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I too turned off notifications on gmail a long time ago. However, I've setup some filters looking for words like "urgent", "emergency", etc without telling people that I have.…

Infinite scalability is all party until you get DDoSed and have to sell your house to pay the bills. How do you prevent that? Cloudfront maybe?

CHDK project [1] early on used to dump flashes of Canon cameras through their LEDs [2]. [1]: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK [2]: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/…

Some interesting electronics examples I found on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbSmrjmP85Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0zHiVw-c7k https://w…

To add to that, and perhaps more importantly, is human brain's constant reaction time and tunneling of the vision at higher speeds. The former means that you'll be travelling a longer distan…

Great idea! I can think of a crowd sourced site that publishes these hourly stats from all ISPs and at different locations.

Are you sure about it being marketing 101 and not 901? I can clearly see 100% of ads I've seen over the past month from established or younger companies doing exactly what Simon is criticizing.

If a website only uses HTTPS for login, then it has to set a cookie for HTTP as well, otherwise how will the user navigate the site after login? From top of my head, you can implement this by associat…

Can anyone with startup experience talk about the effectiveness of the method that Simon Sinek promotes [1] as a way to break through a market filled with "shitty" products? [1]: https:…

Thread with bulk of comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10981679

Note that the game won by AlphaGo against the human player took place in October last year.

Voltage is what drives current so they're directly proportional and their proportion depends on electrical resistance. Given that human body's resistance to electricity is more or less const…

Regarding the ranting, it's a common thing. Let's talk apps. I've seen people giving one star because the app took 5 steps to initialize instead of one. I've seen people rate movie…

x86 and Unix are insanely complex too and a big part of that complexity has to do with backward compatibility. I've scanned through the specs and I haven't seen any complexity just for the s…

I see. My response in that kind of situation would be one of: "sure thing", "don't mention it", "sure", "my pleasure".

It indicates distaste of the phrase, in eyes of the author I assume. I personally don't like "no worries" either, mostly because I'm a very literal person and words that unnecessar…

I was under the impression that most if not all meters of any kind (electricity, gas, etc.) have GSM modems that not only allow for this kind of signalling but also report their reading to the energy …

From top of my head, I can count 5 things I've purchased only after seeing an ad for it, that have improved my life immensely, solving issues that I'd never thought I had. One example is (be…

"Okay, I’ll admit it — it’s not exactly the sexiest topic in tech." I actually find USB-C one of the most "sexiest". As the author himself puts it, it's a "Virtualization…

My grandma used to use the loop side of a safety pin to clean her ears. I personally use q-tips but I only do the twist thing at the very entrance of the canal. The point is to keep a clean "appe…

I think the main issue is the width of the escalators. Given that strangers don't like to stand next to one another (as per article's claim), two single width escalators would end up working…

I forever struggled with my standing posture. I always had to put thought into it. Do I keep my shoulders all the way back? Do I suck in my stomach? How much? And because of all the mental load and mu…

Not really. A big enough ship combined with a clear day and a set of binoculars works pretty well. As for the big wave, repeat the experiment enough times to filter out the noise.

I'm sure a udev rule would be sufficient to whitelist only the trusted hardware. However, nothing can stop a malicious one to spoof serial numbers or other characteristics of a trusted hardware.

This example highlights a very useful alternative function of `watch`: to simply run a command on regular intervals without caring about the output.

The absurdity of this intrigued me and I dropped by their site. Read a few threads and it seems like they're not fond of satellite photography and rely on their senses almost exclusively. So here…

These seem to be good reasons for the alleged move by Apple. My personal experience has always been horrible with 3.5mm jack especially on the connector side. My Android phone is already huge and it a…