tnash | 4 years ago | on: FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website
Absolutely absurd take from Google here. What could they be thinking? It's like they want app store legislation.
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tnash | 5 years ago | on: 12 requests per second: A realistic look at Python web frameworks
Use of ORMs is often a performance choke point. Raw DB queries are often much, much faster.
Almost always, the more you abstract, the worse you perform. It's great as a developer but not so great as a user.
tnash | 5 years ago | on: Long Hundred
This is relevant in my field (Waste Management) as there's the long ton, the short ton, and long and short hundredweight (CWT). All different and confusing!
tnash | 5 years ago | on: “The Big Shift”: Internal Facebook Memo Tells Employees to Do Better on Privacy
It makes clear in the memo, this is FRL (Oculus), not Facebook as a whole.
tnash | 5 years ago | on: A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science
Generally the rule is that if it's hard, you can cut it off, because the mold will have only spread on the surface (think moldy cheddar cheese rind), but if it's soft, throw it out (think blue cheese).
tnash | 5 years ago | on: A new funding model for open source software
I love this idea as a rework of github sponsors.
tnash | 5 years ago | on: Samsung researchers build solid-state EV battery with 500-mile range
...in a lab. I wish battery articles would include in the title whether they are commercialized or just achieved in ideal conditions.
tnash | 5 years ago | on: Port knocking
knockd is pretty easy to setup and use. I used it in a security lab class in college in the late 2000s and nobody could figure out why we didn't have any open ports!
tnash | 7 years ago | on: Sikorsky’s autonomous helicopter tech is ready for takeoff
I'm impressed with what they've been able to do, and happy to see that they're developing in-house. When I was an intern there in the mid-2000's they were still working on fly-by-wire and most (all?) of their programming was done by a separate company.
tnash | 7 years ago | on: EEG Accurately Predicts Autism as Early as 3 Months of Age
"An experimenter blew bubbles to distract them." Wasn't expecting my daily does of cute in this Autism study's abstract, but got it anyway.
tnash | 8 years ago | on: IBM Q system in development with working 50 qubit processor
At what point do we no longer trust public key cryptography (RSA)? Where's the break point?
tnash | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Moving Out of Silicon Valley because of housing? Where to?
Columbus, OH is pretty great. The Dublin Entrepreneurial Center has cheap office space and access to the Metro Data Center on the same floor. There are a couple nice co-working spots too like 400 West Rich.
We have a burgeoning food scene that gets better every year. Cost of living is pretty cheap, we have an NHL team (not to mention NCAA powerhouse OSU), new apartments are going up seemingly everywhere, and Amazon's building a data center here.
tnash | 10 years ago | on: Why my mother’s maiden name is nonsense
Here's what I do: random long strings as answers for each question, and save them with the credentials in KeePass. That way I keep track of each one, and they can't be used against me.
tnash | 10 years ago | on: Thndrstrm, a decentralized personal server solution
PHP and MySQL are actually very fast, check out Tech Empower's benchmarks (https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r10&hw=...).
Remember Facebook is built on PHP. For this purpose (distributed servers) it's a perfect stack. Easy to code for and very fast. Security is one of our primary concerns and I assure you that Thndrstrm has our users' privacy and security in mind at all times.
tnash | 10 years ago | on: PHP in a JavaScript world
One thing that I don't see in these kinds of articles, and what I think is most important: MySQL speed. When I was researching technology, I compared simple pages that read some data from a MySQL database and display it on an html5 page. I did this in Go, Node, Silk, and PHP. PHP blew everyone else away. Now, this was two years ago, and perhaps their MySQL client implementations have gotten better, but this test was the reason my startup is built using PHP. It's the fastest thing available that isn't Java or C++ based. Supported here: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r10&hw=...
tnash | 10 years ago | on: Atomic Bomb: Decision – Target Committee, May 10-11, 1945
According to wikipedia:
"Due to crosswind, the bomb missed the aiming point, the Aioi Bridge, by approximately 800 ft (240 m) and detonated directly over Shima Surgical Clinic"
tnash | 11 years ago | on: Looks by Dr. Dre
Maybe Tim Cook can just start buying companies and wait for other people to figure out what to do with them. It's certainly interesting to see how many people think that Apple is infallible. They make mistakes just like any other company.
tnash | 11 years ago | on: Poll: What OS do you use on your primary computer?
Windows 7 is a solid OS. Also, built my own rig and own a copy of Windows CS4. If Adobe started making a Linux version I'd switch to Ubuntu.
tnash | 12 years ago | on: Quantum Random Number Generator Created Using A Smartphone Camera
If someone could build this into a usb key, I'd buy one for each of my servers in a heartbeat.
tnash | 12 years ago | on: Nod Gesture Control Ring
This is the kind of gesture control I'd like to see for AR products like Google Glass. You shouldn't have to raise your hand to your face to interact with the device. It would be amazing to be able to control an AR headset under the table with your hand during a meeting or similar.
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