enginous

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by enginous 7mo ago
One caveat to alerts (and automatically acting on alerts) is that there are delays[0] between costs being incurred and alerted. I can't find a Google source for what the delay is, but a source online say it could be "24 hours [to]
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by enginous 8mo ago
I did just manage to dig up a source that says these things are somewhat implemented in iOS 18 with illustrative screenshots rather than actuals, and it seems to be implemented but currently janky: - On iOS, rich cards have a message length
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by enginous 8mo ago
I'm pretty unclear about how the experience they showcase in the video would work on iOS. Maybe Android has APIs for this, but on iOS it looks like RCS just supports green-bubble messages, links and files/multimedia. But in the de
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by enginous 11y ago
This pattern of the virtual DOM has some parallels with functional programming. At first look, using functional programming it looks like you're sacrificing the performance that you gain from mutations -- which to some extent is true.
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by enginous 11y ago
So, it seems that the change for production apps is that you can now somehow commit to a monthly price for dynos and get a discount. 1X – $25/month compared to $36.5/month (by the hour). 2X – $50/month compared to $73&#
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by enginous 11y ago
I'm also interested in what has changed. The dyno-hour prices of $0.05, $0.10, $0.80 for 1X, 2X and PX, respectively, seem the same as before.
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Aeron: High-Performance Open Source Message Transport [video](infoq.com)
38 points by enginous 11y ago|26 comments
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by enginous 13y ago
I think the stuff React is doing is impressively simple and non-magical. Although I haven't used React yet, I wouldn't be surprised if these ideas make for code that's relatively easy to reuse and reason about. The format of
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by enginous 13y ago
Also, his idea of increasing taxes will mean that even if his statement were true ("[if] people only bought half as much, they would be just as healthy"), a flat increase in drug tax would at best make this effect true on average.
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by enginous 13y ago
Encrypting anything with your Google Accounts password doesn't really make you invulnerable against Google. They can get your clear text Google Accounts password from you any time they want by just reading the password you enter on an
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by enginous 13y ago
What key are you going to encrypt these passwords with? If you were to encrypt passwords in the cloud with a key that's stored on the device, you can't unlock the passwords on a different device (or the same device after flashing)
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by enginous 13y ago
It's fantastic. Note that it's from their own original press release: http://investor.yahoo.net/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=765892
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by enginous 13y ago
Again I run into the issue that Google doesn't seem to release their iPhone apps internationally. I'm in Europe (Iceland, specifically) and I can't download the Google Search or Google Authenticator apps because they're not available in ou
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by enginous 13y ago
OP was clarifying the meaning of pirate in the present context, not the origin of the term or how it is used in some other contexts. The meaning you're suggesting is very explicitly not the idea behind the Icelandic Pirate Party. At one po
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by enginous 13y ago
Yes, and even if they had resources and interest to distribute it rapidly, I'd venture to guess that $200 would be underpricing it. People might say they're prepared to pay less for it now than when it's reached some adoption and they start
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by enginous 13y ago
Indeed, although I don't agree "internet-enabling software" is trivial in terms of engineering and support costs, considering the range of devices today. But mostly I just wanted to clarify on the point that interception is not fully trans
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by enginous 13y ago
Nope, you're right. The ISP would have to install the CA certificate on every device on the network, which is a nontrivial task. Furthermore, if the ISP has done that, they don't need you to go through a proxy. Your connection is already
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by enginous 13y ago
I think you're spot on that in general, the speed-quality tradeoff creates a legitimate case for content producers to choose Vimeo. However, that's not really my complaint, but rather how slow buffering is handled by the player. In my case
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by enginous 13y ago
Agreed on all counts, and I'm in Iceland. I also know that local ISPs have dedicated caching servers for YouTube videos, which gives them an advantage in my region. I realize that it's very expensive to have great connectivity in all regio
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by enginous 13y ago
Let me get a little whiny and off-topic here: the video is beautiful, but I wish people mostly stopped using Vimeo until they make their player more resilient. It doesn't seem to degrade video quality if your bandwidth is low, it seems that
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by enginous 14y ago
He was an engineering director for a couple of years working on the dev/test tool chain and Google+. He's done a few books, including one he co-authored called How Google Tests Software , which is a fairly pragmatic discussion of large-sca
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by enginous 14y ago
Interesting how the New York Times covers this more as a threat than a political move. The New York Times: "North Korea Warns of Pre-emptive Nuclear Attack" BBC News: "North Korea ramps up nuclear rhetoric as UN vote looms" ( http://www.bbc
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by enginous 14y ago
The lesson is to have more kids, fast.
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by enginous 14y ago
It's cool, although you could have easily done without saying that yours is more interesting.
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by enginous 14y ago
"Because participants did not ingest the glucose, they could not have absorbed a significant amount of it into their bloodstream. Moreover, it takes glucose 10 to 15 min to enter the brain after ingestion (Zourek, Jankovec, & Hykova, 20
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by enginous 14y ago
My algorithms professor is using the videos from the Sedgewick and Wayne course entirely as a way to present new material in place of lectures. He's teaching their book and his view is essentially that his time in lectures is better spent
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by enginous 14y ago
It's not the same. When you consume music for free, you're consuming a product without paying the person that put the largest amount of work into it. Laws aside, where's the ethics in that? In the music business there is certainly a fairn
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by enginous 14y ago
That's true, but if more people did this, threads would be unbearable to read so I think it's better that we agree not to. Highly voted posts will appear closer to the top, so upvotes are not entirely wasted.
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by enginous 14y ago
Why do you consider it "ideal native?" What was a good case for a desktop app even two years ago works fine on the web today (e.g., WebGL stuff, canvas-based apps.) Chances are this will be even more true 1-2 years from now (when a product
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by enginous 14y ago
Two big things I would love from a tool that intends to solve this problem well: - Do it on the web, making it free of platform ties. - Make collaboration (versioning, sharing, maybe discussion) much easier.

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