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by gnufied 14y ago
I think he was referring to Scroll combined with blurred preview of item your hovering over. I could be wrong but it was designed to give a feel of driving in your car through a street full of houses or something.
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by gnufied 14y ago
I am not supporting DuckDuckgo's claim, but the procees is indeed less painful if you just install their extension, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duckduckgo-fo... I don't know why no such addon exists for Chrome? EDIT: Ug
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by gnufied 14y ago
I think we Indians will spend a lifetime correcting "Ghandi" as "Gandhi". :-) EDIT: To add to the discussion - not many people are aware but MK Gandhi was indeed very thorough in his use of Non-Violence and other means of protest. On few o
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by gnufied 14y ago
I am surprised no one has brought the topic of working from Coffee shops. This is one of the things that I have tried but never worked for me. Worst yet, me & my friend were consulting for a startup, whose co founders worked from a cof
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by gnufied 14y ago
There are really two types of F2P models (possibly more). One where by paying you can actually unlock things that affects game play. For example, League of Legends. You can pay to unlock champions and that obviously affects your gameplay. O
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by gnufied 14y ago
> I mean, remember when they introduced hats in TF2? Said they'd never, never, never affect gameplay? We know how that went. Actually I don't know how that went. I play bit of Dota2 which has similar model and Valve has always conteste
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by gnufied 14y ago
I have not played Triple Town but free to play model that generates revenue by asking users to pay for unlocking things is here to stay. One clear example is, League of Legends. Where you start with set of free champions and you either play
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by gnufied 14y ago
I can't speak for WP8 but Blackberry still has customers who although have switched to Android/iPhone, loved their blackberries. And there is a case of, many corporates still using Blackberries. The land has been sliding but if RIM can win
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by gnufied 14y ago
There is something like that underway currently and the guy who was arrested for tweeting was part of it - India Against Corruption( http://www.indiaagainstcorruption.org/ ). Like every common Indian, they have my support and money and when
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by gnufied 14y ago
Dunno, but a static generator like Nanoc & Jekyll works much better than Wordpress for me. PS: I see the sarcasm though. :-)
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by gnufied 14y ago
Interesting, so you are not only switching to Passenger but switching to MRI as well? I think it might be worth dropping an Email to JRuby mailing list ( https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/MailingLists ), if you haven't already about what
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by gnufied 14y ago
Am I missing something? Grabcad while great does not have webgl based viewer like sketchfab. Also, it seems to be sketchfab supports wide number of formats.
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by gnufied 14y ago
Which is okay. I am huge fan of Valve games and know that Nvidia drivers can run games quite well on Linux, so if AMD/ATI do not want my money, it is fine my me. I know that one might say but majority of users do not know this, but from wha
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by gnufied 14y ago
I am no expert but another linked story ( http://discovermagazine.com/1987/may/02-the-worst-mistake-in... ) explains it better why Agriculture had overall deteriorating effect on human health: 1. Early farmers had less access to variety of
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by gnufied 14y ago
Author of Packet ( https://github.com/gnufied/packet ) a Reactor library that did use Ruby IO primitives here. I wrote this before, eventmachine had pure Ruby reactor. Non blocking calls were introduced in Ruby 1.8.5 IIRC and my library mad
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by gnufied 14y ago
Zed shaw tried to make libevent work with Ruby, but this was when we had Ruby 1.8.5 and there were problems with Ruby interpreter that prevented this (around threading IIRC).
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by gnufied 14y ago
Depends on where you are. It might be pretty good when dealing with Amazon in US, but I have been on the receiving end more than once when I order stuff to India. One of books I ordered, I never received and yet it was marked delivered in t
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by gnufied 14y ago
Not many have fortitude or resources to make it to the front page of HN, Wired etc. I can somehow relate ( http://gnufied.org/2011/08/30/the-applecare-story/ ) how powerless an individual feels when faced with a large corporation offering n
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by gnufied 14y ago
If I had a choice I would have certainly picked EM. But I am not sure, how much of Rails code can be ported over to Event driven model of EM. I think the only thing which can be reliably ported is models. Now, they did evaluate EM apparentl
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by gnufied 14y ago
Ability to stream stuff from an Event driven reactor loop makes lot of sense when it comes to raw performance actually. If you throw in Postgres database in mix which supports asynchronous queries - one can pretty much beat 20 passenger ins
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by gnufied 14y ago
The title is misleading. From original article[1]: > They found that Node.js, which is based on Google’s V8 JavaScript engine, offered substantially better performance and lower memory overhead than the other options being considered. P
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by gnufied 14y ago
From original article[1] (Not the highscalability link spam): >This led them to a model where the application is essentially piping all of its data through a single connection that is held open for as long as it is needed. So it sounds
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by gnufied 14y ago
I daresay you seem to have wrong impression. Having Rails app for typical web stuff and Eventmachine (em-synchrony) + faye stuff for realtime things work pretty well in actual usage. I can wrap DB calls, memcache/redis, SMTP connections etc
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by gnufied 14y ago
In a language like Ruby or Python by using Fibers or Co-Routines(Greenlets), one can get benefit of non-blocking IO at the same time avoiding code spaghetti. Gevent in python for example is pretty popular and similar is the case with Em-syn
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by gnufied 14y ago
May be not as much clear. But Ruby world has plenty of options for Websocket as well. I have built production Websocket server on top of Goliath and Faye and it works like a charm. https://github.com/faye/faye-websocket-ruby Faye is the t
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SupportBee launches web tool for headache-free email support(venturebeat.com)
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by gnufied 14y ago
I love the idea of day rate, it means so much less stress as consultant. But what if, the client can afford only lets say 20 hours per week of time? I am having somewhat of hard time working with clients who do not want fulltime though beca
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by gnufied 14y ago
No. He is saying out of all faults Mongo has - blog author picks the one which is rather well known.
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by gnufied 14y ago
I agree with - we do not know if Apple did what it did just to hurt Google but how about coming clean to its customers. How about saying - "Dear iPhone users, your iOS map experience might downgrade little bit in certain cities of the world
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by gnufied 14y ago
I originally come from same region this story is about and currently as we stand Bihar is one of the poorest states in India. Much of road work in Gaya district happens courtesy of Japanese govt. funds (Gaya is a popular Buddhist tourist at

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