Simucal

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by Simucal 13y ago
Valve has reported better performance in Linux than in Windows 7 for at least one of their titles [1]. [1] http://www.zdnet.com/valve-linux-runs-our-games-faster-than-...
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by Simucal 13y ago
I think my opinion of the smartphone is completely opposite of yours. The smartphone is one of the few products I have bought that has actually made a meaningful and positive impact on my life. When I stop and look at my smartphone it bri
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by Simucal 13y ago
I read a book awhile back that kind of embodies the points you made about happiness. It is titled "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy" [1]. I feel like your story about the flood would have fit right in with t
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by Simucal 13y ago
"Now, when will it and The Art of Computer Programming be available in an electronic format?"
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by Simucal 13y ago
I don't know about TAoCP but SICP has been available in electronic format for some time. They released the full book as HTML [1] but others have taken to formatting it in Mobi [2], PDF [3] and even a "Pocket" edition [4] for
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by Simucal 13y ago
What are some other differences?
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by Simucal 13y ago
Yep, I think a lot of us have probably worked with a few NNPPs[1]. [1] - http://www.pyxisinc.com/NNPP_Article.pdf
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by Simucal 13y ago
I realize this is subjective, but I personally love the tabbed inbox. Having all the "promotional" emails I get sent moved to a separate tab where I only have to look at them when I want to has completely tamed my inbox. My prima
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by Simucal 13y ago
How does that get you around VPN restrictions? Do you then forward your traffic through some proxy?
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by Simucal 13y ago
Is it standard operating procedure for SWAT teams to always kill the dogs of the homes they enter? It seems like every story I read about a police raid usually ends with the household dogs getting killed. That is the most enraging part of
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by Simucal 13y ago
No, jussij is right. It is your code which is not equivalent. Your Java code is checking reference equality while the C# code is checking string value equality. The == operator works differently between strings in C# compared to Java. Th
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by Simucal 13y ago
Does Nginx use sendfile under the hood or is it something you would use separately?
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by Simucal 13y ago
I did a double take when I saw the date of that quote. I couldn't believe it wasn't from a contemporary author.
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by Simucal 13y ago
Are you running the same iOS 7 as I am? "Very speedy" is the last thing I would call it. Every animation seems to have horrible lag on my iPhone 5. This early build doesn't seem to be optimized very much.
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by Simucal 13y ago
I know that your post was sarcastic and that you were illustrating a point (and I agree with you). It is interesting, however, that Plato actually argued the same thing that you outlined in your post! "for this discovery of yours [wri
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by Simucal 13y ago
When I read the title of this article I was really hoping it was going to discuss the UX problems of key management.
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by Simucal 13y ago
This reminds me of the novel "A Canticle for Leibowitz". The novel is broken up into 3 periods, each 600 years apart, following a nuclear war that nearly wiped out humanity. The first section, "Fiat Homo", revolves around an abbey in the d
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by Simucal 13y ago
Did you create that gesture joystick control yourself? It reminds me of the virtual joysticks some ported games use (Doom, Sonic, etc).
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by Simucal 13y ago
I just bought your app. Really well done. I love the idea of gestures for movement in a MUD.
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by Simucal 13y ago
I think there needs to be a distinction between collaborating to understand something as a group and directly copying answers verbatim from others. I felt like GuiA was describing the latter and while you are describing the former.
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by Simucal 13y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I hadn't noticed the right-click to whitelist option before. I'll have to go change the preference back. I don't know if the software I was using was just old or if signing isn't common place yet, but I felt
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by Simucal 13y ago
This is how OSX is by default now. I'm relatively new to Macs but I was pretty surprised when I had to go into my preferences to enable the ability to run software downloaded from the internet (not from the Mac App Store).
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by Simucal 13y ago
I was thinking Night City in Neuromancer, but basically along the same lines. "But he also saw a certain sense in the notion that burgeoning technologies require outlaw zones, that Night City wasn't there for its inhabitants, but as a delib
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by Simucal 13y ago
Would you wear a contact lens version of Glass if it was available or does the same apply?
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by Simucal 14y ago
What platform would you move to then?
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by Simucal 14y ago
Android has offline speech recognition (introduced in Jelly Bean). From my limited testing it works really well. So, I don't think an external server is as required as some people say. It works insanely fast, transcribing what I say in nea
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by Simucal 14y ago
How do you feel about working from home just part of the week? At my current company most of my team works from home two days a week. While we aren't required to do so, most of us sync our days so we all work from home Tuesday and Thursda
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by Simucal 14y ago
If you don't mind me asking, have you hit your goal of earning your pre-Sifter salary yet? In the slides it looked like you were close. Also, is your partner on full time as well or still part time in your venture? I have a co-founder that
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by Simucal 14y ago
I'm not convinced locks are a sufficient deterrent in stopping people bent on mass murder. What if the attacker simply waited for a class period to end and pick people off walking between buildings? What if they were a student with author
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by Simucal 14y ago
They guarantee no such thing. A bump key will open most residential locks almost instantly[1]. A brick through a window works even faster. You stated that locked doors were a solution to security when they are little more than security th

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