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Pebble kickstarter hidden subcharges. Additional payment requested PAST campaign(reddit.com)
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by rdslw 10y ago
Somebody should write a business book: How to be in a winning position in an emerging sector (messengers) and lose it, not once (gtalk stagnation), not twice (hangouts introductions), but three/four/five times (all this current me
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by rdslw 10y ago
It's also an ultimate checklist of potential vector attacks.
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by rdslw 10y ago
Easy: why new subreddit? Do they also want to blame design? ;)
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by rdslw 10y ago
It would be a (financially) bad choice for corpo. And answer why, is the same in many similar questions 'why can't corpo do this-and-that'. Here it is (google as an example only, simplified) the answer: * Put two googles side
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by rdslw 10y ago
This^100. It's interesting that facebook got it initially right, and NEVER implemented 'who's viewed your profile/picture' - as they know that this (possibility of others seeing our actions) would greatly reduce our
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by rdslw 10y ago
It's smoke screen move. FB knows that family and friends emit not enough content to keep us on FB as long as FB would like to. This is simply to be able to charge companies more for sneaking their content into your so-called FriendsAnd
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by rdslw 10y ago
Yet another PayUsToLetThemSeeYourAds approach. With obligatory ButWeWillDoMicroPayments sauce. P.S. Its not new neither. Its simply build on chromium.
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by rdslw 10y ago
My advice: 1. buy some cuda GTX from nvidia (second hand ebayish would do) 2. install pycuda https://mathema.tician.de/software/pycuda/ 3. dive into excelennt documentation and tutorials: https://docum
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by rdslw 10y ago
To anybody interested in ESP8266 and micopython: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/214379695/micropython-o... This resulted recently in this: https://github.com/micropython/micropython&#x2F
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This is new kid on the block of Software Defined Radio. More to be read about technology: http://rtlsdr.org/ One of the SDR portals: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/ You can buy cheapest SDR for 20USD these days. Gr
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Worth reading answer about coolest kid on the block: xz compression algorithm (of lzma fame) plus tar.gz vs tar.xz scenarios/discussion. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6493270/why-is-tar-gz-sti...
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by rdslw 10y ago
It's everywhere (Poles are just smart). THere is much more time & bandwidth on major content sites spend purely for ads than on content On slate: 60% ads on business insider: 75% on BBC: 65% Source: http://www.nytimes.co
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by rdslw 10y ago
Greetings from Poland :) Even while inconvenient for me, I've switched on my android from chrome (which I also use on desktopt) to firefox because of one reason: you can install plugins (read ublock, adblock etc) on firefox for android
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by rdslw 10y ago
Beware of Allwinner. It's not supporting open source community (does not provide OS api for every part of chips) - so either you use their blobs or don't have access to everything hw is able to. And AFAIK they're heavy GPL vi
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by rdslw 10y ago
Yes, because on every image on main page (row with three possible use scenarios) it's shown as connected to a display. This IS freebie marketing.
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by rdslw 10y ago
There is nothing magical in 'feel the pain' (also love,hate etc). What about hunger and others? Your body and brain evolved to a current state which releases chemical substances to signal to other parts of body what's going o
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There are quite a few arguments: * attacker can't do successfull bruteforce attemps at the same rate or at all * attacker can't reliable intercept (MITM) traffic, as he does not what port is being used * attacker can' launch
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by rdslw 10y ago
I've misread (english is not my native language) post with ", he takes it apart..." as a fact about author gender and reacted to subsequent comment which I find wrong. Answering your question: would he, or me, or other poste
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by rdslw 10y ago
I see two big problems with algorithmic/curated feeds: * conflict of interest between reader and (algo) curator. FB (as an example) wants reader to stay as long as possible on its site and to make the reader to regular comeback to FB,
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by rdslw 10y ago
Really? While talking in a context of a specific post, written by a male?
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by rdslw 10y ago
There is no reason to use bullshit here. I think you're completely wrong, maybe you dont know what youre talking about (by not being at exec mulit m position). You judge compensation from your perspective. My argument is: you forgotten
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by rdslw 11y ago
> However, I think you'd be hardpressed to find another document store that [...] CouchDB. Older by 6 yrs, so probably can't compete with RethinkDB on wow-yet-another-new-fresh-backed-tool-with-fancy-webpage-and-admin-ui scale
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by rdslw 11y ago
I love when people with native english skills write monsters like this: "If people's hopes of coding bug-free code in Python 2 actually panned out then I wouldn't consistently hear from basically every person who ports their
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by rdslw 11y ago
Interesting tests which can reveal your current implicit (read hidden) attitudes toward race, gender, color. Worth to do and discover few facts about ourselves, even if uncomfortable. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit&#x
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by rdslw 11y ago
I always give a two months quarantine to an article about some theory which is nice to hear (celebrities are fake), groundbreaking (they're doing it so long and are bald swedish vikings!), and on the verge of conspiracy theory (the&#x2
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by rdslw 11y ago
There is in fact. Port knocking to open a port (and a service behind it) which is presumably closed at start. oversimplification: CLIENT> POKE POKE SERVER> TCP RST, nothing to SEE HERE CLIENT> POKE POKE POKE <SPACE> POKE POKE
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by rdslw 11y ago
I face it A LOT with US people. I'm a Pole, and this additional layer of "politness" presented by US is quite difficult and strange. Especially that I observed that such short lived enthusiasm shown on meetings is not followe
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by rdslw 12y ago
Thank you! 20 years of vim+term and I wasn't aware of some of these. Especially mouse reporting with 'set mouse=a' is really nice.
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by rdslw 12y ago
I'm using http://hackernewsletter.com Got weekly nicely formatted email with: .. best of week favorites .. best #ask hn .. best #show hn .. best #code .. best #design It allows to read me HN on weekly basis, not on daily, a

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