gregr401 | 10 years ago | on: SpaceX launch webcast: Orbcomm-2 Mission [video]
Yes, it absolutely was firing continuously around 17,000 MPH. Doesn't take long at that speed to get some distance between sats.
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gregr401 | 10 years ago | on: Why Do Colleges Give Honorary Degrees?
Exactly. Another form of brand marketing. I do wonder how/when these started.
gregr401 | 10 years ago | on: Someone claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto just wrote to the Bitcoin developer list
I don't see it as a issue / question of whether or not the forks possible success, but the way which the fork is being pushed without wide and near unanimous acceptance (assuming that was a core principal and vision).
If the original intent was to made it super hard to change the rules, but now the rules are being changed by a 'few in power', I could see how that would be concerning in general.
Regardless, this is rather interesting to watch play out. Especially for all the companies that have popped up.
gregr401 | 10 years ago | on: Geologist predicts EPA toxic mine disaster in Colorado
This was an abandoned mining operation from the early 1900's, among thousands of other similar mines across the state.
gregr401 | 10 years ago | on: Why Las Vegas has coped well with drought so far
What's even more concerning to me is the water rights / treaties for the Colorado (Lake Mead) still date back to the 1920's and 1930's.
gregr401 | 10 years ago | on: Why Las Vegas has coped well with drought so far
Also live in Vegas and haven't heard of water bills that high! How frequent were you watering your yard? My total bill with in-ground pool never exceeds $30 / mo.
The HOA thing doesn't surprise me, but would be curious what area / specific HOA.
gregr401 | 11 years ago | on: Jawbone UP3 Activity Tracker
Wait, it does NFC based payments as well? Huh?
Details are buried in the FAQs, mentions it supports AMEX only. There are some duplicate FAQs as well, wonder if that was not ready for prime time (though NFC is listed under the available sensors).
gregr401 | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is there an rss feed for “Ask HN”?
gregr401 | 11 years ago | on: Proposed New York State Virtual Currency Regulations [pdf]
The entire premise is to regulate the financial companies leveraging bitcoin in NY, not the protocol.
gregr401 | 11 years ago | on: Google I/O 2014
Yes! It's driving me crazy as well.
gregr401 | 11 years ago | on: Yo hack
Mostly apps that take advantage of tracking users via UDID / IDFA and not showing ads. At some level, developers still need a UDID for things like APN.
gregr401 | 12 years ago | on: After Google bought Nest, it removed company’s biggest competitors from results
Unless details of when the due-diligence occurred for the purchase, this point is really moot. I hardly doubt your board decided to drop a cool 3.2B the night before the Nest announcement.
gregr401 | 12 years ago | on: Thoughts on Bitcoin
Expensive for whom, how exactly do you quantify that? Today we pay fee's to institutions which have massive infrastructure costs (along with their necessary profits). If anything, decentralization offers an incentive for the technically inclined to reap some potential rewards which is far more feasible than today's systems.
gregr401 | 12 years ago | on: AWS Elastic Block Store issues in one AZ in us-east-1
No, this is the kind of thing that happens with a poor application architecture (ie, using one AZ). Sad that companies still can't get this right.
gregr401 | 13 years ago | on: Let’s help Airbnb rebuild the bridge it just burned
The premise of the issue isn't that they are 'proactively preventing scammers', more to the joke that apparently Facebook and LinkedIn offer any level of verification other than enabling potential tunnels to data mine a users social connects. As mentioned towards the bottom of the article, there are plenty of eVerification services avail that minimize the potential for data about an account holder.
To note, the way airbnb has rolled this out is quite surprising (mandatory sampling of users, disrupting active reservations, etc). Starting to wonder if there are any decent competitors out there.
gregr401 | 13 years ago | on: S4 Eye-Tracking Gimmicky?
I haven't seen any mention of this yet: how does this impact battery life? Is the front camera on all the time, periodically, only for certain apps, only for certain interfaces of certain apps?
Honestly, one notable feature of the 4 that looks promising is AirGesture, or being able to wear gloves or slightly hover above the screen instead of pressing and swiping/tapping.
gregr401 | 13 years ago | on: Sails.js: Realtime MVC framework for Node.js
Cool, looking forward to watching the projects progress!
Quick question: when demonstrating the socket.io piece, one aspect that differs with meteor is their ddp which only sends data diffs on a per client basis, not the entire subset as your demo showed. How are you planning to tackle that with any decent about of clients or data size?
gregr401 | 13 years ago | on: Sails.js: Realtime MVC framework for Node.js
Except without leveraging those V8 features, we don't have what makes node.
The pace of invention today is based on iteration, building upon other successes and similar ideas - and its happening in real-time across a vast community. This is awesome.
Personally, I love that we have choices like derby, meteor and potentially, sail. Every effort has pro's / con's that may or may not be ideal for a particular use case. I would rather have more options than none.
gregr401 | 13 years ago | on: Facebook Adds SPDY Support
If you're using ELB as the parent mentioned, SPDY wont be viable (yet).
gregr401 | 13 years ago | on: Canonical announces Ubuntu for smartphones
> Where did you see that? Are you sure you're not confusing it with the "Ubuntu for Android" project? That is a different project from this.
It was mentioned in the keynote video, towards the very end ~21:00.
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