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by m12k 7y ago
Wasn't Napster based on a central server and then a bunch clients who found each other via that server and then connected p2p? (And since the central server was the weak link that law enforcement could go after, Bittorrent evolved to g
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by m12k 7y ago
Right, and web servers too - neither had much competition when it launched though, so the point about no being able to beat incumbent proprietary solutions still stands. Not to mention the majority of people get their email hosted by a prop
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by m12k 7y ago
Does anyone know of a successful server-based peer-to-peer project other than TOR and cryptocurrencies? I'm all for breaking free of the stranglehold of centralized proprietary platforms, but it also seems to me that most of the open s
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by m12k 7y ago
I think most programmers tend to do their estimates in this wonderful parallel dimension where the code base they will be working on is pristine, with well-designed, documented and thoroughly tested code that they get to work on without int
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by m12k 7y ago
I felt that way until I needed to prepare for the new EU credit card regulation that came into effect a few months back and implement Stripe's update for it. There's a bunch of gotchas in the transition - e.g. you can't apply
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by m12k 7y ago
I've been thinking and it actually makes a lot of sense for new ways to be created to transfer money and pay for things (though I'm highly skeptical of having it operated by Facebook and of the ad-hoc pump-and-dump-prone and white
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by m12k 7y ago
I think this is a great example why we as a society shouldn't coddle corporations just because they provide jobs. When they fall, others take their place, and many smaller companies make for a much more healthy and dynamic job market t
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by m12k 7y ago
It's fascinating to me that a company like Oracle that I only ever see ridiculed and despised for its products and business practices, is also so profitable. I hear so many tales of companies that decline and eventually become irreleva
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by m12k 7y ago
It looks to me like it's the newest battleground of the anti-vax movement. Thank god no kids need to die from it this time around.
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by m12k 7y ago
According to this article https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-... the engines had become so big that they had to be moved in front of the wings instead of under them, which in turn causes t
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by m12k 7y ago
Reminds me of that adage: "There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your former self."
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by m12k 7y ago
It's the only IM app that does notifications right. I get a message and 'unread messages' notifications pop up on both my computers and my phone - the moment I click to focus the app on one of them, the notifications on the o
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by m12k 7y ago
Not OP, but I'm guessing they mean something like 'make sure the right hand knows what the left hand is doing'. Making sure the effort to produce something is done collaboratively by all teams instead of each team working in
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by m12k 7y ago
This sounds largely as I feared. The organization was built to serve the will of an omniscient god-king who knew better than anyone else. And now he's gone, and the organization is still set up to make orders trickle down from on high
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by m12k 7y ago
Well, after you've read in your data, read them back out and display them on the screen.
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by m12k 7y ago
I've found that ideally all product changes should be developed in close collaboration between a product owner, a UI/UX-person, and a developer. The design shouldn't be made upfront and handed to the developer, it should be m
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by m12k 7y ago
Right, so the equivalent here would have been if Blizzard had censored the player in China, but not in the rest of the world.
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by m12k 7y ago
The same goes for the US - should US laws really hold so much sway in other countries? The issue isn't that countries can influence each other (and each other's populations and companies), it's how they are using that power t
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by m12k 7y ago
Really? It was my impression that not being able to guarantee encryption along the way (basically you might be sending a postcard instead of a letter) made it a non-starter.
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by m12k 7y ago
In Denmark, due to the GDPR, almost non of the digital letters we receive from the government can be sent by email (since they would contain personally identifiable information such as Social Security Numbers), so instead we just get a noti
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by m12k 7y ago
I think most people overlook/don't know that the needed sample size depends not just on the confidence you want, but also on how big the effect you want to measure is. E.g. if landing page A has a conversion rate of 50% and B has
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by m12k 7y ago
Yeah, it sounds to me like it's 'artificial' in the same way that orange juice made from concentrate is artificial.
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by m12k 7y ago
I'd argue it's almost the other way around. Ever since the internet got popular with companies it's mostly been very 'clean' in that most websites represent a single company or community and you could easily stick t
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by m12k 7y ago
Yeah, I think the article actually mentions this subtly when it talks about "machine learning tools that recognize suspicious or badly behaved accounts". Sure that'll hopefully catch some russian trying to sow discord, but I&
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by m12k 7y ago
I think Reddit is one of the only places on the internet that mirrors the diversity and messiness of the real world - but that's not the case for pretty much all the rest of the internet, so people's assumptions and expectations a
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by m12k 7y ago
I did the opposite: Kept Messenger and got rid of the Facebook app. That way, when someone wants to talk to me, I don't get sucked into the void of their newsfeed - so it becomes just one more communication app alongside iMessage, Tele
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by m12k 7y ago
In the case of such a scenic turnout, wouldn't you then also use "overlook" as a verb, for example in 'the hills that overlook the valley'?
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by m12k 7y ago
Now I wonder if there's a general term for words that ought to be antonyms but are actually synonyms. An example would be flammable and inflammable.
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by m12k 7y ago
Yeah, probably not much point in making an internet connection that only works without cloud cover.
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by m12k 7y ago
Reminds me of this explanation of why during the 2012 election, Obama won the counties where the most prehistoric plankton had died: https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/02/162163801/o.

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