joshaidan

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   by joshaidan 15y ago

   I love the quality of the image when you set the character quantity to max, but I notice the speed of the rendering gets progressively slower with each pass. And now I start pondering the scalability of the algorithm.
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   Recording of telephone scammer trying to get me to install spyware on my C64(brianjones.ca)

   1 points by joshaidan 15y ago|0 comments
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   by joshaidan 15y ago

   I wonder how the Skype purchase will affect Messenger.
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   by joshaidan 15y ago

   I'm interested to find out if you're right. I guess ultimately it will take advertisers pulling their ads from the yellow pages for them to stop publishing it.
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   by joshaidan 15y ago

   Might as well buy Facebook and Google while you're at it. It will make it easier for Apple to acquire all three.
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   by joshaidan 15y ago

   Although not cross-platform, FaceTime has one killer feature: it passes the mom test. Skype has passed it too, but not with as many flying colours as FaceTime. Mom push button, mom video chatting with grand kids. No intervention from grand
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   by joshaidan 15y ago

   I think it was about a 363% ROI on their $300 million dollar investment.
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   by joshaidan 15y ago

   eHarmony for programmers and employers, nice! :)
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   by joshaidan 15y ago

   Yeah, but in these use cases it's using a lot of traffic because the application of file transfer, and voice/video conversations use up a lot of bandwidth. If we take, for example, an application like Bitcoin, it uses a minimal amount of da
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    by joshaidan 15y ago

    Does Skype actually route voice traffic through a supernode? I thought it was just routing TCP/UDP requests to open up ports behind a NAT'd router. As well, supernodes may also be handling some authentication traffic. But I'm not 100% fam
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    by joshaidan 15y ago

    "Peer-to-peer just eats up your bandwidth, right, it's like the old technology." This quote intrigues me the most. Is peer-to-peer really bad, and uses a lot of bandwidth, or is it just bad for Google?
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    by joshaidan 15y ago

    I guess this is good for the Canadian Pension Plan. :)
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    by joshaidan 15y ago

    Chucking out Hacker News would help me start my company. (there's a really funny irony to this statement)
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    by joshaidan 15y ago

    I wonder if this would cause problems for daily cron scripts that run tasks by checking the date against == rather than than <. Not to mention monthly scripts that happen to run on that particular lost day. Anyway, I love the passionate
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    by joshaidan 15y ago

    For sure we should transition.
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    by joshaidan 15y ago

    What troubles me about this story is not so much the lack of security protecting the camera's and the DVR, but the fact the police department was wasting scarce IPv4 addresses on laptops and security cameras. These devices should have been
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    by joshaidan 16y ago

    Mike's point was there are no security issues with the Blackberry. The issue is that there's too much security than what some governments can tolerate. The question puts the CEO right into a paradox that nobody can possibly answer, so it wa