jbermudes

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by jbermudes 16y ago
Does anyone else wish that we could have the opposite? Web apps with desktop technology? It seems strange that 20 years later the crude stateless hypertext technology designed to share physics documents has been hacked to serve desktop-wann
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by jbermudes 16y ago
Macca, do you have any way of checking the status on applications? I applied a few months ago but never heard back either way.
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by jbermudes 16y ago
This reminds me of a hobby I've been meaning to start: Collecting autographs of a lot of these famous people in computing (bonus points if it's on an item they created/developed). Seems like it'd make for cool decor in any hacker's room/cub
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by jbermudes 16y ago
Yes. The diagram explains that their render farm takes data from AP and converts them into pages that are then sync'd with apache.
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by jbermudes 16y ago
Well there's also the other side of the spectrum as well. IBM for instance has essentially no vacation policy, and it's up to you to determine how much vacation you take. Of course some people claim that this ends up giving you less actual
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by jbermudes 16y ago
"Miyamoto said he wants the game players and the developers to have [the feeling of a shared experience called] kyokan: for the players to feel about the game what the developers felt themselves." This is an excellent piece of advice to kee
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by jbermudes 16y ago
FTA: "The new feature will be available only to a subset of users who have never violated copyright rules" I wonder how this works with the false-flagging and the DMCA abuse that I've heard of. While their algorithms can detect if your vide
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by jbermudes 16y ago
An archived copy of the first web page uploaded can be found here: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/T...
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by jbermudes 16y ago
They're also working on a "vaccine" for cavities: replacing the native bacteria in your mouth that consume the leftover sugars and excrete acid that eats away at the enamel with genetically modified versions that are harmless. http://en.wi
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by jbermudes 16y ago
I'm really looking forward to Rust. D's community seems to be divided over certain issues (according to wikipedia) and I wonder if that division is hampering corporate adoption, meanwhile Go has Google's weight behind it, but its garbage co
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by jbermudes 16y ago
We always need to keep in mind the bigger picture. Sure he made some poor decisions wrt business and relationships, but he probably always had a roof over his head and never went hungry. In first world countries if your startup fails, you c
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by jbermudes 16y ago
Interestingly enough, apparently ignorance of the law has been a big enough argument that this amendment is adding a section basically saying "if you know that it's illegal then you have no excuse", to which Japanese game developers are now
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by jbermudes 16y ago
Unfortunately it works both ways as well. I would love to tailor my resume to highlight what makes me awesome for your company and particular problem/domain, but so often I see job descriptions that are just lists of buzzwords and some path
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by jbermudes 16y ago
Others have already explained the elongation mark, but for those who are interested, there are so many foreign words that have been borrowed into Japanese that sometimes you get words that differ only in the usage of that elongation mark. ビ
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by jbermudes 16y ago
That sounds like an awesome idea. You might want to start off with something simple and not too expensive so that everyone can play along at home. Maybe some day it could actually turn into some sort of online course or series where there i
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by jbermudes 16y ago
So many times at college in computer science I heard the idea that math == computer science and that it is impossible to grok one but not the other. I've heard the famous Dijkstra quote "Computer Science is to computers as Astronomy is to t
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by jbermudes 16y ago
It's going to be difficult to do a MITM attack because iirc, the 360 encrypts the data going over USB so that 3rd-party peripheral makers have to get a license from Microsoft to make a supported peripheral. Of course there always seems to b
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by jbermudes 16y ago
I'm not sure if that's true. While newer languages like python and ruby have taken the desktop app and web app arena by storm, most system/embedded level stuff is still done in C/C++. The usual arguments for this are that A) The language gi
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by jbermudes 16y ago
Are you referring to just the Kinect or do you also need the Xbox?
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by jbermudes 16y ago
That's an excellent point. The homebrew scene is often the one that does all the hard work and the pirates reap the rewards of the broken security systems (Notice how the security system of the PS3 wasn't broken until well after the Other O
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by jbermudes 16y ago
Another interesting development in the fight against cavities is the idea of genetically modifying the bacteria that secrete the acid that causes cavities to make them harmless. The NYTimes had an article about it 8 years ago, I wonder what