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by Todd 14y ago
Carmack's been pushing companies like this for nearly two decades. In particular, he has been a significant force in the evolution of the video card industry. The hardware companies know and respect him. If anyone can do it, he can.
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by Todd 14y ago
Not sure, but you might want to check out a Markdown based static site generator. A popular one is Jekyll, which is also used by Github (it's written by one of Github's founders). No database required. EDIT: evmar answered the question befo
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by Todd 14y ago
It's anyone's guess how successful W8 will be in the long run. Windows market share on the PC is still nearly 90%. The big question is, how will it do in the tablet market? If you look at the WP7 case, it's not promising. Even after nearly
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by Todd 14y ago
I would take their employment contract to a lawyer and have them look at it. In my experience, they either want everything, or they allow you a certain amount of autonomy. In the latter case, it often boils down to time and equipment. If yo
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by Todd 14y ago
The difference between the two environments, at least on the desktop, is jarring. As the author points out, on the Metro side, the desktop is just another tile. Strange. And on the desktop side, they've removed the start button, so the task
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by Todd 14y ago
It's not a question of familiarity, it's that git doesn't play nice on Windows. It requires a POSIX emulation environment, like cygwin, which is a second class experience. Compare this with Mercurial, which runs great from the command line
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by Todd 14y ago
No, it's not. One thing MS has always done well is backward compatibility. You can still run DOS programs from the 80s on Windows 8 (x86+64). In order to be competitive on ARM, however, they had to massively strip down Windows. They made a
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by Todd 14y ago
I've just gone through that same evaluation process. I actually had the exact opposite criterion: I wanted a game engine with source. I considered commercial engines but they almost never come with source or have exorbitant licensing or cos
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by Todd 14y ago
I love the Internets.
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by Todd 15y ago
Agreed. Getting authentication right when hosting your API on a different subdomain is difficult. You can write an HTTP handler to implement CORS but it's less than optimal if you also want to support Ajax within your app, in addition to no
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by Todd 15y ago
The author left out the most important part, which is the controller. The HTTP methods match controller verbs without requiring any attribute markup. The Get method responds to /controller (all) or /controller/5 (ID of 5), the Post method r
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by Todd 15y ago
The guy's look at the mention of pull request at 1:24 is priceless.
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by Todd 15y ago
This is great news. Seizure laws are terrible. The ability of a government to destroy a business without due process should not be permitted (especially a foreign government). It's unfortunate that the ruling is based on a technicality.
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by Todd 15y ago
Thanks for sharing your story, Paul. I lost my young brother to a cycling accident last year. Best wishes.
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by Todd 15y ago
I recently heard that grape seed extract and vitamin C can be an effective alternative to Ritalin. I haven't researched it yet, though.
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by Todd 15y ago
I was going to make this point as well. The corollary is that, to overcome the implicit bias against the unknowns, your first success must be a genuinely great or useful idea. The unknowns who became the knowns often had a breakout success
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by Todd 15y ago
Agreed. Right now, there's a very low S/N ratio with all the anon posts.
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by Todd 15y ago
Nice. I'm often conflicted over whether to bookmark the actual page or the HN comments. Sometimes the comments are so valuable, I'll bookmark them instead, since I can always get to the page in question from the comments. This provides a ni
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by Todd 15y ago
Linking to a question from a year and a half ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1603562 There are several good answers here.
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by Todd 15y ago
If you're in Paris visiting Shakespeare and Co., don't miss the Abbey Bookshop around the corner. It's run by a nice guy from Canadian and it's got books stacked to the ceiling.
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by Todd 15y ago
I've been pretty happy with toggl. https://www.toggl.com/
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by Todd 15y ago
This article is focused on practice and growth. There's a distinction between the work required for improvement and the state required for productivity. To me, flow is more about productivity.
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by Todd 15y ago
This is an interesting idea but it would have several problems in practice. In particular, it lumps the 'low end' earners of the top 1%--those earning $330,000 per year--in with those earning millions. This would create a significant drag o
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by Todd 15y ago
This is a pretty simple fix in CSS using font face fallbacks. Here's a typical example: font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif Maybe pg or friends will update it.
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by Todd 15y ago
The book "In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex" by Nathaniel Philbrick is great, BTW.
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by Todd 15y ago
I just watched an enjoyable BBC documentary "Chemistry: A Volatile History". The last episode concludes with a visit to the Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt and talks a bit about these elements.
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by Todd 15y ago
This is another beautiful piece by Alexander Chen, of mta.me (see the about page).
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by Todd 15y ago
Most seasoned C programmers understand every point in this post. Points 2 and 3 are indeed clever tricks, but they're tricks that you eventually have to employ if you're doing low level work. It's part of the beauty and allure of C.
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Obama Endorses Sarbox Reform To Make Small IPOs Easier(businessinsider.com)
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by Todd 15y ago
I don't think there should be a redirect. That's unexpected behavior. It wouldn't be bad to have the "Unknown or expired link" actually link to the home page--or better, have all or part of the navigation header on the page as an escape hat

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