mads

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by mads 9y ago
How did you get this job? I studied astrophysics, but I mainly try to lure people into clicking on ads these days, when I am not doing consulting.
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by mads 9y ago
Needs a consultant path. I think once you drank the koolaid too many times, you just get apathetic.
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by mads 9y ago
Good point, but why not 139 bytes or 141 bytes?
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by mads 9y ago
140 characters is an 8 bit SMS message. 160 characters is a 7 bit SMS message. You can also send a UCS2 encoded SMS, which can contain 70 characters.
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by mads 9y ago
The 140 character limit was chosen based on sending 8bit SMS messages. If it was chosen from an English speaking viewpoint, they could have chosen to base it on GSM 7bit SMS, which would allow 160 characters. Was the default SMS 8bit in the
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by mads 9y ago
The interesting question is why did SMS only have 160 characters. I know those 160 bytes are 7 bit characters and that a 8 bit SMS can contain 140 characters, but why does the control channel limit it to that? I worked on a WAP browser a lo
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by mads 9y ago
I lived in China for many years and you are right. Most Chinese people reaction will be "Meh.." and they will move on with their life and just use a VPN if they really really need WhatsApp. A lot of western people are now probably
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by mads 9y ago
Big news. Which one are safe now (in US and China)? Telegram?? I remember back in the days, when you wrote "fuck" in Skype from China and it would get censored. Which one is a trusted messenger these days?
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by mads 9y ago
Yes, I imagine they are. The devices visiting the link were mobile phones however (I remember seeing a Samsung phone specifically). Maybe the crawler is posing as random device models.
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by mads 9y ago
Some time ago, I wechat messaged a link to a domain I just registered. I had the Apache access log open by chance and could see that along with my friend visiting the link, there were numerous other devices accessing it. From the IP, I coul
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by mads 9y ago
"Airplane noise and the taste of umami": https://flavourjournal.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/2...
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by mads 9y ago
But it doesn't mean that the bubble is not there. Governments don't create bubbles. Human nature does.
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by mads 9y ago
That sounds like an awesome job.
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by mads 9y ago
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What operating systems and programming languages are used in airplanes?(softwareengineering.stackexchange.com)
13 points by mads 9y ago|0 comments
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by mads 9y ago
Is it time to add another category to The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale?
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by mads 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot-E There is a documentary about them also: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427783/
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by mads 9y ago
Weird that https://www.xbtce.com is still running. Seems there are very few trades (3 in the last hour) being made but the "order book" is flashing away like nothing is wrong. Chat is also dead...
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Changegout.com(changegout.com)
1 points by mads 9y ago|0 comments
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by mads 10y ago
Well, to be fair, WeChat is a pretty good application.
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by mads 10y ago
Its like Google is becoming a Javascript framework.
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by mads 10y ago
I can't wait to retire.
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by mads 10y ago
Starbucks WiFi in China is usually better than our office WiFi (in China).
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by mads 10y ago
Seems like it.
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by mads 10y ago
Yes, this is disappointing. My Internet here is very flaky and it takes the joy out of playing this game somewhat.
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by mads 10y ago
This is a fun game. I cant even remember the last time I actually wanted to fire up a game because it was actually fun. Rarely play and when I do, it is just to kill time. And also.. It brings back childhood memories to play Mario.
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by mads 10y ago
"Muted emotional responses" .. this describes very well how I experience it actually.
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by mads 10y ago
Maybe there is a relationship between sugar consumption and our ability to cope with stress? I found, that when I stopped eating sugar, it wasn't exactly a big revelation, but merely a subtle change (mentally), that made me somehow les
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by mads 10y ago
I firmly believe that sugar not only makes us fat, but also has an effect on the psychological state of certain people (e.g. people with anxiety problems). In my own experience, cutting out sugar (from anything else but fruit) and wheat fro
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by mads 10y ago
I recently reinstalled my system and didn't immediately install any AdBlock software, so for the first time in many years, I actually saw ads (that I noticed). I was surprised how relevant the ads actually were. They very clearly had a

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