Detrus

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Keeping Solar Thermal Low To the Ground(greentechmedia.com)
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by Detrus 15y ago
In this case Brin might just be a convenient way to subsidize Wikipedia. Google depends on Wikipedia to provide good results for a large percentage of their searches.
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by Detrus 15y ago
But from reading the article he says that with Spine, using either the temp or final ID in your app will work. It seems to handle the temp to final ID linking under the hood. That's assuming I'm reading the article correctly.
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by Detrus 15y ago
Nice idea but the UI is weird. I have to setup questionnaires, click save on them and on each day. It should sync in the background. Can't input data for past days even if they're empty, only current day. The shuffling around animation betw
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by Detrus 15y ago
The test doesn't control for all the variables to make the conclusion that verticals are better than grids. The grid elements having borders and shadows may hurt it. Hard to tell but pics in the grid look smaller than in vertical. The spaci
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by Detrus 15y ago
Go's major advantage is its cute mascot. At Google, Go seems to be competing with Python. http://www.quora.com/Which-is-easier-to-program-in-Python-or... Looks like for certain problems that don't need to interoperate with the larger syst
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by Detrus 15y ago
Well again I haven't looked at the job/revenue numbers, I wouldn't go by personal impressions. The gimmicks in Century of Self are the standard of today's obnoxiously annoying advertising. It's hard to say how well those tricks worked in th
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by Detrus 15y ago
That type of crud is done by people who come from old media companies and think of the web as a hot new thing in 2011. Agencies charge for how much production work they can do for the commercial - video shoots, retouching, flash, etc. This
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by Detrus 15y ago
If you're taking your time to design some important large scale system, using proven technologies is easier overall with higher up front costs. Prototypes are another story. You'd optimize against mental overhead.
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by Detrus 15y ago
Simultaneously the print industry is dying. Ad agencies are not used to the new mediums. You can advertise on Google and Facebook without the overhead of designers and rich media production. Big old agencies are cutting staff and outsourcin
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by Detrus 15y ago
The stricter schedule in advertising vs work whenever probably has little to do with it. Advertising by its nature is more predictable, it doesn't have long term, world changing impact. The ultimate problem of selling is easy enough to crac
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by Detrus 15y ago
http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/managing-resources... says Note: All Go instances have concurrent requests enabled automatically. then says their Python is not ready for concurrency. A note I'd make about Go: if error handling
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by Detrus 15y ago
Communities fall apart, especially large ones. Maintaining the same level of quality would be unprecedented, even if you had the exact same people they would change over time. Also the minimalist computer science inspired upvote/downvote so
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by Detrus 15y ago
Well, is 30 fps the limit, or 60?
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by Detrus 15y ago
Also relevant http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3169241 This discussion about what's the best approach to speeding up the web stack is getting old and browsers haven't gotten much faster since it began. Ok so JS in its current form can
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by Detrus 15y ago
At the last Google I/O (2011) the V8 team mentioned they've done all the major optimizations they could and the focus should now be on DOM/CSS/etc to get more performance. I'm guessing that's why they have the Dart effort, to change the lan
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by Detrus 15y ago
So are those types of models useful? The ones that need to be adjusted constantly?
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Airships in general didn't take off because of the high rate of accidents. Almost every major airship from 1900-1940 crashed after a few years of service. It's only now that we have better weather info and new materials that anyone is takin
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by Detrus 15y ago
Kinda hard to TL;DR actually. It's a poetic history of gambling on the future and how every new twist on the practice causes crashes, regulations, etc. And the history goes back to ancient Rome. In conclusion, we haven't mastered predicting
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by Detrus 15y ago
What about links to mental conditions?
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by Detrus 15y ago
Those languages were meant to stretch your mind Go is not in the mind stretching camp, it's just practical. It's made from existing ideas that you would have seen in other languages that came and went. So in that sense it's not interestin
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by Detrus 15y ago
Looks like http://www.telescopictext.com/
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by Detrus 15y ago
I wonder how many blog posts are abandoned before they're fully fleshed out. If the percentage is too high it could be a downer for this idea. Your tool combined with my wondering led to this trolltacular literary masterpiece. http://www.p
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by Detrus 15y ago
If there's a reasonable conclusion to be made from app overload it's that apps must die. Web, desktop and mobile apps, the way they're presented are a pain for the end user. He has to think in terms of apps, not in terms of functionality. A
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by Detrus 15y ago
Missed Redis in databases
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by Detrus 15y ago
I'm pretty sure the only sane way to implement CPU intensive tasks in Node and browsers are web workers. Not sure about the state of web worker support in Node but the resulting code should be straightforward. Even so, the speed of JavaScri
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by Detrus 15y ago
But is the async module itself elegant? I guess it's relative, it's even less elegant not to use the module. The async module is still a hack, the cleanest one Node has. I think the whole discussion about "cancer" wouldn't have happened if
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Too bad the code is so nasty
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Is it because there are so many programmers? Doesn't he hate that a 50,000 LOC VM linked to C++ libraries is more popular than a 8,000(?) LOC language that solves the same problems and more? It doesn't matter for most end users but it sucks
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by Detrus 15y ago
Well, the space shuttle's booster rockets were similarly reusable, don't see why this couldn't work in theory, except for the no parachutes trick. It's probably to make the video more dramatic. I wonder what kind of maintenance cost those b

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