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ksec
56,012karma·17,291submissions·February 1, 2012
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Edksec @ protonmail . com
https://ksec.mataroa.blog
London, Hong Kong and somehow California*.
Often a Contrarian.
The unwritten rule of HN: You do not criticise The Rusted Holy Grail and the Riscy Silver Bullet.
Interest: JPEG-XL, AAC-LC, VVC / LCEVC, Patent Free AVC, FreeBSD, TigerBeetle, ZFS, DTrace, Vitess, Vespa, Objective-C, Java, Zig, Odin, Crystal, Ada, Ruby, Graal, Rails, 5G/6G, OpenPOWER, Apple/China, Supply Chain / Manufacturing, Retail.
@Google: Why No Pixel Phone in Hong Kong?
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I do think all the BSD, despite how niche it may seems are doing well and in an ongoing development stream. And at least they seem larger than Solaris / Illumos, despite some of the cool tech sol…
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Wait What? Atom is relatively new but Linux dropped support for it? Why is that?
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What are those alternatives? I haven't touched Java for web development for a very very long time.
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user: DarrylLinington created: 3 months ago karma: 17 about: Tech journalist for Notebookcheck.net
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>BEAM/Elixir compared to Rails Compared to Ruby. Elixir land doesn't have something similar to Rails, and phoenix is not it.
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I don't think it is that bad. Especially Ubnt just released their UNAS Pro. ( Although only comes with BTRFS on consumer and ZFS only on the Enterprise. ) I still think Apple should have bring th…
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I seriously doubt it is for the money. It said they are funded, but it doesn't mean they lost control or have to be VC hyper growth. Apart from Notable Capital and Amplify Partners all others are…
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Ok, what is the new drama this time around?
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Flashback to when Mitchell first introduce Vagrant [1] to HN, which of course was the how everything from HashiCorp started. I thought it was't that long ago, may be 8, or at best 10-12 years. …
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OH. I have long wondered why Arizona is a major semi conductor manufacturing hub.
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I used to think about whether we can get more countries switching back to LHT, but with Autonomous Vehicles that will no longer be much of an issue in 10 - 20 years time.
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Agree 100% I got used to opening a new tab for things to read before RSS first invented. So I guess it became a 2nd nature. I also think it is better to read the article first before going to the comm…
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>they want to turn a one-time device purchase into a perpetual monthly revenue stream, Precisely what they should have done for service revenue instead of milking App Store for the past 10 years. T…
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I am not sure why it took Apple this long. In 2013 and 2014 I wrote how Apple's services revenue would or should be an iPhone subscription model and bundled with Apple Care by default instead of …