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by biot 10y ago
"Receive a phone call from your building's front door directory. Let them in with the push of a button." Though doesn't this already exist for every building? Certainly it's standard (required?) for multi-unit resid
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by biot 10y ago
Yeah that looks like it's the same research. Thanks!
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by biot 10y ago
The dissolving sponge thing reminds me of a video I watched years ago. They took a fully functioning organ (from a donor) and dissolved the material so that the only part left was the collagen scaffolding. Effectively, it looked like a tran
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by biot 10y ago
Ironically, they could replace the graphene with steel and end up with steel being ten times stronger than steel.
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by biot 10y ago
The place to complain about AMP isn't Google... it's the sites that AMP-enable their content. If enough people tell publishers "I've stopped reading your site because of AMP" maybe they'll take notice.
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by biot 10y ago
Maybe they've been asking since 2010 and, not having received a satisfactory solution from the experts in the field, have stripped all the projects of CQRS/ES and gone back to what works well. There comes a point in time where you
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by biot 10y ago
I think you missed the part where random radio noise is indistinguishable from encrypted communication, so you should expect non-noise (aka unencrypted) only in the case of a public message.
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by biot 10y ago
> a freak bit of random radio noise Exactly what an encrypted signal would look like. It's all too likely that it is just noise, but the only time you'd expect non-noise from a signal is when aliens are broadcasting a p
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by biot 10y ago
This was on HN in July but has an update based on a comment from Jim Roskind, designer of the QUIC protocol.
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Google’s QUIC protocol: moving the web from TCP to UDP(ma.ttias.be)
5 points by biot 10y ago|1 comments
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by biot 10y ago
I checked out Zen Arbitrage's site to see what it is they offer and it sounds really interesting -- find cheap popular books sold outside of FBA (Fulfilled By Amazon) with little competition, buy them, and put them up for sale on FBA (
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by biot 10y ago
You're being highly disingenuous with your reply, to the point that I agree with the other comment that it is snarky. Assuming your audience already knows HTML and Python is perfectly acceptable if the focus is on building the applicat
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by biot 10y ago
AI and bots are all the rage right now. The word "buddy" is associated with all sorts of malware [0]. I'd say postcardbot is a great name, particularly as the Facebook Messenger implementation actually is a bot. [0] https:&#
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by biot 10y ago
I imagine your taxes are fairly straightforward as a result. Have you considered spending $X,000 on an accountant to see if there are ways of structuring your income to minimize taxes?
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CRTC declares broadband Internet a ‘basic telecom service’(globalnews.ca)
5 points by biot 10y ago|0 comments
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by biot 10y ago
Any thoughts on expanding your "mind's eye"? I can often picture something, but when I go to sketch it it's as if I have tunnel vision and can only focus on a very narrow part at a time, and I lose sight of the whole. I
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by biot 10y ago
It does have one benefit: it forces the student to learn a second programming language sooner. I wouldn't want to work with someone who only knows the language they started out with, and likely still carries many bad habits from.
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by biot 10y ago
There are a few counter-arguments to that. First, it's impossible to determine that the source on GitHub is the same as what is deployed to a server. Additionally, having to locally debug any given site in order to trace whether or not
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by biot 10y ago
I flagged this submission. It's not just letting you explore symptoms, but collecting names and ages from individuals without a bare minimum effort to post any kind of privacy policy. Who's behind the site? How can I contact their
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Feathered dinosaur tail found trapped in amber(cbc.ca)
3 points by biot 10y ago|0 comments
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by biot 10y ago
Intentionally doing that in order to avoid paying sounds a lot like fraud, something your limited liability won't protect you from.
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by biot 10y ago
Redirecting to a URL that describes XSS mitigation would have been a bit classier.
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by biot 10y ago
That editor doesn't allow editing on mobile Safari (iPad). All the examples are non-functional and some are visually broken as well.
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by biot 10y ago
Why is that? Did having the meetings in one day impart an artificial sense of urgency?
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by biot 10y ago
Sideways Tetris. Or find a way to have a simple multiplayer game share the same keyboard. 8 people at 270x60 would allow for one window each.
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by biot 10y ago
Those look worse than the first charting libraries I used in the 90s.
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by biot 10y ago
Is the actual PDF available somewhere instead of having to jump through Scribd hoops?
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by biot 10y ago
You're being downvoted, but the original uncorrected title was "Ask HN: Did knowing /learning a not-so-famous language benefited you?" (copied and pasted from browser cache) and didn't have the caveat that this was
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by biot 10y ago
Easily handled with a prompt: "This site is attempting to auto-play media" [Allow once] [Always allow site] [Block site]
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Regex that only matches itself(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
322 points by biot 10y ago|59 comments

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