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by sly010 8y ago
Obviously it all depends on the application: Birthdays (as the article mentioned) are not points in time and mean different things depending on where you are, so best stored as a year-month-day combo without any zone information. Past times
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by sly010 8y ago
We just call her "you know who" (a.k.a. the thing who's name we are too afraid to mention)
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by sly010 8y ago
Does this mean the technology is so early that they are struggling to program it to do the right thing in normal conditions, let alone to prevent an accident?
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by sly010 8y ago
When it comes to tech migrations I see 3 types of stories. 1. Create "new technology" that is a backward compatible or even drop in replacement for old technologies. Good examples of this is Web technologies, TLS, Linux APIs, bitc
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by sly010 8y ago
At the same time, 9out of 10 times when my wife calls me the system pretends it's ringing, while I see no sign of a phone call. Both of us are on Project Fi. (We tried it standing next to each other both of us with full LTE). I guess g
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by sly010 8y ago
> It's not sensible for pushes to be implemented in a caching layer, because pushes are effectively the manual overrides to the User-Agent's own caching; conversely, the User-Agent's cache is perfectly appropriate as a cac
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by sly010 9y ago
I noticed that abstract ideas that otherwise make no sense has the ability to survive by simply changing their definition to fit whatever context they are being used in. "IoT" is only one of those buzzwords that means different th
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by sly010 9y ago
The block is valid only if the transactions are in the correct order, but the miner is incentivized to figure out the right order (specifically incentivized to include as many transactions as possible). Edit: You are always spending a speci
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by sly010 9y ago
A lot of broken encoding is the result of various copy pasting and OCR issues during data collection. If there is one thing I could change about all spreadsheet software is to paste without formatting by default. Would make everyones life s
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by sly010 9y ago
Courtesy of USDS [0] perhaps? [0] https://www.usds.gov/ Edit: Realized this is actually Massachusetts and not federal.
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by sly010 9y ago
Except the question is "are you or have you been in the past associated with, do you know of, are you a relative of a know or unknown terrorist or a terrorist organization?" (The real question is longer) Then a similar question fo
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by sly010 9y ago
Of course queue push and pull operations are often RPC style APIs, and TCP connections are really just queues (ok, streams) of bytes. It's async and sync turtles all the way down.
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by sly010 9y ago
I don't work on self driving cars or even vision, but I have heard when you are on a highway you start with filtering out small stationary reflections, since they are almost certainly not cars. (Which is maybe why the tesla didn't
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by sly010 9y ago
"Agora relies on voting administrators to select an identity management system and provide a mechanism to authenticate voters. At the same time, Agora intends to work with digital identity providers to provide governments and instituti
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by sly010 9y ago
Since we are talking about a technology that basically speculates about people, it's kind of funny that according to the article the "New Orleans Police Department's Director of Analytics" is called Ben Horwitz. Hmm...
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by sly010 9y ago
> A overlaying modal always interrupts the user's focus and often gets in the way of otherwise useful information or actions before confirming. But an overlaying action-bar with a "confirm" button that otherwise allows you
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by sly010 9y ago
Hopefully it will allow user triggered overlays.
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by sly010 9y ago
I would add that in general there is no one right abstraction. If you want to be able to change the source file, you are best of using symlinks. If you want to be able to change both files and keep them in sync, you should use a hardlink. I
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by sly010 9y ago
It's not "internet" then, it's a communications network. On top of which third parties will probably implement IP. He also says peer to peer, but perhaps he just means point-to-point, in which case it will be very simila
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by sly010 9y ago
I despise gadgets too-smart-to-function-normally as much as anyone, but here is a counter example: For a long time now, cars have a well integrated set of bells and whistles all connected via fairly reliable communication protocols (like CA
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by sly010 9y ago
The more time spent on optimizing for one email client, the less time spent on optimizing for an other. Hands up if you (like me) have skipped coding the text/plain part of an email template and sent out multipart emails with no or emp
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by sly010 9y ago
I agree with the need, my issue is with reproduceability and generally things that are not defined by the sketch (behavior, different screen sizes, etc). If everything were fully defined, we could just write a compiler from the high level d
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by sly010 9y ago
Afaik on the application side most WeChat applications are just NSWebViews or UIWebKit instances.
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by sly010 9y ago
> This becomes really difficult to process, because TCP simulates a stream ... The irony of TCP is that in almost every use case you end up creating "frames" within the stream. Turtles all the way up I guess.
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by sly010 9y ago
I have used go in an embedded application (raspberrypi) in a soft realtime manner controlling and LCD over I2C and staying under a 1.5ms looptime. The hardest part is to undo all the things the kernel does and get access to memory so you ca
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by sly010 9y ago
A few years ago I co-founded a standing desk company without any experience in real world products in general. The plan was to source desks and sell them to companies. How complicated could it be? Well, the freight company requires a lot of
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by sly010 9y ago
Atmel's AVRs are harward architecture (separate data and code address space) and are almost exclusively programmed using gcc. They are widely used too.
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by sly010 9y ago
Command line args would have been the simplest solution imho. Works simple for simple cases and power users will create a bash wrapper anyway. Hard to be wise without knowing the context, but I avoid config files as much as possible, becaus
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by sly010 9y ago
I would argue that it's not worth my 30 seconds to unlock my phone and open Shazam (which btw turns on the display and the radio, which then triggers other apps to poll for notifications, so there goes your 1%) I would also bet the dat
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by sly010 9y ago
We have been doing that without blockchains with PKI for a long time.

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