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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Mathematicians get a similar mental state from the release of dopamine that rewards working on and successfully solving ever more complex problems. I've also seen engineers comment similarly about it, and it sounded quite like what my
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
What are you specifically working on decentralizing? Do you have an end goal in mind for what a perfectly decentralized world would look like? Eg. a SBC in every home & office running a mailserver, webserver, etc Edit: I think decentral
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Just curious, what was the biggest cost, storage, CPU, RAM, bandwidth or matinence? Any kinda breakdown you could give? Just trying to figure out what made SaaS a good value vs hosting on site, were you able to get rid of a server & the
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Seems pretty straightforward to me, having seen this occur quite often. Not much you can do to break through to the upper echelons in the US today if you start in the lower economic class, better to go to a country with higher social mobili
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Yeah, the base price is $5 and you can pay in multiples of $5 for slightly more complex things. Basically people will do very simple work for $5 or a multiple thereof.
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Neat, could be very handy for sharing screenshots with others!
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Are the customers of Fiverr drowning Upwork? Just seems kinda odd that it has become such a mess as of late, I dropped Upwork just before their most recent fee increase though...
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Going broke working at Harvard more like it, could you live on $12/hr in Baltimore with kids? I know I wouldn't be able to make it work.
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Uhh, I as a casual browser of HN was quite confused when I clicked on this, as your github repo has no explanation of what Chain Core is, or what it does. Perhaps consider saying something like "Chain Core is a blockchain based system
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Conceptually I like it, seems like a better route than keyboard mashing then attaching .com to the end when using WiFi that has a captive portal.
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Eh, but the DNS server isn't necessarily the same as the bootstrapping server for the WebRTC API, and in most cases it generally would not be.
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Yes and no, Vulkan is a very low level API that leaves quite a bit of how CPU & GPUs are used up to the game engine developer. This can be good or bad, unlike OpenGL or DirectX you can really optimize your engine, but that is labor inte
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
I've seen lots of potentially usable p2p CDN ideas, from storing data in each visitors browser & using them to serve other visitors said static content, to projects like IPFS where you can have a distributed website. The ultimate p
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
It seems common knowledge these days among the slightly but not too technically inclined that any new major project should use a LAMP stack as its base. People see Facebook, Amazon, and many others running PHP & MySQL on Linux at scale
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
At what cost though? I've heard this protectionist argument from a friend of mine many times before, and it always ends up circling back to his current employer, who if there had been larger economic/regulatory barriers in his ind
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Same thing happened with Allwinner's SOCs, when the one point of contact that was providing the source of their modified kernel left, Allwinner chipsets stopped getting rapid mainline kernel support. The silver lining though is that th
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
The Raspberry Pi foundation picked a chip they were familiar with as Broadcom employees. I can't fault them for that, but at this point chips like the Allwinner H3 & A series have better support mainlined than the Raspberry Pi 2 &a
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
Re: Javascript, all the FSF wants is a bright line for libre JS and proprietary JS & choice for what users want to run, and the ability to substitute in alternative javascript to replace the closed source JS on most sites. We're ba
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by webscaleizfun 10y ago
The two issues the author brings up are broad issues I run into with Cloudflare protected sites all the time. The fundamental assumption that everything using the internet has a full JS engine and a human immediately ready to solve a reCAPT