uzero | 5 years ago | on: FCA bans sales of crypto-derivatives to retail consumers
Good luck enforcing this with DeFi.
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uzero | 5 years ago | on: Darling: macOS Translation Layer for Linux
Exactly. Also, be careful if you have a fruit as a logo.
uzero | 5 years ago | on: BitTorrent v2
TLDR
https://twitter.com/markopolojarvi/status/130324298806421094...
- new hash function
- more efficient and less error prone .torrent files
- each file in the torrent gets its own hash meaning deduplication across torrents is feasible
- backwards compatible with v1
uzero | 6 years ago | on: OpenTitan – Open sourcing transparent, trustworthy, and secure silicon
Trustworthy and Google don’t go in the same sentence. This will either try to do AMP on silicon or will get cancelled within few years. That’s the Google way.
uzero | 6 years ago | on: Graph database reinvented: Dgraph gets $11.5M to pursue unique, opinionated path
Did I understand the feature table correctly that backups are an enterprise feature?
uzero | 6 years ago | on: Palaeogenomic insights into the origins of French grapevine diversity
This is so on topic that I have to upvote.
uzero | 6 years ago | on: Amazon can't yet completely delete Alexa voice transcriptions
Why people are acting surprised about this? To me it has been always more than obvious that whatever you say to any of the internet connected “assistants” will be stored and kept as long as the assistant owning company likes.
uzero | 7 years ago | on: Cloud Run beta pricing
Any guesses when this gets canceled? I give it 1.4 years.
uzero | 7 years ago | on: A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking – Facebook
This man is a pathological liar. I’m sure he believes himself what he is saying but nothing in his past actions says that he will implement these changes in a way marketed here. Facebook is a publicly owned advertising company. They charge zero cents for using the service. If he destroys the company’s profit source, shareholders will sue him.
uzero | 7 years ago | on: Deep Learning GPUs – 2080 Ti vs Tesla V100. 2080 Ti is 73% as Fast & 85% Cheaper
Pure performance benchmarks are nice but in practice the amount of memory dictates what you can and can’t do. Working with something like “Open”AI’s full GPL-2 isn’t going to happen with 2080ti unfortunately.
uzero | 7 years ago | on: Apple leaves Facebook offices in disarray after revoking app permissions
This brings a smile to my face. I don't care anymore what excuses people come up for Facebook's behavior. Enough is enough and Facebook has crossed the line years ago. No remorse, no forgiveness.
uzero | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do I choose between a job offer from Google and a promising startup?
You listen to your conscience.
uzero | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What ways have worked for you to overcome 'imposter syndrome'?
The best explanation I’ve heard comes from Dan Sullivan. He doesn’t specifically use the name impostor syndrome but is talking about the gap talented and intelligent people feel when other people are praising them and they don’t see themselves that way. It’s caused by people having two stages, front and backstage. Social and traditional media portrays only the frontstage and you never get to see the backstage. So because of this you are constantly compairing your backstage with all the shortcomings and failures to people’s frontstage where there’s only success and perfection. The thing that has helped me is to understand that there was a huge amount of work that got those people at that point and I can do the same, it will just take time. Also believe other people. If they say you are awesome at X and you have spend A LOT of time to learn it, there’s a good chance you actually are awesome at it by the common standards. It’s just that like I said, you see all the things you don’t still know and they don’t. Unless you are in competitive sports, don’t bother being the best, it’s usually not worth it because the gain ratio against the effort don’t make sense. Instead focus on getting really, really good and then expand to related fields so you can start doing stuff nobody else can by combining those fields.
uzero | 10 years ago | on: GitFlow considered harmful
Writing considered harmful posts is considered harmful - I hate these so much.
uzero | 10 years ago | on: How Google Got Design
This is one of those things that I think we just have to agree to disagree. I've to (unfortunately) use Google's webapps in some of my client projects and they're a mess from user experience point of view. Personally I have an iPhone and I'm an Apple user but I make a conscious effort to look for good ideas from where ever they might come so I've made a habit to try latest Android where ever I can. That being said, I'm sorry to say but honestly, I think it's far from intuitive and for me Android has never felt consistent - even Google's own apps are breaking conventions constantly. I realize that this might be because I haven't used Android regularly over long period of time but for me if UX takes time to get used to, it's crap.
uzero | 10 years ago | on: How Google Got Design
Oh I'm sure there's plenty of studies that were used to design Material and that's probably exactly why it feels like it was designed by an algorithm. Like the article says that it's very comprehensive guide/framework to get a cohesive result but that doesn't mean it has the magical "it" what makes design truly remarkable. One reason I think that might be factor is that Google has never been innovator when it comes to user experience. They're more about iteration and testing. The problem is that it leads to local maxima and rarely something unique and something that takes the whole industry forward.
But also keep in mind that designing a framework that works for small screens and big screens is truly a hard task. Microsoft tried and failed with "Metro" and now Google is trying to pull it off. In my opinion Apple has been a bit smarter about this and kept iOS and OSX mainly separate while integrating some elements here and there.
uzero | 10 years ago | on: How Google Got Design
To me Material has always felt like it was designed by an algorithm. There's just no trace of any "soul", playfulness or overall "artistry". I know this isn't true and there's many talented artists and designers working in Google but that's just the way I've perceived everything done with Material so far. It doesn't feel like fun, it feels like something that just had to be done to stay with the times.
Another issue is Material's animations. I literally cringe every time I have to use Google Translate on my phone. I can't imagine how annoying it would be to have full OS on your phone done with Material. Those whole element animations are so distracting and they actually make the app feel slower. I know iOS has also a lot of animation but the difference is where it is being applied. Material design applies it to interactions with elements while iOS applies it to transitions. If I have to wait and see how the element I just interacted with animates, it seems unimportant but if animation is used to mask loading time like for example when transferring between app and homescreen on iOS, then it feels natural. If you want to animate interaction elements, it needs to be really, really fast animation just to let you know that yes, I got your tap/click.
uzero | 10 years ago | on: Firefox will show ads on the new tab page based on browsing history
It's not about where the processing happens or what data is actually transmitted, it's about them pulling this type of shit without clearly asking my permission. And it's not an excuse that Google and others are doing similar things. If you try to win users by publicly saying you're "fighting for privacy", you will be held against higher standards.
Mozilla failed really badly here and honestly I'm not sure if they can ever win back my trust after this. Even though I've read through the tech docs released and I know it's not like they are sending your history all over, it's the way they decided to do this that undermined all their efforts so far.
uzero | 11 years ago | on: Inspiration vs. Imitation
Oh yes, very good strategy for a startup fighting against another startup. I'm sure a letter written by a lawyer will be effective at least in draining Cushion's bank account. Unfortunately in cases like these Cushion doesn't have legally much to go on because it's not super unique design. Only reasonable course of action is to raise awareness and he chose to do that. He also chose to do that without naming the competitor which is of course very classy and smart from Cushion's point of view but does very little for Cushion as a whole. This is a great opportunity to play the competitor out of the market by turning their lust for shortcuts against themselves. Proper way to "return the favor" to the competitor is to get other people telling others about it.
uzero | 11 years ago | on: Inspiration vs. Imitation
Superb strategy with the post - I've to applaud for that. Personally, after that email exchange, I would have made a personal visit with a baseball bat, seriously. I hope somebody posts the competitor's name so we can all publicly shame them in social media which will show up in the search engine rankings so anybody considering them will be directed to Cushion instead of rewarding those asshats.
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