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by niftich 10y ago
It's a bit a both, although probably best termed 'art'. It's satire by proxy in the sense that nearly all 'projects' Cards Against Humanity and the ad in question were, and the prose mirrors the structure of si
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Yeah but how do you do key distribution and management? The physical security and "forward secrecy" (in the loose sense) afforded by an ephemeral transmission that can only be received in a fixed location is non-negligible [1]. [1
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by niftich 10y ago
Go gets compared to "systems programming" languages because its designers specifically intended it to be used as such [1][2], albeit the definition of 'systems' they are using is deliberately evolved from the original sh
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Conversion rules seem like an awfully specific language feature to introduce just to scratch a very particular itch. The rest of the slides are pretty standard-fare, and that's a good thing. Would've liked a reference to the lack
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This is the premise of 'disrupt', isn't it? That the existing business models or technological solutions are so thoroughly shaken by the appearance of something new that doesn't pass for a mere iteration of the same. Ele
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by niftich 10y ago
In other instances this would be my recommendation, but OP needs to somehow capture relationships between data-items in ways that referential integrity will be maintained: this is a non-trivial challenge, because it requires application l
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by niftich 10y ago
Lumping 'IT' in with STEM is a historical mistake from the days when IT was not a mass-market phenomenon, but firmly the territory of academia, government ventures, defense contractors, safety-critical systems, and research. Today
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by niftich 10y ago
That's not really my read at all. As someone in a similar boat, it's really inspiring to see that this place is both a great watercooler and a great equalizer. While some might lack the behind-the-scenes scoop or the battle-harden
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by niftich 10y ago
I think you're confusing the company formerly known as Snapchat, now called 'Snap Inc.' with the 'Snappy' package manager (hosted out of 'snapcraft.io') which makes linuxy packages called 'snaps'
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This is mostly marketing bullshit [1][2] and misses the point entirely. There is competition on mobile because it's a captive market: the device ships with an OS with integration into first-party services like search and maps, and the
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by niftich 10y ago
This has been happening for a while. This 2012 article from Nielsen [1] wrote that while app downloads were up (in 2012), user time spend in all apps was flat. It also notes that the 4 of most popular apps were Facebook, YouTube, Google Sea
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by niftich 10y ago
According to the Forbes story [1][2] on WhatsApp's beginnings, the founders didn't focus on marketing. The app's features alone sold it plenty -- and the fact that the app was sold for real money helped them pay the bills. Fu
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MJPEG in casual parlance is more of a "technique" than a format -- and multipart/x-mixed-replace is a very loose definition of even something as loosely defined as MJPEG. Out of video containers, QuickTime introduced "Mo
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by niftich 10y ago
Maybe so, but since git-scm.com's 2012-05-05 redesign [1], the professional visual design, the new footer, the internally-hosted download pages, and the verbiage has no longer given the impression of an "unofficial" site. Com
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by niftich 10y ago
CVG's downfall wasn't so much when Delta made it a hub, but rather when after Delta's merger with Northwest the hubs were reshuffled [1][2], and CVG lost out hard to the gain of Detroit. In the acquisition, Delta gained Min
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by niftich 10y ago
Igor Skochinsky did some research into IME and has slides [1]. See slides 32-41. [1] http://www.slideshare.net/codeblue_jp/igor-skochinsky-enpub
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by niftich 10y ago
Their headline is a bit hyperbolic (oh, the irony, given stance detection!) but the FAQ [1] covers what's really going on: Q: Why did you choose the stance detection task rather than the task of labeling a claim, headline or story Tru
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Was this question not originally intended as a nudge to drop some of the implicit formality of an interview -- where even if the atmosphere is colloquial, the power balance tilts in favor of the company -- and prompt the candidate to plainl
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by niftich 10y ago
Can't you ask management what to recommend? Is that not seen as taking initiative?
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Developers are 'ignoring' the Windows Store because for existing Win32 applications (or applications rooted in large Win32 codebases), Win32 is just fine without a rewrite, while greenfield applications usually target other platfo
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I applaud their forthrightness and hope that it's recoverable so that most of the disaster is averted. To me the most illuminating lesson is that debugging 'weird' issues is enough of a minefield; doing it in production is fr
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by niftich 10y ago
I do this too, but in this case both machines were production, so this alone would not have sufficed. The system-default prompts on the other hand are universally garbage.
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It's unfortunate that such a literal instance of hashtag activism was based on pure speculation by random people on Twitter. Uber definitely botched the messaging, but they were in a no-win situation. Their surge pricing algorithm will
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by niftich 10y ago
Oh nice! I was just looking for something like this to introduce people unfamiliar or uncomfortable with the command-line to rclone. This comes at a very opportune time for me, and I see it's written in understandable C++, so I can do
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by niftich 10y ago
Learn 3 but also know 2. They're not that different: the concepts and ethos is the same, the APIs have been shuffled, some lower-level details are different, and in 3 text strings and byte sequences are domain-separated. You can examin
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It's not apparent from the headline, but this is an examination of why Mozilla Persona failed. Most of the points raised here (e.g. needing third-party buy-in, popup UI built into browser, endpoint fragmentation, problems with communic
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by niftich 10y ago
A great toolkit -- there's a bunch of goodies here, but tty-table is amazing, from the sensible API to the configurable ASCII to Unicode renderer. It compares favorably with Hirb, the only other library I know of that draws console tab
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Ask HN: Inexpensive, cutoff SaaS for HTTP and compute?
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One advantage of using CSS to make an otherwise rectangular (really, square) image appear circular is that the underlying images won't become obsolete if the visual design changes to shift away from circular images. Another is that com
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I'm not surprised. This has been a phenomenon for a very, very long time [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11905266#11906591 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=917

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