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by randartie 10y ago
What's stopping ISPs from slowing down other speedtests at the same rate as netflix to eliminate your ability to have a 'control'?
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by randartie 10y ago
> By your thoughts, all software should have been updated in a few days to be bug free. Anyone who has used this app knows it is extremely crashy. It's not supposed to be bug-free, but releasing an app this crashy is fairly sloppy.
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by randartie 10y ago
> the endpoints have to be somewhere inconvenient, well outside major urban areas. I imagine large urban areas will spring up around wherever a hyperloop endpoint is built. The builder might even be able to subsidize themselves by purcha
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by randartie 10y ago
Running ads is difficult. There's clearly people spending huge amounts of money through online advertising and this happens because they are able to get results (understanding what works and what doesn't work on each platform). On
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by randartie 10y ago
Amazing levels of cynicism here on HN.
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by randartie 12y ago
Higher quality version of this same talk (given at a different event): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Yp3j_jk8Q
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by randartie 12y ago
What it sounds like is that your data-flow will be react-app-like (flux).
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by randartie 12y ago
They went from having no free internet to having Free facebook + other core sites like wikipedia through Facebook's internet.org, but it's moving in the wrong direction? >If the average user can only access the mindless corpora
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by randartie 12y ago
Gives me a headache
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by randartie 12y ago
It's not because they don't "dominate" in the area of building network hardware that they release their designs. It's because this is not what gives Facebook an advantage in the social products space. There aren&#x2
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by randartie 12y ago
You have to register your app with facebook, thus this feature could be removed from all new apps while still preserving existing functionality for apps registered before the feature gets removed (if it ever does get removed).
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by randartie 12y ago
Earnings call clearly says ad impressions decreased 17%, but price to advertise has doubled.
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by randartie 13y ago
The article itself claims it was inactive.
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by randartie 13y ago
The article is titled "Facebook CPC – Don't Waste Your Money ", I think it's fair for him to explain why it was not a waste of money for him.
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by randartie 13y ago
Who doesn't have the money yet?
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by randartie 13y ago
"php hack anonymous function"
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by randartie 13y ago
I imagine a lot of the people on AirBnb happen to list their room when actually they do not own the building (renters). I wonder how many would still continue listing if they knew that AirBnbs insurance doesn't actually cover them.
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by randartie 13y ago
Facebook has some of the largest data-centers in the world, with plenty of spare capacity. In the article they describe that running these HUGE jobs put them at risk of not potentially not being able to provide power to all the machines at
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by randartie 13y ago
If the estimate was for people who would see the video, why would fake accounts see the video?
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by randartie 13y ago
Your statement is only true for CPU operations. Modern GPUs have their hardware and drivers optimized for floating point operations.
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by randartie 13y ago
> I don't believe for a second this is about helping the user - more likely is that FB and Netflix want to prevent users running scripts that add features How does that even make sense given that Facebook clearly gives the opt-out
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by randartie 13y ago
Sounds like a bug, that did not happen to me. (On chrome latest)
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by randartie 13y ago
These are high grade guaranteed for 30+ years. There's also 1000 year grade blu rays out there.
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Ghash.io very close to 51% of bitcoin pool(bitcointalk.org)
102 points by randartie 13y ago|125 comments
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by randartie 13y ago
I can't agree. Instead of taking everyone's advice of either switching to perforce (less user-friendly/frustrating repo) or splitting their repo into parts, facebook built a solution where they don't have to make either
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by randartie 13y ago
The discussion appears deleted on that thread
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by randartie 13y ago
It's a bold assumption that those open source projects are larger than facebook, a company which employs 2000+ engineers. webkit and chromium have about 6 or 7 million lines of code and < 200,000 commits. Facebook 6 months ago had 6
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by randartie 13y ago
This post claims that it did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6925278
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by randartie 13y ago
About 15 minutes since your post. I guess you have to take breaks when you program for hours straight.
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by randartie 13y ago
How does sharing digital content with people you know qualify as 'little utility'?

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