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by Lasher 11y ago
We implemented Lua as the quest / NPC scripting language within a "C" based MUD engine and the performance has been incredible. Tens of thousands of individual programs and not a blip, game pulses smooth as ever 8 times a sec
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Ask HN: BI type dashboards, but just presentation?
1 points by Lasher 12y ago|0 comments
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by Lasher 13y ago
It hasn't been a good year for "expectations of privacy".
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by Lasher 13y ago
Is this what Google actually uses to parse HTML5 pages? Seems like there might be some SEO value in studying it if so. Not for any "black hat" purposes, more to understand what they can and can't easily get to.
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by Lasher 13y ago
I've been playing and running text-based MMOS (MUDs) that do this same thing since the early 1990s. Probably a naive question but isn't there anything that can be done to void these by proving that this was being done on the inter
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by Lasher 14y ago
Awesome! 20 years later this is still my favorite game ever.
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by Lasher 14y ago
This doesn't make sense to me as a user or as a page admin. As a user, if my friends post something I want to see it. If my daughter's karate school or my favorite band posts something, I want to see it. If they're spammy, I'll unsubscribe.
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by Lasher 14y ago
I've been asked to do this before. I just put coworkers into a group and made the post only visible to them. It's ridiculous but harmless and "being right" sometimes just isn't worth the fight when there's no meaningful downside to just goi
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by Lasher 14y ago
Looks like that site was hacked or something - "cheap viagra" ads all over front page.
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by Lasher 14y ago
Even scarier is their definition of social network. From the patent document: "Social networking websites may comprise internet-based social networking services that focus on building and verifying online social networks for communities of
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by Lasher 14y ago
The only real issue with Paypal is unfortunately a huge one if you're unlucky enough to get caught up in it - their overly-aggressive "holds" on funds in accounts. Other than that their customer service is better, their site easier to use,
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by Lasher 14y ago
When working on Aardwolf which is mostly pure ANSI C (GCC) nothing quite beats VIM with cscope extensions. For quick editing a webpage or some CSS just plain old notepad++. For day job stuff, either xcode or Visual Studio depending on the A
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by Lasher 14y ago
It might be unpopular to say it out loud, but I would bet most HN readers have at least one person on their Facebook page they would not hire base on what they've seen posted there - people they might have otherwise considered hiring. I hop
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by Lasher 14y ago
Not to be melodramatic, but as someone still in a day job this whole patent mess seriously does discourage me from taking the leap and risking everything to try to invent something meaningful only to get hit with a patent troll lawsuit just
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by Lasher 14y ago
If your income exceeds your expenses you're in good shape. For too many people that involves an endless game of chasing more income when the 'expense' side of the equation can usually be brought under control with less effort and right now,
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by Lasher 14y ago
I've found Lynda.com is an awesome resource for getting a quick overview or refresher on the basics of a language with more in-depth classes if I find something interesting enough. If you're looking at learning a single language in depth th
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by Lasher 14y ago
Presumably nobody would use the name servers that they knew were on a shadow DNS being run by "squatters", so there would be no value to the names and no point squatting them in the first place.
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by Lasher 14y ago
Do you have a way to build in guest accounts that will expire after X hours / days? Hearing 'sign in without logging in' makes me cringe, but I can see why you would want to do this. I hear what Joachim said that it really is no worse that
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by Lasher 14y ago
Can you afford to be right in this case? Even if you ultimately win, defending a lawsuit is expensive. Are these companies pretty much in a monopoly situation? If they have competition, and you can get some of their competitors on board and
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by Lasher 14y ago
Btw, I do completely sympathize with the situation itself, it sucks. But name-calling the new owner of the domain, who almost definitely acquired it legally, and is the only person able to make the decision to return it, does not seem very
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by Lasher 14y ago
I leased my car for 3 years then I didn't renew it and they sent multiple notifications to my last contact address and finally repossessed the car a few months after I stopped making payments. Now some car squatter has hijacked it and has m
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UK resident to be sentenced for "Offensive Facebook Message"(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by Lasher 14y ago|5 comments
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by Lasher 14y ago
I didn't get one of these emails, does that mean that Paypal are going to hold even more of my funds to cover the increased risk? Ouch :)
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Amazon sock puppets and the value of online reviews(forbes.com)
2 points by Lasher 14y ago|0 comments
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by Lasher 14y ago
I loved this article. This paragraph in particular really struck home for me: "Entrepreneurs get stuck trying to find something they are passionate about. Picking a business you are passionate about is not as important as being passionate a
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by Lasher 14y ago
Lots of comments here are focusing on the mechanics of credit card processing and why Paypal might have to hold funds, but to me the entire article was really about the customer service angle and how Paypal handle this. They freeze acco
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by Lasher 14y ago
Facebook is looking quite tempting lately but it's hard to get over that 777 million shares that will potentially hit the market on November 14.
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When Facebook insiders can sell their stock.(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by Lasher 14y ago|1 comments
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by Lasher 14y ago
You're probably familiar with the Eclipse distribution management package then (not to be confused with the IDE), that's the app I was referring to. I've been using Universe since the Vmark days, ADDS Mentor and Sequoia before that. Pick ty
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by Lasher 14y ago
Interesting that one of the original "noSQL" databases that is still going strong today, Pick and its variants, was not mentioned in the article at all. Universe and JBase are both well supported on Linux and there are several multi-billion

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