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'Chabuduo': How China became the land of disastrous corner-cutting(aeon.co)
2 points by djfergus 10y ago|0 comments
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by djfergus 10y ago
I would not be surprised if the great Chinese firewall does DPI and degrades the connections of all those western built technologies you mentioned. China has been accused of protecting its companies from competition under the guise of secur
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by djfergus 10y ago
Almost always the tenant
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by djfergus 10y ago
Cost wise, seems feasible on a sqft basis (assuming a small office - cubicle equivalent). And I don't imagine the fit-out would be significant on a long lease. Average for bay area is $40/sqft/yr https://42floors.c
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by djfergus 10y ago
"Here is how debt parking works. Suppose the debtor (in this case The Donald) is going to get his debt cancelled for (say) 1c in the dollar. When he gets the debt wiped out the debtor (ie The Donald) will have to report assessable inco
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by djfergus 10y ago
Ok fascinating. If you like the design aesthetics I fear you won't be satisfied unless you build one yourself... I'm more concerned about entry angles, water crossing depth etc (it rains a lot on bad roads where I live). Also safe
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by djfergus 10y ago
The market, not the marketing department. >> Nokia N900, Motorola Droid 3/4, HTC Desire-Z. These were the last of their species. Yes, but not the pinnacle of keyboard - Nokia 9300i for me...
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by djfergus 10y ago
Which performance aspects of the FJ40 aren't addressed by modern 4WDs? Is it just nostalgia? Or do you genuinely want a car that has readily removable doors and windscreen?
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by djfergus 10y ago
Right. So I imagine the OP would like a reliable service and not have to keep playing whack-a-mole chasing unauthorised sources. A lot of the 10ft apps available on e.g. Amazon Fire TV etc fall short here too - I don't want to keep sel
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by djfergus 10y ago
Does anyone have any insight as to whether this 2% additional cost can/will trigger the banks to reassess borrowers and potentially hit them with a margin call? If it doesn't drive forced sales I can't see the prices falling
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by djfergus 10y ago
There is a lot of speculation that Chinese buyers are driving up the Canadian market. I have no insight to whether this is true but leaving homes vacant does correlate with my observations - Asian and especially Chinese property buyers valu
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by djfergus 10y ago
For what its worth, the cheap Brother printers use a binary blob driver for Linux which only has x86 drivers. So don't get caught thinking you can use your ARM Raspberry Pi or Synology NAS as a low power print server...
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by djfergus 10y ago
I had one of those tiny Sony Vaio's that did the same - great idea and tech but did you ever use it in comparison to the state of the art from Bose etc? It was night and day - the Sony was barely better than normal ear buds on an aerop
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by djfergus 10y ago
Got it thanks. Interesting. So do the usual router suspects (Cisco, Juniper etc) own this market? Does Google/AWS roll their own solutions? Any interesting startups taking them on?
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by djfergus 10y ago
Ok, so whats missing? What does the company that bridges that gap look like? "This personal computer looks like a nice alternative for companies with a small budget for a mainframe who would otherwise have nothing at all"
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by djfergus 10y ago
Impressive performance and integration. What proprietary products is this disrupting?
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by djfergus 10y ago
Nice to see a way to do this without needing to install node inspector in the same container...
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Debugging Node.js in Docker Using Node Inspector(keylocation.sg)
2 points by djfergus 10y ago|1 comments
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by djfergus 10y ago
Thanks for the interesting observations. No surprises. In my experience, wechat is a spam monster - too many useless notifications and missing useful features like easy OTT voice calls and read receipts. I find iMessage and whatsapp (I use
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by djfergus 10y ago
>> HP offers its Elite USB-C Docking Station ($149), which plugs in to a USB-C port on the PC and enables to connect up two Full HD displays, Gigabit Ethernet as well as multiple USB Type-A devices, such as keyboards or mice. Good to
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by djfergus 11y ago
Hmm. Seems like this begs for a different way to solve the problem, like alarming on major changes to configuration files or better recognition of invalid configs, i.e. google should be able to make a rule that says "if I ever blackhol
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by djfergus 11y ago
Network management software complexity is supposed to be one of things that SDN was built to solve (by introducing more modularity and defined interfaces). But in this case the fault was at the edge with BGP route updates, which the interne
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by djfergus 11y ago
Hmm, interesting suggestion for a temporary fix. I'll have a play around later. But I'm loathe to add another point of failure in my transmission route, let alone one I need to maintain myself and troubleshoot myself (VPS).
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by djfergus 11y ago
I'm in Kuala Lumpur and use Telekom Malaysia Unifi for my ISP (20 Mb/s bidirectional for $US62 per month, for anyone who is curious). This fault has existed for the past few days and is only now being reported. It not a simple slo
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by djfergus 11y ago
Love watching the progress of Raspberry Pi. The attraction of the platform to me (compared to something more capable, with more ram ghz etc) is that the ecosystem is now so mature, you can easily google and get a cut and paste guide to exac
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by djfergus 11y ago
Very exciting to see $10 pocket supercomputers in ubiquitous retail, but surely this is a just a loss leader? Wouldn't the patent transfer payments alone put this underwater? Has anyone traced the origin of this model? Is it remaindere
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by djfergus 11y ago
"But bandwidth costs have been declining exponentially for decades and continue to do so. " I wonder how pronounced this effect will be in places where bandwidth costs are not following the same downward trend as in North America.
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by djfergus 11y ago
People don't pay that much money for caffeinated frothy fluff - they pay for the whole experience (consciously or not), and part of that is the belief that what you are drinking is authentic...
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by djfergus 11y ago
Uber. https://www.uber.com/jobs/43437 AirBnB https://www.oracle.com/marketingcloud/customers/success-stor...
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by djfergus 11y ago
Who has the iOS compatible bookmarklet that will let me do this with one tap?

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