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by mixedbit 9y ago
It is in Poland, the companies are UPC and Orange. If you know Polish, here is the example UPC Internet offer for 49PLN/month that increases to 54PLN/month if you don't agree to marketing (it's called Marketing Communica
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by mixedbit 9y ago
In my country broadband Internet connection provided by two major ISPs has a price that increases by about 1.5$/month, if you don't agree for your personal data to be used for marketing purposes.
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Or like in this remake of the classic Dilbert about sql database: http://www.sytaylor.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/dilbert-c...
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by mixedbit 9y ago
Another truly open alternative in crowdfunding stage (I really wish it will reach its funding goal): https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
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by mixedbit 9y ago
Can it be that railways are often monopolized, and getting access to the infrastructure is difficult for new companies, which hampers innovation?
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by mixedbit 9y ago
The tool should also check if a page uses HTTP2, because for HTTP2 inlining does not give any benefits.
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by mixedbit 9y ago
As far as I know GIF and MP3 decoders were made open source not by the patent holders, if the patent holders open sourced the decoders, would they be able to enforce the patent rights?
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by mixedbit 9y ago
Does this mean that a startup that uses React becomes un-buyable for any company that sells or plans to sell patent rights to Facebook?
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by mixedbit 9y ago
My understanding is that if a company open sources a patent protected code (with one of the standard open source licenses without any additional patent clauses), the company grants anyone the right to use the patented technique without any
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by mixedbit 9y ago
I remember compiling and working with Firefox code many years ago, one thing that surprised me were non-fatal assertion errors continuously printing errors to console in debug build. It looked like Netscape legacy, I wonder if they managed
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by mixedbit 9y ago
Maybe to address the pricing concerns you could make it more like car leasing deals that often allow to buy the leased car after the contract is over? You could rent furniture but with an option to buy at any time and terminate the monthly
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by mixedbit 9y ago
What prevented Paypal phishing sites from buying certificates from other providers?
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Also take a look how strong and abuse-resistant cross laminated timber is: https://alexschreyer.net/engineering/much-abuse-can-cross-la...
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by mixedbit 9y ago
How do you envision version control/code reviews with Luna projects? Can diffs be explored at visual level or only source code level? If one developer moves nodes around without altering any logic are such changes tracked in the code r
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Software differentiation would more important and easier than hardware, so Android fork or completely new OS that could maybe support Android apps.
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I believe there is a space on the smartphone market for a new powerful player. Today there are two mainstream choices iPhone and Android. A significant portion of iPhone users are devoted fans, but Android is more often just a practical cho
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by mixedbit 9y ago
Cookies are called third party based on a context in which they are sent. A cookie itself is not third or first party, it can act as both depending on this context.
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by mixedbit 9y ago
If there was a new editor with little history I think the quality of its code could help to decide whether it is worth switching and learning (Editor switch is very expensive for a programmer). Mysql and PostgreSQL offer similar functionali
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by mixedbit 9y ago
Just a brief study (~few hours) of mysql and postgresql sources allowed me to made a definite decision which of the two is a better choice for all my web projects.
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Right, the strategy is very depended on answers that the candidate is going to get and it is hard to see how to continue with less favorable answers: * Q: Do you remember what kind of pen that was? * A: Yes, it was my favorite pen that I go
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by mixedbit 9y ago
I wonder why likes, stars, retweets and similar counters are not weighted by a reputation in a user visible way. For the user a tweet with 1000 botnet retweets looks exactly like a tweet with 1000 retweets by experts in a given subject.
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Do you find such things by listening to the music or by analyzing notes?
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I was very unhappy to discover that shoes now often have RFIDs built into soles. This + anti-theft RFIDs readers that are already deployed by the entry of most stores can allow to easily assign unique ids to shoppers.
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> as long as it is software, is programmed with a very specific understanding of what is being programmed. Every line of code is intentional. Nothing exists in between the lines. A reductionist would say that we can explain any phenomeno
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In the context of the Penrose hypothesis, the question if the brain is a Turing machine is key, because if it is, the hypothesis is false.
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> Maybe someone can elucidate. Godel's theorems apply to tightly-controlled formal systems Turing machine is a tightly-controlled formal system. Either the brain is a Turing machine, which means it can be accurately simulated on our
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> But to then think something can be accurately simulated without a good understanding of its nature is another mistake. So programmers should be following physics and biology. Biological systems work and evolved into intelligent self co
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A very interesting development in this space is WebVR. You can use WebGL to create widely available (95% of browsers) web-based 3D experience and thanks to WebVR the experience can upgrade to VR for visitors that have VR hardware.
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This seems very high, maybe they included research and infrastructure cost in this 250k/unit estimation?
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Sketch.app name similarity with SketchUp can be a source of some confusion.

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