jonpaine

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by jonpaine 8y ago
4-5 seconds on your machine? Check for a button usually next to the power button on the CPU labeled “turbo” and give it a click. Might help.
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by jonpaine 10y ago
Personally, I'm kind of amused by the appalled and horrified tech bloggers I see posting about the sky falling. I keep reading about "life long" Apple users threatening to switch ecosystems because of an SD card slot. Or func
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by jonpaine 10y ago
It appears that the Startup/issuer sets a static offering price [0]. When I envision how crowdsourced investing would reinvent this space, a huge component of the value added would be a degree of price-elasticity and feedback. It doesn
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by jonpaine 10y ago
Neither of those two features have been released by Apple.
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by jonpaine 10y ago
Am I misunderstanding you? SF's legendary rent control creates a clear incentive for landlords to use a service like Airbnb to continually rent at market rate (though lower occupancy rate) while maintaining control to allocate the unit
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by jonpaine 10y ago
WPEngine, who were just recently compromised and only finally announced 2FA less than two weeks ago... Other than that, I don't disagree with your point. :)
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by jonpaine 10y ago
Really? If a well-funded superpac would systematically and indefinitely try every legal exploit to re-enact slavery you'd be grinning each attempt because "democracy"? .... The idea that our form of government allows us the
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by jonpaine 10y ago
It's disgusting that we treat humans like this. A reasonable person can understand perspectives on both sides of many contemporary hot topics, but I see no such leeway here. Isn't it time we stand up and simply fix something which
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by jonpaine 10y ago
I don't disagree with you. I'm not being an Apple apologist, just commenting why from their viewpoint it makes sense to bring the very best features into the fold of standard, native, functionality.
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by jonpaine 10y ago
A big part of Apple's product appeal is the ecosystem, and a big part of the ecosystem is that amazing features simply work, and work well. They don't have to be configured or hunted for. Taken a step further, the problems some of
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by jonpaine 11y ago
That's right. However, there are still indexes, even if they aren't necessary for traversal. Ideally you'll use an index to find a start node and traverse on from there (or in the case of your question, update from there).
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by jonpaine 11y ago
Index-free-adjacency. There are myriad pros/cons between graph/relational/nosql, but to me, a "real" graph db will have index free adjacency, allowing it to do deep traversals (friend of a friend-of a friend-oaf-oaf
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by jonpaine 11y ago
Perhaps the average user is more tech and social-tech savvy now than then. That would be my guess. It feels like there are a lot of things now that seem intuitive that would've been a bridge too far for the average user to figure out 6
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by jonpaine 11y ago
VERY interesting. Thanks for posting. I wasn't familiar with CALEA. For clarity, a CALEA type approach wouldn't compel a company to ACTIVELY subvert their own systems (as in Apple creating new tools for the Gov't to achieve t
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by jonpaine 11y ago
Ha - thanks. :) I'll watch it. But I'm specifically asking here because I'm trying to understand and learn from the rational arguments. There's never a challenge finding inflammatory or disingenuous ones, and there'
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by jonpaine 11y ago
Thanks for writing - The 'legal warrants' part that you said is interesting. I'm not sure I'd heard that thought clearly articulated. The idea that when a legal warrant is issued the Gov't should have access to ever
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by jonpaine 11y ago
Can someone ELI5 a typical opinion in support of the Government's case? I've read through various comments and I haven't seen a concise opinion in favor and am genuinely curious. Does it boil down to (1) trust that the Govern
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by jonpaine 11y ago
Very well put!
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by jonpaine 11y ago
It's not that specific. It's everywhere. I see it all the time in programming terminology. There are technical terms that annoy me when I first hear them. It appears people are trying to inflate their worth by using unnecessarily
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by jonpaine 11y ago
I'm intrigued by the idea/necessity of some "non-omniscience" factor in weighing 4th amendment cases moving forward. The argument is always that they're only tracking the "same views enjoyed by passersby on pub
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by jonpaine 11y ago
A lottery ticket doesn't buy a chance, it buys a pleasant daydream. It buys a mental escape hatch. It buys the 'what would I do' game for another week. A movie costs $12 in a theater for 2 hrs of enjoyment. A lottery ticket c
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by jonpaine 11y ago
I can't help but think politics whenever I read an article like this. Invariably, I always end up at the same place: Human governance structures are complicated. On one hand, we have Winston Churchill: 'The best argument against d
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by jonpaine 11y ago
Please make sure your loops converge. I read and modified this paragraph 3,984 times and then crashed.
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by jonpaine 11y ago
I agree. That's a great little writeup - thanks for posting it.
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by jonpaine 11y ago
Apple is a premium* brand. They don't make commodity products. I think there are better articles out there than this one [0], but it was the first search result. Thinking about their behaviors through that lens is interesting and, to m
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by jonpaine 11y ago
I think that's exactly why openCypher is happening. A robust and widely adopted openCypher is a good thing for users - but also for neo technology.
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by jonpaine 11y ago
The database is called NEO(for java). All the examples are graphs of relationships in The Matrix, or of movies in general. Cypher is named for the character in the movies. :)
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by jonpaine 11y ago
I think the 'Graph' in GraphQL confuses people. GraphQL is no more relevant to a graph database than it is to a relational database. It is an intermediary that facilitates efficient communication by standardizing req/res stru
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by jonpaine 11y ago
My wife and I quit our SF Bay Area jobs and traveled for a little over 2 years. We backpacked abroad, restored a VW Bus and drove it around the US, and explored the Bahamas on our sailboat. One of my biggest takeaways from our trip - which
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by jonpaine 11y ago
For clarity, stating the difference between the two is beneficial. "TV" is a single-channel system, in that the user has a single input to control their output: which channel. 1:1. "The Internet" has a much broader range

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