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by dgritsko 8y ago
Watch the TED talk linked elsewhere in the thread, there are many, many things he talks about doing that are also poor ideas.
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by dgritsko 8y ago
Nice town. I'll take it.
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by dgritsko 8y ago
Never heard of it and I consider myself a huge sci-fi fan. What would you compare it to?
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I agree, and their conclusion even features this salient bit: >However, we weren’t set up to scale. We lacked the proper tooling for testing and deploying the microservices when bulk updates were needed. As a result, our developer produc
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by dgritsko 8y ago
It was all over Reddit when it happened (which is where I heard about it).
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by dgritsko 8y ago
You should read the article before commenting, it's almost entirely about the original content that Netflix produces.
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by dgritsko 8y ago
Steve Yegge had an entertaining and informative post last summer describing his own experience with Kotlin and his thoughts on what makes it a compelling language. It's a great read: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/201
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by dgritsko 8y ago
TTL in this context is "time-to-live" - "a mechanism that limits the lifespan or lifetime of data in a computer or network" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_to_live ). E.g., the duration of a cach
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by dgritsko 8y ago
Or it could mean that the cost of cache invalidation is greater than the cost of allowing stale data to be read for the remainder of the TTL, or any other number of justifications for finite TTL. The point is, it depends on your application
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by dgritsko 8y ago
Semi-related - the YouTube clip in the article was linked to on a little subreddit called "Obscure Media", https://www.reddit.com/r/ObscureMedia/ A wide variety of stuff shows up there, some of which mi
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by dgritsko 8y ago
The game is much older than Milton Bradley's version (which I assume you're referring to) and has gone by several different names - including "Battleships". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(
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by dgritsko 8y ago
Do you happen to know if it's possible to publish a game on Steam using Phaser?
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I specifically remember your quote "It is always better to not have a problem than to mitigate it" from the "Latency Mitigation Strategies" post on #AltDevBlogADay. It was so poignant to me that I wrote it on a post-it a
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by dgritsko 8y ago
TIL. Couldn't remember the original domain.
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One of my favorite authors! Reading The Diamond Age right now as a matter of fact. Favorite of his is probably Anathem or Seveneves.
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by dgritsko 8y ago
How can you quote him and not link to Time Cube? http://timecube.2enp.com/
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by dgritsko 8y ago
> But $50 or so in adapters later I have zero issue. Yep, sounds like an Apple product.
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by dgritsko 8y ago
The article links to a site[1] where you can interact with the system. That site also features a "How to Use Bayou" page, which contains a succinct description of what the system actually does: > You can think of Bayou as a sys
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by dgritsko 9y ago
> "the opportunity to build a business that could compete with Big Pizza by uniting tens of thousands of mom-and-pop shops" This summary of Slice's business feels like it ought to be generalizable to other industries. Anyo
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by dgritsko 9y ago
I've heard this example bandied about every time this topic comes up, but does this actually mean that those entry-level lawyers would be out of a job? Or does it simply mean that they would be freed up to perform other tasks? Wouldn&#
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by dgritsko 9y ago
Anyone here tried one? How do they compare to the real thing?
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by dgritsko 9y ago
Pretty descriptive IMO. Do you have a better alternative in mind?
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by dgritsko 9y ago
Yeah, if they're able to consistently hit that weekly number (and continue to improve upon it) this is some much-needed good news for Tesla.
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by dgritsko 9y ago
Have you seen this post [1]? I think this is the closest thing to what you're looking for that has been posted so far. [1]: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104712037900071
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by dgritsko 9y ago
This is pretty clever marketing by Page Flows. I made it all the way to the end before I realized I was being sold something.
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by dgritsko 9y ago
I've generally heard the term used to refer to low-effort games that are basically just third-party assets packaged up and sold as a full experience, while having little to no "playable content". The availability of these ass
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by dgritsko 9y ago
From the article: > SpaceX has said it will offer speeds of up to a gigabit per second, with latencies between 25ms and 35ms.
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by dgritsko 9y ago
I'm reminded of a great episode of "This American Life" that discussed (among other things) the fallibility of the polygraph. As depicted in pop culture, the lie detector is never wrong, but it turns out that's far from
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by dgritsko 9y ago
> But Walmart's decision to build a network that is not reliant on a single third-party cloud technology provider has transformed its ability to understand shoppers, who now move between store, desktop, mobile and app to make purcha
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by dgritsko 9y ago
How does this compare to the "Community Edition" of the Phaser framework?

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