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by kwindla 7y ago
Having read the article (and being just enough of an amateur photographer to know how hard it is to take good pictures, and how much harder it was when working in film instead of digital) I don't actually think the headline is over-sta
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by kwindla 7y ago
And rubber. _The Thief at the end of the World_, the story of "bio-pirate" Henry Wickham, who smuggled rubber seeds out of Brazil in the 1870s, is a great read.[0] [0]- https://www.amazon.com/Thief-End-World-Rubber-
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Photography and racial bias(nytimes.com)
74 points by kwindla 7y ago|60 comments
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by kwindla 7y ago
There are some recent instances of companies being forced into a liquidity event by hedge funds exploiting bonds in unforeseen ways. So, way more complicated than shorting stocks, but kind of related to the parent question: Matt Levine has
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by kwindla 7y ago
Haven't benchmarked ant media server, but mediaSoup performance is very good. "Easy to use" is in the eye of the beholder. Mediasoup isn't a packaged solution; you need to write some javascript to get a server up and run
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by kwindla 7y ago
This looks to be nicely architected. Looking forward to digging in. In answer to the questions about TURN, this approach won't be lower latency than TURN but will scale better. TURN servers are just (nearly) passive relays, so the send
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Kidnapping: An Efficient Business(nybooks.com)
111 points by kwindla 7y ago|35 comments
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Claudia Andujar: Witness to the Yanomami’s Last Struggle(nybooks.com)
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The Scholar Who Shaped History(nybooks.com)
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The science behind the art of Jeff Koons(qz.com)
2 points by kwindla 8y ago|0 comments
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by kwindla 8y ago
I was just looking at NativeScript and would love to hear about experiences developing production apps with it. We have a pretty large javascript web app code base and have built both native and React Native ports. Both of which have had mo
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Ask HN: Fun math resources for young kids
2 points by kwindla 8y ago|2 comments
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Will It Blend? Or How to Run Google Chrome in AWS Lambda(medium.freecodecamp.org)
1 points by kwindla 8y ago|0 comments
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by kwindla 8y ago
Learning about the Schwartzian transform was one of life's memorable "ah hah" moments for me. There's a whole set of higher-order layers to this programming thing! As others have said, language choice matters.
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Who Says Old-Fashioned Street Photography Is Dead?(nytimes.com)
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Finding the Warts in WebAssembly+WebRTC(webrtchacks.com)
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by kwindla 8y ago
libsodium is written in c. "Pure javascript" is a supported compilation target[0] of the project. Emscripten is used to compile the c to javascript. There's also now a wasm compilation target, again via emscripten. The c sour
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by kwindla 8y ago
Yes! The Michael Lewis book is called _The Fifth Risk_, and it's an amazing read. It's a series of contrasting stories: earnest government workers who have dedicated their careers to protecting all of us from threats like nuclear
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by kwindla 8y ago
Great article! Here was a related discussion, last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19556579
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by kwindla 8y ago
Priya Ramrakha's photographs of daily life in East Africa, in conflict zones around the world, and in the US where he studied as an international student, were just published in a book that was partially funded by a Kickstarter last ye
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Priya Ramrakha’s Brief, Heroic Life(newyorker.com)
2 points by kwindla 8y ago|1 comments
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by kwindla 8y ago
It seems that the credit card was designed to tie into Apple's existing payments systems to both reduce processing fees that Apple pays and to be sticky. The card pays cash back daily as dollars that are immediately available for use w
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by kwindla 8y ago
Sugar Hill is such an evocative name. There are quite a few neighborhoods and towns named Sugar Hill around the country. Most of them (all of them?) perhaps named as either a descriptive or hopeful reference to the possibility of a post-ema
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Revisiting the Rendering Tier(theguardian.com)
2 points by kwindla 8y ago|0 comments
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by kwindla 8y ago
It's useful to be able to write code that runs on your server, and in the browser, and in an "edge" thingy too (for some definition of "edge"). x86 binaries aren't going to be able to do that.
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by kwindla 8y ago
This wasm-at-the-edge stuff is so exciting! It's always dangerous to predict the future, but one possible future for the web feels like it's starting to come into focus: javascript as the default language everywhere (frontend, bac
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by kwindla 8y ago
Everything old is new again! There's a little bit of an iframe renaissance happening, because even though iframes are a blunt instrument for combining content from different origins, they also have some really desirable features. Cross
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by kwindla 8y ago
Nobody throws shade like an architecture critic throws shade. Though maybe "shade" undersells the criticism, here, since a big chunk of the review is about how Philip Johnson was a Nazi. Literally, a Nazi. And how that had no cons
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The Godfather: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century(nybooks.com)
10 points by kwindla 8y ago|1 comments
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by kwindla 8y ago
Obligatory reference to "Mother Earth Mother Board," one of the all-time best pieces of long-form tech writing, Neal Stephenson's gonzo journalism exploration of undersea cable laying. "Our method was not exactly journal

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