exelius

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by exelius 11y ago
Most high-end fridges these days are stainless steel, which is non-magnetic. So you'd need to glue it on (or find some other way).
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by exelius 11y ago
Yeah, it was kind of like "Eh, I'm bored, I think I'll connect my fridge to the Internet. Oh, the software is shitty? Eh, don't think I'll bother." If someone as geeky about this stuff as me thinks like this, t
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by exelius 11y ago
Yeah, you WOULD kind of be better off (both financially and feature-wise) just gluing an iPad Mini to the front of the fridge...
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by exelius 11y ago
I have a Samsung refrigerator that is supposed to be Internet-connectible. I wasted about 5 minutes on it before giving up. The shoddy quality of the software combined with the low marginal utility of having my refrigerator connected to the
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by exelius 11y ago
> I think the larger lesson here is that confidence is a good thing, but relying on it solely can fail miserably as a substitute for having actual knowledge about something. Key word here is "can". In many leadership circumstan
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by exelius 11y ago
> It looks like they are using instart logic, and are on the same cert as a bunch of their other enterprise customers now. Which is a great way to know who Instant Logic's customers are, if you're in the CDN business and lookin
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by exelius 11y ago
I see a disconnect between what the public believes the job of the police is and what police officers believe the job of the police is. In my mind, police officers sign up for a dangerous job knowingly - that's why they're revered
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by exelius 11y ago
Nope; none of them are. Though I don't fault you for thinking that; a lot of work goes in to making them feel "authentic" to viewers. #1: PewDiePie is part of Polaris, which is the gaming sub-brand of Maker Studios, which is
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by exelius 11y ago
> I believe YouTube gets in touch with the top 1% or 0.1% or whatever to help them get better. Actually most end up selling their channel to a production company like RoosterTeeth, Smosh, or Maker, then working as "talent" for
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by exelius 11y ago
> Honestly I can only hope, the only reason I have cable tv is so that comcast can still count me as a viewer with their "your bill will be cheaper if you just get a basic package" bs. Look for that to disappear in the next few
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by exelius 11y ago
I dunno, I think ESPN's business model falls apart if they can't force ESPN down everyone's throats. ESPN would cost ~$12/mo if they weren't able to force-bundle it with the cable bundle, and I don't know how m
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by exelius 11y ago
Video content is also significantly more expensive to produce than music. The distributors and production companies in the music industry really didn't add much value, but distribution and production companies in video absolutely do ad
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by exelius 11y ago
But then how do you find that content? You mention licensing it to services; so how do you differentiate yourself as a service? Right now, the answer is to create your own exclusive content. There's a risk pooling problem at play here
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by exelius 11y ago
And ESPN's subscriber numbers are way, way down as a result. I would say a full 50% of the market places zero value on ESPN, and the other 50% is more likely to use ESPN's web site (no subscription required) than the cable channel
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by exelius 11y ago
Good. This is a bad market for Apple; the content rights owners have all the power and the device manufacturers and distributors have next to none. That's why everyone is trying to get into the content creation game: it's the only
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by exelius 11y ago
Considering they're likely also downloading JavaScript and executing it when using the server-generated page, yes. Let's not pretend it's possible to do everything on the server side. Just now instead of compiling the page in
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by exelius 11y ago
Well, the key here is that any non-JSON data you pull from a URL should be static. That means it can be cached, and the client should only be pulling a small amount of data that varies based on their account. I wouldn't write an intera
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by exelius 11y ago
The "right" way to do this (edit: this is essentially assumed by the article, so I'm not contradicting it) is to build static sites and use JavaScript to pull in any dynamic information. You run data services that output JSON
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by exelius 11y ago
I would say that's a fairly accurate statement. While there are some legitimate users of BitTorrent (Blizzard is the most notable example) the vast majority of torrent traffic is pirated files. And it makes sense, as those pirated file
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by exelius 11y ago
That's basically how you do it. Torrent packets have a certain "signature" (you can usually even determine the client from this, even if all traffic is encrypted). That, and torrent traffic is pretty leaky... even if you ar
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by exelius 11y ago
The work I'm referencing specifically called out Google as an example of an overly-complex practice that didn't result in objectively higher quality candidates. Google's overall quality of engineering talent is high because t
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by exelius 11y ago
Use cases with ML out front are rare. I would argue that "self-driving" is just a feature of an automobile; the expensive part is building and delivering a half-ton hunk of precision-engineered metal. People were buying cars long
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by exelius 11y ago
Because ML/AI are feature enablers. They make a good product better, but they won't make a product successful. It's a signal that people are more interested in solving technical problems than solving business/product pro
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by exelius 11y ago
Well, consider that there are well documented academic studies (that I can't be bothered to look up right now) showing that most hiring processes are no better than throwing darts at a board with regards to retention rate, employee suc
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by exelius 11y ago
Agreed; they tend not to be great deals for the acquiring companies long-term. But short term you can rally that team to build something else, and your likelihood of finding the mythical 10x developer (or manager) is statistically higher in
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by exelius 11y ago
> Clearly their intention here was profits and since they didn't see any - they kill it off. They won't do it so nobody else should try to safe email either. Um, of course their intentions were profit? Dropbox is a for-profit c
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by exelius 11y ago
Because he's a very savvy politician. Ballmer is certainly not an idiot, but his main skill has always struck me as being an arrogant asshole who won't be intimidated by anyone. He's not a brilliant strategist; he's the
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by exelius 11y ago
Acquihires are more about hiring functioning teams composed of engineers and executives who are used to working with each other. That's a lot more expensive to build than just the salaries; and you can generally take that team and thro
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by exelius 11y ago
VCs are totally the problem here. It's not that VCs are bad people who want to screw over users, but their business model requires them to get payback on their bets, even if it's small. It can be hard to know up front if an idea i
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by exelius 11y ago
No; but often the server components are heavily tied to some other proprietary libraries that they're not ready to open source. They could remove all proprietary code from their codebase, but that costs money - likely more than they we

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