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by Fizzer 13y ago
Upgrade notes are here: http://docs.mongodb.org/master/release-notes/2.6-upgrade/ "the upgrade from MongoDB 2.4 to 2.6 is a binary-compatible drop-in upgrade: shut down the mongod instances and replace t
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by Fizzer 13y ago
"Civilization Revolution" does this. Say the player loses a 75% roll, then attempts another identical 75% roll. The game will actually give you better odds for the second roll. I think it's silly -- the game basically lies
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by Fizzer 13y ago
> you pay the much cheaper CloudFront outbound bandwidth costs, instead of the S3 outbound bandwidth costs. What? CloudFront bandwidth costs are, at best, the same as S3 outbound costs, and at worse much more expensive. S3 outbound costs
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by Fizzer 13y ago
Windows does not send anything back to Microsoft unless the user explicitly enables the "Customer Experience Improvement Program." If you want to check if this is enabled, just press start and type "ceip".
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by Fizzer 13y ago
More: - http://cs2hx.codeplex.com/ (open source) - http://jsc.sourceforge.net/ (open source)
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by Fizzer 13y ago
Are you comparing EC2's hourly rate with dedicated hardware? If so, you're comparing apples and oranges. With EC2, the hourly rate is outrageous for an always-on server. You really need to buy reserved instances for it to be cos
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by Fizzer 13y ago
EC2 is indeed very expensive for Windows hosting. A c1.medium instance on EC2 reserved for 3 years is $42/mo Linux and $116/mo Windows - that's nearly triple the cost for the same hardware! Another option is to switch to mono and run your
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by Fizzer 13y ago
Microsoft does work at eliminating this kind of thing. They clearly just missed this one. Microsoft's main source of control over OEMs is the logo program. All laptops that want to get the "Designed for Windows" sticker (logo) have to pas
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by Fizzer 14y ago
I highly recommend Orbiter for anyone interested in spaceflight. I found Kerbal to be a good stepping-stone to Orbiter. Kerbal is more instant-gratification, but it lacks the realism that I've come to love from Orbiter. I've learned a ton
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by Fizzer 14y ago
This isn't how you go about finding which is the best. This is how you go about finding which is the most popular. Voting is inherently skewed towards popularity, which is not always correlated with quality. From the headline, I had assume
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by Fizzer 14y ago
This really only works if you have a very small site. No offense, but Alexa's rank for fofou.org is over a million. No spammer is going to spend time writing custom logic to break your captcha. I bet you don't even need a captcha -- just
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by Fizzer 14y ago
I can think of a dozen reasons off the top of my head. But if you prefer to avoid proprietary utilities that's understandable.
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by Fizzer 14y ago
Looks impressive! I'm curious how you're doing the parsing. I see that you reference both NRefactory (which reads C#) and Cecil (which reads IL) -- can you talk about how are each of these used and how you combine them? Also, did you consi
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by Fizzer 14y ago
Instead of making a Saturday trip to change an oil and chat with mechanics about good old days, about whether, girls, beer, or whatever it is, I am sure better staying home to chat on Facebook, while my car gets oil change on its own. If
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by Fizzer 14y ago
Having discussed this with friends, a fair number of people just want their own car that they drive. I've encountered the same reaction, and I believe it is widespread. But here's the thing: even the people who insist on owning and drivi
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by Fizzer 14y ago
This is a game changer for big sites on EC2. The key word here is local: 2 TB of local SSD-backed storage. In this video [1], Foursquare says the biggest problem they're facing with EC2 is consistency in I/O performance. They say that t
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by Fizzer 14y ago
Calling it irrelevant just because you can't travel there is short-sighted. We could still learn a lot just by watching the broadcasts of another civilization, even if they're already long gone.
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by Fizzer 14y ago
Funny to post this here, but I'm actually planning on migrating from Rackspace to AWS purely because of price. Rackspace's prices are insane. $1,314/mo for a cloud server with 30gb of ram, compared to $657/mo for 34gb on AWS. Plus with AWS
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by Fizzer 14y ago
Actually Google's new pricing page explicitly says which of their prices are promotional ones and will increase. http://cloud.google.com/pricing/compute-engine.html
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by Fizzer 14y ago
Most of the reasons they presented for it were reasons that benefited the developer, not the user. I assume the headline is referring to why it's bad for the user.
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by Fizzer 14y ago
you need to go with the native languages for the best experience. With MonoTouch, you still write against the native iOS UI. Therefore, from the user's perspective, your app is native. Since the UI is the same, the only thing that coul
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by Fizzer 14y ago
I recently compared the price of Rackspace, EC2, and Azure. If you compare the prices per GB of RAM, EC2 is far, far better than both Rackspace and Azure, which are about equal to each other. This only further solidifies the argument for
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by Fizzer 14y ago
You want Universe Sandbox: http://store.steampowered.com/app/72200/
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by Fizzer 14y ago
I don't think they need to compete head-to-head. They'd compliment each other. This isn't too different from what Steam already does with Windows and a Mac version. Two platforms, one Steam. Users will use whichever they like more, and S
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by Fizzer 15y ago
The main reason I don't allow bots in my game is cost. In my game, the speed at which the game advances is only limited by the speed of the players, and bots can play thousands of times faster than a human. Just a few aggressive bots could
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by Fizzer 15y ago
"This database is good at high concurrency writes" and "this database has very good write performance" strongly favors MongoDB. This is interesting because MongoDB has taken a lot of flak for their global write lock. Also, updating a Mongo
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by Fizzer 15y ago
This is exactly what I needed. I'm currently using the Rackspace VM that gives 4gb of ram. I wanted to switch to EC2 after they dropped prices, but I would have either had to drop down to a small (1.7gb - not an option for my workload) or
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by Fizzer 15y ago
Does anyone know if OpenGL's 1024x1024 image size restriction is being raised as well? Seems pretty limiting to not even be able to make an image that's as big as the screen without tiling four of them together.
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by Fizzer 15y ago
He knowingly manipulated their device detection system. Yes, it's true their device detection system is trivial to manipulate, but that doesn't change the legality. If a bank forgets to lock their vault, you still wouldn't want to clean t
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by Fizzer 15y ago
I can imagine a time when this practice becomes so common that spambots start mass-applying, and then employers need to use a CAPTCHA to ensure that only humans are using their API. CAPTCHAs on an API. Never thought I'd see the day...

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