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by brewrwe 8y ago
They paid devs and gave them Lumia phones. I still remember writing a trivial app for Windows Phone and getting $100 and a Lumia 521, which was pretty good IMO. Google acted terribly towards Windows Phone, breaking Youtube and anything else
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by brewrwe 8y ago
Most low cost solutions are based on Asterisk or Freeswitch...
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by brewrwe 8y ago
I would check that Google isn't ratelimiting you, and I would also check that your hard drive/SSD and RAM aren't dying. I've experienced issues like what you describe, but the first time was caused by a dying hard disk,
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by brewrwe 8y ago
I ended up going to Thunderbird for my main email addresses (work & personal), with Rainmail for quasi-disposable addresses on my various domains. Works much better than Gmail did towards the end of my years using Gmail.
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by brewrwe 8y ago
This seems to be quite hit and miss when I've looked around at work cultures in Seattle, free beer at work correlating with working much past 4pm is a weak sign at best.
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by brewrwe 8y ago
I think it was a typo on the prior commenters part, but apparently my comment got flagged. Man HN is touchy!
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by brewrwe 8y ago
Exactly, why should the whole web suffer just from the shitty internal practices of some large companies. If their trashcan ready hardware is breaking TLS, they can deal with the consequences.
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by brewrwe 8y ago
Here is a KVM VPS with a gig of ram for $15: https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/150797/virmach-raid-10...
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by brewrwe 8y ago
Generally you can get by without photo ID, your Social Security card is much more important to have wrt benefits and employment.
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by brewrwe 8y ago
Huh? The state I live in doesn't issue legal ID, nor do multiple other states surrounding us. You can get an ID card or drivers license, but they aren't federally recognized/usable. The TSA will let you fly without ID if you
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by brewrwe 8y ago
Aadhaar isn't a beacon of hope, the reason the poorest Indians are getting Aadhaar at all is to survive as the government of India forces it down people's throats, denying their benefits and even existence as real people if they d
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by brewrwe 8y ago
Based on what you stated, I assume this VPS is running on OpenVZ? If so, I doubt it will ever see newer kernel features, in part due to OpenVZ hosts relying on ancient LTS kernel branches and also due to OpenVZ "optimizations", wh
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by brewrwe 8y ago
Yeah, its called a VPU aka Video Processing Unit. If your hardware implements video decoding, they likely have licensed or designed their own VPU IP block.
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by brewrwe 8y ago
Mood changes, personality swings and the like are what I saw happen to my friend, it almost destroyed her multi-year relationship. Switching to the ring for birth control was like night and day, plus its still very effective.
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by brewrwe 8y ago
Looking back, the whole "Developers, Developers, Developers..." bit was just what we saw publicly, I hope he was on fewer drugs when doing day to day management, but perhaps that is part of why Microsoft found itself in a dying se
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by brewrwe 8y ago
Google feels it has a superior product, which is true for certain types of data in large cities. Why contribute to Wikipedia when your the publisher of Encyclopedia Britannica, you'd eat your own product alive for no notable benefit.
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by brewrwe 8y ago
Heh, I'm an avid Signal User due to that, not terribly much message syncing going on as the message database is stored on your device :3
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by brewrwe 8y ago
Google Maps is pretty bad without fast, reliable data, I remember trying it on Sprint, no joy unless I could pull at least a megabit a second.
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by brewrwe 8y ago
More like anywhere vaugely rural, Google Maps seems to fail. Going out to the San Juans? Have fun with missing business listings, incorrect road traces and names, or worse. Just in the past decade Kitsap County (just across the water from S
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by brewrwe 8y ago
This bit me the other day, ordered a Ubiquiti UAP-AC-HD and got the Pro model instead. Returned it and ordered off eBay for a bit over $100, figure if I'm going to deal with fakes, might as well snag a deal.
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by brewrwe 8y ago
Hey, screw Amazon and their asinine NDAs, they've tried that same BS over here in Seattle on much less relevant meetups. All its ended up doing is killing participation and fracturing the group.
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by brewrwe 8y ago
You may not realize it, but on Android, Signal acts very similar to iMessages, pulling in your SMS & MMS so that you can seamlessly text regardless whether the other person is using Signal or not. Most features that come with the Androi
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by brewrwe 8y ago
Signal-CLI and Signald both allow one to register a number on a desktop for use with Signal, you can even pull your messages right into weechat if you want: https://github.com/thefinn93/signal-weechat