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by rollulus 7y ago
That's not just in Germany. The €3bn Dutch energy company I've worked for was glued together with a shared network drive. It was effectively their poor man's event bus. Pure anarchy, a house of cards of excel sheets and legac
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by rollulus 7y ago
Apart from the cool crypto and tech, can you tell a bit what you're ethical viewpoints are on what your work is going to do to the world?
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by rollulus 7y ago
How is this going to fly with the constant flood of (justified) hate that Facebook is receiving the past year? Apart from the technology, I feel like they have more chance if they'd brand it without the Facebook name on it.
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by rollulus 8y ago
A while ago an article [1] was posted here [2] with focus on its effects on sleep. Might be useful as well. [1]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/E4cKD9iTWHaE7f3AJ/melatonin-... [2]: https://news.ycombin
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by rollulus 8y ago
Seeing posts like this remind me of a nice quotation I saw somewhere, which is like "all data will eventually be either public or gone forever". Unfortunately my search skills are insufficient to find the exact wording or author.
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by rollulus 8y ago
I especially liked his CCC talk "Seeing The Secret State: Six Landscapes" [1] a lot. [1]: https://media.ccc.de/v/30C3_-_5604_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201312282...
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by rollulus 8y ago
Facebook. Yes, they are evil. Most of us always knew. But this flood of news items lately, isn't this just mass hysteria?
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by rollulus 8y ago
The article mentions that the server was moved to the Netherlands, but not the reason. According to the Dutch press, it was because the FBI asked so, because we're not so difficult installing wire taps on the internet [1]. [1]: https:
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by rollulus 8y ago
I like it how iOS displays this arrow when location services are or were used, and how one can see in "Privacy -> Location Services" a brief history of which app did what, and enable or disable location access at all per app.
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by rollulus 8y ago
I've been breathing through my nose since a kid after television taught me that there are revolving brushes in your nose that cleanse the air [1]. Excellent series anyway. [1]: https://youtu.be/_SVcUKjl5mk?t=241
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by rollulus 8y ago
Optiver, I presume? I was almost lured into working for them too, being blinded by the high tech playground that it seemed to be. Regarding the adding value, they defend their right to exist as "because of us, instruments are priced pr
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by rollulus 8y ago
I love this. Everything I've read so far breathes this "made for devs" attitude. I hope that a few years from now in a HN thread that lists successful companies that got "launched" on HN (you know, the Dropboxes and
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by rollulus 8y ago
That's spot on, the guy is indeed one of the most intelligent, knowledgeable and dedicated persons I've ever met. Actually a really good guy.
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by rollulus 8y ago
At my first gig I teamed up with a guy responsible for a gigantic monolith written in Lua. Originally, the project started as a little script running in Nginx. Over the course of several years, it organically grew to epic proportions, by co
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by rollulus 8y ago
I highly recommend to read his novel that's also mentioned in the article: "Permutation City" [1]. Apart from a great story, it provides a lot of food for thought. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permu
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by rollulus 8y ago
How many Go versions is it going to take for that slide viewer to work on mobile?
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by rollulus 8y ago
As far as I know, do humans perceive the rotating snakes illusion because our eyes quickly jump around (saccade). Stare at one point and it stops rotating. I skimmed the publication, but the word saccade is not in it. I feel with this AI hy
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European Parliament backs EU ban on throwaway plastics by 2021(europarl.europa.eu)
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by rollulus 8y ago
I'd say that it is rather obvious that ray tracing is not a new thing, since it is simulates how light physically behaves. I consider this 3d rendering as a spectrum: rasterization requires little computation but has little to do with
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by rollulus 8y ago
What GitHub has that GitLab didn't offer in my experience last year is a snappy website. Apart from that I'm a huge fan of GitLab, it is superior. I believe that GitHub is more popular mainly because it was first, gained traction
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by rollulus 8y ago
Before I read Tim Harford's excellent "50 things..." book [1] I had no idea how parchment was made. What struck me most was that to make books available to the general public, the invention of the printing press may have been
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by rollulus 8y ago
I feel like the IEEE is more focused on embedded and industrial software. At least, when I was in that industry that's the last time I saw people with ieee.org e-mail addresses. And that explains why this list may appear weird to the H
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by rollulus 8y ago
I find this a really impressive project: 1. it actually helps society and 2. the author did it as a side project, not being a software developer, writing an iOS, Android and web app that's polished and being used. Wow! Great write up!
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by rollulus 8y ago
I haven't seen it, but I just watched the trailer. Looks like an awesome documentary, thanks!
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by rollulus 8y ago
I used to be active in computer graphics. Great to see an article by Whitted himself. A bit of trivia: I think _the_ pioneer in the field of ray-tracing is Albrecht Dürer [1] who ray traced by hand in the 16th century. [1]: https:/&#x
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by rollulus 8y ago
High-voltage DC [1] is being used to transport power over longer distances because it can be cheaper and there's less power loss. Like a sibling commented here, the costs would be enormous to convert an AC grid into a DC grid. AFAIK ar
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by rollulus 8y ago
I'm wondering, who uses Jenkins nowadays and why? A few years ago, at one of my first gigs in an enterprise environment, I used Jenkins for the first time to test and build my stuff. When I needed a newer version of my compiler or spec
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by rollulus 8y ago
If news like this upsets you, there's an easy solution: just stop eating fish.
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by rollulus 8y ago
I second that. Today I was using it, and I thought: Microsoft messed so many things up beyond recognition, but what a brilliant product did they make with vscode!
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by rollulus 8y ago
Great PoC, but please, don't do this. At my first gig I had to work on a huge Lua code base, where the original author did tricks like this, effectively creating a new language. Learning by example how things should not be done is effe

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