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by kwindla 8y ago
And UDP hole-punching has actually gotten much easier. It's baked into the collection of specs that make up WebRTC now, for example. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5389 Mobile networks often don't allow UDP h
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by kwindla 8y ago
:-) ... We're a WebRTC startup - https://daily.co - completely free WebRTC calls in Chrome, up to 50 participants in a call, free dial-in numbers in 25+ countries. Meeting recording coming later this month. Edge and Safari
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The Cornell 10-micron Guitar (1997)(lutherie.net)
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This exactly. "Efficiency" -- especially the way you measure it if you come from a small-company perspective -- is only one of many metrics. It feels like a really important one, but there's some perspective distortion at wor
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A Day in the Life of a Modern Shepherd(newyorker.com)
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Elaborating on the "on some congested links UDP packets tend to be dropped earlier" ... In our testing of lots of internet connections in the US, we've found that many of the "free" modems/wifi-routers that cab
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by kwindla 8y ago
For small numbers of people in a call (say, n < 5), the "best" -- meaning lowest latency -- solution is direct browser to browser WebRTC connections. Both Chrome's and Firefox's WebRTC implementations have quite good
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Why China Cracked Down on the Social-Media Giant Bytedance(newyorker.com)
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The Key to Everything(nybooks.com)
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I'm a big fan of Adafruit, which is a great place to buy electronic components that all have projects, tutorials, active forums, etc. Here's the "learn" page on the Adafruit web site: https://learn.adafruit.co
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by kwindla 9y ago
This is just too good. On Captain Kirk: “Kirk is just this ridiculous, wonderful, bookish lesbian who’s always wearing kicky boots and visiting ex-girlfriends on different planets and talking respectfully about their shared past and saying
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‘Mallory Is Not Gone’: Daniel Mallory Ortberg on Coming Out as Trans(thecut.com)
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‘Black Panther’: Choose Your Weapons(nybooks.com)
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by kwindla 9y ago
Shameless plug, our startup makes a video-calling-in-Chrome application. Our goals are being super-reliable, simple, and free: https://daily.co
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Should Trump Nationalize a 5G Network?(nytimes.com)
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Dangerously Low on Water, Cape Town Now Faces ‘Day Zero’(nytimes.com)
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The Trippy, High-Speed World of Drone Racing(newyorker.com)
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by kwindla 9y ago
An Australian on a surf trip a few years ago fell off a boat in the Mentawais and survived 27 hours with no flotation help. 75 hours in cold water is crazy, but the diver didn't have to keep himself afloat. I find it almost unbelievabl
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by kwindla 9y ago
We use Front and it's great. Mathilde Collin is a super-impressive founder. She spoke at one of the Tuesday night dinners when we were in YC.
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Startup Annual Planning 1: What’s Your Top-Level Company Goal?(medium.com)
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by kwindla 9y ago
In a startup sales/bizdev context, the point you make about signaling commitment and effort is particularly important. "The founder (or CEO) showed up in person" can make a lot of things happen more quickly than they otherwis
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by kwindla 9y ago
Original author here. Happy to answer any questions or talk about other things related to working across national borders.
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Before he won the Nobel Prize in 2003, J. M. Coetzee was a computer programmer. And before he was a writer, he was apparently a passionate amateur photographer. This New York Times story about an exhibition of newly descovered Coetzee photo
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J.M. Coetzee’s Boyhood, in Black and White(nytimes.com)
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Bitcoin Mania(nybooks.com)
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Over the last couple of years, there's been huge progress in making end-to-end encryption practical for "real world" apps -- especially stuff running in web browsers. Signal is part of that, of course, as is WebRTC, a standar
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by kwindla 9y ago
NY Times article this morning about Nicole Mitchell, an amazing composer and flutist. A couple of great YouTube links ... Solo concert in 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5CXlPeeVn4 With the Malian musicians mentioned
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Nicole Mitchell, an Innovative Flutist with an Afrofuturist Vision(nytimes.com)
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The Flexport folks published a blog post last year on the coming banana apocalypse: https://www.flexport.com/blog/supply-chain-of-the-banana/ It's really worth reading. (There's lots of great stuff on th
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by kwindla 9y ago
Julie Mehretu's large-scale canvases that are in the atrium at SFMOMA are really amazing, and so is this video of her Artist Talk at the museum last year.

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