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by donpdonp 13y ago
The technology is impressive - it felt responsive and looked decently detailed. I stopped playing almost immediately though once every action had a slot-machine audio/video feedback to it. Its straight out of any Zynga game and it redu
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by donpdonp 13y ago
Too Link-Baity; Didnt Read "The one weird HR benefit every startup should add"
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by donpdonp 13y ago
I get the feeling the space in the passenger car (which is limited) was designed by people who build space capsules.
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by donpdonp 13y ago
In other news, obvious consequence is obvious.
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by donpdonp 13y ago
This resonated with me because I've been building services with zeromq lately. The zeromq bind and connect calls isolate the caller from managing disconnects. Zeromq will reestablish a dropped connection and the client code is none the
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by donpdonp 13y ago
The video is very misleading. The concepts and timing and inflections in the videos conversation are light years beyond what I've seen with off the shelf smartphones and software. I imagine the actual doll will be no better at conversa
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by donpdonp 13y ago
same here. I was hoping the story introduced a new paradigm of charging that eliminated 'suspending' accounts all together, such as pre-paid.
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by donpdonp 13y ago
I'd like to see increased adoption of SCTP to get multiplexing benefits for all protocols including HTTP.
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by donpdonp 13y ago
my first thought was 'hey, wine has come a long way since the early days'. this is hackernews, not vinternews.
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by donpdonp 14y ago
Does this shared editor have advantages over etherpad?
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by donpdonp 14y ago
I was hoping the daemon from Daniel Suarez's Daemon novel had been located.
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by donpdonp 14y ago
do you know how this compares to bouncy? I use bouncy as my web proxy including websockets and SNI. I love the flexability of writing the proxy in javascript. https://github.com/substack/bouncy
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by donpdonp 14y ago
NASA's Climate Change Site has compelling, long term environmental measurements, and scientific analysis. The Key Indicators page is especially eye-opening. http://climate.nasa.gov/key_indicators
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NodeJs and Bouncy as Web Front End(donpark.org)
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by donpdonp 14y ago
How can a domain name with incredible value like MIT.EDU expire in July of this year? Is an ivy-leage school with a $9 billion endowment renewing their domain name year by year? It looks like the domain registration is not managed well. My
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by donpdonp 14y ago
TIL: fuzzy search turns up unexpected results that are sometimes amusing.
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by donpdonp 14y ago
Schemaless databases move the integrity checks up into the middleware, which I dare say is a more flexable place to have it. Most ORM libraries have integrity checks so the db checks end up being redundant and more difficult to change. I t
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by donpdonp 14y ago
I was surprised too. Anyone have a video of a drone infecting another drone? The symptoms of infection should be obvious: var actions = [ function () { up(Math.random() * 2 - 1) }, function () { left(Math.random() * 2 - 1)
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by donpdonp 14y ago
This is an interesting upside to studio consolidation. With this deal, Netflix has access to Pixar and LucasFilm titles too.
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by donpdonp 14y ago
The agreement is a huge deal, but I agree three years out is a long time to wait! I find the exclusive part hard to believe. In the next three years something may supersede Netflix and Disney will want to be able to switch.
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by donpdonp 14y ago
Efficiency in syncing the blockchain appears to be the number one priority of the bitcoin client developers right now. The next release, 0.8.0, will have major improvements in this area. from https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=16 "new
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by donpdonp 14y ago
IndieWebCamp.com is another movement towards open and federated social networking.
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by donpdonp 14y ago
A distributed message bus seems to be the most promising model. It'll be better than 'twitter but open' through the variety of messages being passed (see the sidebar of the UI mockup below). I believe the messages being spoken will come fro
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by donpdonp 14y ago
It would help if every purchaser of a bicycle checked the frame serial number against various online stolen bike databases. I'm not sure how fragmented the bike registration industry is.
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by donpdonp 14y ago
Its illegal to use a substitute for USD dollars. A substitute for USD is exchanged directly for USD as you describe in the footnote. See the Liberty Dollar ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Dollar ) for an example. Bitcoins, like ci
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by donpdonp 14y ago
My answer was slightly misleading, while blocks are won about every ten minutes, the difficulty is adjusted every 2016 blocks (2016 * 10 minutes = 14 days). https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
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by donpdonp 14y ago
Its true and actually the best concise summary of bitcoin mining I have read. All miners are in a race to find the valid hash for the block they are working on. The first miner to find the hash wins the block and gets 50 coins. The system a
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by donpdonp 14y ago
I like a well written bitcoin story. As soon as this story opened with the red herring of Silk Road, I sighed in disappointment. To my knowledge, bitcoin is not recognised as a currency by my country (or any other country), therefore it has
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by donpdonp 14y ago
Core i7? PC Hardware hit a usability plateau with the Core 2 Duo. For modest tasks, my 4.5 year old thinkpad and home desktop are both Core 2 Duo and perform most tasks fabulously. I do look forward to an upgrade but I have thought the same
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by donpdonp 14y ago
"Recursion is shunned upon for instance,...message passing is the preferred way of communicating between subsystems....isolation is part of the coding guidelines... The Erlang programmer nods at the practices." Best "Smug Programmer" line e

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