matthewdavis

Re:Mark Zuckerberg's 2016 personal challenge on Sunday January 03, 2016 @07:18PM (#10833305)

Guess this is what billionaires do with their free time. Bill Gates did this to his house many moons ago.

Re:A town of about 200 people, almost all of whom live in the same bui... on Monday January 05, 2015 @04:36PM (#8841349)

>In summer, cruise ships, charter boats, and commercial fishing vessels bring thousands of visitors to Whittier’s harbor on the west side of Prince William Sound.

Sounds like tourism is a large portion of income.

Re:QCraft: A Beginner's Guide to Quantum Physics in Minecraft [video] on Sunday September 14, 2014 @11:18PM (#8317128)

Never ceases to amaze me what people can accomplish in Minecraft.

Ask HN: When will the physicality of digital storage be unmanageable?

Posted by matthewdavis on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @01:45PM
from the ask-hn dept.

There are numerous organizations that are backing up data, and often times backing up the data to multiple locations (internet.org, amazon S3, dropbox, etc). Often times these sites taut site Geo-redundancy. But the data has to be physically stored somewhere.A few facts I could glean (somewhat dated)- In 2013 Amazon stores 2 trillion objects...

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Re:Apple Files Transparent Texting Patent To Help People Who Walk And ... on Thursday March 27, 2014 @01:10PM (#7481779)

I realize that the patent was filed in 2012, but there's plenty of prior art. For example: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/type-n-walk/id331043123?mt=8 The whois for type-n-walk show it was created 2009. And archive.org (https://web.archive.org/web/20091006131301/http://www.type-n...) shows that there was actually an app in existence at that point. -

Re:HTML5 Bookmarks – daily news articles and bookmarks on Sunday March 16, 2014 @01:44PM (#7410367)

The magnifying glass icon, while looks like a way to search the bookmarks, actually opens ALL bookmarks in separate tabs.

Re:Why are firetrucks red? on Monday November 18, 2013 @11:57AM (#6755266)

Why does that read like Yahoo answers?

Re:This extension has transformed my Chrome and computer experience on Monday September 30, 2013 @09:31AM (#6469479)

This may be a stupid question, but why don't our browsers do this automatically? This seems like a good idea.

Re:What you need to know to keep your online accounts safe on Saturday September 28, 2013 @03:32PM (#6462861)

That's why I use QR codes. And offline QR code generation.

Re:Chrome has updated - How to fix the changed New Tab page on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @09:52AM (#6444540)

I actually find myself using a blank page in firefox. But in chrome(ium) I use the extension Currently - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/currently/ojhmphdk... Makes a new tab actually useful for me.

Re:One Beautiful Attempt to Fit the US Civil War into a Single Chart on Monday September 23, 2013 @11:17AM (#6431510)

It was a beautiful attempt.

Re:Constitute: The World's Constitutions to Read, Search and Compare on Monday September 23, 2013 @10:51AM (#6431324)

I was expecting side-by-side comparisons at first. Then I saw the format and realized it's EVERY constitution. Wow.

Re:7 Things that WILL go wrong when you run a Webinar on Monday September 23, 2013 @10:22AM (#6431108)

I work for a company that heavily uses Linux and work in a position where I do all my work exclusively remote via web share/phone call. So we need a web sharing application that is stable on linux & windows. We've had good success with Elluminate (now owned by Blackboard). It's re-paint algorithm seems to be bearable.

Great suggestion about #2. I know a number of my colleagues that don't get that. And screenshare a 1080p display and don't even use a fullscreen presentation. So the text is completely unreadable on small screens.

Re:Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors on Monday September 16, 2013 @01:48PM (#6394580)

> Ubuntu is quickly becoming the server of choice as well

Source?

Re:Switching from Gmail to FastMail on Friday July 19, 2013 @10:01PM (#6074024)

>Snowden used lavabit.com, which is located in the US (and probably being scrutinized a bit more than usual these days).

Any proof to this? And, no, twitter is not a source of record.

Re:New Android Market for Phones on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @05:16PM (#2756624)

Maybe this will be included with the money Microsoft makes with every android device.