cliff

8 ms·

31.
by cliff 17y ago
This is awesome. The transition part especially reminded me of iMUSE ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMUSE ) which creates seamless transitions between music tracks in LucasArts games as you move between areas. This significantly enhances th
32.
by cliff 17y ago
Re #1: Calls+textmessages are already completely segregated from data. I'm calling bullshit on this article. HSDPA (3g data) runs on completely different channels than voice calls. Saturation of HSDPA channels will -not- cause calls to be d
33.
by cliff 17y ago
It's funny because one of his main talking is that Apple doesn't make remote controls. But they do...
34.
by cliff 17y ago
Yeah, that was Grim Fandango. (Fascinating) design doc is here: http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/GrimPuzzleDoc_...
35.
by cliff 17y ago
Wish the examples were using intel syntax.
36.
by cliff 17y ago
No, I just live with two people who are.
37.
by cliff 17y ago
Office Mac is developed and compiled solely on XCode.
38.
by cliff 17y ago
I think that both this article and the Wikipedia article are correct. The LA Times took the more human-centric approach to the story, which from a technical perspective was just 'how many and which characters can we cut out to maximize the
39.
by cliff 18y ago
Turns out this isn't 'new' by any means, but it is definitely cool. (i have no evidence to back up this statement other than childhood memory)
40.
by cliff 18y ago
What's up with you people who design UI programmatically? This is 2008, jesus christ. http://code.google.com/android/devel/ui/xml.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Application_Markup_L...
41.
by cliff 18y ago
+1 here. See https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/belief2005.php etc.
42.
by cliff 18y ago
well, http://www.literateprogramming.com/byte1996.html has an interview with Knuth saying that Jobs had talked to him so it's potentially possible: Knuth: Steve Jobs once told me in 1980 that he had a vision where every day we'd get a CD-
43.
by cliff 18y ago
you should tweak the title to say that pics are included
44.
Comcast Discloses Throttling Practices(blog.wired.com)
4 points by cliff 18y ago|1 comments
45.
by cliff 18y ago
An audio response 'from' Arthur Dent about the new book: http://eoincolfer.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/and-an... (portrayed by the original BBC voice actor of Arthur Dent)
46.
by cliff 18y ago
A discussion of what it took to do it: http://www.codeweavers.com/about/people/blogs/jwhite/2008/9/...
47.
Google Chrome running on OSX and Linux(codeweavers.com)
41 points by cliff 18y ago|16 comments
48.
by cliff 18y ago
Maybe I'm missing something -- if you're I/O-bound why would it matter whether you use epoll() vs poll() other than CPU usage? From what I understand (and how I've used it in my work), one uses epoll() specifically because they're NOT I/O-b
49.
by cliff 18y ago
Do epoll / other c10k solutions address I/O-bound situations? I thought that most of these solutions deal with CPU-bound and sometimes RAM-bound situations -- i.e. they fix spending too much time spinning the CPU in various ways waiting fo
50.
by cliff 18y ago
I thought this would be more like SABRE/Easy SABRE, which I loved. This just isn't a useful tool for me in its present form -- I've never had any trouble typing in my search parameters on the various travel websites and this seems to be all
51.
by cliff 18y ago
yet another example of why one should 301 redirect to a normalized www. or non-www. address.
52.
by cliff 18y ago
Sure, but there are plenty of downsides to this. I've always been fascinated by and impressed with NASA's software methodologies, but they are neither cheap nor fast. I'm not sure it's something to aspire to as much as one extreme on a cont
53.
by cliff 18y ago
I don't know about you guys but I've never done this whole 'practice coding with simple applications' thing. When I started writing software I did it with specific goals in mind, things that would either help me or others, and then found ou
54.
by cliff 18y ago
Domain auctions are always a voodoo science. Especially when you're talking about domain sniping, and the subsequent silent auctions where you don't really know if you're bidding against ANYONE, but you still have to put in a maximum bid ju
55.
by cliff 18y ago
I'm generally against any complex lock-free data structures, because they're extremely difficult to prove to be reliable (and I mean prove in ACL2 sense of proof). Have you tried any of the garbage collection libraries for C++? I've never u