joeblau

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by joeblau 10y ago
This type of statement reminds me of being in the music business (for the short period of time I was in it). Everyone would always hype their artist as the best thing since sliced bread. "You gotta hear this guy" "She'
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by joeblau 10y ago
I actually saw this with a few of my colleagues that worked at Amazon. There was one superb engineering — one of the best Android developers I've ever worked with. Our project ended and, I had the freedom to leave Amazon and jump to a
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by joeblau 10y ago
You may be experiencing some caching problems. Also around the time you checked I was in the middle of pushing the swift site to Heroku so that may have introduced some issues as well. The new site has a "Create" button with no
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by joeblau 10y ago
Ah yeah. I'm going to write a blog post on this in a few weeks, but basically I'm running tests using `wrk`. Here are the results I just got with a test (this is actually a bit abnormal), but note the requests per second, latency
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by joeblau 10y ago
It might be possible, but Snap could be constrained by engineering resources. Google has some super smart engineers and while Snap might be able to build something cheaper, that might mean pivoting your entire primary business to essential
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by joeblau 10y ago
This is very interesting. I run https://www.gitignore.io and this post highlights a lot of interesting things about git-scm. 1. GitHub is footing the bill — I'm paying for gitignore.io (although it's only costing me t
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Ask HN: Is There a Tool to Know Which Companies Are Using Your Web Service?
1 points by joeblau 10y ago|1 comments
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by joeblau 10y ago
You can already do ad blocking natively through Safari Content Blocking extensions. There is also another trick you can do where you can use a VPN that routes known top-level-domains to 0.0.0.0 which would allow for entire Apple System blo
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by joeblau 10y ago
:laughing: - My Samsung smart TV asked me if I wanted to turn on some network features for updates a few months ago and I said no. I also set up my network to ensure that the MAC address for both of my TV never has access to the internet
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by joeblau 10y ago
This would be my follow up question as well, except I would want at least a 60 inch screen.
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by joeblau 10y ago
Next step. Get rid of all of the "Smart" TV features. I just wanna 4k dumb TV.
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by joeblau 10y ago
Join our team — we have cookies.
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by joeblau 10y ago
They really need this. The calibration on their Lidar sensors is all over the place and for their sensors to be reliable enough to use off the shelf, they a factory.
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by joeblau 10y ago
Meanwhile the Oracle yacht racing team still seems to be going strong[1]. [1] - http://oracle-team-usa.americascup.com/en/news.html
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by joeblau 10y ago
This was freaking amazing. These are the types of technology launches that truly get me excited.
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by joeblau 10y ago
Yeah war is probably the wrong word to use — my vocabulary isn't that great :).
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by joeblau 10y ago
You're right. Everyone is fallible and I'm all for mistakes being made — We are all human. I also agree that the immediate snap response tells us nothing. Based on the BI story, I know a few people that have actually already uni
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by joeblau 10y ago
There seems to be a pretty clear war going on between engineers and journalists lately. - Chris Latter [1] vs Business Insider [2] - Elon Musk vs (Bunch of outlets) - Moxie vs The Guardian I feel like journalists want to write a compelling
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by joeblau 10y ago
I would start a coffee shop. I don't even really like coffee that much, but the thought of literally selling the same product day in and day out seems calming after working in environments where the formulas for everything are changin
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by joeblau 10y ago
It seems to me that in recent history; Every time the masses get easy access into something that historically had a high barrier to entry -- You get a huge boom and a huge crash. Back in late 90's when everyone was starting a company w
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by joeblau 10y ago
> especially now that so many people load vital resources from CDNs controlled by the tracking companies. I've been noticing this trend. I have a pretty extensive hosts file and this one site I visit started displaying ads. I had
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by joeblau 10y ago
I use: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts Works amazing.
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by joeblau 10y ago
I just modify my `/etc/hsots` and block the ad hosted domains at the source. cat /etc/hosts | wc -l 34003
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by joeblau 10y ago
I was a Web Dev for about a decade and I swore by Firefox (started using at 0.6) and then later I switched to Chrome. Recently I've been solely focused on mobile application development and I don't really need most of the develop
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by joeblau 10y ago
Click "web" under the article and to the left of "comments" then click the first link on Google.
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by joeblau 10y ago
I'm trying to build a camera that uses the sensors on your phone to help you take the perfect picture. Your mobile phone knows so much about it's environment, yet most photography apps only take into account what the lens sees.
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by joeblau 10y ago
Holy crap I can't. stop. laughing.
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by joeblau 10y ago
Awesome. It'e even native... not a hybrid web app built in Electron.
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Gitignore.io: 300 OS, IDE, and Programming Language .gitignore Templates(gitignore.io)
4 points by joeblau 10y ago|0 comments
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by joeblau 10y ago
The one think I'm thankful for is that the OP did a thorough investigation into PhoneGap. I've tried 5 cross platform build systems for iOS/Android (PhoneGap, Appcelerator, Adobe Air, Corona, and just rolling my own Web base

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