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by jallmann 14y ago
Not saying Skype is perfect (it isn't), but WebRTC by itself doesn't come close to being a Skype substitute. While stability for particular client-side bits (media, transport, etc) will now now fall on the browser vendor, you're still going
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by jallmann 14y ago
I'm fond of the idea of Erlang as a "systems glue" while using other languages for performance or safety. Another example is an Erlang node in OCaml, with a very nice writeup by Ulf Wiger explaining the reasoning for this kind of architectu
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by jallmann 14y ago
Elixir looks interesting, but the issues it addresses in Erlang are mostly superficial and subject to taste; eg I like single-assignment, and consider 'nil' a deficiency that can usually be avoided with proper typing. But each to his own --
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by jallmann 14y ago
Nick's Crispy Tacos around Nob Hill. The prices seemed in line with the rest of SF though. IIRC, they charged extra for guac, and added cheese -- on a carne asada burrito! Which should never have anything but meat, guac and pico de gallo.
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by jallmann 14y ago
No way, last time I went to SF it was $20 for two burritos. Compare to $10 at Roberto's in Mission Beach, and they don't put sour cream in the carne asada...
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by jallmann 14y ago
Foresight Streaming Systems is a Twilio for video. http://foresightstreaming.com Feedback on the landing page appreciated!
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by jallmann 14y ago
Older Android browsers (<= 2.2) had a two-part button, for zooming in and out. One tap, no menus involved. I much prefer this since I can hold the phone and zoom with one hand, using my thumb. Google Maps for Android has something nearl
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by jallmann 14y ago
The Postal Inspection Service is a useful tool. Mail fraud brings down a lot of sleazeballs that would otherwise have gotten away. Maybe because that's the last thing they would think to cover up.
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by jallmann 14y ago
A broker is an implementation detail; there's nothing stopping you from going peer-to-peer with $protocol and having publishers manage their own subscribers. Some sort of registry is still needed though; nslookupd in your case. There is a b
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by jallmann 14y ago
Is it too much to hope for that the USPTO would acknowledge the need for patent policy reform in its amicus curiae? Surely there are people there that recognize current patent policy is antiquated (to put it mildly).
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by jallmann 14y ago
Was something like MQTT investigated prior to re-inventing the wheel with NSQ? From a cursory examination, I don't see any major advantages other than nice UI tools. The wire protocol seems more complicated -- why distinct protocols for pro
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by jallmann 14y ago
Chuck Moore's GreenArrays chip? (He's also the guy behind Forth, the quintessential stack-based VM.) How's that working?
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by jallmann 14y ago
I see Rust has ADTs and strong static typing, how much is enforced at compile time? One thing I love about OCaml is its exhaustiveness checking. I've been doing a lot of Erlang and it feels so dangerous without the compiler telling me if I'
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by jallmann 14y ago
HTTP has its problems, but implementing it is a walk in the park compared to many other telecom protocols. Try SIP and its dozens of add-on RFCs, or tracing a H.323 call flow, or even making sense of something like Megaco from the ITU/IET
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by jallmann 14y ago
Rails is a Rack app too. While I agree there are diminishing returns the lower in the stack you go, your original reduction is misleading. The choice between Sinatra and Rails can reasonably be debated, but there's little reason to write a
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by jallmann 14y ago
Sinatra has a lot less boilerplate than the typical Rack app.
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by jallmann 14y ago
You're right, I had the two confused.
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by jallmann 14y ago
> I'm quite skeptical as to how you could ever come to a fair conclusion with a juror that isn't supposed to know about the field specifically. If the burden of proof wasn't solely on the lawyers, we'd end up with situations where juror
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by jallmann 14y ago
That's not what I said. Generating a predictable distribution by hashing is old hat. What's awesome is you can then make inferences about the original data from those hashes -- something that good hash functions are supposed to be resistant
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by jallmann 14y ago
That is mind-blowing. Intuitively, a hash digest is completely uncorrelated with its input, but this shows that you can make inferences about a collection of data based on its hashes. In retrospect, it makes sense stochastically, but still
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by jallmann 14y ago
ctrl-l in most terminals will also clear the screen. Ideally they'd apply most of the features from GNU readline which IMO is the de facto source for 'standard' shortcuts on unixen. http://www.bigsmoke.us/readline/shortcuts
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by jallmann 14y ago
Yes, the article seems questionable. He got new hearing aids, so he most likely was able to hear with his old ones, albeit not with high fidelity. I have a cochlear implant (since hearing aids never helped), and I can't make sense out of mo
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by jallmann 14y ago
And I don't understand the knee-jerk reaction against being labelled software-conservative. Yegge's overarching message, where conservatism is employed to mitigate engineering risk, is a Good Thing. Also, Yegge's specific examples of libera
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by jallmann 14y ago
I don't write for Node nor SQL Server, but that connection string looks gnarly. Is there a reason for not using a plain object that could then be merged with a set of internal defaults, then serialized from there? Ruby uses this pattern oft
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by jallmann 14y ago
Above all, Buffett invests in companies that have a solid management team in place. Otherwise his hands-off approach would never work.
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by jallmann 14y ago
To hazard a guess: the higher-ups at Google think (know?) that the future lies in the open web. Android is a stopgap to compete in the current mobile environment, but I'm hoping ChromeOS displaces Android entirely in the next 3-5 years. Web
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by jallmann 14y ago
That's refreshing -- we're sending things into space from a readable 31-page spec (with pictures!). RFC authors, take note.
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by jallmann 14y ago
I was just thinking there are plenty of VoIP implementations available. But if you're using those, you're probably not Twilio's target customer.
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by jallmann 14y ago
I feel like I'm missing something here. What does the Twilio mobile API give that isn't built into the phone?
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by jallmann 14y ago
> Finally, why don't modern cell phones handle TTY calls? My phone (a Droid 3) has a TTY mode. Not sure what that entails though.

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