magicmu

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by magicmu 11y ago
I think the hype that you (and the author) are talking about exposes an interesting problem in products that target developers. Overwhelming popularity is generally awesome for a business / product, but in this case it seems that over-
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by magicmu 11y ago
What a coincidence, I was just playing with this for the first time last weekend! They also have an npm package that can be used for both torrent streaming via node and the browser ( https://www.npmjs.com/package/webtorr
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by magicmu 11y ago
What you're saying (and the somewhat muted point in the article) about advertising is totally true, but I don't think it just applies to children. People are hugely susceptible to advertising, which is why it is, and always has
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by magicmu 11y ago
Like you said, a good cautionary tale. Even this incident, although definitely rough, isn't that bad compared to what can happen if you scale a full infrastructure improperly, or just overlook something involving a software-based bus
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by magicmu 11y ago
Interesting read, but not very much information underneath the fluff -- the definition of "demagogue" combined with a cursory knowledge of common logical fallacies covers pretty much everything here. It's also interesting tha
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by magicmu 11y ago
Thanks for sharing this! I'm trying to get more familiar with the nitty-gritty of Rust (read: the borrowing paradigm :) ), and these types of tutorials are my favorite way of doing that.
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by magicmu 11y ago
Great write-up; really interesting that the CPU ended up being the bottleneck in this experiment! Regarding the cost of sending this data out of AWS, did you run into any issues there using rsync? IIRC rsync copies the data over TCP, so w
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by magicmu 11y ago
Ah, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for the breakdown, and I'll definitely let you know if I run into any issues with packages on nightly!
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by magicmu 11y ago
Wow that looks like a great read, I'll definitely check it out. Thanks for the recommendation!
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by magicmu 11y ago
I don't care quite as much about the lack of a proven track-record -- I understand the value there, but I love tinkering and trust Rust enough to not have any concerns about core stability (maybe a mistake, but there it is). It's
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by magicmu 11y ago
I tried digging around but couldn't find the package names -- I could've sworn ansi-term ( https://crates.io/crates/ansi_term/ ) and hyper ( https://crates.io/crates/hyper/ ) were
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by magicmu 11y ago
I started playing around with Rust a few weeks ago and fell in love; it has some quirks for sure (the whole borrowing system is a bit tough to grok at first) but it didn't take long for me to start seeing things the "Rust way.&quo
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by magicmu 11y ago
I know the basics of C, but stopped short of getting deep into threading and concurrency since it seems like Go and Rust handle that in a more efficient way (although there's no way I would use Rust in production yet). Are there any ad
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by magicmu 11y ago
This is absolutely true. I work for a YC-backed startup and sometimes felt like that "star in the sky" wasn't there, and worried that my lack of faith was disturbing (to quote movies). Thankfully, the founders here are open e
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by magicmu 11y ago
Interesting that militant opposition to the police is associated with the right-wing; not trying to nitpick or condemn, in Ferguson that was absolutely true. Here in NYC it's still not, though, and generally I feel like resistance to a
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by magicmu 11y ago
For me, it's the wealth of tutorials and set-up information, as well as the straight-forward nature of their interface (both at a web and shell level). The pricing model is also fantastic.
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by magicmu 11y ago
> I think the right initial metric is “do any users love our product so much they spontaneously tell other people to use it?” Until that’s a “yes”, founders are generally better off focusing on this instead of a growth target. It all co
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by magicmu 11y ago
"...the W3C has already become borderline irrelevant to the future of the web, as it has been far too slow to standardise everyday technologies that have been widely deployed in browsers for a considerable time" This is a bold sta
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by magicmu 11y ago
It seems like the potential fork in bitcoin is already happening to some degree with Elements and the sidechain ( https://github.com/ElementsProject/elements ) -- a super interesting project that I just found out about y
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by magicmu 11y ago
"British regulators approved the trial in just 17 days, and the testing company, based in Massachusetts, did not have an adequate response plan in the event of a disastrous adverse reaction, British investigators concluded." This
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by magicmu 11y ago
It can, however, be useful to get invoices for purchases that were discounted down to $0.00. At the startup I'm with we often give new customers a $0.00 trial rate, but they still want invoices so their billing department can keep trac
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by magicmu 11y ago
Cartesian dualism has been a plague on philosophy and psychology IMO. My favorite refutations of that logos come from J.L. Austin and Wittgenstein.
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by magicmu 11y ago
Cool! I'll keep an eye out :)
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by magicmu 11y ago
Great idea, I'll definitely follow! Is the site itself open source? If so, I'd love to help out.
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by magicmu 11y ago
I think wikipedia (along with Google) really allowed for the current transition to over-abundance of easily accessibly information -- at least in developed countries. For better or worse, I think we've started moving towards only consi
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by magicmu 11y ago
Ah there it is, I was having trouble visualizing Amazon's edge here too. The old "decent-software + shitty-thing = less-shitty-thing".
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by magicmu 11y ago
My parents recently moved to Turkey, and I set them up with NordVPN (good service and easy to use for non-technical people). All they really wanted to watch was Star Trek: TNG anyway, which, even after the big availability push, is not avai
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by magicmu 11y ago
I've never seen Elements Alpha or heard of sidechains, that's a really interesting project! Thanks for the link.
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by magicmu 11y ago
I love this summary, it really touches on all the core issues. However, even though bitcoin has such severe flaws, I think that cryptocurrency in general is still really promising. I've been particularly excited about ethereum for the
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by magicmu 11y ago
But how do you reconcile that with the public fear of losing jobs due to the increase in automation? I think driverless cars represent in a big way due to the prevalence of truck driving as a profession in the US; not saying they can't

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