calanya

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Twitter Is Down Globally(downdetector.com)
68 points by calanya 4y ago|29 comments
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Israel: What Went Wrong?(medium.com)
3 points by calanya 6y ago|1 comments
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Facebook Employees Criticize Zuckerberg’s Inaction over Trump(bloombergquint.com)
62 points by calanya 6y ago|38 comments
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by calanya 8y ago
How does Newsboat support non-Latin scripts? Seems like a pretty basic requirement. E.g., this blog is in Hebrew, you can see the expected text layout on its website: https://workaround.blog/ I wonder if Newsboat can replic
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by calanya 9y ago
They should have notified the users whose information was leaked, as soon as they knew about it. The 50M users whose information was handed to Kogan, and then Kogan sold to CA, should have been notified by Facebook as soon as Facebook found
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by calanya 10y ago
The author's concerns are well justified, however they suggest to provide an alternative.
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by calanya 10y ago
Measuring time in picoseconds. The current unix timestamp is roughly 2^70 picoseconds, so won't fit in 64 bits.
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by calanya 10y ago
For male scientists. Feels weird
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by calanya 10y ago
That the clock always moves forward. As one example, some clocks are cpu specific (rather than system specific). When a thread gets scheduled to a different cpu, it might be talking to a different clock, and getting a backwards time. The us
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by calanya 10y ago
Providing account authentication as a service seems like a no-brainer. Does no company in this space know how to sell to conservative IT organizations like air lines?
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by calanya 10y ago
33.
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by calanya 10y ago
The moment my girl was born. I now regret waiting so long to be a parent.
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by calanya 10y ago
That's fine. I am really interested in the possibility of running a 'homeserver' directly on a phone. Do you think that would be possible?
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by calanya 10y ago
Is anyone working on it that I could help?
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by calanya 10y ago
I have a computer which is always on and always connected. It's my smartphone. Can I just run a 'homeserver' on that and be connected?
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by calanya 10y ago
A school is made up of buildings and teachers, but most importantly - peers, and that must have changed dramatically. Also, the home environment of the students has a huge impact on the school itself, and very little is done to mitigate tha
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by calanya 10y ago
The alternative to small modules is not no modules at all, it's libraries.
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by calanya 11y ago
"Secure" but "we advise against using Bitfly for highly sensitive data. You have been warned.". So is it secure or isn't it?
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PyType(github.com)
2 points by calanya 11y ago|0 comments
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by calanya 11y ago
It's funny to say json and edn represent data, because they are both strictly UTF8 encoded - raw bytes have to be encoded somehow (with neither standard specifying a prefer erred method) to be represented. Why is this important? Someti
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by calanya 11y ago
My father was a commander in the six-day war, and certainly could not speak Polish. This is the first time I've heard of this notion. Most anyone raised in Israel would not be able to speak Polish clearly enough to communicate commands
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by calanya 11y ago
Err, to help people who don't have any money?
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by calanya 13y ago
Microsoft's approach to Web development is not in favor of openness, despite of all of Scott's efforts. They are still pushing the closed, proprietary Silverlight over HTML5.
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by calanya 13y ago
This is incredibly American centric and ignorant of variant weather conditions. Try wearing a fit shirt, long pants and leather shoes in 90+ weather...
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by calanya 13y ago
The Harris-Benedict study is from 1919 on a population of 239 subjects . I'm just wondering - Do you know if it has been re-evaluated in more recent years, and was found valid?
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Google set to acquire Waze for $1.3B(globes.co.il)
142 points by calanya 13y ago|59 comments
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by calanya 15y ago
I'm glad to see Dropbox as defining this space.
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by calanya 16y ago
Commercial opportunities include protein structure prediction for drug design, brute-force attacks for breaking security, and various simulations (geophysics, finance).
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by calanya 16y ago
Distributed computational resources have a value. For example, there is a list of scientific projects being conducted via many client computation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_p...
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Ask HN: Is client computation a viable alternative to ads?
2 points by calanya 16y ago|5 comments

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