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by vietor 11y ago
That's why the article is "Getting to Zero" not "Starting at Zero"; the target audience is teams where the opening quotes sound like something you'd overhear. Not understanding the negativity. It was a reasonab
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by vietor 11y ago
As per the article: -Expected exceptions get turned into metrics If it's not a bug, mute it in your exception tracker and measure it.
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by vietor 11y ago
It's it's own thing now, and still has a very nice looking high-end model: https://vaio.com/products/z/ They just launched their Surface Pro competitor in the US: http://us.vaio.com/ (Ty
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by vietor 12y ago
It's a way to imply that the all of the fiddly little details don't suck. Everyone's run into that library, SaaS product, or other bit of software where all of the features sound awesome, it appears to do exactly what you nee
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by vietor 12y ago
cielo24 -- Santa Barbara, CA -- Fulltime Developer cielo24 (www.cielo24.com) is a technology startup in the online media space located in downtown Santa Barbara. Leveraging automation and crowdsourcing, we create high quality media data inc
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by vietor 12y ago
It's easy* to build a dramatically better performing and more efficient CPU than currently available if you don't have to restrict yourself to the code and compilers currently available. The exciting thing to me is that between wi
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by vietor 13y ago
Interesting from a biology/chemistry perspective, but also perhaps a really good example of missing secondary effects. "The agencies do recommend using soap and water and scrubbing vigorously, for at least 20 seconds." I spen
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by vietor 13y ago
It's a lot of fun, but it's also a bit of a trap in my experience. My previous startup was all custom, my current one is all as hands off as we can be infrastructure wise. Unless going custom allows you to do something that you co
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by vietor 13y ago
It's easier to fabricate a smaller panel. Edit: And by easier I of course mean both less expensive, and more flexible in process.
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by vietor 13y ago
I've a Dell 2000FP that's still getting 8+ hours of serious use a day, even as it's coming up on its 11th birthday in a few more months. (And still looking pretty great compared to a current gen budget monitor.) There has bee
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by vietor 13y ago
Santa Barbara, CA -- Cielo24 Inc ( http://www.cielo24.com ) Full-time Python or HTML/JS/CSS developer, on-site only. Cielo24 delivers searchable captions for large media platform partners in the online education, enterprise, news and entert
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by vietor 14y ago
Cielo24, Santa Barbara, California. Office in downtown Santa Barbara. We build crowd/machine hybrid systems, currently focusing on media captioning solutions and seeing significant penetration and revenue in the online education vertical. Y
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by vietor 14y ago
One of the key benefits I get form a dashboard is being able to recognize that something's wrong, even when it's entirely different than anything I've seen on that dashboard before. I'm not convinced a feed would allow me to do that.
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by vietor 14y ago
Cielo24, Santa Barbara, California. Office in downtown Santa Barbara. We build crowd/machine hybrid systems, currently focusing on media captioning solutions and seeing significant penetration and revenue in the online education vertical.
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by vietor 14y ago
The audio version gives a bit more context. It sounded like the reporter was there already doing another story, and the NASA folks were very distracted by this but wouldn't yet say more than what's quoted in the story. Could be that it wasn
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by vietor 14y ago
That's being explicit, the problem is with wrapper scripts that omit that, assuming a sh compatible shell. Still running fish on one of my systems, excited to see new development work as it was getting past the point where I was comfortable
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by vietor 15y ago
Few notes from someone who's built way to many home, and other, servers. You made the right call on the drive, low end hard disk prices hit a wall pretty hard which leaves them looking a bit silly. You're vastly overestimating the amount of
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Show HN: Vash, a memorable and distinctive visual hash (sideproject)(thevash.com)
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by vietor 15y ago
Like I said, it's more abandoned than anything else at this point. Drop us a note. I'll see if he feels like digging it up and tossing it on github or something.
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by vietor 15y ago
One of my co-founders hacked something similar together in JS using an different technique a few years ago, but never got around to going anywhere with it: http://www.zettabytestorage.com/gloam/ I don't think it's been touched since somet
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by vietor 15y ago
Higher FPS = reduced delta between frames = better compression as compared to the raw footage. Doubling the framerate will not double the bitrate. (Though it will increase it somewhat, probably not as much as you'd expect) Modern video code
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by vietor 15y ago
> I kind of want to see what other hackers think of this 'heuristic of conversational originalism'. It's a threaded comment system, rather than a flat comment system. To me this implies that the search for context should begin with the
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by vietor 15y ago
> has named a liquidator to start divesting its assets. So you could say that they've Died In A Fire Sale . That's pretty close to what many people seem to have been wishing they would do...
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by vietor 15y ago
How does "as users lost money, they just dropped off." followed by "filed for bankruptcy", mean "Smart? Definitely yes."? I guess they did make money for a while, so it's wasn't terrible , but having a business model that makes your custom
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by vietor 16y ago
>I'm not even sexist ... and yet in reply to a completely neutral comment proposing that the article might be relevant because one of the two people in it was just featured in a very highly rated article last week, you create a one-off
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by vietor 16y ago
If you've ever done field tech work, freelance or otherwise, you'd know that mere physical incompatibility isn't going to stop some people from plugging nearly any connector into nearly any port.
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by vietor 16y ago
Please tell me that you don't actually believe this and were just speaking for effect, as it isn't even remotely close to the truth. The iPad was a revolution in exactly the same way the iPod was a revolution. It had a more accessible UI an
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by vietor 16y ago
> I don't understand 9-5 either, why start so late? I do 7:30 to 4, and get out in time to... Woah there Mr. Personal Responsibility Man[1]! Clearly the reasonable solution is to capaciously adjust our definition of what time it is twic
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by vietor 16y ago
> my university Emphasis added. Ensuring that students have a sound grounding in the basics and can then focus on the new material in later classes seems far more relevant to the goal of teaching computer science. Universities focusin
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by vietor 16y ago
I did not mean to suggest that they would deviate significantly from the norm of any other group of people presented with unexplainable phenomena throughout the remainder of human history. Given the variance in how smoothly minor points of

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