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by rdslw 9y ago
There is a world beside US. Bigger actually. In fact amazon can't have (generic 'echo' word trademark) and does not have it in any sane part of world. All sane states do not allow generic trademark on common word. My speechle
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by rdslw 9y ago
What??? You can not trademark echo for different areas. And podcast is different. This way of reasoning makes me speachless. P.s. goodreads might be a case though.
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by rdslw 9y ago
Big5 And "and had to run a team of 5 not-so-great engineers" ? Interesting.
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by rdslw 9y ago
The only unanswered question is how many of them are needed per square meter. p.s. first hand impression: one per small or medium room.
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by rdslw 9y ago
the problem many praising blockchain minus bitcoin people forget, is that blockchain strength (distributed reconciliation) is possible only because of incentive (sth you get in exchange for doing all the etahashes per second). The moment yo
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by rdslw 9y ago
easy: apple never acknowledged and confirmed that it made a serious mistake/offence/liability. big difference in court if someone decides to sue. disgusting.
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by rdslw 9y ago
Yet another amazon service to lock you in. And then after two years, when you're no longer startup with 100usd bill, but bigger company, you're completly tied to a jungle of amazon products, and your exit strategy is very very cos
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by rdslw 9y ago
Easy: > Instead, companies are turning to new, cloud-based technologies from Anaplan Inc., Workiva Inc., Adaptive Insights and their competitors. Indeed Very fast into the article I classified it as advertisment.
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by rdslw 9y ago
> I just ran the detection tool on my laptop and I am running a vulnerable version of Intel ME, but I can't even do anything about it until my system manufacturer provides a patch for it. I would carefully analyse if patching is a g
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by rdslw 9y ago
I have one on my desk for few months already, but I use it only as a charger :-) If enough people vote here (AMA style?), I'll be motivated to connect kbd and monitor and do some tests :)
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by rdslw 9y ago
I trust you're doing for the good, yet it reminded me a story I heard some time ago. Story went like that: I'm a gold miner. Gold mining is cool, everybody wants to gold mine. So I'll teach you FOR FREE how to gold mine, but
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by rdslw 9y ago
Google considers (1) it unfixable: " Unfortunately, we believe that this class of attacks is inherent to the current design of web browsers and can't be meaningfully mitigated by any single website; in particular, clobbering the w
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by rdslw 9y ago
Nope. His letter point is clearly about widely(1) known debate(2) between him and Linus Torvalds, and ego massage. (1) widely, if you arent 25 years old proverbial "javascript developer" ;-) - as the debate took place in 1992. (2)
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Coinbase,bitcoin startup,adding daily up to 100k users last week, 0.5m in 7 days(docs.google.com)
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by rdslw 9y ago
You can easily short BTC since 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K844yk2BAuI
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by rdslw 9y ago
Reminds me a few google employers posts on HN responding to the usual 'google closes products often': we dont, and we never closed a business products, only unimportant consumer ones. Yeah, sure. Google is heading Microsoft 199x w
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by rdslw 9y ago
If you don't know who is Troy Hunt, then one thing to do right now is to signup for his great service: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ in essence, everytime(+) some massive break occurs, and your e-mail (and probably passw
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by rdslw 9y ago
Meaning its only 2x smaller than worldwide facebook (ad) business, while growing at 50%. Conclusion: alibaba & aliexpress are the real kings, forget about amazon.
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by rdslw 9y ago
It's not. There is nowhere stated: reason for this article is to promote the book sale. Knowing true reason/motivtion of somebody's actions is important. You can also draw conclusions if somebody is hiding their true motivati
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by rdslw 9y ago
I don't buy "creating a billion-dollar business". Ive read a Bloomberg story on the IPO and saw there two hilarious sequences "MongoDB has 4,300 paying customers. MongoDB employs 820 people in 29 offices" - that do
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by rdslw 9y ago
Part of the problem (the big one) lies here: "(filters in SVG work on cross-origin resources)" - without it, second attack (more serious) is not possible.
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by rdslw 9y ago
Can't help here about HP. I know that dell xps 13" with FHD screen is very good in this regard, while dell xps 13" with 3200x1800 is mirror like.
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by rdslw 9y ago
LOL. This very discussion on HN. And dozens of results after googling with 'apple cpu macbook pro TDP'.
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by rdslw 9y ago
This article is a (one of many) in recent time due to promotion of new book: https://www.amazon.com/Leonardo-Vinci-Walter-Isaacson/dp/150... Not to deny Leonardo's might, but quite similar to the pattern of (
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by rdslw 9y ago
Consider onedrive. Cheaper, you can have 5seat office license and family plan. Disclaimer: no decent linux client but macos is more less okeish.
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by rdslw 9y ago
Im not from Dropbox but answer is easy: because that would canibalize on selective/smart sync feature.
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Industry secret: apple throttles those cpu to 20W.
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Dont. I curse the day ive chosen 13” xps with 3200x1800 hdpi screen. Id trade it for fullhd in a blink. Three issues: 1. It is goddamn mirror, and mind you im not picky here 2. Hundreds of apps or system parts (regedit? Wtf?) are complettly
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by rdslw 9y ago
I don't agree. Because this (not requiring PC to show VR) either means: 1) Oculus is standalone (not requiring nvidias/amd 200W+ 200USD powershouses) with comparable quality/features to what other (with PC) sets are doing cur
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by rdslw 9y ago
It does require external powerhouse (PC) if you would like to have any decent(1) virtual world. (1) all AAA games (working on the GTX 9xx or 1xxx) are still subpar to the reality, and they're disspating hundreds of wattage. It's n

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