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by octorian 8y ago
Its only fair, given that everyone else (except Apple) assumes the Eastern Time zone is the center of the universe :-)
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by octorian 8y ago
As someone who's had a Model S since 2015, the USB audio bit is my biggest gripe about the car... above pretty much everything else. It's also actually regressed across updates in the past as well. Some issues are flat-out bugs, s
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by octorian 8y ago
Almost all serious games are Windows-only native apps, or at least are at launch. Also, there's always going to be something you need to run that's a Windows-only binary. You may not need to run it frequently, and you might only
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by octorian 8y ago
Apple also doesn't think twice about giving the finger to anyone who actually depends on old hardware, peripherals, or software... or software/peripherals that only begrudgingly update to explicitly support the latest and greatest
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by octorian 8y ago
> Essentially we all agreed the web was unusable because it was too hard to find what you were looking for Back in those days, I was a fan on the Yahoo! directory approach. The web was still small and explore-able, so a directory actuall
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by octorian 8y ago
I have a system from SolarCity that also came with my home when I bought it. This past year was finally the point where "buying it out" was possible, but I procrastinated. In retrospect, it's actually a good thing I did. My p
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by octorian 8y ago
Sometime back in the 90's, I remember seeing a segment about the Japanese justice system on either 20/20 or 60 Minutes. Basically there was an American who had the misfortune of simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time, g
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by octorian 8y ago
It would actually make product development a lot harder. You have three end-user apps developed by different teams, supporting different content, wrapped in different structures. Managing the differences when sending messages from one to an
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by octorian 8y ago
The Signal Protocol only covers the E2E encryption of message content (and related activities like key management). Think of it more like OTR from the old IM days, but more deeply integrated into the product and invisible to the user. All t
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by octorian 8y ago
The beefy computer requirements are really just the result of needing to invent pie-in-the-sky specifications for the website, and wanting to avoid any bottlenecks when running at high load. Remember, most of the current customers are tryin
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by octorian 8y ago
What's a shame here is that the "WhatsApp Business API Client" [1] would actually be the perfect tool for personal projects like this. Unfortunately, its still being reserved for use by only larger businesses planning to use
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by octorian 8y ago
3rd party implementations, such as that python library, have two fundamental issues (beyond what's mentioned here). 1) They're using outdated versions of the protocols, which they won't be motiviated to fix until those old ve
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by octorian 8y ago
And then you should also factor in the value of the work women did at home, and weren't paid for. Because they're now having to pay someone else to do that work, which reduces the effective income gain of them working.
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by octorian 8y ago
My parents once tried a rate-chart system as well. However, completing everything on the chart (full of stuff I really had no desire to do) would max out around $5/week. Realistic earnings from this system were far less. I soon gave
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by octorian 8y ago
A site which actually served the exact same purpose as Facebook, in the era just prior to Facebook taking off.
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by octorian 8y ago
Many years ago, when I was first getting into digital photography, I was faced with the Aperture-vs-Lightroom decision. Both seemed promising, with Aperture even having some advantages. What ultimately made me choose Lightroom, however, was
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by octorian 8y ago
Resuming... ... ... ...
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by octorian 8y ago
Every time I try searching my Inbox in Thunderbird, it feels painful. Meanwhile, using my mail provider's (Fastmail) web interface, its snappy.
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by octorian 8y ago
I find it amusing just how many people make this assumption up-front. Probably because its one of those "problems" that seems simple on the surface, until you start digging deeper. This gets especially true once you take into acco
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by octorian 8y ago
The bleed shouldn't actually surprise anyone who knows how the acquisition actually happened. It only surprises tech reporters who are universally oblivious to this part. If someone said: "We're buying the company you work fo
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by octorian 8y ago
> Nobody actually paid for WhatsApp. At least, nobody I know off. People did pay. Its just that the charging was somewhat selective. Obviously you and your friends weren't in the group that was selected. Originally, it was a paid ap
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by octorian 8y ago
>> BE is alive and well. >If only because network protocols are generally BE. I think a big part of this is that, until x86 conquered all, big-endian was far more common than little-endian. So when all those "foundational&quot
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by octorian 8y ago
Alignment is one of those interesting things, because x86 doesn't care so much about it... And everyone starts out assuming everything is x86. Meanwhile, ARM does care about alignment, and its now the most popular architecture for anyt
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by octorian 8y ago
I'm very curious to do one of these tests myself, but I'm also terrified of being in some large database that could be abused to my detriment someday. This fear might be unfounded, but I'm not really sure. The whole thought o
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by octorian 8y ago
> I'm still amazed how many people let their printers run while no one is at home When it takes 12-24 hours (or perhaps more) to complete a larger print, are you really going to sit around and watch the thing? No, you're going
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by octorian 8y ago
I was once on a project where the managers loved it, because it gave them the ability to micro-manage a project like never before. They got daily status meetings, and bi-weekly cycles to adjust things.
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by octorian 8y ago
But not all tasks can be made bite-sized. Or more specifically, sometimes the bite-sized pieces aren't "complete enough" to be a valid unit of work to be nicely wrapped up and finished during a sprint. What happens as a resul
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by octorian 8y ago
> but OSS by indie developers is pretty much dead I have never seen a viable "business model" around F/OSS end-user application software. Every time I ask the F/OSS fanboys for this, they either come up short or rambl
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by octorian 8y ago
> Pen and paper is hardly done in the US except provisionally. Every state in the US can have a different system in place for the actual voting process. These systems also change over time. Pen and paper is used in plenty of the US, just
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by octorian 8y ago
> Honestly, I don’t think voting by app is inherently a “horrifically bad idea” Yes, it is. There are many ways such a system can go wrong. If its not this defective implementation, it'll be some other company's defective imple

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