james4k

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by james4k 14y ago
Steam's cut is 30%. However, for that 30% you get to update your game whenever you want, and virtually as often as you want. By that I mean they don't impose any direct limits on how often you update, but the general rule is no more than on
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by james4k 14y ago
That was actually one of the questions asked during the "Meet the Go team" talk at Google I/O. They joke around for a bit, but they end up giving some solid arguments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sln-gJaURzk&feature=playe... Edit:
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Movie torrents in the cloud, or using put.io with movies.io(movies.io)
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by james4k 14y ago
The death toll charts are pretty shocking. I mean, an increase of over 300% in 5 years? Wow.
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by james4k 14y ago
Yes. Totally agree. This was a very smart move made by Google, and it will be interesting to see how it affects the adoption rate of both Chrome and the Chromebook.
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by james4k 14y ago
I've always had a bit of an issue with these if statements. It might be slightly more concise, but your code also isn't as straightforward to read. In fact, it's really only more concise in its use of vertical space, so for clarity's sake I
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by james4k 14y ago
No, but if it becomes standard in most browsers, I would guess that would be enough for many people to consider using WebRTC for the same reasons they would consider use BitTorrent. And because of its accessibility, WebRTC would probably wi
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by james4k 14y ago
Luckily, it appears there will be an update in the coming weeks to address that (according to one of the Google IO talks).
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by james4k 14y ago
What kind of implications on battery life does this have? As in, constantly running the webcam.
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by james4k 14y ago
You could fallback to a Flash implementation of WebSocket, and use the native browser implementation when available: https://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js
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by james4k 14y ago
Wow, not bad. I was surprised to see a new to-do list app do pretty well, knowing how many are out there. Well done!
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by james4k 14y ago
Yes, but it was meant to prevent double taxation, so unfortunately it's not as simple as just revoking it.
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by james4k 14y ago
Yeah, even for an experimental feature, that seems like a massive oversight.
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by james4k 14y ago
This seems relevant: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Filmmaker In short, Source Filmmaker was a never officially released tool that was used as part of the production of the TF2 and L4D promotional videos. It provided tool
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by james4k 14y ago
That effective tax rate of 12% is not by design, though. It is due to loopholes that have been thoroughly exploited. A big one being foreign profits are not taxed until it enters the country, so many companies now take their income outside
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by james4k 14y ago
So...what would be needed to see native Haskell iOS apps? :)
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by james4k 14y ago
Yes, and the beautiful thing about it, is that the blocking calls you make are actually implemented as evented IO. This is great when you have a large number of goroutines; it keeps it very fast!
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by james4k 14y ago
The thing I've never liked about this page is that the photo owner's username looks like a link.
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by james4k 14y ago
Yes, definitely. I just learned about -p recently, and had been editing the config AND running sysctl -w for way too long.
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by james4k 14y ago
Disks are big, but I think 100MB is maybe a bit excessive...even 10MB gives you 40k lines of history, at 256 bytes per line, and that is a conservative estimate.
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by james4k 14y ago
Right, what I really meant was a document. I was trying to relate it to SQL, but I may have made it more confusing than anything. That issue is what I was referring to, and it would be a good step forward. However, it's a shame you have the
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by james4k 14y ago
Go's net package has its own resolver. See http://golang.org/src/pkg/net/dnsclient.go http://golang.org/src/pkg/net/dnsclient_unix.go But yes, it does not appear to be used anywhere now, as all of the dns lookups for each platform seem
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by james4k 14y ago
One of the shockers I came across with MongoDB is that each instance of a key takes up memory. There is no form of a symbol table for the keys, so this means a huge amount of data overhead if each 'row' of data uses keys at all, which they
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by james4k 14y ago
There are a number of players doing live video, but I believe what they're arguing more on is the networking aspect.
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by james4k 14y ago
Yes, but it's not near as 'roulette'. I get the impression it connects you with people that are a part of or near your social network, and/or people that have similarities according to your interests, likes, etc. Edit: There's also no anony
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by james4k 14y ago
Interestingly, but off topic, Go has its own DNS resolver that it uses when the getaddrinfo C API isn't available.
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by james4k 14y ago
On a MacBook, I find it pretty easy to move my hand down a couple inches to swipe between full screens, and access mission control when needed. I could see it being a problem when using a mouse, though.
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by james4k 14y ago
Purely depends on the game. A good guess is that as long as the game runs on DirectX 9, it should run reasonably well. That should be most games, except for some of the more recent ones.
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by james4k 14y ago
Yes, that is true to an extent. For the web portions of the UI like the Steam store, it uses the Chromium Embedded Framework: http://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/
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by james4k 14y ago
They use their own UI toolkit called VGUI, the same one they use in HL2 and their other games ( https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/VGUI_Documentation ). So, there is a layer on top, but in terms of rendering it should be all native. I

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