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by weland 13y ago
I know this is likely an unpopular opinion but here it goes: what the fuck does this have to do with under-representation in our industry? There's medical-themed porn, school-themed porn and I'm sure someone in Japan has made at l
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by weland 13y ago
I don't listen to online radios much and when I do, mplayer handles the ones I like just fine, so this is an honest question: why on earth do you need to stream over HTTPS?
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by weland 13y ago
Much of it happens with different objectives, or at different levels, in the context of computing, storage and power management. See Akaros for example: http://akaros.cs.berkeley.edu/akaros-web/overview.php .
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by weland 13y ago
Space Invaders! My significant otter loves board games and has dragged me into Carcasonne. That shit is addictive.
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by weland 13y ago
Perhaps there is some (elitist) disinterest floating in the air, maybe due to empathy being wanting. I also think this is an uninteresting and quite badly-done thing, but whoever did it had fun in the process and learned a couple of things
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by weland 13y ago
Power management and flash/SSD-aware filesystems are also quite the rage.
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by weland 13y ago
Sorry if my comment sounded rude. I'm actually a big fan of what you guys are doing! I went through more pains than I care to describe in an HN post making PCBs at home or trying to piggyback on companies I was working with for my side
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by weland 13y ago
> They're super easy to use but not really meant for anything secret. If you read their privacy policy, neither are CircuitHub's services, but given their target audience, it's probably a good choice.
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by weland 13y ago
It also includes quite some information that isn't exactly right.
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by weland 13y ago
Let's hope it will be people with insight even better than mine :-). Thanks!
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by weland 13y ago
This would have been a nice video, were it not for the last frame. "Girls are more than princesses... they are our greatest resource." Nice. Not sexist at all, 'cause it says nice things about girls. But it does bring an inte
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by weland 13y ago
> And things that are easy to market are the playground of boring companies. Apple is already playing in that field with the Retina display. > I don't think the experience of a 5 inch phone is better than a 4 inch phone. I'm
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by weland 13y ago
Your work is impressive, and I don't mean just the Android applications :-).
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by weland 13y ago
> I doubt the issue is simply the use of web technologies...the fact is the more powerful our computers become the more demand is placed on them. Your web browser is just one more thing running on your computer, there are a bunch of othe
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by weland 13y ago
> but what the Cornell study found is that in open plan it's actually easier to "read" a person and see if it's an ok time to ask a question, and to quickly reply or say ask me later, and so forth, to efficiently mana
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by weland 13y ago
Aye, it's an MCU I was thinking of in the first place, where read/write operations are done through a reasonably simple Flash controller and can be abstracted in a separate driver. I have written FS drivers of fairly similar compl
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by weland 13y ago
When you are designing consumer electronics, there is literally no such thing as user error. Except for people who are in love with their gadgets and take care of them as if they were their children, no one is going to pay attention to how
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by weland 13y ago
Depending on the amount of abstraction involved, it doesn't sound impossible to do. Given sane and direct access to the controller of the underlying device, and a reasonably simple underlying device (e.g. a simple Flash device), raw re
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by weland 13y ago
I'm one of those people. I don't have a smartphone and don't want one. My phone is the cheapest piece of shit Nokia I could find. The online shop I buy computer stuff from had it on sale. I paid something like 15 EUR for it
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by weland 13y ago
> Could you explain what you mean here a little more? Did a company, at the interview phase, tell you they wanted you to work on side projects for free? What they told me is that it's a good thing that I am familiar with so many tec
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by weland 13y ago
> You don't give resumes like this, you tailor your pitch to the company which is hiring. [...] Generalists dont' get hired, then don't be a generalist. IMO this is stupid, self-destructive for companies and likely the res
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by weland 13y ago
Introducing Social Bridges. It's more than just a bridge, it's a community connector!
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by weland 13y ago
> "If it ain't broke you still have to upgrade, because delay in doing so will bring compatibly nightmares upon you" - Ivanca It's a fucking bridge. The only thing the system operating it is connected to is the. Fucki
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by weland 13y ago
Thanks! Yeah, it does make some sense.
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by weland 13y ago
Can, uh, can someone please explain me how exactly you end up with a hundred mails in inbox? Every day? This is a genuine question, please bear with me. I follow several high-traffic mailing lists, and I use e-mail as my primary means of
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by weland 13y ago
The Internet sounds like the 1990s, whereas The Cloud sounds like the 2014s. Sadly, I'm not just being ironic.
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by weland 13y ago
> A lot of stuff now being used to accelerate web development simply wasn't mature enough, back then. I think web development is speedy, and it also was fairly speedy in the 2000s, too. The web , on the other hand, not so much, and
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by weland 13y ago
> If the browsers used something like XAML, with proper support for components, it would be great. Aye, that would be so nice!
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by weland 13y ago
> With my fitness tracker, I want it to run all the time, even offline like a native app. But every day of my workout history will have a URL and I can link my friends to it. Slowly, slowly, we'll be reinventing web. I can't wa
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by weland 13y ago
> You could have a version of OOP that doesn't involve hiding internal state. I think that would make writing sentences with those nouns somewhat difficult.

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