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by leonroy 8y ago
> Maybe the problem isn't Netflix and Youtube, maybe the problem is letting them watch for 4 hours? I actually think the problem is specifically binge watching services like Netflix and services with very variable quality of conte
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Someone has to say it. If you’re letting your kid use YouTube or I’d even say the internet or smart phones unsupervised before their brain is well developed you are taking a tremendous risk on their mental development. A few years back when
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by leonroy 8y ago
To be honest that’s half the thrill, not knowing what to do, having no idea of the level of success of the outcome. Pick something, perhaps an ‘earned secret’ that you’ve noticed in your field; some problem and set about fixing it. Even mak
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Not even a coworking type office for management or receiving mail/having an official company address?
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One thing I don't see much about in the article is the supposed chip which allegedly compromised Super Micro servers. The cover image of the piece shows a surface mount component with three solder pads balanced on a finger tip. Looks l
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> We rent commodity dedicated servers. So not even a VPS like Linode, Discord rent physical servers across the board? Or is there a mix of AWS or some other vendor in there?
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I know Seldon have real paying customers: https://www.seldon.io I can’t speak for them specifically or any other AI company but from cursory chats with folk in the industry suggests a lot of work is consultancy and proof of conc
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George W. Bush for those googling.
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There is a lot of research in this field which occurred in Russia and the eastern bloc and is still practised there. The Scenar device for example is popular for reducing pain and allegedly speeding healing: http://www.scenar.com
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There was an excellent report recently by the NICB here: https://youtu.be/EE5Ygm0aFMk I'm surprised that auto manufacturers didn't anticipate off the shelf solutions for diagnostics and law enforcement making thei
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by leonroy 8y ago
Sadly the cost of making phone calls internationally or even locally isn't free. Our prices are amongst the lowest. We want to drive them down far lower once we hit volume and scale for market share rather than profit. For example ou
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by leonroy 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback, I probably should post the actual marketing page next time :) You can see pricing here but a quick calculation suggests a call like that would cost $13.32: https://www.brring.com/pricing/
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I did Kumon from about 9 till about 14 and I sure complained about it a lot to my parents! They persisted thank goodness because it fundamentally altered the way my brain ‘sees’ numbers. I can’t speak for that happening in every case but it
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by leonroy 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback, it's appreciated. I didn't want to spam HN with the marketing page which can found here: https://www.brring.com It came runner up in a few design awards :) The app was built using React, TypeSc
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Hi, I've been working for the past year on this app to make conference calling multiple people as simple as a making a regular phone call. With conference calls you need to dial a number and then a PIN. It can get pretty costly if you&
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Show HN: Reinventing conference calling(app.brring.com)
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Yep, we use Zimbra for company mail. I've only used Office 365 though not Exchange standalone so my comparison reflects that. Pros for Zimbra are: It supports Exchange Web Services and ActiveSync so you get complete feature parity for
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by leonroy 8y ago
Running similar setups on my home lab and company lab: * VMware VSphere/ESXi * JIRA / Confluence (managing tickets and wiki) * FreeNAS (server facing file server duties) * Synology (user facing file serving duties) * Zimbra (mail
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by leonroy 8y ago
> An MBP is a mighty expensive disposable. True - to a person paying for one themselves. For a company though a MBP is a negligible cost compared to the employee using it - or the data on it.
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Not the OP but I started with cookie based auth and Spring Security and then moved to OAuth 2 - it’s extremely painless to setup (100 lines of code at most) but it did take a while to understand it all. The Baeldung Spring Security course h
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by leonroy 8y ago
SendGrid for sending signup, password reset emails. They have an API and SMTP support which we prefer since it avoids lock in. We use MailChimp for our marketing mails purely because of habit. SendGrid can handle that too. On the free plan
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Stop buying stuff. I was a compulsive spender. Never bought on credit mind but I’d blow my entire paycheque after bills on stuff like cameras, hifi, the latest Apple doodad, etc. I literally stopped buying anything not required for my day t
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Great piece from Bloomberg, thanks for sharing. Whilst the US does project itself as the bulwark of free speech, free markets and free thinking its history of protecting them has been cyclic. I fear we are going through a particularly nasty
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> And just think of nighttime workers. Obviously their daytime sleep counts... I think the quote is more an aphorism than rigorous guide. The framers of the quote probably didn’t anticipate the night shift ;)
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> many IT systems will schedule some tasks during the night when there is not much going on Indeed, it’s natural that we do this but kind of funny when you consider that our machines now have their own circadian rhythms in tune with ours
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One thing I’d love to know is how the heck as software devs will we manage a future moon or Martian colony with its own set of discrete time zones... Admittedly you can’t schedule a phone call or chat since the latency is too great but if y
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> US citizenship largely serves this purpose, at least if it's a high profile kidnapping (which any kidnapping in Iraq/Afghanistan/etc. would have been.) Seems it's a double edged sword being a US or indeed a UK or Eu
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Which actually becomes a problem in the far future when stars have moved further away from each other in an ever expanding universe and their light output becomes increasingly dim to a space faring traveller...
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> This kind of thing becomes a lot of fun when you're trying to schedule a regular international call Heheh, exactly. We're currently debating how best to implement this since this one is more a UI issue than a UTC/Time is
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by leonroy 8y ago
We spent weeks on this for our new conference calling app to determine when a user says "Setup a call at 10am for my group every week" that come October 29th 2018 the call takes place at 10am, not 9am following a DST change. After

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