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by erickj 6y ago
I had the exact same thought - I think it was the video presentation style, more than the actual UI design itself though. I'm still waiting for 10gui to break the shackles of our "4-finger" multitouch world
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by erickj 7y ago
Waymo has the luxury of having a very rich uncle supporting its time to find itself. There is 0 pressure to monetize Waymo before the technology and business opportunity are at their peak value.
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Open Tech Salary Sheet (Originally Reddit Tech Salary Sheet)
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by erickj 7y ago
Other than for marketing purposes and PR spin, why is there any use of a blockchain here? Facebook is a single entity... whom I assume trusts itself to keep a private ledger in a database. So... what's the point of any blockchain? I i
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by erickj 7y ago
I had assumed it would have been due to zombies... who knew?
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by erickj 7y ago
Aren't exploding stars technically responsible for everything except hydrogen atoms?
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by erickj 7y ago
I've never heard of Panic. I've never heard of Coda. I don't develop on a Mac and I'll likely never be in their target audience. But reading this product announcement gave me a real feeling for the genuine care and quali
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by erickj 8y ago
But did you read the article "As Picasso once said: “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” " It sounds like you are the enemy of creativity! /s
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by erickj 8y ago
I think I fail to accept the premise that a.) we have a purpose at all and b.) if we do it's defined by our works. To accept that we have a purpose and it's defined by our creativity leads to so many circular arguments that it&#x2
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by erickj 8y ago
Walter White
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by erickj 8y ago
How much traffic does your site serve? I'm not saying that turning the feature on is difficult. Anyone reading hacker news can go and configure their webserver to start serving this traffic.... but I can tell you that a site serving se
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by erickj 8y ago
The proliferation of future protocols that will never fully be adopted is simply creating an fractious and overly complicated mess. examples: IPv6 migration. This is the best case, given that it was a necessity to combat the exhausting pool
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by erickj 8y ago
I wish I was that clever
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by erickj 8y ago
Aptly timed vulnerability with this article https://research.swtch.com/deps
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by erickj 8y ago
as someone who is just starting to look into free/open sourc CAD tools, what about FreeCAD makes it unusable? I've just done a few of their tutorial/walk throughs recently and can't really tell what was unusable vs. me b
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by erickj 8y ago
can you comment more on your experience with FreeCAD? I've just started looking into learning that myself since I run Linux for a desktop, with no current plans to buy a windows machine just for Fusion360. I've also been thinking
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by erickj 8y ago
"Took me a while to work it all out. I researched the hell out it and pretty quickly felt like I knew more about IBD than the specialists, especially how the disease manifested in me." Exactly this... doing this was the only way t
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by erickj 8y ago
I've been speaking with a therapist for a bit over a year now. It has helped quite a bit, but I've realized that it's mostly helped me get to a better place with accepting that it's OK that I'm not 100%. But it stil
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by erickj 8y ago
In November 2012 I had just turned 30 years old and my wife and I had been married for a bit over 2 years, but were together for over 6 by then. On the newer side we had a 1 year old baby girl and I had just started my new job at Google 6 m
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by erickj 8y ago
"Simple logic dictates..." Ahhh, but you assume the legislative body governing 30M people can resort to simple logic :)
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by erickj 8y ago
"It’s not just powerful, it has a stunning memory. There’s enough storage space to hold every written work of humanity, in all languages – twice." I really wish they just said it has XX TB of memory Maybe I'm grossly underest
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by erickj 8y ago
Well I just built a 4 node array of Raspberry Pis... so eat your heart out Lawrence Livermore National Lab
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by erickj 8y ago
welcome to what it's like to work at Google
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by erickj 8y ago
"Carriers say they’re throttling to manage internet traffic. To deliver the videos people want to watch on their phones, sacrifices in speed are required, according to the three largest U.S. wireless companies" Moving from the US
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by erickj 8y ago
At roughly what scale would new colliders need to increase by to open new paths? Are proposal estimating new efforts at 100's of km? 1000s?
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by erickj 8y ago
Well I for one will be taking the $0 per month that I spend on their free tier elsewhere
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by erickj 8y ago
I prefer the trackpad on my (personal) X1 carbon to the trackpad on my (work) Macbook Air
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by erickj 8y ago
mehhh... 32GB of RAM might have been interesting in my laptop 5 years ago, but with cheap and nearly infinite VPS instances at the execution of a script, large amounts of local memory is hardly a requirement for developers anymore. For cre
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by erickj 8y ago
"anyone confirmed to be a part of this breach should be given access to the data" but how would they ever get the contact information for all of those people? surely that's private information.... oh... right ಠ_ಠ
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by erickj 8y ago
Hey that's cool. I made a B2 Ruby gem a few years back that gives a library and cli for the API. +1,000,000 for backblaze! https://github.com/erickj/bkblz

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