TwistedWeasel

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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
When (not if) we set foot on Mars, the achievement will be one of humanity. Private company, government, US, China, it doesn't matter. We'll be on Mars, a multi-planetary race. How the accomplishment was funded and by who will not matter (t
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
Dropbox isn't "entertainment/trivial" stuff for many people. Some depend on it heavily.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
$200 Nexus 7 has 8Gb storage, iPad mini base model has 16Gb. I still think $330 is a little high though.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
I don't think it's a stretch to say Bill Gates's viewpoint on Windows 8 is somewhat biased.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
never say never. Technology evolves and in time hardware improves to a point where the performance difference between native code and something that runs through an intermediate layer is not noticeable in a user interface (although there wi
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
I haven't really had any problems with my Magsafe 2 connector. I was upgrading from an older Macbook that used the older T-shaped Magsafe, I never owned any of the L shaped ones.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
Change the game design slightly? He claims he wants to walk and jump at the same time, maybe adjust the control scheme to make jumping triggered in a different way. This bug, in particular is not a an easy thing to work around, I agree and
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
That makes sense to me, as I read the article it sounded like he was saying that outside iOS he was locked in to Flash in the same way as he is locked in to HTML5 on iOS. The iOS restriction is very real and enforced, there is nothing forci
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
FTA: "On the iPhone, you're as locked in with HTML5 as you were with Flash everywhere else before" In what way has Flash ever been the only way to display web content? This statement is absurd.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
So he let this bug sit in his game for two years without thinking of a work around himself? The situation where any platform owner has a bug that impacts your software you should try as best you can to work around it because you never know
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
Microsoft charges OEM's a significant amount of money to use Windows on their hardware, Google gives Android away for free. So, the Surface is able to undercut the OEM's on price significantly.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
Lunch is my quiet time, I don't want to talk work all day long. I may still think about it, or even be working while I eat but I don't need a forced one hour meeting every day to be good at my job.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
yeah, the jam build system is a great tool and has been around a long time. Seems like people should do some more research before naming their projects.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
If you have a child that you have never found to be frustrating or infuriating then you are a indeed very lucky.
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Coding from Within the Echo Chamber(drdobbs.com)
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
They say people work on what they want but they still advertise for specific jobs ( https://github.com/about/jobs ), so surely there is some level of direction there. i.e. If you're hired as a Data Miner then you are expected to spend your
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
When did a small quote from an interview... "I think that Apple could be just as strong and good and be open, but how can you challenge it when a company is making that much money?" he [Wozniak] said. turn into "made a public call" for Appl
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
Yeah, Dan seems like the kind of nice guy you just cant help but like. Seems to me like he's been stabbed in the back on this one. Shame on Gruber.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
That's the big difference I see between Dan Benjamin and Mike Monteiro. Dan is a professional and has my respect, where as Monteiro makes cheap vulgar jokes. I know which attitude I prefer to support.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
Hypercritical is by far my favorite podcast, it took the top spot on my playlists from the Talk Show a long time ago. I get the impression Siracusa does that podcast for fun, not profit and would never ditch Dan like Gruber has.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
I'm pretty disappointed with this move. I was getting a little tired of the Talk Show on 5By5 but it was still enjoyable because Dan brought humor and structure to the show. I remember when Let's Make Mistakes split off and formed a new pod
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
I looked into it briefly, right now i'm more focused on getting the charts right. Once I've done that I was going to work on different data transport options.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
Last I looked most of the cooler Google charts were Flash based, which was a problem for me at the time as I was looking for something that works on iPad. From what I can tell this is one of the better HTML5 chart libraries i've seen but in
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
I'm working on something like that but it's very far from ready. I'm interested in any feedback... http://frasergraham.github.com/live_stats.js/
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
Exactly, who cares if an icon is based on a dated object if it's understood. All things become dated eventually, especially in the tech world What's the alternative, pick something abstract that confuses people. That didn't work out so well
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
The idea that people don't know what a cog or a wrench is seems like the author is taking this a step too far. I wouldn't call those things "shrouded in mystery". Similarly there are still plenty of microphones that look like that, they're
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
I've been learning d3.js myself lately, and i'm very impressed. As it's popularity increases it's worth reading this article from Mike Bostock, the creator of d3 proposing some conventions to follow when building charts with d3... http://b
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
My favorite book for learning Go (the game)... http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Play-Go-Masters-Ultimate/dp/1453...
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
I was expecting a book on learning Go, the game. I was disappointed. I hate it when people name new things with a name that obviously conflicts with something else that's likely to be known and discussed in the same community.
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by TwistedWeasel 14y ago
FTA: "The site's first $1m project was Double Fine Adventure" Double Fine Adventure wasn't the first Kickstarter project to hit $1M, it was the elevation dock a short time earlier.

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