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by mixedbit 11y ago
Probably because they wanted full control and understanding of the source code. Large companies often prefer to develop things in-house, even if there already exist good alternatives.
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by mixedbit 11y ago
In 'Solaris' by Lem the whole planet is an alien life form.
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by mixedbit 11y ago
What I mean is a script that for example creates a large number of users using a form that is exposed by my web page (not protected by captcha for usability). This would result is my backend issuing large number of API calls to send user re
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by mixedbit 11y ago
Do any of such delivery services provide some kind of a DoS prevention for their users or is it always up to the user to implement such prevention mechanism? For a normal usage the prices are very attractive, but it could only take one rogu
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by mixedbit 11y ago
Are all YC companies incorporated in US? If not, what other countries are acceptable for YC and investors that cooperate with YC?
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by mixedbit 11y ago
Passengers won't be anonymous and Uber already has reputation system. Also you can already rent a car, and rented cars are usually not vandalized.
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by mixedbit 11y ago
Well, if they expect to use them as self driving cars (which the article mentions), the investment can pay out pretty quickly. Say they can make on average 5$ per ride. To make $60k they need 12k rides. A self driving car should be able to
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by mixedbit 11y ago
I will definitely try this. Does resource viewer support cube textures?
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by mixedbit 11y ago
In general it depends on the protocol that is used for communication. If it for example were not authenticated HTTP, it could be remotely exploitable by a website that a user visits.
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by mixedbit 11y ago
A monetization idea: let people create folders that others need to pay to access and take some % of the payment (useful for companies distributing movies, games, etc.)
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by mixedbit 11y ago
Core open protocols behind the Internet that we have today took years of development and refinements. It seems that in the current model, where projects are expected to be widely adopted within a short period of time, the development of suc
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by mixedbit 11y ago
What are these limits if not government regulations? Are you aware of any country that doesn't have regulations to prevent pollution of rivers or air in which free-market prevents such pollution all by itself?
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by mixedbit 11y ago
> The free-market is the most effective way to distribute resources in an environment, that's it. All problems come from central planners. Until the resource is clean air that you can pollute for free without a central planner to li
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by mixedbit 11y ago
The purpose of this visualization is to present a car, which requires a good single model viewer. If this was a link to a more visually appealing .exe game, many of us wouldn't be able to run it, because it would require a specific pla
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by mixedbit 11y ago
Beautifully done. I particularly like the lights glow effect.
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by mixedbit 11y ago
Seven seats car seems to address a very small niche.
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by mixedbit 11y ago
Don Norman, the author of "The Design of Everyday Things", writes that in most cases when the fault is attributed to human operator, it is actually a design error.
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by mixedbit 11y ago
Is the author here? What license do you plan to use?
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Powerful browser APIs are considered do be made HTTPS only in Chrome(groups.google.com)
2 points by mixedbit 12y ago|0 comments
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by mixedbit 12y ago
The free market wouldn't outlaw slavery.
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by mixedbit 12y ago
The alternative is to fairly share profits with the people that make goods. This could be enforced by the legal system, as it was successfully done when slavery was banned.
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by mixedbit 12y ago
These people are exploited by being paid a minimal wage, because they have no other way to survive, but to take sweatshop jobs. The Grapes of Wrath illustrates this mechanism well.
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by mixedbit 12y ago
Seems like DNS issue. rackspace.com does not resolve, also rackcdn.com. Because of this even status.rackspace.com is unreachable.
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Rackspace CDN and other services unreachable(twitter.com)
2 points by mixedbit 12y ago|2 comments
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by mixedbit 12y ago
Such grid would mean that you can move straight only in 8 directions, all other camera rotations would need to be rounded to these 8 directions. I think this can result in quite 'jumpy' movement, but maybe human won't be able
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by mixedbit 12y ago
RDBMS can guarantee that there are no such updates
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by mixedbit 12y ago
Linux does not expose a consistent snapshot of its state that could be read within a single transaction.
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by mixedbit 12y ago
I don't know why I'm down-voted for the comment above. Relations have certain semantics that are very hard to preserve without RDBMS controlling the data. For example in a relational system a query like this: `select p0.name, p1.n
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by mixedbit 12y ago
A system with SQL interface != a relational database
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by mixedbit 12y ago
This isn't the case with every WebGL demo, only animations need to continuously render. For example WebGL apps that change view only when camera position changes do not require to continuously invoke the render loop and often can have

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