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by josh2600 10y ago
Dropbox uses one key for all content... Google drive means google can see all of your stuff... Sharing in hangouts is just like drive... WhatsApp isn't close to this robust... Wave was just really far ahead of its time but you see the
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by josh2600 10y ago
This is an asset for their users, not a liability. If you were to try to compete with Snapchat on the basis of having history, you would fail.
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by josh2600 10y ago
All conferenincing systems have a limit on the number of first-class participants (people who can listen and speak). Broadcast is a different problem and there are a ton of really good solutions when you have less than 250 speakers but many
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by josh2600 10y ago
I think 6000 was a lot back in 2002... Am I wrong?
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by josh2600 10y ago
"Beginning" is a weird choice of words. I'm pretty sure palmer funding /thedonald is last year, and Katz's sting was in like December. Anything post-acquisition is not really the beginning anymore methinks. I don&#x
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by josh2600 10y ago
> Humans weren't designed to have a will, and yet we seem to have them. I have no idea how you could possibly infer this.
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by josh2600 10y ago
Losing two publicly is signaling. The very fact people are talking loudly about leaving apple is a sign of apple's weakness.
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Yes but Uber would benefit from fleet pricing on purchasing and maintenance as well as the centralization of facilities (you could put the Uber fleet offices far away since the cars can drive themselves there for servicing). Uber might have
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by josh2600 10y ago
It's much harder for a processor to catch fire even in abject failure because processors don't contain fuel cells like batteries do. Battery tech is inherently more dangerous because of the larger electrical and chemical forces at
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by josh2600 10y ago
Fascinating! Does it matter if the Zero-Rating is a choice the carrier is making as an offering to its customers without support from the content provider vs in a deal with the content provider? I don't think T-Mobile receives money fr
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by josh2600 10y ago
God, I don't think I've ever groaned audibly while reading a comment like this before on HN. It's totally correct and true and apt, but I hope it's wrong over the long term. I'm hopeful k8 won't go the way of o
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by josh2600 10y ago
2G networks have basically one way auth. The phone auths to the network but the network doesn't auth to the phone. This is an oversimplification but basically how it works.
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by josh2600 10y ago
I know of no city in the world that operates a primary network of point to points. I think it's a fascinating engineering problem with a bunch of unknown problems that will arise in the process of attempting to deliver the solution. Th
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by josh2600 10y ago
They are able to operate a company at that scale. I think your comment dismisses a lot of very functional people within their organization.
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by josh2600 10y ago
That's an orthogonal point to working at Twitter :/. Even if Twitter were acquired, there's basically zero chance they'd fire all the engineers.
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by josh2600 10y ago
1) pole rights matter. In San Francisco, att also owns the poles and does everything they can to prevent other people from using them. I would tell installs that it would be 30 days from the day we got permitted until the circuit was instal
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by josh2600 10y ago
Layoffs hit engineering last in most tech companies but when layoffs happen it's usually last in-first out.
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by josh2600 10y ago
I can confirm that horizontal boring machines have never been used in any telco digging opportunity I've been a part of :/. I wish it were the case but it is all tear-up-the-streets territory.
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by josh2600 10y ago
That depends on how you feel about airspace rights.
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by josh2600 10y ago
To put the fiber in the ground. There are pieces of conduit that we run fiber through into your building. Inside your building there's a fiber termination point that hands off to ethernet. On the other end is a repeater/node that
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by josh2600 10y ago
I wrote about this elsewhere and am pasting my thoughts here as I think they're relevant to this community: 1) Google Fiber is dead. Long Live Google ISP. Google cannot afford to lay fiber in the ground because it's a long game an
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by josh2600 10y ago
Traditionally the way that carriers deal with bandwidth congestion is to wait until people start screaming (and networks start breaking) before they invest in innovation. There are a bunch of technologies that could ease congestion and deli
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by josh2600 10y ago
The line between evasion and avoidance is really a matter of opinion (that we colloquially call 'case law'). It's hard to know what the delta actually is... I would argue that intent isn't really that different between t
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by josh2600 10y ago
Samsung is too much of South Korea's GDP to go bankrupt. For Samsung to fail, the Korean economy would have to also fail, which is possible but unlikely. I think that if you compare Samsung's Note 7 to Nokia's Burning Platfor
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by josh2600 10y ago
I mean, think about the threats from .gov, right? $250k per day doubling every week that can come with a gag order sounds like the sort of thing that could damage a business to the point of extinction, no? https://www.theguardian
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by josh2600 10y ago
To be frank, when you are no longer the dominant player in a market, open source looks very appealing as a method of gathering additional market share. If you are the dominant player, there is little reason to give your opponents a tactical
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by josh2600 10y ago
http://mikesenese.com/DOIT/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Unders... ^undersea cables are typically made up of a central fiber line, which look like human hairs in a small tube, and a shell of insulation
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by josh2600 10y ago
It's not ok to be ignorant... Below are the minimum system requirements for the Vive: GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970, AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or better CPU: Intel i5-4590, AMD FX 8350 equivalent or better RAM: 4 GB or more Video Outp
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by josh2600 10y ago
"The only minus..." Except the Vive doesn't require 3 USB 3.0 ports and a $2500+ computer...
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It was Web Apps only originally and that was the battle call from Apple. It wasn't until GeoHot (and others) rooted the phone and we got app stores like Cydia that Apple really started to care. It was with the launch of the iPhone 3G w

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