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by madrox 5y ago
For the curious, you can see this on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/yuJ7cDx196AxX5bf7
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by madrox 5y ago
This is the best example of Poe's Law I've ever come across [1]. I honestly can't tell if this is brutal satire or someone's legit endgame. The more I watch the more inclined to think it's satire, but there's a
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by madrox 5y ago
A scene was shot right next to my muni stop at Embarcadero and Folsom. I’d think about this movie every day, if for no other reason thinking about how they made that area look like no traffic existed.
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by madrox 5y ago
I've implemented Django+DRF+React in several projects. The thrust of my arguement is that, were Django started today and not 17 years ago, it would account for these concepts more than templates do. Django contrib exists to be a home f
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by madrox 5y ago
How to lose weight is very well understood, but new fad diets come out all the time.
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by madrox 5y ago
I've been using Django for over a decade. I don't think most of these are a big deal and outright disagree with others. Happy to offer my own criticisms of django to add value to this comment thread. My real criticism of Django is
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by madrox 5y ago
Looking at the Theranos comment history on HN is a journey [1]. From the very beginning there was a lot of skepticism. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=30&prefix=false&q...
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by madrox 5y ago
This led me down a rabbit hole and a desire to watch the movie. Thanks!
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by madrox 5y ago
I'm slowly coming around to web3 as an idea after giving it a lot of thought. For me, MMOs are a great boostrap for thinking about this. People pay real money for in-game items and currency...usually from the developer, but web3 enable
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by madrox 5y ago
It's not strictly anti-piracy, though the roots are in it. Consumers aren't the only source of requirements. It goes back to content protection deals Disney has cut for years and the reciprocity requirements.
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by madrox 5y ago
By that logic, no DRM makes sense at all, which is a take I understand but I think misses a lot of nuance.
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by madrox 5y ago
In your case, the likely reason is because the DRM is done in software and not hardware, making it easier to crack, and Disney as a policy avoids their highest resolution content going through software decoding.
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by madrox 5y ago
I’m going to use that excuse the next time my users want something I don’t want to build
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by madrox 5y ago
I’ve used Alexa since shortly after its release. We use it daily for music, lights, timers, and random questions like what internal temperature to cook chicken to. All our use cases are either when our hands aren’t free or the request is ro
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by madrox 5y ago
We’re probably quibbling over semantics here. I use important in the dictionary sense of having a profound effect on survival. The company won’t go out of business if those VM tasks don’t get done for a couple quarter.
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by madrox 5y ago
I don't think fiction is Brian Herbert's gift. If you haven't, I encourage you to read Dreamer of Dune. It's his biography of Frank Herbert. While I loathe his contribution to fiction, I found his biography of his dad we
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by madrox 5y ago
First off, how badly does the parent company need you to be on their VMs? It's probably necessary work, but not important. Everyone will still have jobs if it doesn't finish for a couple quarters. In the meantime, let your boss
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by madrox 5y ago
People on Windows are about to go through a similar experience as Microsoft removes ways of capturing your desktop without an obnoxious orange border around the window being recorded. The logic is there…you want it obvious and in the user’s
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by madrox 5y ago
I'm not sure that really is the story. Homes are not exactly safer, and there was a tornado warning for all of Madison county. Perhaps you've seen photos of what these things do to small wooden structures. Yes, their home was prob
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by madrox 5y ago
I think I’ll mandate this for my entire engineering team, but put each team member 1 degree off from each other and measure the change in productivity. Not only can we see if the results are reproducible, but we can determine how much a deg
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by madrox 5y ago
Yeah I know what you meant. If you're looking for synopsis beyond existing text promos, it's still a significant cost to watch and summarize. It's still not a lot cheaper and quite arduous.
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by madrox 5y ago
"100 channels and nothing's on" is an old phenomenon. People become paralyzed by choice because they feel they need to make the optimal choice, which simply doesn't exist.
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by madrox 5y ago
I think there’s some post hoc ergo prompter hoc with blaming recommendations if someone doesn’t want to watch what’s being recommended. If you watch what’s recommended to you and you don’t like it…that’s a bad recommendation. If you don’t e
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by madrox 5y ago
Have you ever had something recommended to you that you really dragged your feet on watching but once you did you really enjoyed? That’s the bigger challenge than actual recommendations these days.
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by madrox 5y ago
We explored that (I believe Netflix did, too). The challenge became making relevant promos. I don’t know a lot about the science of producing trailers, but if you look at old ones they are more dated than the movie. The cost of what you’re
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by madrox 5y ago
We experimented with this idea at Disney in 2012 with short form content. We learned a few things by building basically this exact experience. First, it’s not really different from Netflix-style sliders, except it’s hiding more things behin
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by madrox 5y ago
I believe the challenge you’re seeing has to do with the fact that those jobs are rare and even more rarely offered to outsiders. Principals that report higher in the org are usually people who have been at the company a long time and know
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by madrox 5y ago
Today, I hopped into a Twitter Space called "web3 for gaming" and from the moment I joined until the moment I left five minutes later was talking about how crypto payments need to be better on mobile. This feels like when web2 was
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by madrox 5y ago
I'm really confused by this whole article given how DRM is the real barrier to emulation, and Spencer is clearly not advocating less DRM. This comes down to whether there's a profit motive by rights owners in ongoing support of a
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by madrox 5y ago
All interviewing comes down to answering three questions: 1. Can they do the job? 2. Will they like the job? 3. Will I like working with them? 1 and 2 are the easiest to determine, yet we overemphasize it in interview time. We usually save

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