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by nessence 9y ago
Hi, I'm the author of RLPx. Great post and thank you for sharing! Looking forward to more.
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by nessence 11y ago
On iOS9, iPhone6: The comment box and comments overflow which require horizontal scrolling or zooming out. It worked better before simply because zooming in (double tap) is easier than zooming out (pinch).
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by nessence 12y ago
Hyperledger's home page talks about a protocol, pools, consensus, security, and decentralization, however, none of those features exist in the codebase. Proof of work and distributed networks are why bitcoin and others are more complex
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by nessence 13y ago
Perhaps this could be good to introduce a little at a time. Like musical instruments (drum kits) or building blocks (legos). As a parent, I agree, that surrounding children with technology all the time can distract them from learning more i
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by nessence 14y ago
LiveJournal doesn't route messages. It performs database queries which renders to HTML. As a result twitter will broadcast what you say to all of your followers, immediately, to their cell phones. This isn't something LiveJournal's architec
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by nessence 14y ago
IRC has no such long-established functionality. You can MSG a #channel or a user and that's it. User's can't follow each other and there are no lists. These followers and lists are how twitter routes messages, not a channel. Such a simple d
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by nessence 14y ago
The patents involves routing messages with emphasis on followers. Everything previous I'm aware of has been multicast based or address based, like email or mailing lists. Most internet and application-layer protocols are destination based.
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by nessence 15y ago
This doesn't help adoption like the article suggests; what it does do is shave a few milliseconds and overhead off the initial connection which is great for thin or long pipes (low bandwidth or high latency). Otherwise, in contrast to the a
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by nessence 16y ago
Ask your investor.
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by nessence 16y ago
As for the title of your question, sure, PHP/MySQL are stil practical. If the answer to your question were no, then that would mean companies like Facebook and Yahoo aren't practical. With regard to your future decisions, you might strongly
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by nessence 16y ago
Unfortunately, this is a common response from upper management. In larger companies, one way to get around this, is to go to Human Resources instead of your chain of command. Let them anonymously handle this issue. If your company doesn't t
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Ask HN: How did you convert a million users to your service?
2 points by nessence 16y ago|1 comments
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by nessence 16y ago
The chart excellent for visualizing one's contributions against and general activity. Would it be possible to generate a similar graph for other mainstream languages, gcc, and linux? Wonder if the post-2005 spike would be similar for all in
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by nessence 16y ago
Last line is great: "If you take out the 20 best transactions, our record is a joke," he admitted. "The 20 best transactions occurred over some 40 years — that's one every two years. And we work at it all the time. Life is not just bathing
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by nessence 16y ago
Nice and clean look. Have you considered lexical parsing to generate a list of trending phrases? I suppose there are several possibilities to track trends this way. Great job.
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by nessence 16y ago
That's a much better way of looking at this post. I suppose, I could've phrased the post: Is a link full of SEO spam, aa links, and ad networks a legit HN post? I guess from the upvotes and comments, it is. I was strangely curious.
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by nessence 16y ago
Is HN really the new place for book spamming aa links? Which books don't matter. Half those are outdated or will be by the time they're read.
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by nessence 16y ago
That sounds like a more expensive long-term process than finding an applicant who is better qualified. Maybe the OP is better finding a startup or open source project where he can learn at a faster pace. I suspect facebook maybe a tad too b
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by nessence 16y ago
I don't think interviewing for highly technical positions at Facebook could be "prepared" for, not especially, by reading so many books about high-level subjects (ex: Visual Basic). A better approach would be books involving POSIX standards
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by nessence 16y ago
I can't help but notice the circles; they remind me of (the late) OpenSolaris logo.
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by nessence 16y ago
I'm working on a system which is similar but higher volume. Have you done any benchmarks to test thousands of updates per second? Same, but on the front-end. What is the impact of generating 10 reports per second for 2 hours? Do the writers
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by nessence 16y ago
Does warranty case law supersede DMCA? Nope, didn't think so. Blame IP law, and blame the DMCA, but don't blame Apple for being diligent.
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by nessence 16y ago
Please, not SCII. I'M NOT GOING TO BUY IT. OK? Say it with me: I PROMISE NOT TO BUY SCII INSTEAD OF BUILDING MY COMPANY I PROMISE NOT TO BUY SCII INSTEAD OF BUILDING MY COMPANY I PROMISE NOT TO BUY SCII INSTEAD OF BUILDING MY COMPANY I PROM
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by nessence 16y ago
The stats are for "AD" content, not Web Traffic. I would estimate Android has more ad-supported applications so I'm not surprised at all. To reiterate, this statistic has nothing to do with web traffic. Original release: http://www.busines
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by nessence 16y ago
I gave up on Linux. Not fodder; ^ if you agree.
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Ask HN: GeoAPI or SimpleGeo?
9 points by nessence 16y ago|6 comments
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by nessence 16y ago
If the query cache, key buffer, sort buffer, and various engine configs are too small for the dataset then MySQL will take a less optimal approach. MySQL is an RDBMS for persistent data, not a spreadsheet... "right tool for the job", etc.
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by nessence 17y ago
Great article. There's much more to be said about "Freedom". So many corporations have access to massive amounts of data and it will soon be easier to regulate access; whether by control of it's owner, or not.
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by nessence 17y ago
Don't ever buy a variable annuity. 1. Some forms of oil and real estate investments, in some states, can be a significant tax deduction. Otherwise consider saving this money for future tax benefits or new opportunities. 2. Get involved in t
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by nessence 17y ago
Whoever gets together with this guy could potentially learn more in 1 year than they've learned in the past 5. International business experience, candid honesty, and flexibility are fairly difficult to procure. Is there risk? Of course.

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