the end. Looks like they directly copied and pasted the shortened link. Correct link is: https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/update-on-the-apri...
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by biot 9y ago
Translation of posting without using 'E': It's Similar to That Bird Social App, But Without a Fifth Symbol Mastodon has an app with particular quirks and many humans find it joyful. Mastodon boffins did it again. A particular
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by biot 9y ago
> At the peak of r/place the websocket service was > transmitting over 4 gbps (150 Mbps per instance > and 24 instances). What does Reddit use for serving up this much websocket traffic? Something open source, or i
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by biot 10y ago
The Children's Illustrated Guide to Kubernetes is pretty to look at, but it's terrible as a guide. I previously commented as to why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11927711
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by biot 10y ago
Just as you'd expect. Whether the property in question are books you own, or a shed, or your entire house it's your property and it's not a crime to turn your property into a bonfire so long as doing so doesn't break oth
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by biot 10y ago
FYI you can click on a dead comment's timestamp and vouch for it. May require a certain minimum karma to do that.
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by biot 10y ago
What was the trick?
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by biot 10y ago
From your link: For purposes of this paragraph, arson of property does not include one burning or causing to be burned his or her own personal property unless there is an intent to defraud or there is injury to another person or a
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by biot 10y ago
Technically, arson is burning down someone else's property. It's not a criminal offence to burn down a house you own, though it is likely a non-criminal fire code violation.
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by biot 10y ago
In the late 90s, my rate was 2.75% and the site I was running was very small potatoes. This era of 2.9% being considered standard despite additional competition, greater efficiencies, and higher volume is basically price gouging.
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by biot 10y ago
When a major sports apparel company sponsors a famous athlete to wear their gear on televised events, they are getting no activity beyond an impression. Doesn't mean the sporting event is trash. It's up to the advertiser to determ
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by biot 10y ago
The old pound coin was round. The new pound coin is 12-sided. Thus, the pound coin will still be around but it won't be round much longer.
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by biot 10y ago
Check again. Your link is to the list of countries. This is the list of currencies: https://developers.braintreepayments.com/reference/general/c...
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by biot 10y ago
What you linked to is a list of countries for the address of the purchaser . It's possible for a payment processor to only accept merchants in the US, for example, while allowing that US merchant to accept purchases from any country
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by biot 10y ago
The article's author is Andy Brice. I see no evidence that HN user tlogan setup a honeypot page, let alone a "smug" one. As tlogan claimed, the ability to get a discounted or free copy was directly on their pricing page.
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by biot 10y ago
They're reimplementing the actor model using Docker containers. Let it crash.
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by biot 10y ago
See the response to the lack of an ISO from the Microsoft Visual Studio team here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13810821#13814975 It links to an install guide for enterprise deployment.
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by biot 10y ago
Well, that's a different objection. If you want to get technical, these aren't analog clocks because regardless of anything else they're running digitally on your computer. QED.
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by biot 10y ago
If you turned that into into an actual clock with half decent accuracy, I'd seriously buy one. Even if the only way to set the time was to wait until noon or midnight to plug it in. It would probably also function well as a space heate
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by biot 10y ago
It is if you allow for rotation of the hands as well as rotating the entire clock itself. If a clock showing 6:00 is rotated 90 degrees you get horizontal hands. Similarly for rotating a clock that shows 3:00 or 9:00.
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by biot 10y ago
This goes back to the days of newspapers, classified ads, and late night infomercials detailing how you can get rich from thousands of tiny little ads. One trick was to advertise a product at a specific price, saying "Send in your chec

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