Detrus

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by Detrus 15y ago
For a while it seemed like Google had a strategy with Go, NaCl and Pepper. But they have other "evolutionary vectors" and the reasoning is not obvious. Is it technical or political?
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by Detrus 15y ago
Pepper is the link between NaCl and browser APIs.
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by Detrus 15y ago
I want more attention paid to realistic games. The early Ghost Recons were going in that direction, but the later ones turned around and went for arcade mode, letting you get shot many times, aim effortlessly etc. Seems they're trying to ca
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by Detrus 15y ago
Similar thread from a while back mentioning charitywater http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822610 Spammy? And I'll start with my old answer here. I'm suspicious of attempts to solve problems in the developing world that aren't part of
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by Detrus 15y ago
Seeing violence should indeed make you less violent unless you're a psychopath or trained to commit violence like modern soldiers are. This is a fun doco about most WW1-WW2 soldiers being unable to kill in combat, only 2% shot to kill, bein
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by Detrus 15y ago
Clippy is plopping intrusive tutorials on top of a complex interface. It's not a serious attempt at execution, it's bureaucratic incompetence. What I'm talking about is more akin to Google and Wolfram, when they give you an answer to a math
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by Detrus 15y ago
I think it's a false choice. The example of Acorn and Pixelmator is strange. Acorn is not much easier to pick up, it has almost all the buttons. Personally found it harder to use and understand what it's for. If you don't understand it's pa
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by Detrus 15y ago
I wouldn't bet that technology should net kill jobs now. There's still a lot that must be done by humans to get to the next technological plateau. If jobs don't come back now it will be because of economic reasons. It's possible that our ed
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by Detrus 15y ago
http://youtu.be/seX7jYI96GE?t=52m35s Mentions they're working closely with the node team here. And that whole talk is about fixing up JavaScript into a modern language, remove the weird syntax quirks around classes, modules, etc. Say what
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by Detrus 15y ago
The V8 team is thinking of adding yield/defer support to make programming in Node neater. There's hope yet. Meanwhile there are other choices that are about as easy, like Python libraries and Google's Go. Too bad they don't have the same ze
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by Detrus 15y ago
Yea this http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-abou... is the blog, mentioned by yummyfajitas
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by Detrus 15y ago
Actually I remember some well liked and upvoted blog on HN posting stats that separated out affluent ethnicities from poor ethnicities and making US education look good.
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by Detrus 15y ago
Did they make it harder to find the prices for normal chartbeat? That starts at $10 a month. News sites are a richer audience, I'm surprised they don't charge more.
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by Detrus 15y ago
The premise is intriguing but seems pretty far fetched. Quora is better organized than the current web, so eventually it could become the framework of the web. Maybe, but if it's not centralized around Quora, may not do them much good. The
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by Detrus 15y ago
- Simulation games: how to make realistic, educational games interesting without cheesing them up in order to make gameplay tolerable. For example Sim City, Rome Total War, Battlefield 3 and other FPSs, Farmville etc. If you're wasting your
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by Detrus 15y ago
It's better to make coal powerplants run cleaner too. Thorium will require serious effort to develop, a decade perhaps, but sure would be nice to have. Modern uranium is not that bad either. There was some solar thermal project in Californi
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by Detrus 15y ago
The whole point of these renewable energy projects is to be considerate to the environment. Covering up the desert, inhabited by tons of species (this is not the Sahara) in a greenhouse is an environmental disaster in a new skin. Land use e
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by Detrus 15y ago
I don't see it mentioned in the article, but the greenhouse must be colossal. These updraft towers use land far less efficiently than concentrated solar and those don't use land efficiently either. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_u
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by Detrus 15y ago
Well, reading over my routine of writing down only interesting ideas, many of the ideas are still interesting. Reading over my freewriting, it's just a lot of "let me think of what to say, oh I bought a MacBook and played a game." I wouldn'
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by Detrus 15y ago
http://750words.com/ is a cute tool for the writing exercises. I'm not a writer, just checked it out for a few days and didn't read the Accidental Genius book. I got bored the second day. I didn't write down anything interesting, my free
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by Detrus 15y ago
What about sky cities like the Ultima tower?
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by Detrus 15y ago
Yea to a database newb MongoDB and even Redis look simpler to use than MySQL. I was judging from the basic setup, syntax, boilerplate, tutorials, etc. Mongo's syntax requires the smallest learning curve, it's the dot notation you're used to
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by Detrus 15y ago
22,700 http://testyourvocab.com/?r=38336 What difference does it make? The site doesn't say what it means in everyday life. I'm guessing if you exclude high achieving SAT vocab nerds, it finds the difference between people who care about
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by Detrus 15y ago
HN Trends mentions of the other NoSQL contenders are pretty close to MongoDB. http://hntrends.jerodsanto.net/?q=MongoDB%2C+MySQL%2C+Redis%... I think it's early to call a NoSQL winner/hammer now but I personally expected one eventually,
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by Detrus 15y ago
I watched one of the videos and seems accurate enough. The cut left out an important bit from the end of that video. Developing those kinds of thorium reactors would take the US five years with a Manhattan Project style investment. Ten or m
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by Detrus 15y ago
Oh, well in the pseudo(?) code he seems to push the content from temp lists into the main list, so it seemed that as long as you have separate temp lists for A,B you wouldn't lose anything, but I probably misread it. But anyway, as the othe
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by Detrus 15y ago
You have to use Redis' INCR to generate the UUIDs.
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by Detrus 15y ago
try out Golang
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by Detrus 15y ago
Mozilla is working on Rust https://github.com/graydon/rust/wiki/Language-FAQ . Google has Go http://golang.org/ . To run compiled binaries from such languages you'll use Native Client http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ and Pepper AP
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by Detrus 15y ago
I'm not so sure Google's long term strategy is to bet it all on browser based clients and reach at the expense of user experience. They have NativeClient in ChromeOS, which may be a play to write a more traditional OS but better merged with

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