RyanZAG

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by RyanZAG 13y ago
There were a lot at the time. Computers for playing games were expensive and lan parties tended to take a whole weekend including sleeping there, while D&D was more relaxed and was just a couple hours in the evening. I'd still say
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
I'd say the term got re-used. It felt like a different subculture to me at the time. The people involved in D&D/tabletop gaming were generally not the same people at lan parties as well. I don't think joining the current
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
> We didn’t even call video game players “gamers” until the fairly recent past. I certainly don’t remember hearing the word “gamer” in the mid-’90s Gamer originated in the 90s, in particular round-about 1996 with Quake, but well before
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
This backdoor is a software backdoor - there may be hardware backdoors too. Hardware backdoors are much, much harder to find as there is no real way to track one down without trying to reverse the actual hardware itself, and that is close t
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
To be honest, the number of feminists who would have actually bought any of the penny arcade stuff is tiny, while the number of people who would enjoy the controversy and buy a rude t-shirt because it annoys all these people is probably ver
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
If someone drowns 4 kittens and you only drown 1 kitten, you're still pretty evil. I don't see how "everyone else is doing it" is possibly a valid argument. Obviously 'evil' in this case is based on your defini
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Definitely a good analogy, but I think your conclusion is wrong (although I do still think having a non tech founder is not ideal). If you only want to sell horses then not knowing about horses is going to be a tough time. Same with trying
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Yes, definitely. This is what I was trying to get at - the idea that they still need exploits as other comments are talking about is incredibly unlikely. With things like iCloud, centralized device management, remotely installable admin cer
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Features - iCloud is just an extension of the stuff that was on iOS already. Previously you had preinstalled apps as part of the rom that could run in the background etc, and you had apps that you could download that ran sandboxed and had t
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Aren't we missing a critical point here?? > "The initial release of DROPOUTJEEP will focus on installing the implant via closed access methods." [2007] OK, we knew this much already. I remember seeing a number of stories
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Also interesting to compare this with how the G1 collector for the JVM handles it: http://www.infoq.com/articles/G1-One-Garbage-Collector-To-Ru... EDIT: Better link: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
It's a standard Mary Jo Foley blog spam post, so it's what anybody should expect.
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
The issue is the added complexity of having to enable backing stores and the multiple code paths. It's not about "how much we can glue inside X11 until it sort of works sometimes". You can throw out 95% of X11 and most develo
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
I haven't really gone through X11 before, but the API really is terrible. How have we managed to hang onto this monstrosity for so long? I get people have a fondness for something that has held up for so long, but the huge complexity a
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
We're obviously coming from different backgrounds here - do you work at Google or similar ? 'Downright cheap' is a Heroku instance or two. 'Affordable' is 20 or so servers with a few TB of drive space each in a clus
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
It was always a valid point and has been going on for a very long time. There was a concerted effort awhile back by PR companies to attack anyone calling out their corporate shill accounts, mostly done heavily by Microsoft on engadget and s
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
What? Come on, really? My database - only the latest version of all the data that gets updated frequently - has TB of data. My whole git repo with full history is about 500mb and that's excluding large assets. It's a completely di
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Yeah so I'm uninstalling every plugin/extension I have that I don't absolutely trust. I'd recommend you do the same.
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
This test really doesn't prove that at all. There are vastly different factors between power cycling in a single day and long term continuous use. You can't take results from one and get any meaningful information about the other.
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Got to agree. It's possibly the worst website I've ever seen. Besides maybe the iPhone 5C bright green scrolling background madness. Apple these days seems to be leading the charge on terrible design when it used to be pretty good
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
While not a complete waste of time - having some foundation in that stuff is useful in the way learning to do long division is useful - it's definitely not what they should be teaching. Can't really blame them given that many univ
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
You'd have to convert your gems over - you need jruby gems rather than standard ones, but apparently most gems are ported. You can read up here for more: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/moving-an-existing-rai
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Going off the techempower benchmarks, looks like you should be able to get some speedup by switching to TorqueBox. No guarantees, but if you've got the time and need the performance it could be worth testing. Here seems to be a decent
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Ah, that explains it. Pretty massive difference really. I guess that makes Torquebox+JRuby the best way to run ruby code? I wonder why the RoR community generally ignores it? Maybe it's just a timing thing and as more companies learn a
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Not sure how comparing different versions of rails shows if its 'fast' yet. I'd think setting up some request target and seeing how far RoR is from that target with each version would be better. Or comparing RoR to other plat
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
You realize this game is the very definition of linear gaming...?
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
If you're curious why Intel is making an HTML5 IDE and what their goals are, you can check out this blog post: http://software.intel.com/en-us/html5/blogs/why-intel-xdk-ne...
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
How does this kind of stupidity get in there in the first place? When making a secure secret key, who in their right mind would decide to only use the low 8 bits?
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Looks like you can break it by changing your system clock too.
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
You'd have to bring in actual results: programmers in SV create great products that are widely used around the world. This could be used as evidence to imply they are better. FP is a bit tougher here - the vast majority of programs use

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