quartus

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by quartus 4y ago
I'm still using the Pixel 4, I'm happy with it. I tried the Pixel 6 but it's just too gigantic, and the camera strip sticks out too much, so I went back to the 4
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by quartus 4y ago
PoST (Chia specifically) produces 20,000 times less e-waste than Bitcoin. Chia also has 20x the nodes as Bitcoin. A comparison of network security would probably be the best way to compare the scales of each. In the long run, hard drives us
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by quartus 5y ago
The parent thread to mine actually did claim that various lies were their mother's reason not to get vaccinated: > My mother only got vaccinated last month [...] Her main hangup was the lies [...]
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by quartus 5y ago
> Her main hangup was the lies and coercion. Can you provide examples of the lies you're referring to?
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by quartus 5y ago
"Tech culture has a nice tradition of not deriding new ideas, but we need to break it here and speak out" No we don't need to break it here (even though it's a pastime of the author, who has already done it to two tech i
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by quartus 5y ago
Try some of the old school tech companies: Cisco, Oracle, IBM, etc Or find a company you are really excited about and engaged with and then it won't feel like work
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by quartus 6y ago
This is an interesting thought that crypto (or at least proof of work crypto) is backed by a sunk cost of an otherwise useless task. But let me extend that paradigm: why is (or isn't) gold also not baked by a sunk cost? What was the po
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by quartus 6y ago
Anyone else care to comment on the S-1 itself? Revenues doubling, and a rare example of a tech company that is actually profitable before IPO (to the tune of $320M net profit on $1.1B in revenue). Seems like a great business to me! Given cu
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by quartus 6y ago
What does calling someone a "comedian" add to the conversation?
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by quartus 6y ago
Clarification: It did not prevent you from selling your holdings (ie. did not make you a bag holder). It only prevented you from opening a new position.
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by quartus 7y ago
> (although we should certainly adjust for the large gay male population) Just curious, why wouldn't there be an equivalently large lesbian female population?
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by quartus 7y ago
How did you cherry pick that list? The actual top countries per capita from your source are: Qatar 40.1 Trinidad & Tobago 37.78 Kuwait 34.24 Netherlands Antilles 23.55 Brunei Darussalam 22.96 United Arab Emirates 22.31 A
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by quartus 7y ago
This immediately reminded me of the scene from Silicon Valley where Gwart is working directly in front of an extremely powerful light, which Jared rushes to shut off because it's too bright
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by quartus 7y ago
>Throughout this year it is just loss-making companies floating everywhere on the markets here and have boarded the hype-train into the red. Cloudflare is a loss-making company too, and their losses are growing. From the S-1: "we ha
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by quartus 8y ago
For a healthy dose of skepticism, check out the New York Times article "Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It". It points out, among other things, that a 2010 National Academy of Medicine (then known as t
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by quartus 9y ago
If you feel compelled to put a smiley face after a sentence to make it more agreeable, it's a sign that you were uncomfortable with the tone of the sentence. Adding a smiley just comes across as passive aggressive or condescending. Jus
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by quartus 13y ago
I loaded up my first screenshot sequence of the day. http://placeit.breezi.com/3443524 Please advise on how to kick up the 4d3d3d3
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by quartus 14y ago
Yes you can.
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by quartus 14y ago
xwowsersx, please send an email to join@app.net and we'll get you set up with your login information. The backing process and the alpha.app.net access are not automated yet, we still need to grant your user access to the alpha.
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by quartus 14y ago
There were certainly people calling app.net and our API spec vaporware on HN and other places. The purpose of this post is to showcase the alpha-version of our web service and API to users and developers and to encourage them to check it ou
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by quartus 14y ago
One thing to note is that our funding velocity is not linear, it has been picking up speed. If we can keep the momentum going and spread the word, we are confident that we will hit our goal. Regarding ads being not too annoying, people are
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by quartus 14y ago
We used Facebook's APIs and Open Graph in our app discovery service. It was built and released before Facebook's App Center was announced, and Facebook dev-relations employees had previously been supportive of our endeavor.
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by quartus 14y ago
The service we were building (I work at app.net) was a social app discovery service. It integrated with Facebook to show you what apps your friends were using and downloading, and display stories about the apps you use.
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by quartus 14y ago
Awesome, great work. When do you expect google+ integration to be ready?
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App.net API spec posted to github(github.com)
12 points by quartus 14y ago|0 comments