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by new299 10y ago
It would certainly be interesting to know how much space is saved through deduplication. However, my guess is that it's very unlikely to make the difference between a viable and a non-viable company. Particularly as they had a viable b
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by new299 10y ago
I would agree that I think this is mostly a business decision. And it seems to be the same business decision that almost every player in this space has made. But it relies on the user trusting the vendor with their data. The user can't
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by new299 10y ago
This probably makes sense in Japan more than anywhere else. There's an active market for small numbers of near perfect fruit attractively packaged and sold for use as gifts. $5 is still on the high-side. But a pack of perhaps 8 fruit f
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by new299 10y ago
In generally, absolutely. But it's quite clear that Rice's value to Dropbox is based around her background in politics. And in particular, her background in politics is one that is diametrically opposed to what Dropbox should be p
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by new299 10y ago
It's very clear from that page that the data is sometimes transmitted unencrypted. It's also clear that if it's encrypted server-side it's encrypted with a key known to dropbox (which in my opinion makes the encryption m
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by new299 10y ago
Right, I think that's reasonable. Maybe just use it for debug or builds of test suites/CI builds.
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by new299 10y ago
Nice summary. If stability/security is important in your codebase. It's of course worth avoiding undefined behavior, and compiling with warnings as errors (-Werror in gcc). However it's also really worth running your test sui
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by new299 10y ago
Their lack of encryption is even more concerning as they appointed a board member who supports warrentless surveillance: http://www.drop-dropbox.com/
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by new299 10y ago
I'm slightly shocked that tech-types who in general seem to be against mass state sponsored surveillance continue to support Dropbox. Dropbox appointed Condoleezza Rice to their board. Rice supports warrentless surveillance [1]. They&#
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by new299 10y ago
I hope their IPO fails spectacularly for the singular reason that they have a board member who supports warrentless surveillance [1]. This seems like a huge issue for a company that is entrusted with user data. If Dropbox continues to be su
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by new299 10y ago
I'd guess that probably works if you attach headphones via the lightening->USB host interface. USB Audio devices certainly work, and wired keyboards work.
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by new299 10y ago
For reference, the code in discussion appears to have been released under the GNU Affero General Public License.
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by new299 10y ago
Seems like a great writing prompt for some good hard Sci-Fi. My favorite thoughts so far: * We imagined alien life would make first contact through games. * Emergent artificial lifeform grows through gaming. Seems like a pretty compelling m
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by new299 10y ago
It is possible to know. In the UK it's easier to know than in other countries, private companies still have to disclose share ownership and file public accounts (which you can download from companies house). It's just that this in
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by new299 10y ago
I've always found Inkscape surprisingly easy to use in comparison to other open source tools (like for Gimp for example). I use it for almost all my diagramming needs (scientific publications/documentation). Closed source tools ar
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by new299 10y ago
I don't understand why they would move to France with a significantly non-zero probability of a Frexit. Is there something I've missed?
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by new299 10y ago
As a UNIX-like system loving dev... I always found macs (running MacOS) a bit frustrating for dev work. It's nice that you have a familiar command structure to work with, but installing software from homebrew/whatever else was alw
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by new299 10y ago
I feel like Apple are one of the few large SV companies that are producing products for their users. For everyone else the user is a resource that they're selling to advertisers. They've shown they're willing to stand up for
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by new299 10y ago
All stories are about raising awareness... even if it's about awareness of a particular algorithm. As for if politics is on-topic or not? The mods didn't delete the threads, so I assume they were considered important enough, and o
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by new299 10y ago
It's great, because we should be more aware of the political and societal implications of technology. The top story, Apple's refusal to bend to the governments request to assist in compromising security on the iPhone, was hugely i
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by new299 10y ago
I have no information on this, but the cynic in me thinks this is likely a total non-story/spin. I find it unlikely anyone would be so confident a AI system that they are "planning to introduce" that they'd schedule staf
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by new299 10y ago
I really feel like there is something genuinely interesting here. However I've read the main page, looked at 3 videos. Tried the demo... I still don't really understand what's going on. Now, it is 6am and I've been up al
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by new299 10y ago
TLDR: They're using a drone to take video of the illegal logging. I'd guess a couple of questions come to mind. The first is, wouldn't satellite imagery identify illegal logging? I guess that might be too expensive? If those
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by new299 10y ago
This video of a Super Mario playing AI was pretty neat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6UVOQ0F44 It may, or may not be on a useful path to solving harder AI problems. I don't know. But it's a good way of demons
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by new299 10y ago
Nit pick: They share the same core designers, but NT wasn't a direct decendent: http://m.windowsitpro.com/windows-client/windows-nt-and-vms-...
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by new299 10y ago
The Three Body problem by Cixin Liu is very dense, but entertaining and has depth.
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by new299 10y ago
A lot of technology is pretty flaky. I think you have a couple of issues however: 1. You have sucky Internet. Bad Internet is going to cause numerous issues. From what I've heard it's hard to get a really good Internet connection
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by new299 10y ago
Right... which comes down to: "it's easy for them to measure and understand". And ultimately investors say they want hardware/science. But they don't really...?
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by new299 10y ago
Seems like there's a new language popping up every few weeks. This seems strange when the trend in human languages seems to be towards a single common tongue, or at least a common lingua franca. The same seems true of mathematics. At l
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by new299 10y ago
One thing I find a bit weird is the investor focus on SaaS. The desire for Hardware/science based startups seem to get talk about a lot, but almost every one of these "how to pitch"/"what I'm looking for as an

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