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by cwyers 13y ago
Carmack is a late add to the Occulus team, but he's been doing real work in reducing latency: http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2013/02/22/latency-mitigation-...
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by cwyers 13y ago
But popularity is one of the merits a software package can possess. Popularity offers: * A wider availability of resources -- tutorials, books, documentation of any kind, a community around the software that can offer help and support to ne
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by cwyers 13y ago
The GPL wouldn't require Netflix to contribute changes they make to operating systems running on their own servers, either. The GPL says you can't distribute binaries built from modified source without distributing your source mod
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by cwyers 13y ago
That's true for keys, but that really only covers a subset of what JOINs can do -- if I want to use things like dates, times, quantities of things... and frankly, if I want to do something other than JOIN on equal values, say join on g
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by cwyers 13y ago
Okay. I'm not sure I understand why that form of linking would be significantly faster than JOINs when you are properly indexing everything (or significantly faster on INSERT/UPDATE, for that matter). To the second, it sounds like
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by cwyers 13y ago
Two questions about that. 1) Wouldn't that have roughly the same performance impact on insert/update/etc. as building indexes? Possibly even more, as building an index (without foreign key constraints) only affects one table,
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by cwyers 13y ago
Slide 18 is titled "The JOIN is the evil!" I will probably stop laughing at that, but I can't guarantee when.
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by cwyers 13y ago
I've been using ExpanDrive since version 2, and I've been reasonably pleased with customer service and the pace of bug fixes/improvements (and ExpanDrive 3 is a huge improvement over 2, at least on Windows). It's a very
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by cwyers 13y ago
From the FAQ: "NVIDIA graphics card (AMD and Intel graphics support coming soon)" I believe VirtualBox emulates a graphics card, and not an NVIDIA one, so it may not run even on machines with an Nvidia card.