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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
Attach the phone to a small weather balloon, and you can have a real "cloud hosted" setup.
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
The Dell Precision brand and 3000/5000/7000 series numbers are used for both laptops and desktops.
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
Apps are allowed to use external payment methods for "real world" goods and services. All digital content (premium features, game coins, file storage, music or video libraries) accessible within the app must be charged through App
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> With Hexadecimal, we get 4 bits per character. With Base64, we get 6 bits per character. To keep UUIDs at 128 bits, we'd go from 32 to 22 characters in length. ... Additionally, why the dashes? In a string, that dash takes up just
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
RedShift is very close to PostgreSQL (it even uses PostgreSQL drivers to connect to their clusters from programming languages or data IDEs). A sneakier difference is query latency. RedShift is scalable for queries that scan through very lar
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
Even then, I have a feeling that people jump too quickly from a "messy monolith" to microservices. Instead, people should start splitting up the monolith into sensible modules and libraries. Instead of a "user accounts micros
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
Trello itself is the perfect example of "remove features to serve simpler use cases". All sorts of business and development process tracking software has existed for decades. JIRA, FogBugz, PivotalTracker, MS Project, and so on. T
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
It's a solved problem. On Android, if you unlock the hidden Developer Options, there is a toggle for "Aggressive WiFi to mobile handover". But I wonder why the setting is hidden and not a default.
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> Remember that while Steve Jobs infamously called Dropbox a feature, not a product Which is the best selling point of Dropbox. It doesn't try to be an office app suite, a photo editing solution, a cloud collaboration platform, etc.
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> It seems unlikely they are "without merit" in the legal sense, since then they would be thrown out at the first hearing. In all patent troll cases I've seen, a patent exists, and the defendant is actually infringing the
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
The thing is, we have had "flying cars" - helicopters - for almost 100 years. Helicopters match the core functionality of a flying car: can fly, can carry 2-6 people, can take off and land almost everywhere. So why are helicopters
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> I'm older now and a good desk, good chair, 3 big screens takes up enough space that a tower isn't taking up much more space. I do the same, 95% of my development with a Macbook Pro with 2 big screens, keyboard and mouse attac
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> Let's say someone does modify the code, then the machine messes up and ends up killing someone. Who would be the culprit there? People repair and modify their cars every day - and these are driven on public roads among other drive
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> Do I need UUIDs? Maybe not, but after much debt, I've decided that the storage requirements of such an index in memory is worth the ability to move from Postgres to Postgresql-xl. There is a major benefit to UUIDs besides server-s
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
The threat of wiping accounts was silly in the first place. The hackers have user passwords, not access to Apple infrastructure. So they log in as the users, delete files from iCloud... and Apple restores files from yesterday's backup.
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> commercial companies deliver services much more efficiently than governments and bureaucracies. That is often true, but the efficiency comes from competition in a free market, not the ownership of the service provider. The government
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> I've always thought that arcdegrees should be what we measure UI's in: how much of a user's field of view does this thing consume? After all, what makes text "small" is that how much of my FoV it consumes (or d
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
At a shop I visit often, the receipt checking is random, triggered by some prediction algorithm based on your history and current cart contents when you swipe your membership card when you exit the store. You get selected once out of perhap
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
A government cryptocurrency could be built on a blockchain, but there is really little point. Some properties that it would need are: * It's backed by usual pounds by the treasury, which means only they get to issue new coins (no publi
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
But where does the difference come from? A "well-designed monolith's" code architecture would be very similar to microservices - with separated modules, but in-process function calls instead of remote API calls. If you do lar
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
stat() takes a pointer to a struct where to write its output. This struct currently has 32bit values for time. If you updated stat() to write 64bit values into a different struct, any existing program calling it with a pointer to an old str
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
> How long before there's an uber-Uber that just sends your request to all the dispatch services and the first one that shows up gets your fare? There already is an app for this, with over a billion existing users: Google Maps. If y
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
> Without self-driving cars, that strategy isn't sustainable, and so eventually Uber will find itself unable to maintain its advantage over Lyft. I see the "Uber is a bet on self-driving cars" coming up in every discussion
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
Yes, that is sort of Linus's plan: http://marc.info/?l=git&m=148798319024294&w=2 > You want to have a model that basically reads old data, but that very aggressively approaches "new data only" in o
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
There's an argument that mandatory bicycle helmets are worse, not better for the overall health goals: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/12/mandato... Mandatory helmets protect cycli
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
StackOverflow was named by a public vote: https://blog.codinghorror.com/help-name-our-website/
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
I have briefly used https://github.com/Factual/drake for this. It is a bit unpolished and still a work in progress, but has some features that are useful for data science workflows that most software build tools do not
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
Taxi services are a centuries-old profitable business model (London had first laws regulating "taxis" in the 1600s). Dispatch via app is a solid improvement over the old phonecalls or street pickup, automatic credit card billing i
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
But we're not talking about a monopoly here. For example for cloud hosting, it's competition between Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OVH, and perhaps a few more "big" players. Like in many technology fields, you have high fix
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by ProblemFactory 10y ago
The biggest issue I have with Todo lists and systems is focusing on urgent tasks instead of important tasks. It is too easy (and satisfying) to prioritise 10 small urgent tasks, complete and check them off, and feel productive. But this can

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