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by on_ 11y ago
Honestly, really means a lot. I think I will try and do a blog post every now and again because I keep wanting to continue, but HN really isn't the place. Also, I just got a pretty hefty equity package from a serious business entrepren
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by on_ 11y ago
Really means a lot. If you ever need a confidence boost though you should checkout 3000[0], I hear that developer is fucking killing it. [0]localhost:3000
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by on_ 11y ago
India has 1.23 Billion[0] people in it, and that wikipedia article is quite short, with only 4 sources. They don't cite any of the sources for the figure which stated 6460 people are in the program. The program serves %0.000005 of Indi
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by on_ 11y ago
Paul Graham was talking about something that sounded like either a distributed compiler or search/computing engine in 2008 at PyCon[9] and it can be argued it is something like the decentralized computing trend happening now. He said i
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by on_ 11y ago
> I feel like I'm in a time warp Perl 6 was just released, and is at the top of HN. ;)
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by on_ 11y ago
Yeah, all the hip new startups are using this technology. Obviously, NoSql makes it impossoble to change your data structure. You are going to see these Silicon Rust Belt companies or "Technologies Old Guard" if you will, scramble
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by on_ 11y ago
edit: In summary/TL;DR SkyPan was explicitly allowed to operate a 55lb drone commercially if they stayed at an altitude less than 400ft, the drone would fly home after a lost connection for safety, they were more than 500ft from people
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by on_ 11y ago
They really drive home a few points often overlooked: Business fundamentals are really important, while not the only thing, that are a critical aspect of longevity. Ideas are less important than execution. Porter's 5 forces model provi
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by on_ 11y ago
No sorry, I am usually a thoughtful commenter but that was a satirical comment which I doubled down on.
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by on_ 11y ago
Yeah, I am sorry. I hardly ever make comments like this and it is doubly dubious because I lost my account recently, but this was meant to be satire. When the PM responded, I couldn't help myself but double down. My account is new so i
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by on_ 11y ago
I have been pretty critical of reddit lately, but there was a time when I really enjoyed using it and it does provide a ton of value to many people. It is a great website in a very difficult situation due to the community culture ( very an
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by on_ 11y ago
Awesome, that is what I thought. PHP is one of those languages that wasn't designed by committee so there isn't that much documentation about it, but the founder built it specifically as scalable programming language and had been
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by on_ 11y ago
Wordpress is an extremely new framework, so it will be new to a lot of developers, but it provides an extremely performant developer friendly product. One drawback is that it is highly specialized, so it only had a few applications but luck
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by on_ 11y ago
> I think you just agreed in a slightly angry way with plenty of citations. I am not sure what you mean? The citations I included, I agreed with and included them to substantiate my claim, which was: It is not dumb or irrational to get t
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by on_ 11y ago
> How is it not dumb? Because PLS Logistics Services does ~$100m a year more than dropbox (PLS rev is $515.6m) and has a growth rate of 42% and no one has ever heard of it. Dropbox was reportedly valued at $10 billion in November 2014, w
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by on_ 11y ago
I have nothing against them, they are an organization founded by smart MBAs with a strong focus on software and finance. Some of their media companies are a bit derivative, but what would you expect from a finance company. The organization
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by on_ 11y ago
> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-09-24/y-contributo... Ahh yes, Dan Altman, a recent hire at SV clone "Y Contributor", talks about attention to detail, and working with the Samwer bros
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by on_ 11y ago
There was a great discussion I wont be able to find about this recently on HN after an article about a zebra/leopard patterned couch. Thwarting an image id algorithim is not difficult and the researcher came on and spoke about the prob
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by on_ 11y ago
> Mr Snowden said GCHQ could gain access to a handset by sending it an encrypted text message and use it for such things as taking pictures and listening in. This sentence is as much context as the article provides, and I won't reha
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by on_ 11y ago
Absolutely. The article didn't provide much color on it, but I am thinking about a <$20 pay as you go phone that is turned off, with the known information of simply a cellphone number. While the gov't has crazy access to these
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by on_ 11y ago
Feel like this is begging the question a bit. While a phone is a massive attack vector it is pretty non obvious that from a text message a user can have a stealth rootkit installed and persisted to all their devices.
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> I don't think anything wireless(besides free space optics) will ever be able to match the bandwidth of fiber. This isn't really the goal of the project. SpaceX needs to create a com link with Mars. Also, it can cheaply laucnc
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by on_ 11y ago
legitimately considering moving to Atom for this. I use sublime text (i like it) but there is no terminal support. I have checked every package out and nothing really beats just using a hotkey on iTerm. If this works well, I would be all o
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by on_ 11y ago
I skimmed Gruber's piece and it was written with the reverence of someone who understands tech and design, as well as something about Apple. The Isaacson book was massive, so I am sure there are some points to dispute or interpret, how
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by on_ 11y ago
This sentiment is shared by many displaced blue collar workers in SV and NYC. They see finance and big tech taking jobs and ruining the economy. In the bubble, status driven workers push themselves hard until completely burned out and jaded
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by on_ 11y ago
Walter Isaacson is a well respected biographer asked specifically by jobs to write the book. I dont have time or the access to corroborate it, but it felt accurate reading it and was in line with other things i've read. Also, some obje
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by on_ 11y ago
Really helpful. Thanks for the detailed response. Going to dev, do a few experiments with this. Good luck.
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by on_ 11y ago
Not tptacek, but could you give a bit more on the contrast between Ethereum an IPFS. Also, what is your "version" of DNS? How can I map a human readable name to a file/connection and verify authenticity? Project looks awesome
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by on_ 11y ago
I totally agree. leaving aside the granular details in the article this is the future. Bitcoin protocol, ethereum, ipfs, openbazaar, bittorrent etc are the blocks that content will be rebuilt on. The SAFEnetwork is a cool project as well. S
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by on_ 11y ago
"Hacking" or "4chan" most likely.

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