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by jjrh 9y ago
To be fair, the data google collects does end up making their products better. > everyone who usually drives on this road is taking a detour, was there a accident or construction going on?
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by jjrh 9y ago
The big difference is facebook could die over night - some hot new thing gets popular and facebook disappears into obscurity. (unlikely but a possibility) Google on the other hand is not so easy to replace, it's not a popular trend, it
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by jjrh 9y ago
The real issue is binary choice. I might disagree with a comment, but acknowledge it's a valid well thought out argument. On the flip side I might agree but acknowledge it's a poorly formed argument. Something might be totally off
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by jjrh 9y ago
> But i think that is because of stability/efficiency of iOS over android. From what I understand iOS is pretty picky about background processes. Limit what can run in the background (and for how long) with android and you will prob
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by jjrh 9y ago
> I don't know what exactly their goal is with some of these devices, I always assumed google's hardware stuff was basically a reference implementation. When traditional manufacturers 'get it' google steps aside.
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by jjrh 9y ago
I'm not following. You can run a 'private'/'silo' xmpp server by turning off S2S. There are various commercial solutions that offer this.
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by jjrh 9y ago
Seems like there is a opening for someone to start something similar to freenode but for XMPP. Or Freenode could run a XMPP<->IRC gateway.
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by jjrh 9y ago
There is a large list of public XMPP servers one can register on ( https://list.jabber.at/ & https://xmpp.net/directory.php ) https://movim.eu/ is another option (has a fancy web client
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by jjrh 9y ago
> If anything, the fact that it's decades old and used in every major software project is a testament to its effectiveness, not a drawback. Part of the reason is because people see the superficial issues (like the discussion regardi
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by jjrh 9y ago
Who is saying they aren't going this avenue? It would make sense to me that they would slowly increase their own infrastructure, testing it's reliability and over time decrease their reliance on third parties. Apple has enough mon
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by jjrh 9y ago
It's only a issue when there aren't laws preventing ISP's from handing over your information without a court order along with sane limits on how much a copyright holder can go after you for.
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by jjrh 9y ago
> I'm on a VPN all the time, and torrenting without a VPN, to me, is living on the edge. I'd constantly wonder: how long before I receive a stern letter? That's really a USA thing.
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by jjrh 9y ago
This is the main reason I choose SQLite for simple stuff and experiments. Just being a file also makes it really easy to come back to a half finished project or pick up from another machine with a simple rsync.
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by jjrh 9y ago
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2015/the-what-a... I'm sure someone has worked on it. Might be interesting if Twitter had a opt in way to try some of their UI experiments.
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by jjrh 9y ago
It's the type of thing twitter could really facilitate too - oh I see you added snoopdog and drdre, you might be interested in the "West coast Rappers" list! Publishing/maintaining lists is something a organisation could
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by jjrh 9y ago
I'm still amazed how bad the Twitter.com UI is. The fact stuff like Hootsuite,tweetdeck and a zillion similar tools exist to effectively make twitter usable if you follow more than a dozen people is crazy. There is a whole bunch of inn
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by jjrh 9y ago
Based on the article it sounds like they were mostly using the CDN part of Cloudflare's offering. > No site or service should be forced to receive //every// bit of information sent at it. They aren't, but us
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by jjrh 9y ago
It's surprising how many places FPGA's show up. I picked up a used black magic pci capture card that had a xilinx on it. It's not a mass consumer product but I am guessing they still sell a good number of them. People seem to
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by jjrh 9y ago
A emacs-tiny would be nice. Emacs package is just too large to be a default. On servers I usually just install mg/zile/jed.
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by jjrh 9y ago
Wasn't that long ago people said the same thing with sublime. What looks nice about Xi is that the next cool editor can be built on top of it and leverage it's stability.
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by jjrh 9y ago
> Facebook is a very good product - as a social CRM and messaging service, no one even comes close. Not sure I would say Facebook is a 'very good product'. It's okay. The main thing Facebook has going for it is the userbas
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by jjrh 9y ago
Netflix original content is a mixed bag. They have some really good shows, and some more forgettable ones that are the type you throw on for background noise.
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by jjrh 9y ago
From what I understand Netflix is pretty smart about where/what they film to take advantage of tax credits and other incentives countries provide. So that $8B really stretches. Seems like they are at the point where they need to keep t
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by jjrh 9y ago
This is more related to solitary confinement as a a decision you don't have a choice in. As the article states, 'disciplinary segregation' is a maximum of 30 days, where 'administrative segregation' is left up to wa
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by jjrh 9y ago
Gonna second this - as much as I dislike Java there are a enormous number of very stable and mature projects in both the opensource and commercial/enterprise world. Many times there isn't even a alternative.
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by jjrh 9y ago
That implies there is a viable alternative people can go to. I'd be more concerned that a group with >50% would go after alternatives/competitors.
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by jjrh 9y ago
> I really don't get why so many people (Linux Desktop users especially, so maybe they're all webdevs?) love them so much. I don't either but my guess is they are running it on their personal machine which makes the risk o
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by jjrh 9y ago
The stated reasons for keeping the code closed seem rather silly to me ( https://www.reddit.com/r/cemu/comments/3ou88k/rcemu_is_now_o... ) I wonder if there is code in there that was perhaps acquired in
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by jjrh 9y ago
> Biggest issue is connectivity issues. Corporate firewalls don't allow incoming connections, and limit outgoing connections to specific ports (in most cases). NAT's are the real pain for this sorta stuff and why people use stu
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by jjrh 9y ago
In the example of chat, XMPP is federated, it even has serverless messaging ( https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0174.html ) SIP for instance is perfectly happy to do ip<->ip calls (well ignoring NAT issues - one da

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