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Chat apps are the posterchild of what happens when open standards (irc, jabber, xmpp,...) get replaced with walled gardens.
On my phone I run: Telegram, Messenger, Viber, whatsapp, hangouts, signal, slack and SMS.
I should have installed skype as well, but its the worst chat app ever that kills your battery instantly. There are others as well but enough is enough.
How did we get here? I regularly need to think where should I message someone or where is a specific chat group....
Imagine you had to do this for every email service provider.
It wasn't Japan, but Taiwan.
I tried searching but I cant find a study where apartment builings in Japan were inadvertently built using steel laced with radioactive elements.
People (10000) were living in them for decades. Statistical analysis on them showed lower affinity for cancer related deaseses.
Dolar denominated trades? (All but the largest are denominated in BTC or ETH on any serious exchange)
So small its insignificant? (Yeah, exactly like when it was 10M marketcap beginning 2017)
This is the best indicator tgat the bubble is nowhere near its bursting point.
Worry the day when CNBC starts talking about paradigm shift.
I really don't get these snarky comments on how this is a bubble and BTC will die and what not. Just don't buy it and leave it to others that like to have x10-x100 gains in a year.
For me it's quite straight forward that BTC value will appreciate over time. There is finite amount of BTC in this world and Y people. Unless some systemic factor (eg. criminalization of use) or technological factor (eg. crypto is broken) rears it's head it's fair to say that an asset designed to be deflatory in price will increase its price over time. It's not going to be a straight line, and I really hate these massive growth spikes (not sustainable, plus they play with your emotions), but we're well ahead of the times when BTC and/or crypto could be called just a fad.
Not with wall street actively pursuing legal means to invest in BTC.
I've recently acquired a HP Envy 13 2017 laptop with Windows preinstalled. I've really wanted to try Windows out, but after installing Google Chrome and Docker (1hr after starting it up) it stopped working - windows boot up into a blank black screen.
In a hurry I've downloaded Ubuntu 17.10, clicked yes and I had a working OS in 15 minutes time. With everything (suspend, broadcom card, USBC video,...) working out of the box.
Super impressed.
If you're a developer there's no UX reason to go Windows anymore.
1. The fact that there is a hard fork coming has been known for months if not years.
2. Developers have notified the community well in advance and content of the hardfork has been discussed with all key players (ex: reward and difficulty bomb).
3. The development decisions are public as is the process - try searching for live streams of developer meetings where Vitalik and others discuss direction in very democratic fashion. I'm not even interested in those and I came across - funny that you're not aware of the existence.
There is a stark contrast between Eth and BTC where constant bickering is the norm.
Go on a holiday, enjoy the sun, do nothing.
Nobody rational would dare to upset the entrepreneurship in US, so I kinda want this to happen, just to see how this will play out.
Granted, I'm not planning to move to US really soon, so I might be biased, but I've really wanted for Brexit to happen and I'm EU.
That is turning out as a disaster, just like rational people suggested. Trump has yet to truly permanently fuckup something so I started to wonder if I was wrong. I see that we're keeping our options open.
Given the positive feedback from the end customer and Mercury Innovation (http://www.mercuryinnovation.com.au/) that took our platform and built the traffic sign (we're not the ones selling the end product) I'd say that TCO is in favor of e-paper traffic signs.
Disclaimer: I work for Visionect
The important thing here is that this first production outdoor deployment of EPD signs in the world works for for years without any serious problems which confirms that e-paper is a viable technology for outdoor deployments. There was a lot of skepticism back in 2013 if this is at all possible.
The fact that they don't break down is just a further testament to e-paper's versatility - we'll see more and more applications using e-paper in digital signage. There's a lot of examples what our customers are building on our blog, like smart citizen information (https://www.visionect.com/blog/soofa-sign-reinventing-citysc...) or trucks equipped with digital signs (https://www.visionect.com/blog/electronic-paper-truck-displa...).
True color E Ink displays with multiple colors in each pixel were thought physically impossible, but first prototypes were shown last year. I suspect we're relatively close to a production version.
1 I'm a cofounder of a company that develops and helps develop e paper products and we sell color E Ink development kits. https://www.visionect.com
There are no technological limitations in terms of the panel size (backplane technology is practically the same as TFT), but its rather a volume question.
We see this "personal display" theme pop-up quite often on our email, but the pricing is prohibitive (even compared to high quality and high resolution LCD consumer panel) and the refresh rate does impose a lot of limitations on what you can do.
I think that E Ink is best used for displaying information and use cases that benefit from E Ink itself (think high contrast, outdoor scenarios, indoor units that work 24/7, applications where you can power a display with a battery and reduce installation complexity).
PS: If I were looking to deploy a wall mounted panel which doesn't look like a development kit, I would wait for a while. ;)
If you manage to build you app/infrastructure in away that can survive nodes shutting down at random times (or if you don't care about restarts) then you can reduce your infra costs for 80%.
We have a staging cluster running on preemptive instances and as soon as one instance goes away we get a different one. Everything gets deployed automatically. Regular internal users checking out various webpages don't even notice.
We're looking into changing our 24/7 infra (which needs to be 24/7) to something that can be run mostly on preemptive (with a couple of normal instances for services that can't be randomly killed).
Super happy about our move to GCP and our K8S experience.
You want your servers running old and verified software.
The preposition of always up to date would be great if that wouldn't mean that your PC doesn't work properly most of the time due to some new bug or incompatibility.
We've run Arch on embedded PCs (arm) due to out of the box docker support, but after updating a year later we've literally were unable to deploy Docker containers. There was a bug in the kernel, and no amount of hacking, upgrading or downgrading made it work.
Luckily we had a sdcard snapshot a year old.
I suggest Ubuntu or Debian, they got good docs, good support and generally a positive community.
As far as windows managers go - pick what you like. Gnome looks slick, xbuntu is my go-to for Chromebooks and default isn't too bad.
A lot of devs in our company go for tiling desktop managers - i3, awm....
I really hope that storage for K8S happens this year in a form that is simpler than Gluster/Ceph/etc and preferably integrated. Right now we're using NFS and it's ok for the simple applications but I right now I wouldn't dare deploy my databases in K8S and feel good about it.
What gives me hope is the speed the K8S is moving forward and the superb experience we had thus far.
Not marketing, or features or UX - price was key for us.
I still hope Slack wins, but MS is a very serious threat. In the end its best for us, users - prices will drop, new features will be added, support will be awesome all thanks to competition.
I'm a business owner working in tech an I actually applaud SF for having the guts to stand up for its people.