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neospice | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2024)

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neospice | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Bloom – A free and open source 'Google'

I think it's clear after reading your exchange with OC that you're not planning to take on Google search with Bloom. However what I think the commenter you're replying to is suggesting is that by calling yourself an open source 'Google' you're giving people the false impression that you are focused on search because when people think of Google the first thing they think of is search.

Perhaps you might consider something like free and open source 'Google Suite' or 'Google Apps' instead?

neospice | 7 years ago | on: How Blockchain Works

How is "higher proof of work" defined in this context? Also, doesn't consensus of the majority of peers have any bearing on which is more authoritative? I.e. if all nodes except for your malicious node report a single chain, why would yours not be rejected?

neospice | 7 years ago | on: How Blockchain Works

Those seem like two separate problems to me. The oracle reliably reports to the blockchain while the blockchain ensures that the historical record is tamper-proof.

neospice | 7 years ago | on: How Blockchain Works

Please forgive my ignorance if I’m missing something obvious but in your PGP public key tampering example, wouldn’t this attack be ineffective against a blockchain that is stored in multiple peers. I.E your hashes wouldn’t match those of the peer copies of the blockchain?

neospice | 7 years ago | on: Security Begins at the Home Router

It seems obvious that this should be developed, but to take it a step further it would be great if consumers could purchase something that gave them access to these plugins without needing to know how to setup OpenWRT. This will be challenging because most ISPs provide the router and firmware for the majority of their customers.

neospice | 7 years ago | on: Google Cloud Platform – The Good, Bad, and Ugly

I haven't migrated off of Firebase but this is something I've thought a lot about as I've selected Firebase for many of my client projects.

As far as I can tell there is no open-source alternative with feature parity that makes it easy to migrate away from Firebase. I'd be curious to hear about how people have done this.

neospice | 7 years ago | on: Have the Tech Giants Grown Too Powerful?

As an entrepreneur, I feel that its not always the problem that they can't be beat at the product game- but that the product doesn't really matter.

Often people don't look at the product, but the marketing. E.G. It's not a problem that SquareSpaces has an awesome site-builder, but it is a problem that they can afford to use [Keanu Reaves](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqnhN2Rzaqc) as their mascot.

neospice | 8 years ago | on: Facebook’s Surveillance Machine

VR is still early but it's convincing. Have you tried a very good VIVE setup? I've only used it once but that's all it took for me to understand that VR is the future of immersive entertainment. Based on that experience it seems apparent to me that the only thing stopping it from becoming mainstream is the clunkiness you describe. However, we should all know that it's only a matter of time before that clunkiness is replaced by a better engineered form factor.
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