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by flatline 10y ago
Generally I agree that SVG is awesome, but there are a variety of cross-platform issues with it and I worry it does not get enough serious use to see them addressed. The status quo is pretty good, but if you run into issues there is not alw
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by flatline 10y ago
On the other hand I've used SQLite as a more or less drop-in replacement for a full-blown client-server relational database. It was effectively a read-only file archive but way more complex than you expect to get from a flat file. From
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by flatline 10y ago
> we humans managed to stop and slightly reduce the Ozone Hole By "we humans" I assume you mean Dow Chemical or whoever the primary inventor of CFC replacements was at the time. Yes, it was a good thing, but there was a relativ
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by flatline 10y ago
Interfaces! Inheritance! Looks promising. Protocol buffers are nice for their compact encoding and multi-language generator support but as a schema language they are really cumbersome. Composition is pretty much all you get, there are no lo
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by flatline 10y ago
Interesting observation - I haven't thought about splay trees for a while, but I had a similar initial thought, that this was effectively an MRU optimization. On reading further though, that's not the point of the RH hash, which i
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by flatline 10y ago
> It is empty once the setup was done. I set everything up, there was no content for any of the personas, I closed the app and will likely never open it again.
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by flatline 10y ago
Although, length of link and area of field got you more points, so there was some inducement to find open or poorly defended portals that are off the beaten path, in hopes of holding a large field. Portals at mountain summits and the like a
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by flatline 10y ago
Just use C++. C++11 is a nice, modern language. Lots of OO and functional constructs. It compiles and runs just about anywhere. Lots of people know enough to get stuff done with it. You don't have to worry about a VM and performance is
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by flatline 10y ago
A common speculation, but I can't fathom how much value this adds to Google Maps, if any, what with street view and other 360 degree content they have at their disposal. I suppose that the crowd-sourcing aspect of it could serve to id
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by flatline 10y ago
It's too bad in a way, Pokemon Go is a way better idea, Ingress always felt like some cool ideas thrown together in search of a unifying theme. It is the only AR game with any real lasting appeal that I'm aware of, until perhaps P
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by flatline 10y ago
Yeah, I'd be happy to be wrong, I've been casually reading about these devices since the 1980s and understood the problem to be more or less unassailable. I will likely still buy one of the new wave headsets at some point because
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by flatline 10y ago
The one with the blue people.
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by flatline 10y ago
They are plentiful - for one example, see the article and comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11795913
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by flatline 10y ago
VR fundamentally conflicts with how the eyes focus, and it will never be solved with the current technology. For some people it's not a big problem, but a sizeable portion of the population will be unable to use VR at all or for any ex
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by flatline 10y ago
Even moving a small amount of counts can affect the market, because there is no real anonymity: people watch the large wallet balances and large known holders for signs of coins moving to e.g. an exchange.
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by flatline 10y ago
Heck, I had to go out of my way and adblock the animated gif at the top of the article, it was pegging my processor for some reason.
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by flatline 10y ago
Landlords and colleges are likely to gobble up as much of that free basic income as they possibly can. Payday lenders stand to make an even bigger killing than they do now. If not done carefully, it could result in an even more quickly wide
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by flatline 10y ago
I use the index as a sort of quasi-commit, which lets me effectively step back one revision if needed. I find this to be a lighter-weight option than many commits that may be meaningless, while providing probably 90% of what those commits w
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by flatline 10y ago
> Surprised I wasn't pulled into a back room. For the most part, TSA aren't actual security or law enforcement personnel, they are closer in training and function to low-wage service employees that you would find in the hospita
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by flatline 10y ago
Hey, it's not called the Editor for Middle Aged Computer Scientists for no reason!
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by flatline 10y ago
It could certainly spell doom for future UBI proposals if the first prominent implementation goes badly, and it could be that it went badly due to factors that are simply not as prevalent in the West.
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by flatline 10y ago
Smart contracts may sound cool at first but like many things with bitcoin they are mostly a solution in search of a problem. In the case of wills, the blockchain doesn't address any of the real-world problems typically surrounding the
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by flatline 10y ago
The icon for adding a comment to a paragraph when there is none also causes the rest of the page text to reflow. If this is a preview of what's to come, they've migrated to a 2016 appearance and brought along all the clunkiness o
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by flatline 10y ago
I think you raise some good points, but I don't really know what it's like working with autistic individuals. People working hourly jobs present a wide variety of staffing problems. They don't show up for their shifts on a
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by flatline 10y ago
They don't accept bitcoin directly, they instead accept fiat from Bitpay on behalf of people who wish to pay in bitcoin. It is an important distinction. On the one hand this makes a lot of sense for Steam, it reduces the up-front ove
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by flatline 10y ago
Miners can elect to not include certain transactions. I'm not aware of any evidence that this is happening now except with low/no-fee transactions, but the centralization of hash power makes it possible and, I would contend, inevi
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by flatline 10y ago
Cash, visa MasterCard etc. - there are many banking options. There is only one Bitcoin network, and it is currently very centralized.
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by flatline 10y ago
Issuance may be centralized but the payment network, not so much.
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by flatline 10y ago
Last I checked you're out about a grand for a semi-decent background check, one that would possibly have turned this up. Compared to the total cost of hiring someone that's peanuts.
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by flatline 11y ago
It's been a couple years...will have to pick it back up again, the dev team was always very active.

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