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fezz··on LisaOS to be open-sourced and donated to Computer History Museum
IIRC, it was around 10k.
fezz··on Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse
His WRX doesn't have backup sensors.
fezz··on Why Snapchat Spectacles failed
Misdirected Narcissism. Never forget who's the star.
fezz··on Fucking Sue Me (2011)
Except when you client is someone with "fuck you" money. Having worked for one of those rich guys with an bulldog legal team on staff, it's hard to win or win without hemorrhaging alot. In his case, he always won or got a good settlement, big or small opponent.

It pays to have the agreements air tight but you also have to watch you back and always have your bases covered. Even then, you could still get screwed even though you were in the right.

fezz··on Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
Solution in search of a problem.
fezz··on Motion Stills – Now on Android
If you can apply it to some other product in the same tone/voice that many other kickstarter or tech products use and it sounds contrived, then you've employed your cookie cutter speak.

It's seems ok because everyone else is doing it but it'll lack the sincerity that people respond to.

fezz··on A lawsuit over Costco golf balls
Their food products always seem subpar at times. Not all but often enough that I don't shop for food there anymore.
fezz··on Heating houses with high performance servers
Servers don't generate dust, they collect it. Add a Hepa filter you have your spin.
fezz··on Silicon Valley's Ambivalence Towards Trump Turns to Anger
and employees.
fezz··on Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Makes Its First Acquisition, Meta
Some similarities to Kodak maybe.
fezz··on IMAX raised $50M to fund creation of VR experiences
+security where do you put your purse, backpack, etc. while you can't see what's going on around you.
fezz··on Tensions Flare in Silicon Valley Over Growth
Thats how LA grew outward. http://la.curbed.com/2014/9/26/10042216/los-angeles-is-still...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb

fezz··on GoPro shows its vulnerability after horrific Q3 earnings
Skylight Digital was the ODM, AFAIK

This was from a shipping manifest search a few years ago.

fezz··on Curiosity Mars Rover Checks Odd-Looking Iron Meteorite
Seems more useful to use as a local resource for building tools and habitats. Ie. to scale up earth supplied tools.
fezz··on Neural Enhance – Super Resolution for images using deep learning
The examples show a comparison to the original and the scaled.
fezz··on Why the Film Industry Hasn't Been Disrupted Yet, Part 5
Related: Peter Coyote's Open Letter To Lead Actors http://deadline.com/2008/07/peter-coyotes-open-letter-to-lea...

"Since 1990 the earnings of the top leading actors have increased exponentially while the salaries of nearly all other actors have been systematically driven down. In many cases, the earnings of established character actors have been rolled back by 60-70 percent. This occurs, in large part, because the working professional (as opposed to the star) is at a disadvantage when negotiating in the new corporatized production environment. We do not possess a unique, marketable (and often media exploited) brand, and consequently lack the power to make or break the existence or profitability of a film. Consequently, respected, veteran actors with numerous credits and hard-earned “quotes” now routinely receive “take-it-or-leave it” offers, often at “scale”—a beginners wage."

fezz··on Why the Film Industry Hasn't Been Disrupted Yet, Part 5
or cinema instead of film.
fezz··on Ask HN: What's the best library for making cross-platform UIs?
I like JUCE. http://www.juce.com/ It's used for a lot of audio apps and plugins but lots beyond that too.
fezz··on Ask HN: Insider history of the demise of Kodak?
As are Sony.
fezz··on [dead]
This has happened to me many times. In Los Angeles. And I'm just brown (asian brown).
fezz··on How an Ad Campaign Made Lesbians Fall in Love with Subaru
Around the late 90s we started to notice the steady growth of subarus at the REI in berkeley. At some point we called them lesbarus because it was obvious but I never realized that the campaign was running all the way back then.
fezz··on How the Gut Affects Mood
Lactobacillus Rhamnosis - supposedly stimulates the nerve in the gut that then triggers GABA production.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21876150

I get it here: http://www.customprobiotics.com/custom-probiotics-l-rhamnosu...

fezz··on Introducing the Infinit file system
LTFS is based on FUSE and has support from all the major tape vendors. It's been pretty stable so far but does have some speed limitations.
fezz··on The midrange computer dies
The exception being content creation needing graphics horsepower and for the near future, the requirements from VR headsets like Vive and Rift.
fezz··on Nest was supposed to lead the next computing revolution. Its looking like a bust
The noise that pulls the worst out of talented and capable people. (aka, ego amplifier)
fezz··on The Not So Easy Oculus Rift Constellation Teardown
Palmer says: "Come on, @iFixit, you can go further than that! :)"

https://twitter.com/PalmerLuckey/status/715269888948854784

fezz··on My Biggest Regret as a Programmer
There are no guarantees that any path you take will be the right path for you by any metric, financial or otherwise.
fezz··on Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be
There are numerous ways they could have transitioned customers... open sourcing the server or providing an upgrade path to newer path to newer devices or even providing a date in the future to transition by.

The path they chose is the one with the least fore thought for their brand and customer relationship.

fezz··on Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw
Red One with lens was about 13-15 lbs although I don't remember a Red One used on an octocopter. Red Epics were out by then which brought the weight down to under 10lbs.

Chain saws without blades are around 10 lbs?

fezz··on Google's Nest is disabling some of its customers' old smart-home devices
They can easily fix this. If they don't, it speaks volumes about how Nest/Google/Alphabets values customer relationships. Take all the other google services and imagine what would happen if google were just as reckless, especially with long life products like home installed devices.

Home automation installation services or even contractors would also be cautious about Nest.

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