jamesmiller5

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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
Considering go's vocal support for UTF8 I'm surprised at this behavior and curious to the reason for excluding it.
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
For those interested in sharpening their SQL skills I have found these two books to be a great resource. 1. Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties 2. Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQ
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Let's Build a JPEG Decoder: Frames and Bitstreams(imrannazar.com)
1 points by jamesmiller5 13y ago|0 comments
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Dynamo Systems Work Too Hard(damienkatz.net)
78 points by jamesmiller5 13y ago|27 comments
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by jamesmiller5 13y ago
I'm not familiar with Backbone.js so I think some of the "ah-ha" was lost to me. I thought it looked more like bug fixing since the first method without Dependency Injection didn't work entirely and Dependency Injection should as I understa
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by jamesmiller5 14y ago
At a hackathon I built a simple blog system that let one reply to the authors article's individual paragraphs privately and provided a private RSS feed to the commenter for the author to continue a conversation. The idea being that an anony
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by jamesmiller5 14y ago
"If you're ready for a build server so pretty you could take it to the prom.." The issue I have with this tweet is that it implies one would not take ugly people, regardless of gender, to prom and comes off as shallow. I also don't
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by jamesmiller5 14y ago
Women are underrepresented in technology. This event is to help promote the potential as well as accomplishments of women in technology. I fail to see how this is segregation, they make no claim that this series is to be representing everyo
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by jamesmiller5 14y ago
It's interesting that almost every point in the other replies is already explained in the article except yours. I'm surprised the crows didn't spot Frodo as he approached Mordor. It's reasonable to assume they were covering more ground away
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by jamesmiller5 14y ago
I turn that on when editing Git commits. autocmd FileType gitcommit setlocal spell
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by jamesmiller5 14y ago
Here are a few different solutions to determine if a point is in a polygon with code examples. I think solution 3 might be applicable and faster. Section: Determining if a point lies on the interior of a polygon http://paulbourke.net/geome
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Let's build a JPEG decoder: Huffman tables(imrannazar.com)
69 points by jamesmiller5 14y ago|13 comments
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by jamesmiller5 14y ago
I believe that is Limor Fried from Adafruit (a Raspberry Pi manufacturer) who asks the question, unless I am mistaken.
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by jamesmiller5 14y ago
I found that the 'Bad habits can become a lifestyle' section to be very well written and it made a number of great points, notably: "Life is the series of choices we remember making. When something goes wrong it's easy to see it is as not a
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by jamesmiller5 14y ago
"- It shows that he has a very distorted view of the gaming landscape, if the truly thinks that the XBox is the dominant platform, or that mobile games are a genuine threat to console gaming (they most certainly are not)." The threat of mob
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Demos Hurt Game Sales(escapistmagazine.com)
2 points by jamesmiller5 14y ago|0 comments
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by jamesmiller5 14y ago
A really cool set of WebGL shader demos that also work. http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/shadertoy/
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by jamesmiller5 14y ago
I have noticed that when the comment count surpasses the up votes the article is usually very confrontational but isn't necessarily authoritative or insightful on the subject matter.
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by jamesmiller5 14y ago
The run-time checks if all goroutines are asleep and waiting for input. If true it panics and halts the program. It can't detect live-lock or thrashing, if you are still waking up other goroutines but not doing anything useful it won't prev
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by jamesmiller5 14y ago
Go solves a lot of general concurrency problems in a first class, language based approached rather than having you implement the finer details for each task that requires it. You can solve the same problems by manually using threads, messag
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by jamesmiller5 14y ago
The packages are available but you don't need to use them and are often encouraged not to. Yes, you can still have all goroutines asleep and the program will halt but that's due to improper concurrent design rather than a program implementa
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Thoughts about App Store ‘Curation’(the-witness.net)
2 points by jamesmiller5 14y ago|0 comments
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Responsive Typography: The Basics(informationarchitects.net)
3 points by jamesmiller5 14y ago|0 comments
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by jamesmiller5 14y ago
It exists therefore it should accepted? The hacker culture has always been about being a better version of itself than it currently is and inequality in the community is just another hurdle to overcome.
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by jamesmiller5 14y ago
Considering that neither party, those who don't want to enable the windows key during full-screen and those who always depend on the windows key to function normally, is served without an unstable and error prone method it would seem the AP
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Finding and Fixing a Five Second Stall(the-witness.net)
95 points by jamesmiller5 14y ago|37 comments
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Mapping Walkable Surfaces in "The Witness" Game(the-witness.net)
5 points by jamesmiller5 14y ago|0 comments
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by jamesmiller5 14y ago
Sure, we all have to adapt when we don't have control over our environment but the situation in the article is a bit different than your own as the author and the authors peers all agree to a mutually beneficial behavior in an environment t
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by jamesmiller5 14y ago
"This script walks from the Viridian City pokemon store to Oak's Lab in the most efficient way possible. The walk-thru-grass function guarantees that no wild battles will happen by manipulating the game's random number generator." I've noti
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by jamesmiller5 14y ago
I use Google Apps for my domain but forward the mail to another account which means I see no ads and get hosted mail for free. I didn't even realize until this announcement that I'm probably a net negative and probably not the only person d

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