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Gowalla co-founder leaving Facebook(techcrunch.com)
2 points by yid 13y ago|0 comments
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by yid 13y ago
Not to be glib, but it sounds like your Nokia saved you from adventure :)
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by yid 13y ago
Thought I'd share my experience initially majoring in Physics (I ended up going with the "easier" (for me) computer science). I wanted to be a physicist really bad. However, I did not have any advanced placement credit in mat
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by yid 13y ago
Sorry to see you leave San Francisco. I've had a similar introduction to the city and don't intend to leave. One subtext that I'm reading into your article (incorrectly, perhaps), and seeing lots of elsewhere, is a subtle gui
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by yid 13y ago
I find rants like this quite interesting, especially when they end with lines like this: > That is why I may delete my Facebook account. And that is why you should too. "May". In spite of this pretty egregious behavior/bug
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by yid 13y ago
This is almost certainly impossible. Systems at large Web companies have tons of dependencies on internal systems, libraries and build tools. It would probably be easier to rewrite Reader from scratch rather than open-source it.
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Bacon Wrapped Economy(m.eastbayexpress.com)
1 points by yid 13y ago|0 comments
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by yid 13y ago
FWIW, Youtube has had this feature since May 2012, for videos considerably longer than a handful of seconds: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/05/video-stabilizati... EDIT: the demo video on that link above
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Mixable ambient sounds for programming(naturesoundsfor.me)
1 points by yid 13y ago|0 comments
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by yid 13y ago
Then you run the risk (as it just happened) of having the program losing efficacy if knowledge about it is leaked. Compared to a hypothetical program where knowing of its existence doesn't weaken it. Whether such a system can be built
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by yid 13y ago
> 3. I think leaking details of signals intelligence programs should be a crime. This one surprised me. Wouldn't the strongest signals intelligence program be one that doesn't need to depend on obfuscation?
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by yid 13y ago
I'd imagine they intend for a passenger to use the app, as for productionized self-driving cars -- I think the obsolescence of Waze is the least interesting thing about that scenario. :)
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by yid 13y ago
Hmm, what I'd like to hear is tech CEOs say "the NSA does not have the private key for our SSL certs." Beam splitters are a pretty cheap buy.
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by yid 13y ago
Of course, you're entitled to your own opinion, just the same as I'm entitled to have an acerbic reaction to your value judgement of how people should use their money.
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by yid 13y ago
> Having a $4.5 million dollar wedding may be jerky How is that any of anyone's business but his?
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by yid 13y ago
In fairness, he saved almost $3.
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by yid 13y ago
Rumors are that Google is testing a grocery-delivery bipedal robot that can climb stairs, use the elevator, etc.
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by yid 13y ago
Realtime updates (if you're not using Websockets) are usually done with long-polling, for which 30 seconds is perfectly acceptable. Socket.io, for example, uses a default of 20 seconds [1]. Streaming music and certainly video are generally
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by yid 13y ago
Out of curiosity, can you describe a situation where 30+ second requests on a large-scale, high-traffic system is acceptable (in the sense that it is better to hold the connection waiting rather than erroring out)? EDIT: long-polling aside,
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by yid 13y ago
For everyone commenting on this story -- the link daeken posted is well worth a read. Very reasonable measures were completely ignored. The most amazing to me was the fact that external power was never disconnected from the device!
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by yid 13y ago
> but just from this exchange, That's the problem -- it's not just from this exchange. It's the exact same theme in stories that are very, very tangentially related to Google, over many, many weeks on many, many stories. I've been here
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by yid 13y ago
> rather than having their allowable contributions restricted by an intermediary who will usually use that power for extortionist purposes and force the other person to serve his career goals What you're describing is a borderline soci
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by yid 13y ago
Can you please stop turning every thread into a diatribe against Google or pitching open allocation as a panacea to all organizational problems? 1. Your definition of open allocation seems to be "work on whatever you want". You don't need
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by yid 13y ago
Your snark is unwarranted. While+stat in a loop is a poll loop in userspace, inotify is a push mechanism in kernel space. My point was that the additional functionality of this significantly-sized package beyond running inotify+md5+make in
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by yid 13y ago
Not sure how this is different from inotify+md5+make?
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by yid 13y ago
This was one of the most "a-ha moment" videos I ever watched back in the day. Anyone with even a functional knowledge of statistics should watch this one.
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by yid 13y ago
I actually didn't think the first one was as awful as this one. Perhaps it was because of the novelty.
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by yid 13y ago
This is a great point. I was wondering what about the new Star Trek movie made me unhappy, beyond the Michael Bay-esque explosions and off-topic banter between characters, the annoying contemporary compulsion to be "dark" and the fact that
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by yid 13y ago
Since you seem to be an Ayn Rand fan, this is more like it: Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we’re alone here. Why don’t you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." Roark: "But I don’t think of you."
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by yid 13y ago
Interesting, your comment didn't do much to change my initial impression. Allow me to explain why, and I mean this as hopefully constructive criticism: > What I can't stand is when people don't make the fucking effort to reach the right

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