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by wpskidd 7y ago
I’m still surprised that this type of findings hasn’t had more of an impact on commercial design. It is not uncommon to find Fortune 500 sites with load times over 20 seconds. I get it that it is hard to write and maintain clean code, still
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by wpskidd 7y ago
I think your point deserves more emphasis. IF in fact 5MM inhabitants of Wuhan fled the city before the lockdown, we can be pretty sure that this was caused, at least in part, by a lack in faith from their government’s handling of the previ
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by wpskidd 7y ago
I second this. It should also be applied to any companies that sellout their brand to be used on second-rate versions sold at Home Depot and others.
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by wpskidd 7y ago
So, when do we get a SpaceX kit??
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by wpskidd 7y ago
I have to chime in that I too have a love/hate relationship with Lotus Notes. I started using it back in ‘98. It was massively empowering to build functional and secure workflow apps, and do so faster than you could wireframe on other
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by wpskidd 7y ago
One caution: I don’t know if it is still a thing, but inkjets used to dry out pretty badly if you left them idle for too long. Sometimes a thorough cleaning would work, but sometimes not. I push non-technical family members to get cheap las
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by wpskidd 7y ago
How about we instead consider distancing the human political actors from direct contact with temptation? Corruption is an integral part of all political systems and ultimately festers until inevitable failure and restart. Can’t we start to
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by wpskidd 7y ago
I think this a great challenge to propose to the HN crowd. Who wouldn’t pay for a system that truly eliminates the annoyance of spam calls? What about a private network that people could subscribe to that uses a decentralized social credit
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by wpskidd 7y ago
Overheating (and the subsequent throttling) seems to be a growing problem for Intel. Also, most of their mobile line is locked to the UHD 620 GPU. As I understand it they are working off of an older fab than AMD and are hitting its EOL, all
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by wpskidd 7y ago
I stumbled across the concept of Damerau-Levenshtein about two years ago. Applying it to a a large database of very messy consumer data in Pandas returned near miraculous results!
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by wpskidd 7y ago
Dear FTC, Duly noted that poor planing may lead to the exhaustion of the paltry reserves Equifax set up for the actual victims of its crimes. How about some real justice then?
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by wpskidd 7y ago
Pagespeed (and my favorite: Gtmetrix), are very revealing. You would be surprised how many big, tech-savvy companies have abysmally performing websites. It is also interesting to see the details of all the baggage that something like a sing
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by wpskidd 7y ago
Let’s see what they actually end up paying.
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by wpskidd 7y ago
Location: Norwalk, CT (New York City commute) Remote: Maybe, but prefer direct interaction Willing to relocate: Yes (Esp. Scottsdale, AZ or Bentonville, AR) Skills: relations management with a strong technology foundation, project managemen
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by wpskidd 7y ago
There are actually several outfits explicitly dedicated to trading equities (and even mortgages) on blockchain. One of the most advanced is Polymath.io. The implementation is true blockchain it just isn’t completely decentralized blockchain
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by wpskidd 8y ago
Has anyone recently and earnestly looked into degradable plastic bags? I’m really surprised that an acceptable substitute has not been adopted. It seems like the utility of plastic bags along with the substantial environmental costs would c