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by enqk 8y ago
It seems that frame rates of game monitors are pushing the boundaries of how low the latency should be. Imagine making a competitive multiplayer game design to run on 144hz or 200hz monitors.
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by enqk 8y ago
Do you know of a good archive/paper/article that summarizes the bad design characteristics of the early protocol designs? Is it safe to try to get familiar with new designs and compare with the old to extract the bad lessons learn
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by enqk 8y ago
Is this in anyway based on the Tiled Media papers? (Tuiles Musicales)
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by enqk 8y ago
Looks a lot like the NHK (national broadcaster) got the word in order to prepare the public for a constitutional change..
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by enqk 8y ago
Darcs was one of the well-known examples that could be brandished
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by enqk 8y ago
On the other hand, git became successful by being fast and by not solving certain of the hard theoretical problems that specialists were obsessed with solving. It's hard to know before hand what the healthy compromise might be.
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by enqk 8y ago
You might have encountered in the past is C/C++ silently promoting your floats to double. An example, `printf("%f", float_value)` will actually promote float_value to a double. Or calling a function from `math.h` with a float
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by enqk 9y ago
That's not really consistent with the rebellions that were quite frequent in japanese villages during the medieval period
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by enqk 9y ago
What about this (only one example) ID3D11DeviceContext::IASetVertexBuffers https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff4... It's no different from manipulating the opengl context.. Al
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by enqk 9y ago
I like how many ads are in this article
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by enqk 9y ago
Newspapers like NYT have successfully hacked hacker news into getting a lot of its attention. A really high proportion of the front page comes from newspapers, and what I've noticed these past years is that the comment threads and ar
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by enqk 9y ago
Well thing is, in Paris, you often skip the breakfast, so the real moment where you're breaking the fast is during lunch.
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by enqk 9y ago
I don't think you can say that microbenchmarks are anywhere realistic. First because the machine workload is different while you run them. Second because the compiling or VM state is also quite different. A value of microbenchmarks is
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by enqk 9y ago
Good initiative. It is of greater value to document established standards rather than making new ones.
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Collaborative Editing Solutions Round Up(irisate.com)
3 points by enqk 9y ago|0 comments
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by enqk 9y ago
I find this tendency in tech a lot: people don't seem to want to collect and analyze data about their software, check their budgets etc... For all the supposed "technical" ability, tech is awfully loose compared to people wor
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by enqk 9y ago
You would like Shin Godzilla then! It's a movie that specifically shows teams working (some badly, some well) against a fatal threat
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by enqk 9y ago
It's worth going through the exercise of finding the most particular category of people that the acts come from. So in the case of the recent waves of terrorist attacks in Europe, it seems more appropriate to call them fundamentalist s
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by enqk 9y ago
This problem is actually the reason I've fallen out of love with Macos as a platform for my home computers. There's way too much stuff that goes around, daemons that are waking up at any given point and doing a lot of I/O, fo
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by enqk 9y ago
My theory is that the small functions motif appeared with practitioners of languages where the function is the only tool introducing a new scope / block for variable definitions. Languages like Python or Javascript. What about Smalltal
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by enqk 9y ago
When I worked with QT as a UI framework, I did regularly get a sense that the QT contributors were understaffed, and that they have barely enough time to deal with the huge scope that the framework is attacking. The conclusion was that, if
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by enqk 9y ago
What makes you say that it should be trivial to measure performance?
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by enqk 9y ago
On my first trip to japan, I have been warned by my japanese acquaintances to pay special attention to cyclists in cities because, and I quote: "they are crazy" And I indeed witnessed a total disregard for most safety measures, di
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Demotools screenshot gallery(peisik.untergrund.net)
1 points by enqk 9y ago|0 comments
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by enqk 9y ago
this is a really misleading summary of the post.
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by enqk 9y ago
or designated initializers.
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by enqk 9y ago
> The universe is symmetric with respect to time, and indeed, information is conserved. Bringing a snowflake back to its previous shape after it has melted?
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by enqk 9y ago
Right-Exclusive ranges are superior to inclusive ranges because they can represent empty ranges, which removes one rare degenerate case and not overemphasizing it. Another benefit: creating a series of right-exclusive ranges from a sequence
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by enqk 9y ago
The officially known story is that pipes originated with Douglas McIlroy and they were implemented under that name in Unix by Thomson.
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by enqk 10y ago
It seems more logical to pre-quantise the timestamps before insertion. (Actual solution I've seen practiced)

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