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by brandur 10y ago
If this was a normal case of not being able to run a game because I don't have the horsepower, I might agree, but it isn't. The Intel GPUs are plenty powerful enough to run the games, but some OS X driver quirk makes them difficul
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by brandur 10y ago
Exactly. Steam operated for a very, very long time with no refund system at all. It's a positive thing that they've finally added one after all these years.
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by brandur 10y ago
Valve should admit fault and pay the fine. Although they finally have a refund system in place on Steam these days, previously their system could be considered borderline fraudulent. In the past, I bought ~3 3-D games that claimed Mac suppo
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by brandur 10y ago
I had pretty much the same reaction — I was actually hoping a little bit to be able to finish the article, run my own queries through Google, have them come up empty, and get a small taste of the supernatural. But nope, Kazaam is a perfect
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by brandur 10y ago
I hate to be glib, but: those driverless cars will fit right in in San Francisco. (But seriously, traffic enforcement around here is terrible and is reaching preposterously dangerous levels for pedestrians. The intersection in that video is
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Jwz: Webcasting Legally (2007)(dnalounge.com)
1 points by brandur 10y ago|1 comments
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by brandur 10y ago
I'm also curious about this one — I always found Scala to be a pretty messy language to write (the code starts elegant, but gets convoluted pretty fast), but I'd love to hear how insiders are thinking about it.
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by brandur 10y ago
Not OP, but as far as the direction many developers seem to leaning right now, your opinion might be the more unusual case. I did try the TouchBar, and not only did I find it not delightful, but it was so obviously going to be not a useful
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by brandur 10y ago
> This is certainly true-- it does create its share of "hidden treasures," but I find that for every favorite business that sticks around because it owns its property, I see two favorite businesses that close because they rent.
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by brandur 10y ago
(I think that all of prop 13 is quite bad, but) I hugely agree on the commercial properties allowance. It's comical in an ironic sort of way walking around SOMA. You find yourself treading what is literally some of the most valuable la
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by brandur 10y ago
The article comes off as a little rant-y, but I found it to be quite an enjoyable read. A lot of sources water down prop 13 as "maybe bad", but any of us who've moved to San Francisco (or even California) in the past 5-10 yea
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by brandur 10y ago
Nice: a much needed simplification of the AWS product surface area. While their plethora of functions and features are tremendously useful for big shops, but are a pretty high bar newer entrants. Now if they could just get to the point wher
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by brandur 10y ago
The implication was meant to be that the information under `data/object` is simply a full representation of another API resource of the type on which the event occurred, and that you can look elsewhere in the documentation to see exact
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by brandur 10y ago
Stripe has an "events" API that can be polled to receive the same content that you would have received via Webhook [1]. (Disclaimer: I work there.) If you missed some Webhooks due to an application failure, it's possible to p
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by brandur 10y ago
Author here: this was a pretty fun side project to experiment with Redis' (relatively) new module system [1], and to help me learn Rust. It uses Rust's FFI module [2] to call into a C binary, and thanks to Rust's minimal runt
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Show HN: Redis-cell, an API rate limiter as a Redis module, written in Rust(github.com)
15 points by brandur 10y ago|1 comments
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by brandur 10y ago
There's something about the text-based medium in particular that encourages the total dissolution of empathy. If you took any two users flaming each other on Twitter and put them on a phone call, you'd see a quick return to civili
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by brandur 10y ago
I've had good luck so far with Vim + You Complete Me [1] (which uses a Racer background). Check the GIF in its repo, but it gets you code completion boxes in Vim that pop up automatically in which you can tab through for the next resul
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by brandur 10y ago
Here's a pretty interesting note on .NET Core 1.1's performance improvements from round 13 of Techempower's framework benchmarks [1] (linked from the announcement above): > Thanks to Microsoft’s herculean performance tunin
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by brandur 10y ago
Admittedly they did ship a lot out of core outright, but a single line in `Cargo.toml` fetches any of these things pretty expediently, and they're still well standardized across the ecosystem. zip = "0.2" tempfile =
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by brandur 10y ago
I love this idea. There's an implicit assumption that the reason scripting languages are suitable for scripts is that they play fast and loose with type systems, which allow enough shortcuts and escape hatches to be productive. But tha
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by brandur 10y ago
To be clear, in all the projects that I've seen by the SFMTrA, the crosswalks or bikelanes already existed—both physically and legally—but their usability was/is extremely compromised due to fundamentally lacking infrastructure an
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by brandur 10y ago
I love 99% Invisible, but in my opinion this piece is far too generous to the actual SFMTA, who occasionally respond to the SFMTrA's work reasonably (as covered in the article), but who usually just strip it wholesale, to the detriment
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by brandur 10y ago
I like to believe that there's a lot of savvy and affluent couples out there who are buying either moissanites instead of diamonds and choosing not to tell their friends or family about it to avoid the social stigma. They then take the
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by brandur 10y ago
> It's a bit of a stretch to say that only diamond rings are acceptable "only" is a pretty exclusive word, but I don't think it's a stretch saying that only diamond rings are acceptable in the general case. Espec
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by brandur 10y ago
Thanks, I missed that. It's strangely written because it re-iterates the $10,000 figure in the first paragraph of the article, but then notes 1% in the second.
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by brandur 10y ago
I wonder how they picked the magic number of $10,000. (Edit: as mentioned below, the figure is actually 1% assessment.) Vancouver real estate prices jumped 20% in 2015 -- a $200k gain on a $1M house. If pricing trends continue along that tr
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by brandur 10y ago
It took me about a week of fairly vigorous effort to start writing it fluently, but I also have the advantage of having seen and written many other programming languages. I have a few anecdotal examples of friends who are great developers,
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by brandur 10y ago
I've also found (the hard way) that it's possible to mistype a conditional as `err == nil` when it should be `err != nil`. It's a really dumb mistake, but will waste time as you track it down (without the compiler's help
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by brandur 10y ago
An article on how Alibaba subsidiaries are using a backend stack based on Spring: https://spring.io/blog/2013/03/04/spring-at-china-scale-alib... The article is a little dated though, and some of the lin

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