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by frabcus 10y ago
Worth following all the instructions on https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/stopspam.html I found pointing my MX records straight at Fastmail helped a lot with spam. See "If you use your own domain" in
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by frabcus 10y ago
Yeah, so in this video of at 4 mins 25 seconds they show floppy disks to the kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7EpEnglgk The younger ones don't seem to know what one is, but the older ones do.
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by frabcus 10y ago
Looks really good! A quick advert for PDF Tables https://pdftables.com/ - we're a bit more API-focussed.
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by frabcus 11y ago
This post on David working out what to tell his children (age 1 and 4) about his cancer is moving http://itila.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/what-do-you-tell-childre...
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by frabcus 11y ago
I know him from his pioneering work on sustainable energy. Actually working out from physics principles what is possible that can balance supply and demand in an ongoing way. You can read it free online - I like the print copy though! (It&#
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by frabcus 11y ago
Nice question! To make it fair, do you include the energy used to train it? From scratch, or from the amateur human game data? Likewise, do you include the energy used to evolve the human brain?
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by frabcus 11y ago
"Used by" smells of being a vanity metric - probably signed up users, rather than monthly active. My guess, they weren't commercially successful, and aquihire was the best way out.
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by frabcus 11y ago
UK residents, British Gas's Hive is a good alternative to Nest here. No attempt to magically learn, really well made hardware and apps. The only software upgrade since I bought mine was a new "boost" button (turns heating on
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by frabcus 11y ago
We inline the front page CSS on https://pdftables.com/ , both for user experience and for SEO reasons. The Node module UnCSS ( https://github.com/giakki/uncss ) is working reliably for us, using PhantomJS
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How Does BB-8 Work?(howbb8works.com)
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by frabcus 11y ago
Short video of just the landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B6oiLNyKKI (Becomes clear 25~ seconds in)
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by frabcus 11y ago
Right - the relationship with MobileEye, and motivation for in house staff, are really important.
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by frabcus 11y ago
Oh it's horrible, you've seen whole cycles so know how even the good things you could do next go bad in the end. It's easy to fall into excessive cynicism, plus stop learning new stuff because of the 30s lesson of how hard it
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by frabcus 11y ago
As an aside, but I think relevant to Hacker News, the author of this blog post also wrote the classic mid-1990s text adventure game Christminster http://garethrees.org/1995/08/08/christminster/
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by frabcus 11y ago
I'm struggling to understand the question - by testing for compliance like other software? I'm assuming there'd need to be a services business installing and maintaining the software, and adding improvements particular custom
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by frabcus 11y ago
In contrast to the fancy Apple screws in the article, the Fairphone 2 is the first iFixit reviewed phone to get 10/10 for ease of repair. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Fairphone+2+Teardown/52523
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by frabcus 11y ago
It has 60 million monthly active users, and it doesn't even encrypt by default. I think I agree that using encryption on Telegram singles you out though!
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Number of Tor users recently halved(metrics.torproject.org)
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by frabcus 11y ago
I highly recommend a four year vesting period for any startup ownership, as described by Fred Wilson here: http://avc.com/2010/11/employee-equity-vesting/ Everytime I've seen a company do something else,
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by frabcus 11y ago
Yes, they're such a commodity I've moved on from features to looking at other factors, such as conflict free metals and worker rights. e.g. Look at Fairphone http://fairphone.com/
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by frabcus 11y ago
Because you need something paid for underneath it to stop spam. This fantastic post from Mike Hearn, who was on the GMail spam team and now makes P2P decentarlized stuff, explains it all: https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archiv
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Sync/Backup workshop at Redecentralize Conference(flourish.org)
2 points by frabcus 11y ago|0 comments
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by frabcus 11y ago
My problem with them is they refused to even talk. We had a plan that would make them money - they without notice just killed our API access. Why didn't they call us first? Fuck that, not going near them.
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by frabcus 11y ago
How are you finding Cloud Foundry? Is it good? I've looked quickly at it, but unlike (say) Heroku, found it hard to know where to start to host a simple app.
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by frabcus 11y ago
Camper van! I think an important use of self driving cars will be to travel longish distances over night. This may even happen frequently - several times a week. People will want their own bedding, clothes, wash things and so on if doing th
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by frabcus 11y ago
Ben Goldacre (of Bad Science) wrote a paper with the UK Government on A/B tests of policies. http://www.badscience.net/2012/06/heres-a-cabinet-office-pap...
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by frabcus 11y ago
It is unethical NOT to A/B test, because you may be doing the worst thing for all patients. You're right that it should be generally known this is done.
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by frabcus 11y ago
A key thing not mentioned in the article or the comments, is that agile only works for certain kinds of software (when the software category is still being custom built). For others (when the software category has become a commodity), wat
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by frabcus 11y ago
Lots of Nepal Earthquake datasets (including map of new quake) on the Humanitarian Data Exchange: https://data.hdx.rwlabs.org/nepal-earthquake
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by frabcus 11y ago
It's pretty simple - most people do reject such businesses. You never see the businesses that people researched but gave up early. Some people take the risk.

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