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by dperfect 11y ago
It's not even a matter of enforcement; even with a fully "alert" driver with both hands on the wheel, I suspect it'd take a considerable amount of time for a person to consciously make the switch and take control of the
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by dperfect 11y ago
Similar project: http://techno-logic-art.com/clock.htm
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by dperfect 11y ago
This could be incredibly useful for video editing - creating one of those "word collage" clips sometimes used in documentaries. If you could filter the results by another keyword (within just the video title for example), you coul
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by dperfect 11y ago
It would be really nice if this were integrated directly with ELB and/or API Gateway. The CloudFront requirement makes it quite expensive - especially for people using custom SSL certificates (without resorting to SNI). CloudFront (or
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by dperfect 11y ago
Maybe Benford's Law[1] has something to do with the distribution being skewed toward the $1 billion mark (at least in part). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
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by dperfect 11y ago
Inspiring, yes - but it's also disheartening with respect to how far away we are from highly-convincing VR. It's not even a matter of engineering the solutions; we have yet to fully understand so many of the problems, and we'
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by dperfect 11y ago
So perhaps in these cases we should place the blame on certain shortcomings of the FTC's regulation rather than the companies who take advantage of the loopholes. I don't agree with the practices of this company, but if the loopho
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by dperfect 11y ago
I don't completely understand how they can effectively prevent generics companies from producing it (even through tightly controlled distribution), but if that's the case, I believe that should be the story here as opposed to th
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by dperfect 11y ago
Interesting - I'll have to check it out. Thanks for pointing me to this. Really cool stuff by the way - I'm very excited to see people working on this, and I hope IPFS (or something like it) is successful.
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I wish this article mentioned something about BitSwap; before reading the IPFS paper, I was doubtful about anyone wanting to participate without incentives. Still, even after skimming the paper, it sounds like a lot really depends on how
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by dperfect 11y ago
I like to think of business success in light of one of my favorite quotes: "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca Scott Adams' book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big" a
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by dperfect 11y ago
I think the point is to protect a branch at the origin so that the mistake of using the wrong options doesn't cause damage. Training everyone on a team to do the right thing is good, but everyone is prone to mistakes (myself included,
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by dperfect 11y ago
I feel very much the same way. A significant portion of drivers also deal with winter/icy conditions for at least part of the year, and I have a really hard time believing that self-driving cars will be able to handle those conditions
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by dperfect 11y ago
Exactly. This is why I don't follow the hypothesis that we're witnessing a crash due to unhealthy economic indicators/behaviors (debt ratios, QE, interest rates, etc). Of course those things matter, and they certainly sugge
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by dperfect 11y ago
I understand the concern, but isn't your face effectively just as personally identifiable, recorded in far more locations, and arguably much more personal because it can't be easily replaced/changed? That doesn't make
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by dperfect 11y ago
> [Philips Hue Bulb] A $50 light bulb that requires a $60 base station, proving my point entirely I'm not sure what this has to do with the article. Philips Hue uses ZigBee Light Link, not WiFi, and I'm pretty sure the steep pr
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by dperfect 11y ago
No argument here about Facebook's priorities or being data-driven. I don't doubt any of what you're saying. Still, as a user I don't care if data suggests that it's in Facebook's best interest to require a sepa
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by dperfect 11y ago
Out of curiosity I just opened up Facebook on my iPhone (mentioned in the article as a good example). The tab bar has 5 items: News Feed, Requests, Messages, Notifications, and More. I'm in the News Feed 99% of the time. Requests and N
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by dperfect 11y ago
I agree that sometimes that works really well. Still, for some apps/websites there is really only one obvious and important function. In those cases, a tab bar would just be putting "the other junk" in a more important place
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by dperfect 11y ago
Before hamburger menus became popular, weren't people complaining about the exact opposite problem? That is, if you break out the menu items into more prominent interface elements (e.g., tab bar items), then you're at risk of clut
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by dperfect 11y ago
I've arrived at a similar conclusion, with a few exceptions: Never changing past migration scripts should be a guideline, not necessarily a hard rule. With Rails, I generally prefer to use ActiveRecord in migration scripts (rather than
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by dperfect 11y ago
Lots of people throw out technical or social reasons for G+ failing, but I'd point to the factor that tends to be one of the most important make-it-or-break-it variables for any new venture's success (according to Bill Gross[1] an
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by dperfect 11y ago
I'm using CrashPlan, along with Amazon Glacier storage via Arq (also mentioned in the article, though it sounds like Paul was regularly accessing photos from Glacier whereas I never plan to access except in a restore scenario).
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> The bad news is that I have over 1TB of photos and the next pricing tier after 1TB ($9.99/mo) is 10TB and that costs a whopping $99.99 per month. So I use Google Photos with the free compressed setting. I don't actually mind
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by dperfect 11y ago
Is there any technical significance in the "fade out" sequence that happens between the "F21" image and the next Instagram photo? It looks like once it gets to full black, a few pixels are "stuck" (or slipped I
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by dperfect 11y ago
Can someone help me understand the main differences between CRISPR and traditional genetic engineering that has been done for many years now? My understanding is that we've had technologies to selectively modify DNA for some time, but
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by dperfect 11y ago
Oddly enough, the "X alternative" chart could be seen as a health metric, at least as much as "X" itself would be. You could argue "if people are searching for alternatives to my service, that means they (1) care en
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by dperfect 11y ago
I understand the general discontent with reddit over recent events, but I'm not sure this is the best evidence for it. Just about any successful company or website will have a similar chart if you look for "X alternative" goo
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As long as markets exist to transfer bitcoin to other currencies, I believe that effect is probably negligible. If a miner holds a significant portion of their rewards in bitcoin and there exists a credible threat to the network, it will al
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Sparkfun CEO Stepping Down(sparkfun.com)
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