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   by rrdharan 9y ago

   I found the patron site annoyingly hard to read on this device, so here's that paragraph, in case anyone is wondering: btrfs, which was supposed to be Linux's next generation COW filesystem - Linux's answer to zfs. Unfortunat
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   by rrdharan 9y ago

   Can't tell if you are joking, but just in case you aren't: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/11/09/google-plu... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-swit
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   by rrdharan 9y ago

   How many children were dying as a result of the airbag deployments before the recommendation I wonder?
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   by rrdharan 9y ago

   I like this technique, but sadly it's harder to implement if you have a manual transmission.
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   by rrdharan 9y ago

   Traditionally pump and dump meant taking advantage of unsophisticated retail investors. I don't think this qualifies as pump and dump unless you mean the earlier stage VCs somehow managed to cash out at the expense of some later naive
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   by rrdharan 9y ago

   I'm only 5'6" so I can sleep like a baby and work comfortably as well.
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   by rrdharan 9y ago

   Agree if you are just concerned about travel time but there's also the opportunity to get work done, sleep, or watch a movie on a plane. I generally avoid driving these days just because I find myself increasingly dreading the level of
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   by rrdharan 9y ago

   Various folks have been looking at Slack as the medium for handling this sort of thing, e.g.: https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/17/niles-is-a-slack-bot-that-... Slack themselves are trying to tackle this as well
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   by rrdharan 9y ago

   PPOE: Previous place of employment? Never seen that acronym before and mistook it for PPPoE at first.
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    I do the same thing, with Overcast.
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    Vancouver is doing this too: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/crosstown-clinic-heroin-a...
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    You could also have had an Amiga which AIUI blew away NeXTSTEP as far as price/performance? Not really speaking from a position of expertise on the matter, since I've only ever seen (and never used) a Video Toaster and the only
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    I remember reading about (or at least seeing cool looking ads) for GeoWorks, DESQview (and DESQview/X!), and GEM in magazines like Byte in the early 90s. I was always sad that I never got to try out any of them on my machine.
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    This is exactly what Castlight was originally trying to solve with their transparency tool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlight_Health Always thought their approach was quite clever and I think they did end up hav
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    > In short - this post has a hell of a click bait title but really insufficient evidence to suggest that these are truly "secure". From the original pull request drafting this post: > While I agree that making hyperbolical c
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    The Instant Pot also comes to mind, though I have no idea how they are funded...
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    The a16z podcast is available via the iTunes podcasts feed: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a16z/id842818711?mt=2 Which means you can also add it in Overcast, or the Pocket Casts player and play it via t
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    I was also working in the industry at the time. Microsoft leveraging monopoly power was certainly a/likely the major factor, but Netscape also had serious execution problems trying to get out an email server and directory management pr
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    They have app stores: https://www.amazon.com/b?node=13727921011
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    Better than via UberRUSH amirite?
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    Microsoft is not a competitor, Amazon is - I fail to see the implied hypocrisy?
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    Hooray! I'm gonna go ahead and claim credit for the festure request (though I never attempted to implement it :) https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2014-02/0032.html
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    > This may involve some amount of over-simplification (which should be indicated if present) and will undoubtedly leave out a tremendous amount of detail, but the conceptual essence should be there. I think the disagreement hinges on whe
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    No one expects the Amazon slackquisition.
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    Both Google and Microsoft have already done the "release it for free" part, but it's unclear if / when the market will think the products are "good enough": https://products.office.com/en-us&#x2
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    I think of all of those WhatsApp has been the most successful both in terms of moat defense purposes and it still has the potential of turning into something like WeChat or LINE (or what they're doing with FB Messenger itself) with its
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    Ether Thief Remains Mystery Year After $55M Digital Heist(bloomberg.com)

    5 points by rrdharan 9y ago|0 comments
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    Found a nice write-up of these issues here for anyone else interested: https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/issues/1001 TLS 1.3 0-RTT is not secure by default, but it is possible to provide both anti-replay an
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    macOS has a builtin malware scanner, XProtect: http://osxdaily.com/2017/05/01/check-xprotect-version-mac/ If you want additional protection, I believe your best option is Avast: http://www.to
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    by rrdharan 9y ago

    Not sure if this is exactly what you are asking, but there's tsan (ThreadSanitizer): https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/ThreadSanitizerCpp...