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by wand3r 9y ago
I am seriously impressed with Microsoft. I haven't used windows in years but they are releasing tons of useful things. VSCode is great on Ubuntu and every version of OS X I have run it on. Plus tons of other cool things like bash on wi
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by wand3r 9y ago
Cockroaches are figuratively unkillable; resilient and survive in nuclear wastelands. I think the team was going for something like: you put your data in here and it will survive basically anything but a multi-continent nuclear war
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by wand3r 9y ago
It really puts the new-wave American feminism into perspective. Americans/Europeans/Nords are living in a great time for equality. It's not perfect but: > This is the norm. China, India, Africa, the Middle East, parts of A
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by wand3r 9y ago
Look, I'm super cynical and I make statements that group people together like this too; but that said: King fights religious & cultural bias to promote a more equitable set of norms; works on fixing reliance on a finite and harmful
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by wand3r 9y ago
Interesting, hashing them makes sense but it was a corner case; huge outage but it was definitely something that was easy to overlook for sure
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by wand3r 9y ago
I agree with parent that it's a bit crazy; but I wouldn't be as critical. to your point; presumably even if they dropped DOS support something between DOS and now likely relies on that. It's a fine line.
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by wand3r 9y ago
I was going to ask how a remote pckg could do that. Not knowing how rust works (or package managers apparently) I didn't understand how it could be widespread. Makes sense, damn; that's substantial.
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by wand3r 9y ago
Presumably 8,000 people
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by wand3r 9y ago
It was actually 16 http://hackaday.com/2016/01/25/raspberry-pi-zero-cluster-pac...
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by wand3r 9y ago
I am curious as a total novice why chips and why now? As you said ARM is cheap. For price to performance I don't see why there aren't multi-motherboards coming out. Someone made a 10 raspberry pi MoBo which if it is cost effective
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by wand3r 9y ago
You don't have a pic or link to a design by any chance? Curious what they built and how it came out
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by wand3r 9y ago
To be honest that's news to me I don't use tablets. I think potentially ios makes it seem less palatable to something like a MacBook air and I don't believe they are on par w/ a surface pro-- although you might be right
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by wand3r 9y ago
If this is a pure-play quick money motive; then yes. Make something you care enough about to do a good job; compete on value not price. Then have an exit strategy/timeline: e.g. x amount to get to y traction or pull the plug. If you
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by wand3r 9y ago
The tablet w/ keyboard is interesting to me. The touchscreen laptop form factor was pretty bad; bulky and really unlikely to be leveraged as a tablet or touchscreen. The newer surface pros seem to actually nail the form factor: small e
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by wand3r 9y ago
I take your point but 10 years maybe a bit hyperbolic. The replacement cycle of a phone is likely 1-2 years a tablet maybe 5ish unless it is mission critical. I wonder if tablets are declining in business & education; which are likely l
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by wand3r 9y ago
What about Waze, YouTube and double-click? Google core is search but their rev model is adtech; double click fits your definition. YouTube competed hard in video; think about search w/o the "video" tab. Waze improved maps. &g
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by wand3r 9y ago
I agree with this. I a sure there were changes for the better and worse do to the acquisition; but Systrom said that Instagram retained a lot of autonomy. I am not a user of FB or IG but certainly over several years the platform would chang
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by wand3r 9y ago
I live in a small town but have been pulled over in the neighboring states and numerous towns in the last few months. Never thought I'd say this; but as someone who has had problems w/ cops in the past; they seem to be MUCH more c
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by wand3r 9y ago
I'm curious if anyone would actually be interested in 1/8 scale: - plywood - 2x4s and 1x3s - currogated metal - PVC Piping - roofing material - garage door & track I am thinking about biting the bullet and buying materials and
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Ask HN: Do you make physical prototypes? Of What?
7 points by wand3r 9y ago|4 comments
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by wand3r 9y ago
For those w/o a working knowledge of 1960s air safety; are you saying removing the TSA would make us safer, less safe or simply that we tolerated the same level of safety w/o TSA 50ish years ago?
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by wand3r 9y ago
I am the original comment poster and this is a very disingenuous way to frame my argument. If the above comment influenced you please consider: - we have a legal framework for punishing law breakers. If these killers were affecting a poli
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by wand3r 9y ago
I edited for clarity
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by wand3r 9y ago
Wow, horrifying. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt for such a tradgedy and the emotional stress and grief it causes; but this is illogical, dangerous and counterproductive. Terrorism seeks to change our way of life and sueing a c
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by wand3r 9y ago
I agree, the analogy was meant to convey that, like the puzzle, it's imperfect but it's a quick way to get info. The jigsaw puzzle, Imo is not as great of a "bar" as fizzbuzz but they serve similar purposes to varying de
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by wand3r 9y ago
Compatible is a better word for what I meant. Thanks
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by wand3r 9y ago
Immigration is a lot like hiring. You want smart people with good cultural fit. Not in the sense that everyone must be the same culture, but the ideals and ethics of the two cultures must be rooted in similar things. The puzzle is a bad imp
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by wand3r 9y ago
More people die of auto erotic asphyxiation than terrorism annually (~682 people). You're insistence is what is rediculous, as parent pointed out if it was a problem--it isn't; then 0 cases have been publicly thwarted via this tec
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by wand3r 9y ago
There are a lot of people at Uber who are experts in Google tech. Why retrain engineers when another company already did it for you-- on a highly complex niche platform
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by wand3r 9y ago
Why, someone just paid a lot of money to train Uber employees on Google technology

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