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by niftich 10y ago
My theory: its state can be detected by touch alone and toggled without having to look at the device. This is very convenient when it's in one's pocket or bag, especially when it's already making noise. There additional benef
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by niftich 10y ago
Bitcoin's primary innovation isn't the blockchain per se, but the combination of the blockchain and proof-of-work timestamping to solve the double-spending problem without requiring a central authority. A "private" block
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by niftich 10y ago
Thanks for this. Pendulum is, in my opinion, the most palatable datetime lib for Python. Things I'm looking for are: - a domain model that doesn't conflate unrelated concepts: a human-perceived 'calendar date' is not the
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by niftich 10y ago
Indeed!
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by niftich 10y ago
Thanks, corrected
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by niftich 10y ago
The 'API marketplace' and 'API economy' narratives are largely pushed by companies who make API proxies: Mashape, Mulesoft, etc. (EDIT: not Mashable, they're unrelated) I've yet to hear true success stories in
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by niftich 10y ago
This is definitely a lot of what goes on today. Despite the anonymity, there's a metagaming, social signalling aspect that comes from adhering to the tropes and catchphrases, being mean to newbies, displaying the mandatory -isms, playi
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by niftich 10y ago
Interesting info, but whether or not it's true, it certainly benefits their strategy. I have no doubt that they want to push the narrative that Google (Search) is the 'platform' and the news from publishers they wrap is a tab
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by niftich 10y ago
I pick 'none of the above'. The 'x' in the header box should make the damn header go away, keeping the rest of the page 100% intact. Mind you, this just proves that the header is superfluous. Existing technology called &
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by niftich 10y ago
Didn't OpenID have this exact same problem? Interestingly, email didn't, despite acronyms like POP3, IMAP, SMTP being a frequent occurrence once you try to supply an email client of your choice. So what was different about email,
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by niftich 10y ago
The Allegheny Front, where the continental divide runs between Altoona, PA and Frostburg, MD, wouldn't be a particular challenge for HSR, because they're good at hillclimbing, and the mass of the trainset is nothing like loaded co
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by niftich 10y ago
Not OP, but I sense perhaps a limitation of HN; articles with comments where the comment is the submission get conflated with submissions about the article itself. (EDIT: the submission's URL has now been changed from a particular re
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by niftich 10y ago
The technical merits and drawbacks of XMPP aside, deployment only works if there's an appetite from deployers. For high-visibility consumer chat that average people use, this appetite has vanished. Around the mid-2000s, IM networks sta
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by niftich 10y ago
Hardcoding your AWS stuff is nasty, because any bored script kiddie can extract it and make spurious requests, and at the end of the month you receive a larger-than-usual bill. But Twitter API keys? These just allow access to the Twitter AP
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by niftich 10y ago
Same source, I used the graph generator to graph by country and year. The bottom 'light green' bar in each country's section is 2015, each successive bar above is one year prior. http://imgur.com/a/od7Hi
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by niftich 10y ago
Desktop platforms like OS X, most Linux desktop environments, and newer versions of Windows have similarly allowed applications to hook into the OS' own notification mechanism for a while, but for some reason this model never caught on
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by niftich 10y ago
I still disagree with both lucideer's original and improved wording, but I agree with their message, which praises Opera's basic auth UI as making it clear with the borders and 3D foreground overlay effect that it's a part of
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by niftich 10y ago
The onboard video camera is a powerful tool, because it allows us to witness firsthand the seeming absurdity of the situation: you're so high up that the Earth's curvature is very pronounced and you can see to the far edges of the
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by niftich 10y ago
Code camps were a product of the mid-to-late '00s, and the premise and format has largely remained the same. In the late 2000s, the popularity of Ruby exploded when Rails gained mindshare. Rails, along with its healthy share of innovat
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by niftich 10y ago
With this bootcode.bin running on the VPU, after the ARM starts up and Linux is loaded, does the VPU halt and remain unreachable, or does the "normal" VC4 RTOS execute such that stuff from the ARM can be mailboxed to it?
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Addis Abada-Djibouti Railway(en.wikipedia.org)
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by niftich 10y ago
Uh, this content was authored by Zhang Yi Jiang two months ago [1][2], and is now posted without attribution on someone else's blog. [1] https://meebleforp.com/blog/36/angular-2-is-terrible [2] https:/&
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by niftich 10y ago
This ship has sailed, because pushing the Web Platform (which every year exposes more and more of this platform functionality in JS) is a vested interest of Google and Mozilla, for different but related-enough reasons to where they rapidly
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by niftich 10y ago
It's a function that takes an input of any length and produces an output of the requested length. From the Keccak (SHA-3) authors [1]: A sponge function is a generalization of both hash functions, which have a fixed output length, and
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by niftich 10y ago
Denial-of-service
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by niftich 10y ago
The article makes a very astute point: that people are attracted to the physicality, the tangibility of "analog" things. Whether out of nostalgia (because we've been there) or retro fascination (when we haven't lived it
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by niftich 10y ago
It does. Our automated systems analyze your content (including emails) to provide you personally relevant product features, such as customized search results, tailored advertising, and spam and malware detection. This analysis occurs as th
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by niftich 10y ago
To add to my point, once a few key parties chose Bernstein's crypto, network effects did most of the rest. Adam Langley [1] of Google authored the very first draft [2] of ChaCha20 and Poly1305 in TLS in September 2013 and started the f
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by niftich 10y ago
As the article says, Bernstein's stuff won out because his work is at the intersection of solid crypto, clean and performant code, and sane API design. This, coupled with the NIST curve debacle that shook public confidence, makes for a
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by niftich 10y ago
It's not just Netflix, and it's not related to broadcasting vs. on-demand, or interest-based recommendation algorithms vs. an externally curated playlist. Rather, today, we have a vastly increased reach of content production house

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