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by jmccorm 7y ago
Many people want to create a better Facebook. Open source software, by itself, won't get you there. A piece of the puzzle is missing. Forget the article's focus on the PC. I think the real question they're reaching for is thi
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by jmccorm 7y ago
I personally remember witnessing the exploit of reused credentials as far back as the 80s in the days of modems and personal BBSes. Here we are almost 40 years later and seeing the same problem, except with high speed live video streams fro
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by jmccorm 7y ago
It's always nice to find a reply on HN that captures so much of what you wanted to say. I came to that same perspective from a non-financial Fortune 50. After Y2K was when a very good chunk of those who got CS degrees for all the wrong
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by jmccorm 7y ago
I look at it the same way I do a new technology on our mission-critical systems. It starts with a tag of 'unsafe' or 'unstable' until it is given time to prove itself out in the real-world. Sure, we might not get to geek
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by jmccorm 7y ago
I've gotten a long ways in my technical career from being able to ask sensitive questions. (In the business environment, I've focused more on them being "critical questions".) It has been really great for me, and I'
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by jmccorm 7y ago
I can't tell if ICANN is trying to publicly clear their own name of any wrongdoing, or if all the added attention has woken them up to how seriously flawed this whole ordeal was (which either by policy or procedure they managed to miss
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by jmccorm 7y ago
Is Paleo "wrong"? Yes. Is it still better than the diet (the word "diet" as in "everything that you eat" not "weight loss food") than most Americans eat? Probably. But then it may be worse in terms of
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by jmccorm 7y ago
CST-01: The World’s Thinnest Watch (0.8mm thick) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1655017763/cst-01-the-w... I believe they ran into problems with their manufacturing partner, and also with some of their batte
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by jmccorm 7y ago
I managed to swing one of those as an “Amazon Warehouse Deal” for $75, shipped. Honestly, it was nothing short of a steal at that price. The Coolest Cooler had just so many clever features and accessories, but it was anything but clever whe
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by jmccorm 7y ago
You’re absolutely right. Commonly referred to as “scorch” mode.
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by jmccorm 7y ago
It seems like a slap across the face that they offer as a defense a 10% increase which compounds annually . That isn’t a defense... it is a stunning illustration of the problem! Even the cable companies would be jealous (while their own
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by jmccorm 7y ago
Despite this, I find it quite difficult to say that Valve values profits and nothing else. Why? Values are not binary, and they are not applied equally in all situations. And like any company, they’ve made their share of bad moves. Yet a pr
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by jmccorm 7y ago
A nonprofit corporation is one answer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_corporation But if you’re not being literal when you ask about values beyond profit, then as an easy example: Valve. They believe in promot
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by jmccorm 7y ago
I was recently told how private detectives from a national agency would actually go door-to-door (over a minimal area) under the pretext of AT&T store / sales employees. They’d try to convince their target (and some incidental neig
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by jmccorm 7y ago
I'd have to unearth the screenshot I took some years back, but that strays from the point, doesn't it? They weren't asking for home number, work number, and mobile number. Or as you mentioned: daytime number, evening number.
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by jmccorm 7y ago
I tried to make that distinction clear. I'll see if I can do a better job. Most companies ask a customer for a telephone number in their forms and in their applications. Actually, just about any context where the customer's mobile
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by jmccorm 7y ago
I remember looking over the application form for the first Oculus Connect (after Oculus was purchased by FB). What struck me as odd was that the form didn't just ask for your phone number. It asked for your mobile telephone number. I
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by jmccorm 7y ago
I remember playing an OnLive demo of a (then recent) Mass Effect title. I was picky about both image quality and lag, and I was not in a top-tier city. I was very impressed! Unfortunately, the problems with the business model remained.
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by jmccorm 7y ago
I was at a very large Sun customer at the time. Sun's account team tried pushing these for years, and to be fair it was an intriguing solution. The problem? Our developer UNIX workstations were never centrally managed (or budgeted) or
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by jmccorm 7y ago
I'm starting to become more and more suspicious when tech companies offer free features out of the blue, so forgive me for asking this question: Could this end up being a plausible "serving the customer" reason for DJI drones
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by jmccorm 7y ago
Up until now, I've been focused on hardware (non-firmware) status lights which show outbound cell traffic, outbound wifi traffic, microphone data, and camera data. You know what? I think I'd like your physical kill so much better.
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by jmccorm 7y ago
I believe we're already past that point. Search for the term "reputation management". Some companies ARE willing to pay money to rebut a negative viewpoint with a human voice, and Reddit is by no means immune to this. I don&#
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by jmccorm 7y ago
> Using 256 color bitmap, select the 320200 resolution. 64k for one full screenbuffer. Based on what I see here, you've got a good explanation: https://github.com/FrankBuss/x16-demo/tree/master/as
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by jmccorm 7y ago
> It has a tile mode. That's going to be how larger images are handled. Perhaps. But in the video, he said mode 7, and the VERA module documentation https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-docs/raw/master&
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by jmccorm 7y ago
What I took exception with was: 1. Not enough video memory to contain a full Mode 7 image on the VERA co-processor. 2. All co-processor access (including video memory) has to go through eight registers starting at $9F20. No problem here wit
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by jmccorm 7y ago
Let me take hougaard's reply first here... > No, the half image problem showed in the video, is that the available low memory of the X16 is around 38K, only enough for half a vga image... No, 38K isn't half of a VGA image. 38K
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by jmccorm 7y ago
I'd hope so. Or they could leave it in as an old-school quirk that you have to hack around in order to get the most out of a bleeding-edge vintage home computer. I'm not sure of their intent here? There's this clip https:&#x
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by jmccorm 7y ago
His project certainly has my attention! Only two things have me concerned right now: cost (the question of if it can reach scale) and video. His current choice for a video co-processor "Vera" excites and concerns me in equal mea
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by jmccorm 7y ago
I really like where he's going with this. I had hoped there would have been a more vibrant discussion here, but I can understand that a 45 minute video was too much of an investment for the casual user. I think this one sets itself apa
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by jmccorm 7y ago
How nostalgic! Mind you, I say that in a good way! This brings me back to the heydays of Sun Microsystems where they controlled both the hardware (SPARC) and the operating system (Solaris). Sun didn't hesitate to use this to their adva

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