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by defenestration 10y ago
Wow, the demo in the YouTube video looks impressive. I would like to understand the technique they propose and what's unique in their thinking. Can someone with expertise on this topic explain the abstract in layman's terms? Abstr
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by defenestration 10y ago
Here you can find an example in JavaScript that visualizes the Paxos algorithm: http://harry.me/blog/2014/12/27/neat-algorithms-paxos/
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by defenestration 10y ago
Fair enough and thumbs up for actively replying. In my view you could improve my customer experience by reducing the feeling of getting into a sales funnel.
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by defenestration 10y ago
A brilliant contradiction I must say. Starting the article with: 'I made it the easiest thing you could possibly buy, you don’t have to join anything. All the things I hate about going on the Internet and trying to watch stuff – I stri
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by defenestration 10y ago
The link to the atlas in the article isn't working. You can visit the atlas via: http://www.lmfdb.org
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by defenestration 10y ago
I enjoyed Europa Universalis as well. It taught me quite some history while being engaged with addictive gameplay. A modern version simulating the last 100 years of politics and war on a worldwide scale would interest me. Especially if you
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by defenestration 10y ago
A bot telling me 'That she is sorry to hear that I'm not feeling well and I might need to take some time off to recover' feels pretty weird to me. I would prefer a more factual dialog.
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by defenestration 11y ago
Thanks for the tip. I can recommend this guide after reading it. It does a nice job of defining the right tone of voice in success messages, account creation, press releases, legal content and failure messages. It starts with the user feeli
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by defenestration 11y ago
That's a nice subtle animation. I also had difficulty steering the boat. It might be an idea to map Q-W to the sail and O-P to the rudder. When you start the sail is on the left and the rudder is on the right.
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by defenestration 11y ago
We feel the pain as well as our platform is unreachable. I'm now using an other DNS server and changed the nameserver in the domain-record. However the DNS propagation is taking some time. What are you doing at the moment as fail-over?
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by defenestration 11y ago
Please make the page readable on mobile. The 4 columns of text overlap and look entangled.
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by defenestration 11y ago
Thanks. I just opened all the examples mentioned in the comments and this one feels the most elegant.
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by defenestration 11y ago
To summarize: end-to-end encryption is making online surveillance harder. However, standards for end-to-end encryption are still fragmented and companies have incentives to not adopt it. Besides that, connected sensors, 'the internet o
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by defenestration 11y ago
They have an interesting way of donating: 'BitHub = Bitcoin + GitHub. An experiment in funding privacy OSS.' You donate bitcoins to a pool. Everyone can commit to their repository. Every merged pull request gets 2% of the pool. Cu
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by defenestration 11y ago
From their description in the iTunes store: 'Pay Nothing - Signal is supported by a team of dedicated developers, community donations, and grants. There are no advertisements, and it doesn't cost anything to use.'
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by defenestration 11y ago
I couldn't resist to smile. Back on topic, it would be great if WhatsApp clarifies which data they share with Facebook and how that data is being used.
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by defenestration 11y ago
Paid business services for customer interaction, sound like a plausible business model for WhatsApp. However, I get the feeling this is only part of the story. I assume that data mined by WhatsApp are probably more valuable to Facebook.
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by defenestration 11y ago
To facilitate the discussion, the better question according to the article is: "What pain do you want in your life? What are you willing to struggle for? Because that seems to be a greater determinant of how our lives turn out."
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by defenestration 11y ago
Some quotes to quickly understand what is going on. Andreas Gal, Former CTO of Mozilla, wrote yesterday: "... a curious event got my attention: A commit appeared in the Android code base that indicates that Google is abandoning its own
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by defenestration 11y ago
'You don't have to do this.' ~ So true, and so easy to forget
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Merry Christmas
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by defenestration 11y ago
I'm wondering, what incentive do researchers have to share their new compression algorithms with JPEG? Especially if JPEG patents everything as you suggest.
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by defenestration 11y ago
This is an interesting version of the English language. It is clarifying thinking and strengthening writing. Or should I say: I find this version of the English language interesting. It clarifies my thinking and strengthens my writing.
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by defenestration 11y ago
Congratulations to the PHP community with this milestone! I wonder if people who switched to HHVM, will start using PHP again. HHVM has offered much faster performance than previous versions of PHP. The speed of PHP 7 is at par with HHVM.
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by defenestration 11y ago
An icon of a skull with bones was used for the debugger. That, in combination with the 'Spy' components, is giving users an eerie feeling. Note to myself: don't be funny in debugmode
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by defenestration 11y ago
Great summary and very recognizable points. It would be useful if there was a guide on how to scale your app wisely. > So what are the basic steps you will go through? > What are caveats and best practices per step? > What are th
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by defenestration 11y ago
I like this vision, that's a TV I would want. Lean, minimum amount of software, instant on / off, no worries about privacy and future proof.
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by defenestration 11y ago
Nicely written and illustrated, Aran. It clearly shows the startup dilemma of growth by automatically sharing user activity vs. putting privacy first. I'm wondering how this will work out for Venmo in the long run.
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by defenestration 11y ago
I find this a very inspiring line of thought for two reasons. 1) Philosophical. What if we could get rid of randomness in our lives? Can we do 'end-to-end' assembly with our health, owning all stages of the process, like Elon Musk
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by defenestration 11y ago
I remember the nudge of my dad that he wanted to treat all his sons equally. So the same financial rules and support for all of us. He learned us to value fairness.

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