vmarsy

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by vmarsy 9y ago
> As a private citizen, can I purchase a bunch of land between me and, I dunno, a DNS node or whatever and just lay a super long fiber cable straight to it? I'm sure you can, the issue is do you have a couple million $ in your bank
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DOJ confirms new criminal probe linked to Waymo v. Uber lawsuit(arstechnica.com)
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by vmarsy 9y ago
That's a good question, the problem is what if your only available ISP makes you this hypothetical deal: For $59.99 a month: - Get Facebook, Google, Netflix at 100 Mbps max. - Any other traffic is limited to 5 Mbps max. Watching Hulu,
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by vmarsy 9y ago
That's a good point. Given the choice, I definitely would work with someone who's more pleasant to interact with. But my definition of "pleasant" in a professional environment is far away from my definition of "pl
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by vmarsy 9y ago
I don't get the "9 to 5 wouldn't make you a great engineer" about not being passionate, some people are passionate but have other life obligations like kids or other activities. Being personable: "Can I have a beer
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by vmarsy 9y ago
It is. Back in 2009 in France there used to be 3 major networks and they'd charge insane prices up to $80ish a month for unlimited 3G. Then Free Mobile came and announced a $24 (19.99€) a month for ever unlimited, virtually the next d
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by vmarsy 9y ago
> I like new Firefox but if Firefox is removing search bar than address bar should take over all functionality from search bar and it doesn't.In search bar there is easy way to add new search engine with + sign and in address bar th
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by vmarsy 9y ago
> If you don't tax vesting, are you going to instead wait until the shares are sold to tax them? That would be very easy to abuse. would you care going in details on why this would be " very easy to abuse"? In France th
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by vmarsy 9y ago
I don't know if this is the same in every cities, but here in Seattle using Uber is becoming very annoying: in the past rides we tried getting in the past few weeks, the original wait time shows something like 2 or 3 minutes, but as so
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Thanks, That's a good question, I'm not completely sure yet actually. Usually battery life isn't too much of an issue as there's always electric plugs around where I spend my time. Something that can have a simple multip
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Thanks, that's a useful additional link. In Drivers -> Graphics, I see a lot of AMD GPU listed, that's expected given what I read about Nvidia and Linux story and my personal experience trying to get my Nvidia Optimus setup wor
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by vmarsy 9y ago
That bloomberg article was already shared and heavily discussed actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15646456
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by vmarsy 9y ago
For some reason, on my laptop the webpage renders on Chrome but not Firefox. It's an open letter from the following schools/companies: University of Pennsylvania, Computing Research Association, Northeastern University, University
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by vmarsy 9y ago
I'd be curious to read a similar story about how GendBuntu [1] is doing. They migrated 70,000 workstations, compared with 15,000 for LiMux. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu
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by vmarsy 9y ago
> Having started a software business with too much optimism and too little business knowledge myself, and failed I'd say trying in itself can be seen as a partial success, hope you didn't get too financially impacted. Is there
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by vmarsy 9y ago
I don't like pieces like this who mostly make people who are in a true need of an H-1B more anxious. For instance, statements like this one below are suppose to make the reader think something is deeply wrong: > She said in past yea
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by vmarsy 9y ago
> If this is Amazon's solution to missing packages, it's the wrong one. The comments when Amazon Key was announced[1] were also giving good reasons why that's not a great package delivery solution. But if you watch the vid
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Some context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15589393
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Learning networking by reproducing research results(blog.acolyer.org)
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by vmarsy 9y ago
> ...in fact, it's so much a better solution that I can't imagine Amazon hadn't considered it. I agree that it seem a better solution to the one scenario you're mentioning: delivering packages. But if you watch the vi
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Interesting post! About living nomad, is there any pain points regarding the management of the company from anywhere? I read the post linked[1] in this blog post which talks about day to day life, even if work-life balance can be tough, it
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by vmarsy 9y ago
I specifically installed Firefox 57 so that I could try Inbox there, because as you point out, on Firefox 56 it's very slow (especially the initial load). On Firefox 57 with that new Quantum CSS, I found Inbox to be amazingly fast (I&#
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by vmarsy 9y ago
> Now to find out what kind of applications are greatly benefited from this. The common applications are scientific computing usually, here's a quick overview[1] of the kind of algorithms ran on supercomputers: PDEs, ODEs, FFTs, Spa
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by vmarsy 9y ago
People today still? In Paris, Chambre de bonnes "must have a minimum surface area of 9 m2"[1]. That's 96.87 sqft. "The rooms usually have a surface area of around 6–12 m2" (65 to 129 sqft) [1] https://en.
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by vmarsy 9y ago
In an article[1] about it, it clearly says you can disable it : >> This isn't going to sit well with everyone, and thankfully Google included a way to disable the feature, it's just a bit hidden. Settings -> tap on the Wi
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In Boeing victory, U.S. Commerce Dept. slaps 219% tariff on jets from Bombardier(seattletimes.com)
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by vmarsy 9y ago
It seems to stand for harvard, yale, princeton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Three_(colleges)
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by vmarsy 9y ago
> There may be no perfect solution but I am really hoping something better can exist. There isn't as much trouble in some other countries, maybe we can look into what they are doing? In France for example there's no SSN used by
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by vmarsy 9y ago
I don't know if they will keep doing well in terms of stock price If/When Amazon release their ticket master competitor[1] [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-ticketing/excl...
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Not to be alarmist, but how do we know this IR blasting won't be damaging to the eyes, a 3 seconds google search leads to a 2011 study[1] which concludes: > The protein of eye lens is very sensitive to IR radiation which is hazardou

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