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by RyanZAG 13y ago
He never said he was changing because of this issue. (Logically, if he's already been changing over then it can't have been because of an issue that just happened) "Tell us all about how awesome it is building apps in Java!&q
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Probably goes down as one of the worst large scale blunders of this type given the sheer amount of people affected. It's actually fairly insane that node.js relies on npm like this - isn't it only a matter of time before one of th
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Yep it is. The Adapter will generate and cache a view for each item - but once the view moves off the screen, the adapter will reclaim/recycle that view, and the next item to request a view will be given the recycled view. In effect it
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Going camping with a tent for a fairly extended period generally works well (and serves as great exercise and a holiday, too). Try to do this low tech though, eg. walking a good distance from your car so you can't use the car battery e
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Vert.x has something called a 'worker verticle' that can run blocking IO in a thread pool. You'd communicate with the worker by passing messages on the event bus asynchronously. It makes integrating those kind of services fai
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Please use this stuff sparingly though, especially things like resolveClassMethod: as it makes for some incredibly difficult to follow code that can segfault with some very strange error messages. Your future team members thank you.
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Yes, definitely rooted only - Linux will block any attempt to change the MAC without root access. That said, I've got a rooted android and change my mac all the time. Especially useful for coffee shops and airports.
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AFAIK Microsoft's .NET runtime has also made significant improvements in the last 2.5 years, so as I said, it's just a thumb-suck as to whether the gap has changed. Maybe this will get someone interested in doing some comprehensiv
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There doesn't seem to be many reliable benchmarks available. I'm not sure why. Here is an in depth benchmark showing Mono lagging very heavily behind Microsoft, but I have no idea if the gap has widened or shrunk since then. http
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Literally everything Google has done/changed in the last 5? years has been terrible. It's actually fairly amazing how many mistakes they are making. Search? More adverts, non-PC results lowered in priority, 'piracy' resu
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That's interesting. Even more so in that the 80 characters per line for punch-cards is because that's the size a dollar bill was back then, because punch cards were created for use in the 1890 census. http://www.columbi
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Spell interruption in warcraft? Also first youtube video for 'guild wars 2 pvp' : https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=KR... Looks like real time to me.
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All flash games use TCP (as you can't use UDP in flash). There are many realtime flash games. Many MMORPGs use TCP for compatibility reasons: they are very much real-time, especially something like PVP in world of warcraft, etc. Guild
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TCP is very widely used by multiplayer gaming today. It turns out you can just tweak it a little bit and it works fine.
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This is actually good for Netflix and terrible for any competition. While Netflix probably has to hand over a bit of money, they are in a much better position to do so than any of their competitors as they're the biggest. In effect thi
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Agree - same applies for the other languages at the bottom of the page. He should remove those code samples and just link to the bcrypt function/library for each language.
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Don't most PC makers just make back the Microsoft licensing fees through bundled software deals? I'm not sure if price is really the reason people buy Chromebooks either - a ZDNet debase seems to agree [1] - people often buy Chrom
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Most people just want a messenger though. They're not really interested in their messaging client selling them stuff. Feels like the article makes a pretty bold leap in assuming because a messaging company is experimenting with a store
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This tradeoff is best left to the user's specific task and is handled in a very intuitive and usable fashion: maximizable windows.
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Great move, the single menu bar thing is just terrible design. It just moves common application actions further away from their context in order to give more room for.. more application actions? Whoever designed the single menu bar was clea
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
The comments are pretty great, I think anybody likely to be hoodwinked by the article will at least have to rethink when they reach the comments. Goes to show how much more difficult it is to wallpaper over an issue on the web where open co
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
When someone is making statements about a global truth, such as the ability to be productive, experience is paramount. We all know you can pull off 80 hour weeks for a little bit before bad stuff happens, etc. It takes a bit of experience t
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This guy is going to read this in 10 years time and be appalled at how naive he was. > (yes, I am passionate about lawn care) > As long as your net contribution3 per hour is positive, what is the harm in working more? Look, if peo
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> 2. Use consistent spacing and use whitespace liberally. The very definition of a formatting bikeshed. > 1. No instance variables. I'm not convinced here - he certainly doesn't explain why you shouldn't use them. I
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All of these things are something you use an automated formatter for, not regard as some kind of 'modern objc'. I guess people like to focus on pointless stuff like this because it's easier to worry about than whether you sho
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They're almost definitely copying 500GB databases between machines. More than likely your 500GB database is running across 3 machines, and if 1 fails they bring a new one up and copy your database over. They wouldn't be able to pr
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> claim that frequentist methods need to make strong modeling assumptions. > Assumption that horse race winners are not completely random and that there is a strategy This is kind of the assumption that people tend to blame freque
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It was omitted because it's a complex design issue. Someone using the future would assume that if they added a callback, it would run on the same thread that they called it from. That's not possible in the general case: the thread
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Just curious, but have you used Java8 much? Or barring that, something like quasar? Qasar in particular is about writing async code as if it were sync code...
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The video does provide some quantitative data and the slides underneath do as well. I'd prefer a proper article, but it's not that bad. Companies seem to be jumping off mongodb left and right, with the only ones sticking to it bei

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