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by davepeck 17y ago
So: what does it look like?
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by davepeck 17y ago
> They couldn't get off their asses to work on IE 7 until Firefox became a credible threat. This is very true and I've always felt it is a strong condemnation of what goes on inside Microsoft. I neglected to mention this sorry bit of hi
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by davepeck 17y ago
@rbanffy: First, it is entirely possible for Microsoft to continue to reap rewards from Windows while improving their browser at the same time. The two are not mutually exclusive. I reject the perspective that says the browser will win at t
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by davepeck 17y ago
It is incorrect to conclude that Microsoft's lack of achievement in X implies (1) its lack of ambition for improving X, or (2) [as ancestor suggested] its determination to sabotage X. Is it really so hard to imagine what life on the inside
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by davepeck 17y ago
Microsoft has economic incentive to stay competitive on many fronts. I guarantee you that MSFT is working hard to make JS faster, to make their browser more standards compliant, and to substantially improve security. It makes no strategic o
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by davepeck 17y ago
As a former MSFT engineer, you hit it spot on. When people are united behind a clear vision, amazing things can happen. When they're not... I wrote more about my experience: http://davepeck.org/2008/12/12/meditations-on-microsoft/
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by davepeck 17y ago
Exactly. As it turns out, SGI played the "price for base config" game back in the 90s, too. It _was_ a game: nobody wanted the base configuration, and two customers purchasing non-base configs were hardly guaranteed an identical price.
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by davepeck 17y ago
"Price: Ask A Sales Rep" In a past life, I was a full-time engineer at SGI. Have they learned nothing?
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by davepeck 17y ago
Here are some trax I wrote for a recent laptop battle; in under three minutes they must get you grooving and/or destroy your future ability to hear bass. http://davepeck.org/battles-of-yore/ Fruity Loops.
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by davepeck 17y ago
The Gates Foundation pays close attention to this consensus when it is released. Expect Gates' priorities to align well with this list. The methodology is complex, but the concept isn't: for each issue, how many lives can we save per dollar
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by davepeck 17y ago
He started this series by saying that he thinks vinyl is "the best available method for reproducing recorded music." I believe that anyone who thinks this has never bothered to learn how audio reproduction works in theory or in practice. (I
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by davepeck 17y ago
TextMate needs split-screen today. It still surprises the hell out of me that they haven't issued a 1.X point release that adds this feature. WTF?
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by davepeck 17y ago
Etsy is a fanciful/artistic version of this RFS. http://www.etsy.com/
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by davepeck 17y ago
Got it. I ask because the tile size will seem to directly impact the amount of data store contention (aka the number of db.TimeoutExceptions). It would be an interesting study to look at contention rates (percentage of failed datastore read
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by davepeck 17y ago
I assume you only construct a tile if someone types in it; not if someone simply scrolls over it? How large are the tiles?
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by davepeck 17y ago
This is oddly entertaining. Could you explain how you represent the "world" in the AppEngine data store? (Also, could you use cookies to bring me back where I left?)
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by davepeck 17y ago
I'm currently working on a python web project; the lack of a mature, battle-hardened payment library kills me. Ruby's ActiveMerchant is a well-crafted bit of code. The handful of python contenders I've discovered are (1) immature and often
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by davepeck 17y ago
I'm not a physicist, but parts of this are entertaining to read, especially: However, in spite of these beneﬁts of performing the card- drawing experiment it would be a terrible waste if a card really did enforce the closure or a r
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by davepeck 17y ago
In the sage words of Samantha Bee: "My Stalker just Grunted on my Twitter!" (For context, try this video: http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=219519... )
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by davepeck 17y ago
Fabric is in a wild state of flux right now. I used it a bit -- then a bit more -- then I backed off entirely. It has promise, but it seems a bit young at the moment.
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by davepeck 17y ago
Is this a Safari thing or a Webkit thing? I notice it in Chrome too.
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by davepeck 17y ago
I played with your site and it's really nicely done. Following your project on GitHub now. Good to know about this; I've discovered a few other Go+GitHub types in the past few months. Cheers.
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by davepeck 17y ago
Thanks! Chess like this would be a lot of fun, too. By all means, use whatever of my code is useful to build a similar chess service. (Note, though, that my Go service is under AGPLv3 which is a very restrictive/viral license.) Cheers.
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by davepeck 17y ago
Yeah. I'm starting to think that my site best serves people who are new to Go, or who are casual about it, and want to play some fun games without worrying too much about all the complexities. So having tutorials about the game, including t
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by davepeck 17y ago
Cool, good to hear this, and I was hoping to have discussion about the toggle controls. There are only two toggleable options on the entire site that would be better served by a combobox. The rest are binary. The two in question both appear
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by davepeck 17y ago
Haha, awesome. I think this would be a great set of changes! Cheers.
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by davepeck 17y ago
Drat! I tried to be careful about the size of the main page so that you'd never have to scroll. What browser, and what screen resolution do you have? I will correct for it. I definitely intend to add instructions to the site soon. I also wa
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by davepeck 17y ago
Haha! As it happens, I watched Helvetica a few days before I built this site. I had in mind the typographer who was viscerally angry about Helvetica's popularity; he described Helvetica as "textual dung." I decided I disagree!
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by davepeck 17y ago
Now that it is open source, I'm aware of at least two efforts that will provide tools to help with scoring once the game is finished. Currently scoring is up to the players after the game is done. As for the message: interesting. It says, e
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by davepeck 17y ago
This is a great idea! To explain the history a bit: I originally wrote this site so that I could play with my friends, whose email addresses (and twitter accounts) I know. That's why there are no accounts on the site itself right now. (And

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