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maushuon Ask HN: Why does Slack App on macOS drain 3GB of memory?

I think they use their own implementation and not electron.

maushuon ‘The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down’

For Susie parents it's basically: "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."

maushuon U.S. tests nuclear power system to sustain astronauts on Mars

I love the story of Fallout. They decided to use nuclear reactors on cars because there as a lack of petroleum. It was too late though since the Great War started (and ended) a couple of years later.

maushuon Online shopping in Africa doesn’t work because of shipping and billing forms

Technically provinces exist in Portugal. All 11 of them. But they are ignored in the mail.

maushuon GOP lawmakers shamed on billboards for trying to repeal net neutrality rules

But the users and Netflix already paid for this bandwidth? This is like double dipping from the ISP.

maushuon Show HN: Quadcopter Simulator

Hmmm. Not very realistic unless that is a huge and heavy quadcopter.

maushuon People Who Train Robots to Do Their Own Jobs

It will reach the point that there are no more layers. Only idea => implementation.

maushuon The JavaScript phenomenon is a mass psychosis

I love C# but I can't use it with the ease of deploy that node.js has on only having a single executable.

.Net Core is getting there but it's still pretty new compared to the battle-tested Node.js

maushuon Ask HN: Are there any solid arguments against SPAs in 2017?

They pass the rendering to the clients allowing the server to serve more clients.

maushuon Switzerland votes against strict timetable for nuclear power phase out

By calculating the price of the input per energy and the effects of the waste generated.

maushuon RethinkDB is shutting down

Why do you dislike Cassandra?

maushuon Life is Strange is now on Linux (Square Enix game)

There is one called "Garbage Day" but I can't recommend it since the developer doesn't seem to have enough interest in developing it.

maushuon Ask HN: Are the Pokemon Go articles real, or is their PR firm amazing?

Just wait when they mix VR with AR and we see people with Vive/Oculus-like helmets on the street.

maushuon Ask HN: How to learn augmented reality?

I recomend using an existing game engine like Unity. You can then add a toolkit to use AR: http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/15215/unity-3d-and-augm...

maushuon Coinbase Bitcoin Wallet App Gets Axed From iOS App Store

Apple can do both. Either remain (without updates or new users) or remote uninstall on every device (generally used for malware).

maushuon Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked

Yup, I use this all the time. They even, recently, added support to multi-use cards with bigger expire dates.

I wonder how hard would it be to make a startup like this.

maushuon A Most Peculiar Test Drive

Yes, this would make sense, but he didn't mention it though.

maushuon U.S. health is lousy compared with peer nations, report says

> Would you rather wait 2 months just to see a specialist and another 2 months for treatment like patients in nationalized healthcare systems frequently do?

At least we get treatment not dependent on the quantity of money we have.

maushuon Ask HN: What's still missing in Netflix, Hulu, Amazon video?

International support.

maushuon Ask HN: Why is Dropbox still so horrible at support?

You forgot to add features like sync, history and other things to that price.

Dropbox is not just the quota.

maushuon Linode Simplifies Plans, Reveals CPU Priority

You get refunded for your unused time.

Please notice that the minimum time block is a day. If you spin an instance, you pay for the whole day.

maushuon First Teleportation From One Macroscopic Object to Another

You lied to me. :(

Quantum teleportation is faster than light

maushuon First Teleportation From One Macroscopic Object to Another

I concur, but still, instant teleportation of information? Awesome.

No more lag because of distance, no wires, no radiation... the future is going to be awesome.

I wonder, since this experimented worked on macroscopic scale, it will possible to transmit "energy"?

maushuon The game of life emulated in the game of life

Reading Game of Life descriptions feels like reading papers about quantum physics :)

Which creates some disturbing ideas about our reality.

maushuon Lightbox is joining Facebook

Hmm, what if the creator makes it free, to start with, with the goal of selling/merging it?

The users might feel used.

maushuon Ask HN: Stripe equivalent in the EU?

VCs will not tackle this because it's considered "risky".

maushuon Bring back the 40-hour work week

It is broken if that "working hard" is not productive.

maushuon Bring back the 40-hour work week

You are confusing productivity as a measure for the number of jobs.

We use man-hours as the measure for the number of jobs, so, if 4 people working 50 (hours a week) start working 40 that leaves 40 hours to be filled by another person (1 more job). Productivity actually increases even if the man-hours are the same.

maushuon Help, Linux ate my RAM

I'm a developer too and this is what I understand (might be wrong):

- Virtual memory is basically "abstract memory" that is linked (mapped) to RAM or HDD, this means that by accessing this "memory" you might actually be accessing the HDD and, because of this, larger than physical ram.

- Virtual set size is the allocated virtual memory (the above) to the process.

- Resident set size is the allocated physical (RAM) memory to the process.

- Shared memory is memory that is shared on multiple processes, meaning that if you have 10 processes using 10mb of resident memory each and have 2mb of shared memory each, the total of resident memory used is not 100mb but 82mb.

maushuon Ask HN: Raspberry Pi Startup Ideas

A TV game console for low definition games. If it can run Quake 3, then it can easily run 2d games (and other non-heavy 3d games).

Just add a USB hub, drivers for game pads (based on ps3/xbox360?), an application to handle game loading from the card and a box around all of this.

Focus on homebrew and so on...