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2011.
by yodon 11y ago
pg provided his own tldr; in the first paragraph of the essay: "One advantage of being old is that you can see change happen in your lifetime. A lot of the change I've seen is fragmentation. US politics is much more polarized than
2012.
by yodon 11y ago
Everyone ages cognitively at a different rate, but unless you're approaching 70, which I doubt, that loss of ability to concentrate you're experiencing is unlikely to be physical. If you're under 30 and you're feeling yo
2013.
by yodon 11y ago
The middle of the ocean is about the only place you can go if you really want to screw up royally, be totally helpless, and have no one come to your aid (and even there any passing ship is going to try to help you). If you are on land, it p
2014.
by yodon 11y ago
Having made three trips to the South Pole with the National Science Foundation, I've seen first-hand the impact private traverses can have on people. When all goes well, it's wonderful but when it doesn't go well it is the li
2015.
by yodon 11y ago
Following your link led me to discover your https://github.com/voltagex/minecraft-rebridge , which looks very cool. Would it be difficult to configure the embedded http server to support persistent TCP connections for l
2016.
by yodon 11y ago
This would be a lot more exciting if it actually worked with IIS but it looks like they rushed this out, calling it a "release candidate" in order to be able to say it was out in time for the Connect conference without actually hi
2017.
by yodon 11y ago
Does this work with procedural geometry games like Minecraft?
2018.
by yodon 11y ago
Contract negotiation is kind of like a distributed version control problem, where each party maintains their own private internal revision stack and occasionally publishes versions out to the "main" branch (frequently hoping those
2019.
by yodon 11y ago
The large square with the diagonals is an interesting puzzle mathematically (or culturally?). The square is 17 hills on a side (or 16 units of distance). The diagonals are 11 hills from corner to center (or 10 units of distance) or 21 hills
2020.
by yodon 11y ago
Every car I've ever owned, I've done the experiment and compared $/mile (dollars per mile, not per gallon) on premium and regular. Every one of my cars has had a noticeably lower cost per mile on premium compared to regular (
2021.
by yodon 11y ago
Through at least the 1980's, the Infinite Corridor at MIT [1] was one of the best interaction generators I've encountered. Every hour, half the student body would walk down the Infinite Corridor in one direction while the other ha
2022.
by yodon 11y ago
While not a complete answer to your question, American Scientist's much more detailed review of phone keypad design history says the final phone layout produced "significantly shorter keying times" than other layouts (with th
2023.
by yodon 11y ago
If you are aiming for more than a lifestyle business, read The Curse of the Mogul [1][2]. It's a graduate level course in formal business strategy disguised as a fun and easily readable analysis of why the media industry is so broken.
2024.
by yodon 11y ago
Also > Apple is often credited with proving that design excellence leads to market success. Not really. Apple’s resurgence is only incidentally about design. Mostly, it’s about carefully selecting a territory of valu
2025.
by yodon 11y ago
Two surprises that caught my eye were Azure beating AWS by more than 30% (416 projects to 307) and Unity3d smoking Unreal (1174 projects to 64 projects)
2026.
by yodon 11y ago
What is the telecom law, if any, on text message delivery? It seems like the first network to announce "we block all stage fright export messages before they hit your phone" would win a huge PR coup (and they'd be able to do
2027.
by yodon 11y ago
Hopefully people selling armored cars and armored trucks have good pen testers on their teams. Run flat tires and armor-plated doors don't help much if an attacker can shut down the engine and open the doors remotely.
2028.
by yodon 11y ago
Or it could be the Pupetteer migration fleet! (yes, Larry Niven did garble a 2n-body Klemperer rosette into a 5-body Kemplerer rosette[1]) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klemperer_rosette#Misuse_and_m...
2029.
by yodon 11y ago
I know naming startups and getting domains is hard, but Delta is the 2nd largest airline in the world [1]. Naming your air travel site TripDelta seems likely to raise some significant trademark issues. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.
2030.
by yodon 11y ago
See also the official CERT Advisory [1] on vulnerabilities in the ID4 Alien/OS, warning of potential denial of service attacks by inferior life forms and recommending various workarounds in the event that planetary takeover is necessar
2031.
by yodon 11y ago
For anyone curious, Disque is a synchronously replicated in-memory message broker/job queue that was designed to capture the essence of the "Redis as a jobs queue" use case.
2032.
by yodon 12y ago
Blindness is unfortunately a nearly crushing disability economically. 74% of the blind are unemployed [1] (there is another figure you will occasionally also see of 13% unemployment for the blind, that's a US Government statistic that
2033.
by yodon 12y ago
awesome, I'd mention GPL3 in your README licensing section - so many projects lack any kind of license file that even when I thought I'd looked for one I missed it and walked away thinking you just had the vaguer statement.
2034.
by yodon 12y ago
You clearly get that licenses matter, but you've released your code under the worst of all possible licenses, namely "contact me for permission." This is an easy one to solve, it just takes a moment to pick a real license for
2035.
by yodon 12y ago
Separate from stage fright, there's also a kind of "deer in the headlights" moment many presenters experience right as they try to start talking. If your anxiety is low but you still get tongue-tied at the start of a pitch, t