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by greenspot 10y ago
My results were similar on DSL: Speedtest 12.6 Mbps Fast.com 13.0 Mbps But differed on LTE: Speedtest 40.0 Mbps Fast.com 73.0 Mbps
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by greenspot 10y ago
Makes sense but wouldn't they then use the netflix domain? Something like netflix.com/fast? I could image that if providers throttle it would be a mix of IPs and domain.
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by greenspot 10y ago
Since they took this precious domain, I was wondering about the purchase price and if it was worth to buy this awesome domain—we are talking here about a mid six digit at least, rather seven digits. Then, I checked how much traffic speedtes
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by greenspot 10y ago
First, I thought why another speed test, then I saw that they link their results directly to speedtest.net (the reference) and finally, I realized that fast.com is so much faster in detecting the download speed (but lacks upload and ping).
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by greenspot 10y ago
Don't want to be too negative but the entire post could have been shortened to 'put it on Flippa'. Then, the other advice is quite obvious. Flippa isn't bad but if your side project is good for anything and you want to a
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by greenspot 10y ago
Would love to leave Google Mail but eventually, the ecosystem around Google Apps got so strong, in particular all the extensions for Google Sheets and Google Mail, it makes switching quite hard. And you get the Google Apps at a good price.
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by greenspot 10y ago
I miss something between a MacBook and a MBP. Something light with a Retina display, minimum 13" and a good CPU. Basically a Thinkpad X1 Carbon with OSX.
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by greenspot 10y ago
White sugar is crack. Highly addictive, creating fidgets who can't focus for 5 minutes chasing the next instant gratification. White sugar and wheat shake up one's blood sugar like no other. On the one side, I am wondering that pe
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by greenspot 10y ago
Slightly OT: For a decade, software engineers have been facing such a huge demand for their profession that their perception of a 'job' got a bit distorted. For most of them and those who chose popular stacks it's usually qui
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by greenspot 10y ago
@Fred, would you mind disclosing all your Blockchain related investments? On USV's portfolio site I just found Blockstack Labs (2014), Coinbase (2013). Are there more or recently closed ones?
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by greenspot 10y ago
A screenshot would have been so nice.
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by greenspot 10y ago
Over-engineering at its best. React is great but so wrong for an SSG and instantaneous loading of next pages is great but... - Preloading all blog posts does not scale and is not wanted; a post is read and only a tiny tiny part clicks on th
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by greenspot 10y ago
> it's a priority at the moment Out of curiosity: wouldn't improving the self-hosting experience cannibalize subscriptions of your paid plans?
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by greenspot 10y ago
Selling licensees is even smarter than selling chips, no risk and probably same margin.
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by greenspot 10y ago
> Programs are composed almost entirely with the mouse rather than keyboard Then this is not my cup of tea. I think the keyboard is still the best and most versatile interface to a computer.
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by greenspot 10y ago
Thanks for your reply and apologies for the 'esoteric'. Maybe not the right wording but I read your post few times and I would have liked to get more details about the idea. The idea sounds ok once you clarified at the first glanc
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by greenspot 10y ago
Anyone can help? He is writing that the current browser sandbox model is not secure–all in a dramatic, clickbaity manner. After many esoteric lines, then he says (maybe it's the tl;dr)... "We need a highly secure (ideally provably
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by greenspot 10y ago
Started with Cloud9, moved to Nitrous and ended with a server with vim + tmux on DigitalOcean as my instant-on IDE from everywhere. I find this superior than former ones: cheaper, more powerful, more flexible and somehow faster/more ad
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by greenspot 10y ago
Does Gimp has support for display with high pixel density?
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by greenspot 10y ago
Wow, Marissa Mayer. That she agreed on Mozilla's change-of-control clause—so Mozilla can just walk away in case of a M&A deal and still get $1B—is simply disconcerting. I do not have any insights and why she gave in on this point b
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by greenspot 10y ago
Good point and I agree that the Virtual Boy comparison is not perfect but two underlying questions remain: 1. Will VR achieve mass adoption in the next 5 years considering the high costs for GPUs and screens with high pixel density? 2. And
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by greenspot 10y ago
Somewhat related: Nintendo sold 770,000 units if their Virtual Boy in less than one year. The Virtual Boy was nothing against the current VR products and for a Nintendo product a pretty mediocre one then, maybe their biggest product failure
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by greenspot 10y ago
This idea is very good.
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by greenspot 10y ago
It's not dying but it's a saturated market where almost every problem has been solved in the past 20 years.
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by greenspot 10y ago
...hm, I know that CSS 3D transitions in particluar run extremely well on an iPhone 6, heck even a 5 should manage them well. The hardware is def good enough and these transitions are also hardware accelerated on an iPhone. Not sure on the
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by greenspot 10y ago
Got this on an iPhone 6 with Mobile Safari: 'Your browser doesn't support the features required by impress.js, so you are presented with a simplified version of this presentation. For the best experience please use the latest Chro
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by greenspot 10y ago
Just code a lot and do it daily. If there is nothing to code on your day job or just old legacy cruft to maintain then try code golfing. Code Golf is about programming as short as possible and it's also a section on StackExchange [1] w
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by greenspot 10y ago
> but you're missing out on an incredible body of thoughts and ideas that might expand your vision borders. Have to disagree here. Yes there is a lot of good stuff especially written in the past but looking at today I see high calib
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by greenspot 10y ago
Not sure about carb and suicide but I agree that there is a linear correlation between carbs and anxiety. If you carb in-take is higher than what you need and then you get anxious. Add processed carbs like sugar and wheat the effect is eve
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by greenspot 10y ago
> goods or services to the common market goods yes and only if you produce them, services no anyway nobody would send stuff from UK to other countries even if the were in the EU; you would found country organization like you did before;

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