firloop

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by firloop 10y ago
I don't know, doing stuff like sending someone an email to switch browsers seems just as intrusive.
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by firloop 10y ago
You could make the point that this is standard industry behavior, and Microsoft deciding to market their browser this way isn't anything new or noteworthy.
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Kaspersky accuses Microsoft of anticompetitive bundling of antivirus software(arstechnica.com)
1 points by firloop 10y ago|0 comments
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by firloop 10y ago
We use changefeeds more or less of a queue/pipeline and don't care too much about the initial state. When the changefeeds are created we specifically don't pass the includeInitial argument [0] so we only get a stream of newly
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by firloop 10y ago
At my work we use Rethink changefeeds to accomplish literally the same task. We use changefeeds to filter and pipe data to Algolia and numerous other services. Works like a breeze and takes surprisingly little code to get up and running.
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by firloop 10y ago
Perhaps that could be used to justify the claim that the institutions aren't reinvesting the endowments back into their organizations.
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The 2016 Election(blog.samaltman.com)
474 points by firloop 10y ago|621 comments
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Lattice Performance Reviews(medium.com)
11 points by firloop 10y ago|0 comments
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Hyper.is – a terminal emulator based on HTML/JS/CSS(hyper.is)
3 points by firloop 10y ago|0 comments
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Google's Strategy Against Amazon Echo(variety.com)
2 points by firloop 10y ago|0 comments
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Y Combinator Chief's Non Profit Launches $1mm Voter Registration Sweepstakes(venturebeat.com)
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by firloop 10y ago
I think the commenter you replied to was questioning your assumption that 1.8bn was not enough money.
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by firloop 10y ago
The stark blacks kind of burned my eyes, but I definitely agree it was readable.
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by firloop 10y ago
That headline pitting Product Hunt and Amazon against each other is kind of funny because they eventually teamed up around Launchpad. https://medium.com/product-hunt/teaming-up-with-amazon-d7f9a...
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by firloop 10y ago
Apple made its bug bounty program public a few weeks ago and the past few iOS updates have all been patching security vulns. It could be a coincidence, but from an outsider's point of view, it looks like the program is working.
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How AI and Machine Learning Work at Apple(backchannel.com)
328 points by firloop 10y ago|143 comments
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by firloop 10y ago
One thing I do with my iPhone that helps is turning off lock screen display for the most distracting notifications. iOS will then batch these notifications and show them when you unlock your phone next. It's not perfect, but it prevent
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by firloop 10y ago
The idea of chemtrails is appealing to so many people because it's a way to express outrage toward the elites or upper echelons in society. The theories are always a bit vaporous (like the chemtrails themselves), but I think it's
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by firloop 10y ago
Not really justifying the practice but I bet the OP wrote it in those terms because that's the default unit that New Relic uses. Bothers me whenever I look at my New Relic dashboard but I haven't bothered to see if one can change
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by firloop 10y ago
It doesn't seem terribly difficult so long as you have the traffic numbers to support it (peak traffic of 5gbps) and enough bandwidth for the box to fill its cache during off peak hours. https://openconnect.netflix.com/
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Facebook Blocks Ad Blockers, but It Strives to Make Ads More Relevant(nytimes.com)
13 points by firloop 10y ago|5 comments
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Apple’s stagnant product lines mostly reflect the state of the computer industry(extremetech.com)
14 points by firloop 10y ago|11 comments
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Apple and the Gun Emoji(blog.emojipedia.org)
59 points by firloop 10y ago|67 comments
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by firloop 10y ago
I think the main reason I started using Apple Pay in my regular shopping is because paying with chip takes so long to process. Sometimes it can take 20-30 seconds for the chip transaction to complete at the grocery store, while Apple Pay ta
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by firloop 10y ago
"The people who are educated" can turn the full URL display back on in Safari's settings.
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by firloop 10y ago
Or use a CDN and subresource integrity which makes the browser check the script against a hash. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
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by firloop 10y ago
I live in SF and have the 100mbps Webpass. Over my wifi, I get pings of <5ms to AWS us-west-1.
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Trump(blog.samaltman.com)
311 points by firloop 10y ago|373 comments
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by firloop 10y ago
Seems intentional. I emailed dang a while ago asking for emoji support in the about field for HN. He did recognize that's where emoji would make the most sense on HN, I've yet to be able to put the crying laughing emoji or the 100
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by firloop 10y ago
It's only in the iTerm beta IIRC. I see it on (beta) build 2.9.20160510.

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