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by aethr 12y ago
It depends. Sure you can preload all your world props and level entities, but what about things like projectiles being fired, travelling, and then being de-allocated? A good strategy for handling this in a GC'd language is using the f
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by aethr 12y ago
At a minimum, you should be able to put a complete site together using a popular CMS/framework like Wordpress, Drupal, or Laravel. This should include basic (but common) features, like: editable pages with images, blog, contact form,
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by aethr 12y ago
Vaccination is not a 100% guard against infection, but it has a substantial success rate. However some individuals cannot be immunised, such as the child linked in the article who could not be immunised due to a weak immune system. Also, c
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by aethr 12y ago
I'm guessing the parent meant critical as in "important to" the Linux ecosystem.
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The guys at Thinkmill recently did an amazing presentation at SydJS where they released the full source to a Keystone app project. Should be a great place for anyone starting out. http://www.sydjs.com/showbag Big thanks to
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by aethr 12y ago
Definitely an interesting observation! A few points that come to mind: * actors move on to new roles frequently, while a musician's persona often sticks with them for most of their career * films and novels have an explicit designation
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by aethr 12y ago
It's not exactly like doing it yourself because you're paying someone else to do it for you? Again, these grey areas are where the spirit of intent is going to matter. Is it illegal to pay a neighborhood kid to rip all your CDs t
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by aethr 12y ago
Printing a copy of an article for your own personal use is only legal due to fair use / format shifting provisions, which aren't guaranteed in every country. In the countries that do allow this, there are guidelines to ensure tha
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by aethr 13y ago
All good points, especially re: SIDS. For myself, childcare is more than a place to drop my son while I'm working. It's important to me that he is learning, socialising, and experiencing different perspectives from other adults.
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by aethr 13y ago
Infants and children need physical touch and emotional support in early life. Skin-to-skin contact plays a big role in early infant emotional engagement, and also reduces the likelihood and severity of post-birth depression in the mother.
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by aethr 13y ago
I see what you mean, the amount of work and foresight needed to predict the bug and write a test for it does seem unrealistic in that light. Hingdsight is 20/20, etc.
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by aethr 13y ago
While it's true that almost all software has bugs that can result in exploits, I think most of the exploits used in Pwn2Own are typically the result of complex interactions between subsystems that are hard to predict. As software gets
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by aethr 13y ago
I thought DHTML was "dynamic" HTML, as made popular by the Dynamic Duo: http://grox.net/doc/web/javascript/dynduo/
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by aethr 13y ago
Places like Brazil and Australia (where I live) tend to add a larger amount of emulsifiers to commerically produced chocolate. This helps in keeping production costs down, and it also raises the melting temperature of the chocolate so that
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Knock – unlock your Mac without a password using your iPhone(knocktounlock.com)
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by aethr 13y ago
I just connected the dots and realised that I went to high school with al3x in the DC area. I never realised the programmer I knew in high school went on to work with twitter, et all. What a brilliant surprise! Anyway, really glad to see
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by aethr 13y ago
Genetic algorithms could eventually produce music that triggered a emotional response in humans. Your "fitness test" would need to be having real people listen to procedurally generated scores and rating the emotional impact (if
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by aethr 13y ago
Last I checked, the legitimate Flash installer from Adobe tries to install McAfee. And the Java updater for Windows tries to install the Ask toolbar on every update . I feel like these are programs I can't really avoid installing,
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by aethr 13y ago
More specifically, a blog subdomain of cnn (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com), which appears to be a Wordpress site, was hacked.
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by aethr 13y ago
Their website doesn't make it obvious where to go if you just want to download salt and get started. It seems to want to steer you towards SaltStack Enterprise. However, you can find installation instructions (which include where to d
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by aethr 13y ago
I believe that Drupal 7 qualifies as a non-trivial PHP application that only uses OO in a minimal number of applications in core (ie, when it's appropriate). Some would definitely argue that Drupal results in spaghetti code, due to a l
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by aethr 13y ago
If you're building a web application in PHP, then symfony is a huge improvement over naked php files or rolling your own bootstrapped system. Right out of the box it addresses concerns of security, user management, routing, persistenc
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by aethr 13y ago
w.r.t. your point 3, symfony modules do sometimes require a one-off command to re-generate cached data after a deploy of new code. an example of this is the assetic asset manager. during development you can tell assetic to compile assets d
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by aethr 13y ago
Political manoeuvring between states isn't a game that you can just choose not to play. Gathering intelligence about what the other players are doing, or intend to do, is an absolutely necessary part of the whole gambit. If the US an
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by aethr 13y ago
Vagrant mounts a filesystem at /vagrant on the guest vm with the contents of the folder where your Vagrantfile is. Typically this means you include a Vagrantfile in the root dir of your project, and then your entire project folder is
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by aethr 13y ago
I also hadn't heard the term, but after reading this I realised I was a dark matter developer. I've given talks at a couple of conferences, but I've only ever contributed back to open source projects by opening issues and wr
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No, but I would expect jurors in a patent validity case to understand the concept of "prior art", which was demonstrated quite conclusively for this "invention".
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by aethr 13y ago
If your renderer can draw 40fps in the highest density scenes (lots of polygons, particles, and effects) on specific hardware, then that is the most you'll be able to guarantee to that user without sacrificing detail. That will be you
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by aethr 13y ago
If prototypes of the first computers had been dismissed so casually due to their size, where would we be now?
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by aethr 13y ago
Now that is very interesting. According to this article, earlier this year meat and poultry inspectors were designated 'essential personnel', meaning that they can continue to work even during a government shutdown. This is impo

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