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by smlacy 14y ago
The only value twitter provides is in the value of it's users. There's virtually no value in the platform itself.
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by smlacy 14y ago
Clearly, you've never worked in distributed systems, and your impression of Twitter (and other large "centralized" by your definition systems) are actually huge, loosely coupled decentralized systems. The real difference is whether than dec
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by smlacy 14y ago
So, by that measure, "The Web" as a nonprofit (w3c.org?) will never work and should be a huge failure, right?
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by smlacy 14y ago
Here's Google's Transparency Report for the United States: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/government... Looks like ~1700 videos have been taken down.
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by smlacy 14y ago
Yes: http://www.pcworld.com/article/239059/linux_now_runs_on_ipad...
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by smlacy 14y ago
Um, not necessarily with UFEI and firmware locking. I'd say until someone gets their hands on one, that it's a big unknown.
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by smlacy 14y ago
Wow, only 3,000 cycles. I haven't heard about this property of memristors before. I guess they still have a long time to go before becoming production-ready. On the good side, they look very, very dense, so maybe some kind of ECC would h
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by smlacy 14y ago
Would love to see this applied to generate much larger, more expansive worlds. To me, "an island is an island is an island" and they all feel the same (mountain in the middle). More expansive landscapes with larger biomes and geologic pro
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by smlacy 15y ago
Not sure why this can be a "solved problem" with fonts (mostly) due to intelligent hinting. Is there nothing like "Hinting for SVG" or an SVG equivalent to "Multiple Master" fonts ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_master_fonts )?
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PyCon Attendees: Do fun stuff while you're visiting Silicon Valley(slacy.com)
1 points by smlacy 15y ago|0 comments
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by smlacy 15y ago
I'm on Linux, so Chrome is all I've got.
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by smlacy 15y ago
I don't get the "interactive" part? Can I interact with this? It feels like a static image to me.
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by smlacy 15y ago
sudo apt-get remove update-motd
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Why I just deleted my Google+ account(slacy.com)
7 points by smlacy 15y ago|0 comments
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Try not to Jobs-ify the task of software development.(plope.com)
1 points by smlacy 15y ago|0 comments
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An Open Letter to Jeff Bezos(blog.parentsguild.com)
27 points by smlacy 15y ago|32 comments
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by smlacy 15y ago
TL;DR version: 1. Take a photo 2. ... 3. Photo restored to amazing clarity!
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MySpace sold for $35mm(mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com)
4 points by smlacy 15y ago|1 comments
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by smlacy 15y ago
Agreed that Mr. Winer likes to whine, but he's spot on with this one.
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Google Yawn(scripting.com)
15 points by smlacy 15y ago|5 comments
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by smlacy 15y ago
Floats are for math. Math includes computing things like 100! (100 factorial), the volume of the observable universe (~3.3* 10^80), or any other countably finite value, most of which are far greater than 2^128. Fixed point is a special pur
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by smlacy 16y ago
Yes, but there are tons of other data sources out there, right? For example, how many developers are members of mailing lists for a given API, service, language, tool, etc.? How many contribute? Plus, that doesn't even include the worl
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by smlacy 16y ago
I think it's got to be more than just github for the resume. There are tons of other open sources of data. Personal blogs, twitter feeds, even things like delicious links can be indicative of what a potential candidate is thinking. My new
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by smlacy 16y ago
Interesting. I hit the HN top 10 on friday, (highest rank was #5) and traffic continued on twitter (even to this day) so I can't say what the total outcome was. Because of the broader appeal of my post, I'm still seeing ongoing RT's on tw
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by smlacy 16y ago
It's back up.
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by smlacy 16y ago
It's back up. Sorry for the outage, seems to have been unrelated to load.
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by smlacy 16y ago
Yeah, sorry about that. Not sure what happened, attempting to bring it back up now.
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by smlacy 16y ago
Sorry, my site has gone down under load or for some other reason. I'm trying my best to get it back up ASAP.
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by smlacy 16y ago
Thanks for the typo corrections, they've been fixed. "The world" refers to all the dependent google source code. This is primarily google-written code, but includes some open source packages that are used as dependencies.
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by smlacy 16y ago
Personally, I think Google should break itself up. It needs to treat it's search & ads business totally differently than it treats it's other "startup-ish" properties. These can/should be launched under different branding, or, like a

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