aaronkrolik | 9 years ago | on: Wazer introduces the first desktop water-jet cutter
What is the base of the cutter made out of? Does the water jet defuse before hitting the base?
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aaronkrolik | 9 years ago | on: Building a Cross Platform 360-degree Video Experience at The New York Times
You should check out the coral project: https://coralproject.net/
It's the next generation community platform that the Times is working on right now.
aaronkrolik | 9 years ago | on: An Important Message About Yahoo User Security
How is it that 200M user accounts are worth only $1800?
aaronkrolik | 9 years ago | on: AWS Elasticsearch Service Woes
Another annoying point: the documentation only lists the api methods you can call, but not the ones you cannot. I was a bit irritated to find out that the /_update method is not supported on AWS ESS
aaronkrolik | 10 years ago | on: AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory
A small word of caution: I'd strongly recommend against using a huge java heap size. Java GC is stop the world, and a huge java heap size can lead to hour long gc sessions. It's much better to store data in a memory mapped file that is off heap, and access accordingly. Still very fast.
aaronkrolik | 10 years ago | on: Google's Android Generates $31B Revenue, Oracle Says
Not if you use openjdk.
aaronkrolik | 10 years ago | on: Google's Android Generates $31B Revenue, Oracle Says
has anyone been able to recover the now removed document?
aaronkrolik | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Chatlio – Live chat with your web visitors directly from Slack
not open source, but I pretty quickly built a version of this a few months ago.
The chat box submits to a lambda which puts the message on SQS. App consumes sqs and puts in DB (for durable storage) and posts to slack room. Responses are then sent via pusher back to the chat box (a react component)
aaronkrolik | 10 years ago | on: Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April
>And Al Jazeera America has not been free of controversy in recent months. In November, the news station’s general counsel, David W. Harleston, was suspended following a report in The New York Times that he did not appear to be licensed to practice law. In late December, Al Jazeera aired an hourlong documentary that linked some of the biggest stars in Major League Baseball and the National Football League to performance-enhancing drugs. The most prominent athlete mentioned in the report was the Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning, who angrily denied the report, calling it “complete garbage” and “totally made up.”
Lets not forget that they are being sued for libel
http://deadspin.com/ryan-howard-ryan-zimmerman-sue-al-jazeer...
aaronkrolik | 10 years ago | on: So You Think You Can Program an Elevator
This is a lot like an assignment for my operating systems class to introduce threads/lock (each elevator and rider is a thread).
aaronkrolik | 10 years ago | on: Google paid $380M to buy Bebop, Diane Greene donating her $148M share
My thought exactly. A $148M tax write off is pretty substantial
aaronkrolik | 10 years ago | on: Google confirms next Android won’t implement Oracle's proprietary Java APIs
Funny you say that! This was a problem with drug smuggling. Now they have the shiprider program [0]. Basically a Canadian patrol boat has 1 american officer on it to make arrests if it crosses a border, and vice versa.
aaronkrolik | 10 years ago | on: Mysterious Android codebase commit
Does this mean no more DVM?
aaronkrolik | 10 years ago | on: Kazakhstan to MitM all HTTPS traffic starting Jan 1
Could kazakhstan take "national security cert" traffic, crack it and then apply a different, globally trusted cert? Couldnt they also strip the public-key-pins header from incoming traffic?
aaronkrolik | 10 years ago | on: Kazakhstan to MitM all HTTPS traffic starting Jan 1
How would this affect access to bitcoin/blockchains in Kazakhstan?
aaronkrolik | 10 years ago | on: Kazakhstan to MitM all HTTPS traffic starting Jan 1
If the js asset cant be trusted, what would stop an adversary from mitm-ing the application level implementation?
aaronkrolik | 10 years ago | on: The Mobile Downturn (continued)
"mobile is here to stay"
nothing in the past decade has been here to stay. I dont know what the next decade holds, but i highly doubt it will look like what we now call 'mobile'
aaronkrolik | 10 years ago | on: MIT researchers use Wi-Fi to recognize people through walls
We had a wifi radar at school. Was scary good. Only downside was that it jammed wifi for half the engineering building
aaronkrolik | 10 years ago | on: Khan Academy's React style guide
Style question re dom manipulation: third party embeds, such as twitter, instagram often come as specially classed blockquote elements that are swapped with iframes by a jquery plugin. What is the best way to integrate this with react?
aaronkrolik | 10 years ago | on: The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets
Again, i was simply quoting the manufacturer. Adding information to the conversation. You dont have to believe it or agree with it, but it's a side that should be heard rather than downvoted.
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