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by wiremine 6y ago
> One of the lessons I’ve learned is that the biggest difference between an occasional contributor and a core developer lies in the knowledge about the physical architecture of the project. Roughly, it takes 2x more time to write a patch
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by wiremine 6y ago
> requiring some users to provide government identification, building such weak security that anyone can read and archive private messages, and not stripping out damaging meta-data from media posts are three ways to not provide privacy.
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by wiremine 6y ago
> I had a little difficulty getting back into Persepolis Rising for some reason. I can see that. It's a bit of a reset (without giving away the plot) but it sets up 8 extremely well, which was a great book. I'm really excited t
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by wiremine 6y ago
Good to know! Kind of crazy they work as trilogies, too. (or maybe I'm just seeing things that aren't there).
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by wiremine 6y ago
The books are EXCELLENT, and better than the TV show (which I also like a lot). https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B00K7B2CRQ There are 9 books total, not including the novellas. The last book of the series is s
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by wiremine 6y ago
Crazy, he's one of those guys that you think will just be at the top forever. Hopefully the transition for Amazon is as (seemingly) seamless as the Steve Jobs/Tim Cook transition was for Apple.
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by wiremine 6y ago
SpinDance | Full Stack and Mobile Engineers | Remote & West Michigan | SpinDance.com SpinDance is a software consultancy focused on the Internet of Things. We work with Fortune 500s, start ups, and everyone in between to bring IoT produ
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by wiremine 6y ago
Related conversation from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25856291
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by wiremine 6y ago
This is the worst part of the internet: Tucows was such a bit part of life for so many people, and now it's just... gone. We have the internet archive, which is great, but it feels like there should be a way to highlight touchstones th
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by wiremine 6y ago
It's apples and oranges a bit: instead of linux you're going to need a bare metal or RTOS like FreeRTOS. Linux is not always the right platform. That said, your point about power is well taken. I haven't looked at the Pico. W
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by wiremine 6y ago
> Sounds like a direct competitor to the Raspberry Pi. I would consider the Black and Green to be competitors too. https://beagleboard.org/ Would be really interested to get a good analysis of the Raspberry Pi, BB Black,
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by wiremine 6y ago
We recently adopted a Sheepadoodle, and this comment really resonated with me. It's a combination of a poodle and an old english sheep dog, which many think are originally from border collies. She's a wonderful animal, but really,
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by wiremine 6y ago
> The failure of Twitter is to not provide the necessary affordances in its design, its functionality, its business model, its values, its policies, its mission and its vision that allows a userbase of over a billion people to self-gover
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by wiremine 6y ago
100% agree with this perspective: "history doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes" The number of voices on twitter is the rhyme: Hearst and a small number of people controlled the message back then. Twitter bears responsibility,
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by wiremine 6y ago
It's hard to explain just how good Google was back in the day, compared to those early search engines. I distinctly remember someone suggesting it to me at our CS lab in college. A few of us had never heard of it, and we all started to
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by wiremine 6y ago
It feels like Google has never really truly cared about UI. They seem to grok UX, but the aesthetics always drift towards the geekier side of user interface design. This isn't to say they don't have lots of user interface designer
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by wiremine 6y ago
I keep coming back to the implications for the rest of the industry: 1. What does this mean for x86? 2. What does the answer to question #1 mean for Windows and Microsoft? Are they going to sit by and let Apple lap them? 3. What does the an
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by wiremine 6y ago
That's a complex question. It's typically a combination of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
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by wiremine 6y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a VP for an IoT consultancy, and work with some large Fortune 500s and their IoT initiatives. A few thoughts: 1. Keep in mind the problems in this article span the ENTIRE IoT spectrum: industrial, transportation, medica
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by wiremine 6y ago
Not sure about the OS, but they introduced Universal 2 at WWDC 2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_binary#Universal_2
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by wiremine 6y ago
This sort of feels like Microsoft embracing Linux. First they fought it, but the market forces were too strong. Eventually MS figured out how to coexist with Linux, and leverage it for their business. Ultimately, lock-in in the cloud is a r
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by wiremine 6y ago
I was a bit surprised on how much time they spent on the camera tech. I didn't time it, but it felt like they spent more time on the camera than things like 5G?
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by wiremine 6y ago
> It's so slow (iteration speed) and you need to jump through a billion hoops of complexity all over the place. Even dealing with something as simple as loading environment variables for both local and "real" function invo
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by wiremine 6y ago
I've seen a few serverless projects that are really, really jacked up. 1000s of functions glued together with little intentional design... basically one big pile of spaghetti code. Things like the Serverless framework[1] help, but ulti
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by wiremine 6y ago
I don't follow the chip world closely... I see a number of comments about how this compares to intel, but is there a good unbiased summary that compares the current roadmaps for Intel and AMD?
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by wiremine 6y ago
> Immutability is a very useful tool since you have have any kind of dependency -- direct, indirect, implied, etc) -- and there's no worry. But you still need a mechanism to manage mutating data. I agree. For me it feels like immuta
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by wiremine 6y ago
> Usually the retailer takes the biggest cut. Retail markup is usually 35% to 55%, but what a lot of people don't realize is that retailers usually have a method of returning their unsold stock, which the publisher is on the hook to
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by wiremine 6y ago
My wife is a published author (and ghost writer) and my sister-in-law is a VP and acquisitions editor for a small publishing house. The different between 30% and 75% is mostly historical, and the app market vs. the publishing world run on d
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by wiremine 6y ago
This made me sad... Software is a job, so on one hand we shouldn't expect it to be all roses. And software is difficult: it's nontrivial, complex work. On the other hand, it's sad how many people resonate with this. I'm
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by wiremine 6y ago
I think it's a bit apples and oranges. Facebook is not packet switching or RF, or other enabling technologies. Facebook is a business, and those business interests are not aligned with bring the best out of people.

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