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by redler 11y ago
Interesting -- I didn't realize Netflix distributed their content through third parties. So in a few years they've gone from a licensee dependent on the vagaries of contracts they sign with content owners, to a content producer de
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It's plausible that licensing agreements prevent some content from being shown in some markets. But what could possibly be the reason for Netflix holding back its own content — content that directly drives subscription revenue — in
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Supply and demand are entwined in a perpetual dance, and "if you build it they will come" only goes so far. A product has to find a market capable of making the purchase. Opening a Whole Foods supermarket in rural Tanzania isn&#x2
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by redler 11y ago
In Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep I recall a plot element along these lines. Traders traffic in cubes of material that acts as a super dense source of pad data. Your communication partner on another ship would have the twin cube
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Hmm... My guess is that in a few years, we'll see the word frequency analysis being used by police as an investigative technique. It's an interesting thought. Imagine the linguistic equivalent of using Benford's Law to dete
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They really should be neutral about the products listed on their site) but the reason they gave is kinda ridiculous Recall that they've also used the power of their catalog to fight publishers with whom they had pricing model disagre
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Putting aside whether this sort of thing is clever and clean or occult and confusing, another pattern of the same ilk is: ~~(i/13)
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I agree, and to amplify: while there are surely aspects of design that can be automated, the part that's difficult is that a design should actually mean something. Having an algorithmically designed logo tie the room together -- crys
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I love how, among the more strategic thoughts on life, he mixes in advice about how to play one specific point against Agassi in the 1995 Australian Open. 20 years later, a fierce competitor still litigating where he should have placed one
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by redler 11y ago
cSubs | New Jersey, USA | REMOTE OK | Full-time http://www.csubs.com o Web Application Developer o Senior Web Application Developer cSubs is a small, fast-growing, award-winning SaaS company focused on the knowledge resource man
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For anyone confused, HN's formatting system changed the two asterisks that give this meaning into italics-start and italics-end. unit64 system_time; unit64 *system_time_device = 0x1234; // set pointer system_time = *s
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My own jazzy interpretation of this is that it means something like responsive design by constraint. Think struts and springs and juicy animations sensitive to user-controlled context and the viewport. So an edit button may rarely be in exa
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In fact, there's Hacker News Enhancement Suite [1]. Collapse threads, see which comments are new since your last view, etc. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
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by redler 12y ago
Above, you wrote: I have better things to do with my time than to give everyone the same amount of time and respect. I understand that feeling. Life is short. But why take the time to respond at all, then, dismissively or otherwise? &quot
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Because bcrypt automatically generates and adds a salt every time it's invoked. Every bcrypt hash has a different salt. Hashing the same plaintext ten times will produce ten different hashes.
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So, a sort of Sapir-Whorf hypothesis for the programming domain. It certainly feels true; living and breathing a language like Erlang would probably make one think very differently about what's possible than someone immersed in Fortr
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Or a Horta.
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I walk through that intersection most days. What they've done in NYC is interesting. That part of First Avenue used to be, like most in mid and upper Manhattan, six (or sometimes more) undifferentiated lanes. The first change was the a
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by redler 12y ago
It is all too common to see developers experience burnout from 60+ hour weeks in order to attempt to meet a deadline because managers were awful at planning. Another pattern I've seen is the dreaded "artificial deadline" fr
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Selecting a bunch of files and having it tell me how big the selection is This one does have a solution: Select your multiple items, then use Command-Option-I instead of Command-I. If you're not careful to include Option in this chor
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It's certainly not only Republicans. But neither are they pandering to their "base" in any traditional sense; rather, they are pandering to a few dozen specific people, the extreme concentration of whose wealth generates grav
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I don't remember anything about a fee, but I do specifically recall something about Google withholding from the iOS version two greatly desired features that had already been deployed on Android: vector tiles and turn-by-turn direction
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You're right with those numbers, but it's only half if you take the year's average per day. I was referring to their current rate (as of the most recent quarter, during which they earned $18B). $18B gives the nice, round, sho
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In addition, in any location where a company is the sole provider, net neutrality applies, which would solve the problem of choices. You've floated this idea a few times here. How would you propose this rule apply in Manhattan, where
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I said above that that I do support net neutrality for any location with only one ISP. You've floated this idea a few times here. How would you propose this rule apply in Manhattan, where the availability of a second ISP option can v
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They're generating profits at a rate of $200 Million per day [sic]. It's fair to say they make enough to pay for the costs of almost anything, including this. You've identified the one requirement they can in fact satisfy; th
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Do you know where we might read more about those Monument Valley numbers? That's an interesting statistic.
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Perhaps even Samsung Heavy Industries, until Apple gets around to vertically integrating that part of its supply chain.
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"High" is a relative measure, and "too high" would indicate a problem. Margin is certainly high compared to the various cohorts against which Apple is measured -- that's obviously not a problem. It would only become
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Next up: "I'm frustrated because my question on Software Recommendations SE was closed for being 'constructive' and 'a real question'".

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