LewisJEllis

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by LewisJEllis 12y ago
Let's interpret the claim precisely before calling it incorrect. What it asserts is that there exist some minimalist Linux distros around a few hundred megabytes in size, and this can be shown true merely by example. The claim notably
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by LewisJEllis 12y ago
Related to this idea is the "Jump Point Search" algorithm, an optimization of A* which does this sort of straight-line optimization for exactly this use case. http://zerowidth.com/2013/05/05/jump-poi
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by LewisJEllis 12y ago
That isn't the price from 0 to flying; it's apparently already more than half built. I'm also not sure how accurate that number is; different reports state numbers between $100m and $300m. http://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by LewisJEllis 12y ago
Note: the Magni is a $99 amp.
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by LewisJEllis 12y ago
"You're too stupid to handle this, just stick to PHP" - really? If a developer can't grasp Node well enough to avoid blocking the event loop, I certainly wouldn't want them trying to handle a thousand connected clie
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by LewisJEllis 12y ago
I agree with you in part; there are at least a few entries in the list which would be better described as "pitfalls" than as "mistakes". But "subjective" does not describe every entry in the list; there's
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by LewisJEllis 12y ago
"People keep putting generators, callbacks, co, thunks, control flow libraries, and promises into one bucket." Yes, and that bucket is called a Stream, as used effectively by FRP libs like RxJS and Bacon.js, and by Highland ( http
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by LewisJEllis 12y ago
Great copy from Uber: "We use driver ratings to know who are great partners are"
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by LewisJEllis 12y ago
Not even 2.5 years.
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by LewisJEllis 12y ago
Cloudflare has offered SSL & SNI for paid customers for ages. You're missing the point.
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by LewisJEllis 12y ago
Hm, they work fine for me; can you be more specific?
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by LewisJEllis 12y ago
A search engine is technically sufficient, but takes more time and is less accessible. A search engine won't put things in front of you for you to peruse and explore; you have to know what you're looking for. Beyond that, the cont
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by LewisJEllis 12y ago
'awesome-lua' is not typically a phrase/term referring to the Awesome WM. On GitHub, there is only one awesome-wm-related repo by the name `awesome-lua`; it's just one person's configuration and hasn't been upd
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by LewisJEllis 12y ago
Indeed; I have no claim to originality. The pre-existing list is (extremely) incomplete, and gives a laundry list of outdated and unmaintained libraries which are often not useful or broadly relevant. Such entries dilute the usefulness of a
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by LewisJEllis 12y ago
Not necessarily proprietary apps, but a wide variety of use cases; Lua is embedded in all kinds of different stuff and used for game dev, webdev, embedded scripting, WoW, configuration, and much more, whereas JS, for example, is used in jus
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by LewisJEllis 12y ago
This is a totally valid point which I considered, but I think the association of awesome-<language> for lists like this is more valuable, since part of the purpose is to make it accessible for people outside the lua world (who probabl
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by LewisJEllis 12y ago
Author/maintainer here - Thanks for the kind words! Lua's nature is definitely a bit prohibitive to a tight community, so part of my intention with this list is to provide an overview of what's out there. As far as penlight g
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by LewisJEllis 12y ago
Amazon's not making their money on random individual users, and companies aren't jumping to migrate away from it. AWS is way more than just a VPS provider.
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by LewisJEllis 13y ago
I got a Playstation Portable for Christmas one year in middle school. I had played my share of flash games over the years, and was particularly hooked on the Tower Defense genre thanks to Flash Element TD and Desktop TD. The PSP didn't
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by LewisJEllis 13y ago
NEL was provided as an example to think about, not as a 'proposal'. There was no suggestion that students use this for everything. Keep in mind that this is a structured 100-level class targeted at undergrads who are relatively ne
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by LewisJEllis 13y ago
It's not as simple as 6k writes - it's 6k write requests. Most of these 'write requests' are tweets which must be written to the timelines of hundreds or thousands (or in some cases millions!) of followers. If you try to