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by jjindev 13y ago
It's interesting, just yesterday I scanned the low cost system boards looking for one with SATA. I was wondering if I should replace the old PCs I use as filestores with something smaller, lower power, that could just run linux and rs
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Just trying to show the Linux kernel as an inexpensive building block in this day and age. One that is used casually, in Raspbery Pi's, in virtualization, etc.
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You now, in some sense those early visionaries were beaten by the disruptive innovators of their day. I think the argument here is that 1000 little choices favoring incremental advantage in the short term add up to a sub-optimal long term,
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It was an interesting thing for me to do interviews, like the interviewee, and then hear the various objections of my peers. They were all over the map, more than any most common thing. All I can suggest is that you ask about the company&#
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by jjindev 13y ago
I was just thinking back to the 80's, when newspapers actually printed stories about "rm" and "ls" and unfriendly computers. This was as the GUI came in and cryptic commands were eschewed. It took us a long time to
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What I saw, over a few decades in programming is that: Right off you start off with a split between people who love it, and people for whom it is a job. The jobs people seldom transition to loving it. On the other hand, each few years, a
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Isn't this all just evidence that "better" in most cases is a small margin? You can hate X, and prefer Y, but in most cases the X guys will finish their project. Methodology based crash and burns are pretty rare. And the t
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by jjindev 13y ago
There have been and will be problems, but it is probably safe to say Android "survived" fragmentation. This is success.
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Dan Ariely's Coursera on Irrational Behavior spent much time on current research in these areas. Very interesting (and a good/fun course, should it come around again).
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I think the tension might be that looking back, we see many big (money making) operations that ran on far less than 64GB(1), but looking forward we can all think of fun hacks we can do on cheap and common 64GB machines. It's another wa
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Large organizations have a tendency to demand custom solutions, and then they want to throw the switch all at once. That is pretty much opposite the bottom up, self-organization, of HN themes. If you could "bubble up" a "goo
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I only watched a bit, but isn't the idea that "phones become disruptive" contrary to other expectation, of ubiquitous computing? Needing "your device" to be self supporting seems to hearken back to rare computing.
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The simplest observation is that the Mauna Loa data series for atmospheric CO2 has been very consistent and shows a steeper curve over time. That simply must be net-net all of the environmental changes going on around the world. Really ba
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by jjindev 13y ago
To answer indirectly, I have Rokus I use for Netflix. I've always wanted freedom to roam Youtube as freely. That would be enough to make me choose this (if my Roku 3 was not a recent purchase). Has Google been holding full Youtube na
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by jjindev 13y ago
This is slightly tangential, but bear with me. I'm mid-50's, and when I started programming it was a weird thing. I'd say I was a computer programmer, and I might have been the first one that normal people had actually met.
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by jjindev 13y ago
I'm not saying there should be no tab/filter options (I used filter/folder options before tabs arrived). I'm just suggesting sticking the 3 defaults on everyone was a bad idea. Just adding the "+" and directi
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I think good criticisms are vital, and the default in social networks is probably to discourage them. The tendency is toward social affirmation. Even siloing. Certainly criticism should [not] be the predominant mode. Far from it, but we
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There was some religion then also, that "modes" were too much for the human brain.
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In general, I think it would have been smart to offer tabs to high volume users. When I only have 10 new things, tabs are ... stupid. (Amusingly it put an old girlfriend's "my new page is at" in promotions.)
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I like it also. My Special Eyes have trouble with default HN. For me, like orf, the faded colors are a bit of a strain. Also, if I don't open a story in a new tab, but go out and back, I sometimes have trouble finding the entry I jus
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by jjindev 13y ago
Perhaps the idea that research facilities could become self-funding via IP was well-intentioned, but I agree that it was (is) ultimately counter-productive. It is counter-productive in several ways, including discouraging free scientific c
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by jjindev 13y ago
This was a very sad story. Charcoal fires are prodigious producers of CO. That said, I'm sure we've all seen photos of arctic explorers or Himalayan climbers melting snow in their tent with a small stove. I suppose the general
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Both Hollywood and Silicon Valley have what the economists call Cumulative Advantage. IOW, network effects with critical mass make them "the" destination for a people with a certain dream.
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zero, actually. Not super intentional. I tend to unplug my speakers and plug in the headset only when I need it. The cell phone is in the other room. I did like the old days when forward facing cameras had slide shutters on them.
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In MOOC "hype" and "backlash" I see echoes of early open source.
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Related: Six Brain-Damage Scourges That Cripple IQ in Sub-Saharan Africa http://www.amren.com/news/2012/04/six-brain-damage-scourges-...
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Toffler should get some credit for "prosumer," years and years ago.
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I met a doctor recovering from a very bad breast cancer. Her opinion, for what it's worth, was "get lots of sun, and inspect for skin cancers - they are easy."
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My gut feel, based on a BS Chem and then casual reading, has been that the occasional vitamin is best. Keep a bottle in the cupboard, take a one when you feel like it (no more than once a week). Replace the bottle when it expires. Chances
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OK, maybe running with a HUD would be fun, current pace, previous pace on course ....

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