akent | 9 years ago | on: 1999.io: Blogging like it's 1999
The front page tells me nothing. Go and read this blogpost about it instead. http://scripting.com/2016/06/08/1311.html
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akent | 10 years ago | on: Introducing the Keybase filesystem
PSA to people asking for invites: make sure your email is in your HN profile.
akent | 10 years ago | on: Facebook is closing Parse
Firebase disagrees with you https://twitter.com/Firebase/status/692845862527995904
akent | 10 years ago | on: Issue 87 – google-compute-engine – UDP Packet Fragments cannot be reassembled
Do you have a reference or a link for this?
akent | 10 years ago | on: HangoverApp – Share pics without Internet, only visible if all devices present
Why would they have to? Just because there happens to be a movie called "The Hangover"?
akent | 10 years ago | on: An Explanation of Cricket (2009)
nitpicking: ... to effect a run out
akent | 10 years ago | on: Discovery of a new irregular pentagon that can cover the plane
Can I actually tile my bathroom with tiles like this? Do any tile manufacturers make them that shape?
EDIT: I found these, at least http://www.ballerhouse.com/2010/08/19/precision-concrete-til...
akent | 10 years ago | on: Say Hello to Nest Cam
For now yes it is indoor-only but we are working on plans for a weather-proof outdoor version.
akent | 10 years ago | on: Say Hello to Nest Cam
Check out Homeboy - https://www.homeboy.com
- completely cordless (battery powered, rechargeable, lasts up to 3 months on a charge)
- not continuously recording video but clip based, armed like a security alarm, video recordings are triggered by infrared motion sensor
- intelligent automatic arm/disarm based on smartphone geofences
- request a clip capture any time for peace of mind
Disclaimer: I work at Homeboy :) We've just made our second batch of cameras so they're ready for shipping very soon!
akent | 11 years ago | on: Reminder: Oh, Won't You Please Shut Up? (2011)
> "Sir, do you know how fast you were going?"
Do as politicians do; don't answer the question, change tack. "Here's my driver licence, officer."
akent | 11 years ago | on: Four&me – Connect with great people and get together for amazing activities
What's the logic in restricting it to meetups of maximum five people?
akent | 11 years ago | on: MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues
If you have this problem, you definitely know about it. Complete system lockups, glitches all over the screen, you name it. It's not just a simple software error.
akent | 11 years ago | on: MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues
I downvoted you because you simply can't draw that conclusion just based on the evidence of one anecdotal account from an affected user and from your own ignorance of the problem. Of course this has damaged their reputation in the minds of some affected users.
akent | 11 years ago | on: The billionaire’s typewriter
For me the end-of-line word hyphenation also detracts from the readability.
akent | 11 years ago | on: Mosh – a robust, responsive replacement for SSH
akent | 11 years ago | on: Drop dead
Why do you do this to yourself?
akent | 11 years ago | on: Indoor mapping with Estimote Beacons
Low energy bluetooth is neat technology and I'm impressed with Estimote too.
My question is what happens when the batteries die in these beacons if you have set many of them them up in a constellation like this for intra-room location? Do you have to replace all together and reconfigure or is there some easier way to replace individual beacons that have gone flat and reconfigure them to act exactly like the one they are replacing?
akent | 12 years ago | on: The New Streamlined Look that Facebook will be Moving Everyone Over to
Here's the original from Facebook rather than this bizarre rewritten blogpost about it: https://www.facebook.com/business/news/A-Streamlined-Look-fo...
akent | 12 years ago | on: Weak passwords brute forced
People have private repos too you know.
akent | 12 years ago | on: Apple iOS 7 surprises as first with new multipath TCP connections
And what of it? Here's another unrelated whinge: no Apple stuff supports WPS even though it's highly useful for getting your device on the network quickly.
Way to find something negative to say when this MPTCP deployment is overwhelmingly positive no matter what you think of Apple vs Android.