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by mixedbit 9y ago
Maybe an attack related to the recent OVH price increase: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15596282
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by mixedbit 9y ago
I wonder if we will finally go back to hardware design principles that prioritizes functionality over look. The Design Of Everyday Things gives examples of great designs: * Rotary dial phones were designed in such a way that when a phone fe
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by mixedbit 9y ago
Once our tweet used a popular hash tag and got re-tweeted by some bot network. It was really easy to tell the accounts were all bots, all the re-tweets happened simultaneously, profiles were very similar, with similar messy streams. I went
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by mixedbit 9y ago
For standard VR experiences you move your head standing or seating, so a heavy headset is problematic. For development work you could lean back or lay with your head supported by a headrest, so the weight could be much less of a problem.
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by mixedbit 9y ago
My friend likes and uses the Discover Weekly and to get good recommendations he uses different Spotify account when he plays something for his kids or plays some generic background music at home.
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by mixedbit 9y ago
They could grow organically and there are plenty of companies that do, but this is not the Silicon Valley way, and this is what the article is complaining about.
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by mixedbit 9y ago
19 of 20 investments fail because VCs equate success with > 1B$ valuation. Among the failed companies there are plenty that produce great and useful products but need to shut down because the VC deals forced them to grow to unsustainable
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by mixedbit 9y ago
To add another example, WebVR API cleanup was inspired by Microsoft that joined the group working on this API. Edge isn't yet shipping WebVR, but they are helping with the work.
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by mixedbit 9y ago
Edge is a good browser, people seem to default to criticizing it because of its infamous predecessor. We should root for Edge, it is in the open Web best interest to have several browsers sharing the market.
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by mixedbit 9y ago
It would be great to survey a large selection of software projects and see if Agile has positive or negative impact on the success. My current view (not backed by any numbers) is that the majority of widely used software started as an spont
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by mixedbit 9y ago
With Swedish high cost of living, is it feasible to bootstrap a product company there (a company that needs time to build something to sell) or is an outside investment the only feasible path for such companies?
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by mixedbit 9y ago
If they manage to launch Libre 5, the future iterations may fix this shortcoming. If Libre 5 fails, we are stuck with Android & iPhone, which have much bigger problems.
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by mixedbit 9y ago
There is a large selection of routers or general purpose devices that can be used as routers (for example Rasberry Pi) on which you can easily run standard Linux distributions. You can configure such distribution to install software updates
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by mixedbit 9y ago
I have recently bought Huawei USB modem and discovered that these things run Linux with Android. This is pretty off-putting. With such a modem it is no longer enough to keep your system & drivers up to date, because the device has it&#x
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by mixedbit 9y ago
Great read. They do direct sales with each contract individually negotiated and high prices. More common approach for small companies is to avoid such negotiations and sell packaged software at fixed and lower prices but aim for higher volu
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by mixedbit 9y ago
I'm pondering using standard CDNs for serving bandwidth intensive payloads, but I have some doubts whether this is a right technical decision. I did not find any general purpose CDN that would explicitly encourage the use of their prod
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by mixedbit 9y ago
In 1994 Sun engineers that worked on RPC published a "Note on Distributed Computing" [1] where they argue that hiding remote interactions behind interfaces that are designed to look exactly like local interfaces is not a good idea
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by mixedbit 9y ago
Google doesn't have a great reputation for long-term support of projects that are outside of the company core business.
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by mixedbit 9y ago
I wonder if the technical edge is there only because German diesels do not meet emission regulations. It is easy to have the best product on the market if all the competitors need to make weaker engines to meet the regulations and German co
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by mixedbit 9y ago
One of the problems with your idea is that the camera position is one of the parameters of the rendering equation, so the same surface looks different from different points in 3D space. To fully capture how light interacts with the space, y
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by mixedbit 9y ago
This is what I don't understand, it seems like a sunk cost fallacy. For each diesel sold, the auto makers sell one less gasoline car, the profits should stay the same.
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by mixedbit 9y ago
I fail to understand why German automotive industry is lobbing pro diesels. All German car makers make both gasoline and diesel engines, if diesels were banned or taxed to be more expensive customers wouldn't resign from buying cars bu
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by mixedbit 9y ago
People did care and use Persona. Unfortunately, large organizations, such as Mozilla, expect that anything they launch will be mass-adopted within a short period of time, and kill promising projects that fail to quickly reach such adoption.
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by mixedbit 9y ago
Here is an interview in which Ted Nelson explains his vision to Werner Herzog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqx6li5dbEY The interview is included in 'Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World' documentary.
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by mixedbit 9y ago
I think the initial goal of Purism should be to make a working device with WiFi and GSM drivers and a minimal software layer on top. Even a command line tools for things like making a call, or sending an SMS would be enough for the initial
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by mixedbit 9y ago
Right, and they did raise 12 million.
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by mixedbit 9y ago
Browsers throttle not active tabs.
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by mixedbit 9y ago
Surely the distrust doesn't apply to websites with the Norton Secured Seal, the most trusted mark on the internet: https://www.symantec.com/page.jsp?id=seal-transition
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by mixedbit 9y ago
No, unlike Volvo, Mercedes is still going to have combustion engine only versions.
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by mixedbit 9y ago
Does the physical location of a server matter for high-throughput use cases? If a client is downloading large files using all its available bandwith, is the download time noticeably better if the server is close to the client?

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