mtarnovan

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by mtarnovan 8y ago
My first computer was a Sinclair Spectrum clone called HC-85 (presumably an acronym for Home Computer). These were very popular in Romania in during the last years of the Communist regime. I remember seeing a Sinclair Spectrum and thinking
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by mtarnovan 8y ago
That's why I said "anecdote", i.e. "an account regarded as unreliable or hearsay."
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by mtarnovan 8y ago
These stories of SV excesses (especially Juicero) remind me of the anecdote telling how the NASA spend a lot of money to develop a ball point pen than could write in zero gravity. The Russians? They took pencils.
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
GP was talking about this Spring: https://spring.io/ not the Rails preloader...
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
You may be right, still, modern Java does have some excellent concurrency libs, like Akka https://akka.io
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
Present-day US should care, and they should do something about it. The mines they layed 50 years ago still kill people today.
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
I'm not sure that would qualify as 'bootstrapped'.
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
Weird, I dont see any scripts other than disqus and google analytics.
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
Arguably everyone interested in fashion could be interested in an app like this.
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
Yes. We're talking fashion, so a pretty big market.
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
That article is about Siri web search.
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
I thought that was Chrome :)
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
So if Google stopped paying Apple, what would they do? Switch to Bing? I'm sure their users would love that </s>
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Beetoken – Decentralized Home Sharing Network with Bee Protocols(beetoken.com)
1 points by mtarnovan 9y ago|0 comments
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
It's obviously measured in km/h with h=1
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
If you want a fair comparison, do GDP vs value produced by that investment fund in a year.
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
Hyperbolic comparisons like these are very off-putting for me too, but I see them everywhere, presumably "for effect". The effect in this instance is that I stopped reading.
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Facebook says Romanian anti-corruption advocates blocked by a bug(buzzfeed.com)
3 points by mtarnovan 9y ago|0 comments
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
You seem to miss two important points: facebook provides a) convenience (most people can't be expected to find a web hoster to "share their opinion with the world", especially in the age of social networks) and b) enormous r
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
Have you read the article? They collect cell tower info, you can't fool that with a VPN...
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
I soon have to buy a new (smart)phone. Looks like this might just be the straw that pushes me over to iPhone.
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
> If you're concerned about this level of location tracking, don't carry a cell phone at all. This seems to be implying that this level of tracking is expected, or required. It's not. Not by Google anyway, which doesn&#x27
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
Yes, Alan Watts comes to mind in the context of Zen and dish washing :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx4fUpalvTU
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
Imagine googling for stuff about this project... (issues, bugs, tutorials etc) Must be a nightmare, with such a generic name
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
This comment isn't very helpful. Still, it should be noted that Fowler warns that CRQS adds significant complexity and advises great caution about using it. See https://martinfowler.com/bliki/CQRS.html
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
The article summarized: "NK has EMP!!!1 Buy my book!"
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
> Oh wait, then you forgot your phone and had to go all the way back up to get it Wow, the very definition of 1st world problems right there :D
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
0.72% Steam users are on Linux. http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
"Well, of course we're not reading your emails. We're just inspecting the headers and blocking all emails from `@competitor.com`"
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by mtarnovan 9y ago
Indeed, at least for now.

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