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by zeroxfe 8y ago
Yep, I recall that the FB like buttons proliferating the web was perceived as a huge threat (and drove the +1 buttons.) > Google had wave, blogger, orkut and other things. It's not like they didn't test different things or try
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
I'm a big fan of both Go and Rust, and it's really interesting to see Rust ranked #3 in preference but #17 in expertise. Rust is not a simple language by any means -- it's a great replacement for C++, but I'd be pretty s
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
> Toyota and VW shipped 10 million cars worldwide last year without any logistics issues. Hell, most companies are able to ship their products without any controllable logistics issues. These companies are shipping with more or less esta
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
> Tesla has displayed a chronic inability to manage their own supply chain, especially during the period the employees were at Tesla. What do you mean by this? They seem to be hitting their delivery targets despite incredibly (and unpred
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
edge caching :-)
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
Lightning does assuage those problems, but it exacerbates the bigger and more relevant problem, which is user experience. It is still ridiculously hard for a layperson to acquire, secure, and transact with Bitcoin.
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
Nobody is disputing that Linux became an overwhelming success. spectramax was comparing it to Linux on the desktop (which never really became mainstream).
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
I do for my personal projects (which are public), but also everyone in my company does for work stuff too. (We also require 2FA for all accounts in the org.) It's important that any builds pushed out to production are from signed sourc
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Show HN: Pennywall is a donation-wall / tip-jar / paywall for sharing your links(github.com)
4 points by zeroxfe 8y ago|1 comments
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
Partly -- we payout only captured fees, but carry chargeback and fraud risk. We're trying to find a balance between practicality and utility, and all this will evolve as we learn more.
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
Good question. There are no wallets, and users don't have to go to QUID to signup beforehand. One integrated, the payment flow is smooth -- they click pay on your site, it pops up a credit-card entry form, with an e-mail textbox for si
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
I'd love to hear more. (And thanks!) (Feel free to PM me too if you'd like.)
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
I think one of the main challenges here is subscription-overload. Once you have a subscription to, say, the NY times, and the Washington Post, you're unlikely to get a third subscription to read an article on the Economist. Charging, s
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
Hi folks -- co-founder Mo here. Happy to answer any questions about this. We've spent the last year building this platform, and done a ton of surveys and studies to support the thesis behind the product -- users are fatigued by subscri
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Show HN: Quid – try micropayments instead of ads or subscriptions(quid.works)
64 points by zeroxfe 8y ago|52 comments
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
Wow, this problem is exactly what my startup is trying to solve. (Not sure if I'm allowed link to it here.) A huge issue here is that there's no way to pay tiny amounts for one-off content. Like, it's impossible to charge 10¢
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
Great job taking the comment entirely out of context. The next part of that sentence is "ask about the context and reasons for the change", immediately followed by, "Start with your manager or the main decision maker if you h
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
They do (well partly), but with network level blocking you end up with broken DOM elements (like images, videos, etc.) The good think about the browser extensions is that they clean up the DOM and in many cases you wouldn't even know i
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
I think that was "Adopting a process focus" on the list. (Which is something that works well for me too.)
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
Also a tool to compress WINS/DHCP databases: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
Yep, that's what monocasa means.
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
social cost = effects on family, close friends and relatives, and occasionally society in general.
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
The idea definitely existed -- it's just that no one had cracked how to keep it correct and consistent until Bitcoin demonstrated how proof-of-work could be used as a practical consensus algorithm. (Prior implementations of digital cur
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
I think at a minimum, blockchains also require some kind of byzantine consensus mechanism to manage mutations over a (potentially) hostile p2p network. (Yes, private permissioned blockchains aren't necessarily p2p, but I'd argue t
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
They're supposed to call in physical security. Many companies have security crews that are qualified and authorized to use force (and promptly call law enforcement.) Sometimes these crews are armed.
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
Had to read to the bottom to get to the (really weak) "case against Quantum Computing": > I believe that, appearances to the contrary, the quantum computing fervor is nearing its end. That’s because a few decades is the maximum
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
Not sure if you read the whole thing, but it seemed to me like it made pretty good points. From the article: "In determining when to rebuild, Make uses the timestamps of build inputs rather than their hashes. This results in many unnec
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
Powerpoint does work on mobile ;-)
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
Not sure what the point of your comment is, but that's a website presenting slides.
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by zeroxfe 8y ago
Yes, there are (and some that already do), but doing it correctly is actually pretty complicated. Checkout Ethereum's sharding docs: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Sharding-FAQs

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