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by eco 11y ago
Yeah, it's a lot like lisp in that regard. I'm glad I learned D even though I don't use it professionally if only because it changed the way I look at some things. The algorithm chaining enabled by UFCS and the range based st
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by eco 11y ago
One of the joys of the web is being able to easily cite and read sources (it was the whole point of hypertext). Sure, we could all just discuss and debate by shooting from the hip with our opinions and recollections like we are at a wine-fu
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by eco 11y ago
You made the claim. I provided a link with my own claim because it's the polite thing to do and furthers the conversation.
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by eco 11y ago
Have a link handy? I can't find it. My memory was he's said a lot of things like "we messed up" and "we could have handled it better". Nothing that says he personally is responsible.
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by eco 11y ago
The only person claiming Alexis was responsible for firing Victoria was Yishan who hasn't worked there for 8 months and he based that on the fact that Alexis is Ellen's boss so he's ultimately responsible. Former employee kic
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by eco 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9768166
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by eco 11y ago
Alexa ranks reddit at 24. The other user content focused stuff high on the list are: 2. Facebook (10,082 employees) 3. YouTube (a lot of employees) 6. Wikipedia (~250 employees) 8. Twitter (3,900 employees) 13. LinkedIn (7,600 employees) 15
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by eco 11y ago
Wow. Thank you. I didn't make the connection until you wrote that. I really should reread The Cuckoo's Egg.
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by eco 11y ago
I'm reminded of the huge success Coke experienced after reintroducing Coca Cola Classic after the disastrous new Coke. When questioned about the whole thing Coke's president Donald Keough said, "Some critics will say Coca-Col
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by eco 11y ago
Yes. That's not even though most impressive thing. He built his own scanning electron microscope (though that's not the one he used to produce these images). His channel is a lot of fun. https://www.youtube.com/use
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by eco 11y ago
I tried to use something similar a long time ago (SuperGenPass). The problem I had with it was that often times the password would not meet the password requirements of the site. Sometimes it's too long, sometimes there weren't en
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by eco 11y ago
It'll be Windows 10 only (which has a lot of people speculating that Oculus Rift may be Windows 10 only).
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by eco 11y ago
Since that forum post they have implemented low persistence display which apparently helps immensely with the motion sickness some people experience. You can watch an explanation of how it works here: https://youtu.be/HoLHHU
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by eco 11y ago
I'm kind of delighted that the author of that article, Michael Abrash, worked at Microsoft (twice), at Valve, and is now at Oculus.
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by eco 11y ago
I think it's two fold. First, you can't just slap VR into existing games. It needs to be considered and implemented deliberately. Second, I don't think the XBox One powerful enough to drive an Oculus Rift. The recommended spe
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by eco 11y ago
I also was a reviewer on a Packt book. The coordinator was sometimes a bit uncoordinated but I felt the book that came out was excellent (D Cookbook). This is probably more due to the author than anything though. Browsing their books while
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by eco 11y ago
You also need access to their servers to download the game. A one time access isn't the problem with DRM.
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by eco 11y ago
> You need to access their servers to play the game. You can just turn on Offline Mode and play your games just fine. I hear your concerns with DRM but Steam is hardly a good example of the horrors it can cause.
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by eco 11y ago
I've never heard it called Retrowave before (thought that is a good name for it). I know it by the names Outrun or Synthwave. Carpenter Brut, Perturbator, M|O|O|N, Miami Nights 1984, Lazerhawk or basically anything from the Hotline Mia
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by eco 11y ago
ACM and its members have a code of ethics. Less than one percent of computer programmers are ACM members.
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by eco 11y ago
What do you mean? You can download the Windows desktop version here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-US/downloads/b199c523-bcd9-...
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by eco 11y ago
In the article it states the EU announced they were investigating Android in addition to the Google Search investigation they've been doing for some time. I think the article does a pretty good job of describing the context for the And
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by eco 11y ago
I find Mark Cuban's take back then — and now, he still believes YouTube is a loser as recently as 2015 — particularly funny because selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion is how he made his billions. YouTube is soaring whereas
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by eco 12y ago
It's hard to tell if I flew too close to Poe's law, failed at sarcasm, have an minority opinion, or just wasn't contributing to the conversation. Probably a combination.
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by eco 12y ago
Haven't you heard what happened to Google Reader? If Google can't even keep small projects with no revenue stream going then how can we trust them with much harder projects for which they will have invested billions of dollars? Th
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by eco 12y ago
While we are playing this game, here it is in D: int total = recurrence!"n+1"(0) .map!(x => x*x) .take(10) .sum(); Replacing that last sum() with reduce() from std.parel
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by eco 12y ago
Interesting. Where'd you get those figures? I googled around a bit but came up short.
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by eco 12y ago
Pete blogged about it today[1]. Sounds like his plan is to basically sell VPN services for Google Fiber customers who are concerned about privacy. 1. https://xmission.com/blog/2015/03/24/google-fiber-in-s
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by eco 12y ago
The announcement stated that Google Fiber will be limited to the Salt Lake City-proper boundaries. There are only a couple hundred thousand people living in SLC itself though, and only a hundred thousand in Provo. The area between Salt Lake
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by eco 12y ago
Comcast doubled their speeds throughout the Salt Lake metro area a few months back (around the same time Google announced Salt Lake City as a potential Google Fiber location). I'm on a 100 Mbps download now. It's a nice consolatio

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