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Curl hearts Mozilla

Today Mozilla revealed the new logo and "refreshed identity". The new Mozilla logo uses the colon-slash-slash sequence already featured in curl's logo as I've discussed previously here from back before the final decision (or layout) was complete. The sentiment remains though. We don't feel that we can in any way claim…

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VR

About a month and a half ago I tried the new Oculus and was completely blown away. Even though there were clear rough points – expensive computer, not wireless, limited apps – I was amazed. The next morning I had two thoughts: 1. Because VR games are so physical, gaming will no longer be perceived as an unhealthy…

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Flickr – A Year Without a Byte

One of the largest cost drivers in running a service like Flickr is storage. We’ve described multiple techniques to get this cost down over the years: use of COS , creating sizes dynamically on GPUs and perceptual compression . These projects have been very successful, but our storage cost is still significant. At the…

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Office Hours with Sam Altman [video]

Sam Altman and Craig Cannon go through questions submitted on Hacker News [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13338805]. To submit a question for Office Hours, send an email to Macro@YCombinator.com [macro@ycombinator.com] with a few sentences of context (e.g. what your company does) and your question…