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by mixedbit 10y ago
I wonder how often the "We're Hiring" links on companies landing pages are there only to make the business look healthy and growing while in fact the company is not hiring.
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by mixedbit 10y ago
Sounds like a story for another "Catch Me If You Can" kind of movie.
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by mixedbit 10y ago
The Market for Lemons rule is that if consumers are unable to recognize quality and crap products while buying, after some time all the products on the market are crap.
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by mixedbit 10y ago
I wouldn't use the word 'monster', but I strongly dislike Thiels' opinion that founders should aim to build monopolies. Monopolies are bad for society, but Thiels' view it that monopoly is the only way to build a su
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by mixedbit 10y ago
According to webglstats.com WebGL is supported on 96% of browsers/devices. I wonder what is a maximum possible coverage to be achieved by WebGL2 with current hardware (If I understand correctly some WebGL capable devices will never be
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by mixedbit 10y ago
The problem with radically different approaches is that GPU hardware is optimized for a specific set of techniques. Unless a new technique can work well with current GPUs, it has small chances of being adopted.
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by mixedbit 10y ago
My guess is that the reason they are closing this is the cost of bandwidth. Dropbox allowed to host publicly all types of large files and exchange such files by a link that did not require any interaction with DropBox to download. It seems
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by mixedbit 10y ago
Window Maker was my first encounter with virtual desktops and since I started using it I can no longer imagine working efficiently without virtual desktops. Was Window Maker the first manager that had virtual desktops?
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by mixedbit 10y ago
If anyone needs something like this for Heroku, you check my add-on: https://elements.heroku.com/addons/wwwhisper
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by mixedbit 10y ago
Can you disclose which provider do you use to host the servers? Do you have a fixed bandwidth or pay per GiB of transfer?
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by mixedbit 10y ago
> They're meant as a cache and anti-DDoS proxy more than anything else You can't cache responses to authenticated requests, so in case of DDoS attack against an HTTP end point that requires authentication the best CloudFlare ca
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by mixedbit 10y ago
The problem is that CloudFlare encourages a fundamentally insecure architecture. CDN should be used to host static files on a separate, cookie-less subdomain. With such architecture consequences of any data leak from a shared CDN infrastruc
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by mixedbit 10y ago
'Increased Error Rates' is a bit harsh, couldn't they call it 'Sub-prime Success Rates'?
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by mixedbit 10y ago
Sort of funny that one of CloudFlare products is Cloud Web Application Firewall. This 'enterprise-class' solution somehow for months failed to detect all sorts of invalid and suspicious content being returned in index.htmls. It ev
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by mixedbit 10y ago
A good advice in password security is that you should never store passwords in plain text on your private machines and on servers. With CloudFlare bug your passwords can be stored unencrypted in local browser caches of random people who may
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by mixedbit 10y ago
There is a huge fleet of compromised machines out there that belong to botnets. Soon we will see the botnets operators extracting content from these compromised machines browser caches to hunt for data leaked in this incident. Clearing sear
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by mixedbit 10y ago
If Linux has no swap, it doesn't quickly and efficiently kill processes when memory is exhausted. Instead it first removes executable code from RAM and reads it back from disk when needed. This is because without swap executable code i
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by mixedbit 10y ago
(2) seems to be also true for VR. Business people when introduced to the current VR hardware often react enthusiastically and easily figure out compelling applications of VR technology to their businesses.
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Chrome releases WebVR support on Daydream phones(blog.google)
2 points by mixedbit 10y ago|0 comments
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Best Buy is closing nearly half its Oculus VR demo stations(theverge.com)
4 points by mixedbit 10y ago|0 comments
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by mixedbit 10y ago
What do you think about a following evolution of the advertisement network idea that could support higher quality content creation? A company Foo connects content creators, consumers and businesses. Creators can join the 'Foo' net
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by mixedbit 10y ago
I just realized that until http is completely replaced with https, private mode should be always used to browse the Internet on a not trusted wifi network. Otherwise malicious content injected on such a network can be cached and reused by t
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by mixedbit 10y ago
Recently I discovered a problem I was completely unaware of with dependencies management using semantic versioning patterns. My invalid understanding was that if I specify a dependency pattern: foo-lib >= 1.0, < 2.0 I will always upda
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by mixedbit 10y ago
Let's hope each of this layer is not guarded by admin:admin credentials.
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by mixedbit 10y ago
This puts in perspective the Eugene Kaspersky's recent rant about Microsoft making AV vendors life harder: https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2016/11/10/thats-it-ive-had-eno... Maybe Microsoft is actually impr
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by mixedbit 10y ago
Does the release include the original game assets, or do assets need to be purchased (like with Doom releases)?
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by mixedbit 10y ago
Polish right-wing government is blocking any development that could hurt coal industry. They passed the law that significantly constrains where windmills can be located. They also hindered development of solar by reverting the law that allo
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by mixedbit 10y ago
As far as I know Microsoft plans to support and contributes to WebVR work. Microsoft involvement and requirements were the reason for the most recent (1.1) spec update. This was explained by Brandon Jones here: http://blog.tojico
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by mixedbit 10y ago
How does the author know if the listed companies never contribute?
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How much abuse can Cross-Laminated Timber take?(alexschreyer.net)
3 points by mixedbit 10y ago|1 comments

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