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by doppel 9y ago
The games industry is a harsh mistress. With the number of games coming out, being a great game is not enough to make a "hit", even with modest goal of 700 sales. I feel like he put a lot of faith on his effort instead of looking
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by doppel 9y ago
As an esport / spectator sport, SC2 has been waning for a long time, and similarly the War Chest was capped at 200.000 for prize pool money and an unknown amount after that (which, compared to Dota 2 or League of Legends prize pools, i
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by doppel 9y ago
Instead of remembering a master password, you now have to remember a sentence + a word for every site you want to use ("was it facebook, facebook.com or FB?"). Half the job of a password manager is to make sure you a) have unique
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by doppel 9y ago
I suspect the cause is that the £-sign on the right-hand side is "hardcoded" as part of the receipt and sent correctly (using CP 437), whereas the name of items probably accepts input as unicode and then the printer assumes it&#x2
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by doppel 9y ago
So the maintainer, who is already doing stuff to provide you with some code or library, has to go out of his way to accomodate you? If you can't be bothered to send an e-mail or submit to a mailing list, why should he/she be bothe
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by doppel 9y ago
A potential "quick" solution could be to identify the most frequent fields, create a postgres table with those as columns (with relevant indexes) and then add the rest to a JSONB fields. This would allow you quick lookup on specif
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by doppel 10y ago
I am really curious what Apple feel constitutes "pro" apps. "Software development" is mentioned, but the general sentiment from Hacker News and developers I have talked to seems to be that Apple do not understand their &
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by doppel 10y ago
I say go for it - everybody learns something about good and bad code design when more code becomes available, and despite what you may think of it, there's still stuff to learn, especially form larger code bases.
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by doppel 10y ago
My experience is that Uber was roughly ~20% cheaper overall. The good outcome is that the taxi companies ramped up, got out a decent app (with most of the features from the Uber app) and we got discussion and even law changes about how Taxi
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by doppel 10y ago
I have the opposite experience. We have a quite storage-heavy service (video delivery, multiple versions of each), and we recently had to upgrade our SAN to a) a newer system and b) more capacity. As part of this process, we looked into AWS
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by doppel 10y ago
While I understand the context is "stupid inteview questions", I would not say Big O-notation is useless, even for non-Google companies - just read some of the stories at thedailywtf.com to learn how bad it gets. Also, there'
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by doppel 10y ago
I also get the generic "Connection refused" error message in Chrome - seems like the webserver / services crashed.
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by doppel 10y ago
Taken even further, even in real life you are likely to have different circles of friends and colleagues - it is likely that you behave differently for each group (knowingly or unknowingly), because they each have an established way of beha
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by doppel 10y ago
Because unicode is default and the byte-type is single-byte adressable (rather than 1 character in <encoding>) it makes it more straightforward. It's not perfect, but it helps a lot.
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by doppel 10y ago
I think one flaw is that everything happens over the weekend meaning the developer has Friday to understand everything and then be ready for Monday. Personally, I don't know half the issues I might run into when I first start a new pro
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by doppel 10y ago
As with everything else, who you surround yourselves with matter a lot. Hindsigt is 20/20, but obviously your co-founder/partner was not the person you were hoping to start the company with, and if you feel you have to "stop
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by doppel 10y ago
Is this including the mac itself (so 2 external screens)? Because I have that setup at work with a mid-2014 Macbook Pro and with the last 3 versions of OS X and everything works fine - video fullscreen while browsing on another screen is no
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by doppel 10y ago
I assume the argument is that people will see it and strike "while the price is right". While $1000 is not cheap, it's also not exactly exorbitant when you consider the cost of creating your own logo or hiring someone to make
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by doppel 10y ago
Most major browsers now support non-eval JSON parsing that it's a moot point - but it still requires it to be valid JSON, also be be usable in javascript out of the box. JSON has the same thing going for it as the h.264 video codec - i
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by doppel 10y ago
Better is probably a poor word, but consistent at least. Even good drivers may run the speed limit and be "perfectly safe", but the autopilot will always stay at the speed limit and will always make the same choices in a given sit
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by doppel 10y ago
I cannot speak for right wing parties in general, but "Dansk Folkeparti" is very much like social democrats on paper, but their votes reveal a different, right-leaning agenda (to the detriment of a big portion of their voters who
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by doppel 11y ago
Lots of people lose money because of scams, cards getting stolen/scanned/photographed, etc. - in a lot of cases, the banks just cover the cost and can rollback transactions because everyone has agreed that's how the system wo
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by doppel 11y ago
The article mentions running both code paths in parallel, so it becomes a matter of whether they have enough capacity for an extra cost for a (rather specific) path of their code. For this specifically I would imagine the cost is negligible
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by doppel 11y ago
I was wondering the same thing. I find it highly unlikely that they are doing this processing with in-house created tools, although their limited set of input and output codecs shrinks this down from "practically impossible" to &q
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by doppel 11y ago
I would say it's 50/50 between Warhammer 40k and the Alien franchise when it comes to StarCraft. Both StarCraft and WarCraft steals from a ton of other franchises and glues them together, reaffirming the saying "Good artists
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by doppel 11y ago
I think the implication is not that jQuery is bad for DOM manipulation, but that you should leave DOM manipulation to React to have a 1:1 relation between the held state in React and the actual DOM. In other words: Do not manipulate the DOM
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by doppel 11y ago
You should probably put a link in the README.md in the github repository - it was the first thing I looked for (Cmd+F -> "demo"). Nothing beats a visual experience in case of a frontend library.
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by doppel 11y ago
I can absolutely understand the need for this, but until then with a bit of code and the automated workflow you could make requests for new subdomains on-the-fly.
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by doppel 11y ago
To clarify a number of points: - Chrome (and other browsers) support MPEG-DASH via javascript through the Media Source Extensions (MSE) (which Safari actually supports[1]) - Firefox does not "bundle" H.264 (because of licensing) b
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by doppel 11y ago
> BAM doesn’t run like a startup — it doesn’t have equity to share with employees, causing it to lose out on talented engineers and developers that want upside beyond a salary. Is this really true? I imagine a lot of people fit this desc

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