TimothyFitz

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by TimothyFitz 16y ago
I've been doing this with sshfs (Linux/Mac) or ExpanDrive (Windows) for years, with whatever my editor of choice is for the file in question.
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by TimothyFitz 16y ago
If I'm reading the current status graphs correctly they're regularly seeing 1.5-2.5 second queries and 400ms direct fetches. That seems unbearably bad. Can anyone running mission critical apps on the platform comment?
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by TimothyFitz 16y ago
Perhaps not so well known (which is to say, I didn't know this): Woz was a UC Berkeley dropout, but after Apple went public he went back and got a B.S. in EECS.
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by TimothyFitz 16y ago
Agreed, this is such a common problem. Another really common manifestation is when you A/B test while looking at multiple variables. If you observe the results of 20 variables, you should expect one of them to have 95% confidence!
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by TimothyFitz 16y ago
It's worth noting that splittester.com calculates 95% confidence that those two (identical) ads will have different long term response rates.
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by TimothyFitz 16y ago
At first I thought: Like every other "static Python to compiled language X translator" this one will only translate some static-enough subset of the language, at which point it's not Python. Interesting as usual, but mostly academic. But th
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by TimothyFitz 16y ago
Disagree. This is exactly why terms like "We're friends on Facebook" exist, which effectively means "I can remember seeing their face online".
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by TimothyFitz 16y ago
Did the article change? Currently it reads "According to the filing — part of his pending divorce case from sci-fi novelist Justine Musk" which answers your question succinctly.
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by TimothyFitz 16y ago
Unfortunately their blog's "example" is just a static image (what are they thinking?). If you want to actually see samples of what the fonts look like go directly to the Font Directory: http://code.google.com/webfonts
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by TimothyFitz 16y ago
IMVU is proud to be (one of the last?) users of Pixomatic, Michael Abrash and Mike Sartain's commercial software 3d renderer. Even today there's a surprising demand for software 3d rendering, especially in the laptop/netbook space: many (po
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by TimothyFitz 16y ago
Not quite accurate. The code he wrote does the "proxy" logic while libraries underneath it are doing the work of parsing HTTP. He's definitely not doing "calls into a lib that implements an http proxy." More to the point, what he has is a p
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Scaling the Lean Startup (IMVU Case Study)(justin.tv)
3 points by TimothyFitz 16y ago|0 comments
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Agile Engineering for Online Communities (IMVU's Engineering Process)(blog.agilegamedevelopment.com)
1 points by TimothyFitz 16y ago|0 comments
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How Not To Run An A/B Test(evanmiller.org)
124 points by TimothyFitz 16y ago|23 comments
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by TimothyFitz 16y ago
What's the link between blocks/grand central and multitasking on the iPhone?
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by TimothyFitz 16y ago
The way my prof told it: "I'm really not sure why people keep asking if P=NP. Of course it does, when N=1."
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
I really really expected this to be an Onion-style parody of the posts following the formula: "What UNRELATED BUT SHOCKING ACTIVITY taught me about my business".
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
After his contracting he worked with me at IMVU; I learned a lot from him. He left IMVU for the University of Chicago Economics PhD program. I can't wait to see what he'll do next.
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
A very similar game was released in 2006 called The Ship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ship_(video_game) You can even get it on steam today http://store.steampowered.com/app/2400/
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
While it's not illegal to take "friends & family" investment, it adds a lot of legal headache and it's something VCs really don't want to deal with. Startup Lawyer puts it better than I can: http://thestartuplawyer.com/convertible-note
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
> There's none of that nice, slow maturation of product and increased customer base you may get if you make, eg, bug tracking or database software, operating systems etc. Each release is potentially a very big, maybe-the-company-won't-s
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
Get an explicit written contract from your employer that your side projects are yours and yours alone (a nihil obstat), and then stop worrying about the small stuff like this.
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
Agreed. Reading the digg article I'm interpreting their perf claim to mean "on a loaded server in our cluster, if we try to do this query on a cold cache it takes 1.5 seconds to complete", because this is exactly how I would measure the per
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
I think there's a fair point to make that calling one person a psychopath and another person not a psychopath is a purely arbitrary line drawn in the sand. Hare's test measures various responses and draws an arbitrary line (30 of 40 points)
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
One of the not so obvious problems with Steam (which I love and use regularly) is that all your eggs are in one basket. If, for whatever reason, Steam decides they're going to cut you off then you'll lose access to all of your games. A real
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
I'm not sure where the "there would be no touch without Apple" quote comes from (parent's parent may have edited) but I agree it's false. Trivially provable, since Apple did not invent multitouch, they purchased the company/guy who did, ht
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
ibb, at it's core, is just an in memory tree of the filesystem metadata. Search is implemented as a plugin that stores the file contents in memory. And ibb is proof of concept, showing that O(1) is possible, desirable and useful. Having sai
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
Wish I could find the source, but the math is simple. If you're great (at programming and marketing yourself), you pick where you want to work and apply once (or more likely, are convinced to leave one good job for another). If you're good,
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
Of course cremation saves more space and is certainly cheaper.
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by TimothyFitz 17y ago
The CLR (.NET Runtime) kinda does this. The host can substitute threading and I/O implementations. Msft's SQL Server actually does this; when you build C# stored procedures they're actually running on NT Fibers (green threads) with async I/

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