RWilson

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by RWilson 17y ago
That's a great link, I had not seen that article before. Though, in practice,the actual framerate to vary from the specified by much more than the -10 / +5 fps that he lists. His final sentences might be relevant to this topic: On high CP
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by RWilson 17y ago
I would really, really love to know the answer to this too. It's hard to describe my surprise that my 5-year-old PC, with a low power 1.6Ghz CPU, can easily breach 100fps while playing JamLegend, and my 9-month old, dual-core 2.66Ghz MacBoo
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by RWilson 17y ago
Criticizing Dustin for an incident regarding which you have not sought his side is very poor form. Similarly, criticizing his argument ad hominem highlights only your own bias without refuting or examining any of his points. To quote John
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JamLegend’s ‘Guitar Hero For The Web’ Lets You Play Any Song You’d Like(techcrunch.com)
43 points by RWilson 17y ago|8 comments
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by RWilson 17y ago
Nice! That's great to hear, since it's always perplexing when native code ISN'T the fastest... Kind of makes you have to ask, "If there is a better way, why isn't that the native way?" But, for Tamarin, that question will be moot.
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AS3 Bitwise gems - fast integer math(lab.polygonal.de)
10 points by RWilson 17y ago|4 comments
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by RWilson 17y ago
Cuil made it on in the special category for the "Failure to Launch" award as did MobileMe.
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by RWilson 17y ago
Hmmm... a larger version of the most annoying kind of flash ad on the web. I want those 15 seconds of my life back.
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by RWilson 18y ago
This is something we looked at for a while when starting out, and even posted on HN to ask about ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=203864 ). In the end, we chose Flex because it seemed like we could get good enough performance while en
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by RWilson 18y ago
It's not a programming book but... "The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal" It's an awesome book about the history of computing, human-computer interaction, and all sorts of things you're familia
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by RWilson 18y ago
Vote for JamLegend too! Gotta love the underdog in the music category...
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by RWilson 18y ago
It would be nice if all the TechCrunch trolls could go back to TechCrunch.
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by RWilson 18y ago
Those links are all to companies who have the puzzle sent in with the application, not given in the interview. Also, on that note, Joel Spolsky advises ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/SortingResumes.html ) that this will reduce th
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by RWilson 18y ago
By the way, at the bottom of that, I discussed a few thoughts I had on how to tackle the issue of triggering concurrent cache refreshes in a clustered environment. Would appreciate feedback on (1) those ideas, if you've tried any or anythi
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The JamLegend Fragment Cache(blog.augmentedfragments.com)
14 points by RWilson 18y ago|1 comments
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by RWilson 18y ago
You're technically right. For reference, look and feel fall under "trade dress" [ http://www.ivanhoffman.com/tradedress.html ]. In brief, the relevant case law is: "To recover for trade dress infringement ... a plaintiff must prove by a p
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by RWilson 18y ago
I agree. The idea is great, and would save some dev time and learning about various communication streams, but it's not affordable. Were we to switch to MessagePub just for the e-mails we send from JamLegend for friend requests, challenges
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by RWilson 18y ago
some of those are obvious, but the Ad Planner was an interesting trick...
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Combining Agile Development with Customer Development(startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com)
4 points by RWilson 18y ago|0 comments
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by RWilson 18y ago
There's a subtle difference here that isn't being highlighted: Releasing often does not mean giving in to feature creep. Feature creep and lack of coherent direction was the failure, not release timing nor release frequency. Releasing oft
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by RWilson 18y ago
It's nice to see such a rational comparison of languages. So often, I see blogs written by people who only understand one language and blindly compare its' elegant solutions to arcane versions in another language because they don't underst
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by RWilson 18y ago
Lower your burn, move to Detroit and buy a house for 2-3 months SF rent.
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by RWilson 18y ago
Ideally we should use the right tool for the job, but sometimes time constraints pressure us to try to use the tool we know best for any job, and the next thing you know we're using a wrench to twist a nail into the wall. We might get it i
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by RWilson 18y ago
flickr is a photo sharing site, that also supports video. Facebook is a social network that supports video. Both are inherently made up of many-to-many personal relations without much direct focus. Neither of those, though, allows you to
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Fliggo Lets You Build Your Own YouTube [YC S08](techcrunch.com)
68 points by RWilson 18y ago|41 comments
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by RWilson 18y ago
Hmm... not sure what justified the -1 on this. Perhaps that in some languages if (a) can be used as a shortcut for if (a != null), where a is an object and not a boolean. So, as a correction to my previous comment. If (typeof a == "Boolea
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by RWilson 18y ago
While I wasn't assuming that, good catch that I neglected to mention otherwise. That said, we don't have a measure of the positive externalities to ones life, whereas we do have karma. So, fully recognizing that there is more to HN than ear
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Ask HN: How much are you paying for your karma?
3 points by RWilson 18y ago|5 comments
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by RWilson 18y ago
You reached these Keeeeds!
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by RWilson 18y ago
agreed, if (a) then just return a; if (a) { return true; } is just as redundant as an if (a == true) statement.

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