jwatte

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by jwatte 10y ago
Also, in games, most "messages" are a few bytes, and you pack dozens or hundreds into a single UDP packet. Each of the messages will have application specific ordering/reliability/latency trade offs. No existing IETF or
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by jwatte 10y ago
To be fair, protobuf adds field-and-type framing for each field, which a known-in-sync client/server don't need; that adds up to 10-30% over a full packet!
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by jwatte 10y ago
"so many people struggle with high level programming ideas, like design patterns" That sounds more like the movement from "apprentice" to "journeyman." Is it really expected that professional, experienced progr
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by jwatte 10y ago
Depends on the product, and who defines "good." The back end of most big products you use (PayPal, eBay, etc) are probably pretty "bad" from an objective back end engineer's point of view, but they're "goo
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by jwatte 10y ago
Ability to execute is worth more. Ability to build good product is worth more than ability to build good back end.
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by jwatte 10y ago
I'd be happy with "ability to color arrow heads based on the arrow line color."
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by jwatte 10y ago
Some important browsers still don't have a good video image story, and most SMS/chat systems are even worse. We generate animated gifs for our 3D animated emoji and stickers.
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by jwatte 10y ago
I do that, using postfix. You need to also run spamassassin, with auto update, and check in with a number of rbl servers on the receiving side. (This is more important when you forward aliases to gmail and such)
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by jwatte 10y ago
What mechanism do you propose to more optimally utilize scarce resources? How do you measure degrees of need/want and fulfillment of those?
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by jwatte 10y ago
Given the headline, I thought it was going to say "Comcast."
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by jwatte 10y ago
Justice in America is available to anyone who can afford it.
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by jwatte 10y ago
Sorry, I can't find versions of 3ds Max, Inventor, Solidworks, or AutoCAD for the Mac. Also, no Visual Studio. And no Excel. The Mac "equivalents" where they exist are far inferior. How does the Mac have better available soft
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by jwatte 10y ago
Not a single computer sold by Apple meets the minimum spec for a VR experience, nor the next crop of AAA games. What does that mean to the creative that used to prefer Macs for their content creation? What does that do to the brand long ter
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by jwatte 10y ago
How long did the Mac Plus form factor (and 16 MHz 68k) stay on the market? Much longer than 4 years. ("Mac Classic" anyone?)
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by jwatte 10y ago
First: yes you /can/ Second: you don't /have/ to have a /personal/ board seat Third: funds typically have multiple partners If there is one lead and five follows in a series A, do you really think there ar
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by jwatte 10y ago
I don't quite agree with the math and illustrations. If they put in 10M, get 25%, and exit is at 50M, that approximately zero growth over valuation (probably down from series B) This is why VCs don't always take series B, and seri
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by jwatte 10y ago
The whole reason to use lock/wait free algorithms is to minimize latency. Else you can use cheap locks and he done with it! And for latency, the worst var is what matters. With 10 occurrences per macro operation, about half of all oper
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by jwatte 10y ago
In America, justice may sometimes be available, to those who can afford to pay for it.
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by jwatte 10y ago
The societal net gain would likely be positive.
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by jwatte 10y ago
Draconic punishment doesn't work, for the same reason that long mandatory prison sentences don't work. What does work is significant, legislated transparency throughout society, and the teeth and willingness to enforce it.
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by jwatte 10y ago
Tell that to Wells Fargo commercial. 12 character max, change every other month.
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by jwatte 10y ago
Use a script to build a container; once deployed, never touch it again. Of you need a new config, build be container, roll the old version out.
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by jwatte 10y ago
And I'm sure France invade California to enforce their laws. (Or Barbados, or Jersey, or wherever this moves to.)
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by jwatte 10y ago
I get dozens of unsolicited sales emails every day. Just answering "thanks but no thanks, and please take me of your mailing and prospect lists" takes time out of my day. It had a real cost. I have to answer, because the sales peo
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by jwatte 10y ago
So, you are basically strip mining the common good to generate more spam, and all you get is $1500? How can you sleep at night?
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by jwatte 10y ago
Flaws in the article aside, we use STM and TChans with Haskell threads, and it's awesome!
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by jwatte 10y ago
ONSITE in Redwood City, at IMVU. This role includes interfacing with company leadership. Data Engineering Lead -- if you rock the elephant (Hadoop) and like working with things like Kafka, Spark, and Tableau to support a team of scientists
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by jwatte 10y ago
If they should use BSD, wouldn't OpenBSD actually be better? (Default to security)
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by jwatte 10y ago
If there is no payment system, then resources are guaranteed to be oversubscribed and exhausted if they are at all interesting. In the Iain M Banks Culture, that works, but we're not there yet.
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by jwatte 10y ago
If I could pay one cent per top level web page I load, and never have to worry about seeing ads or updating ad blockers or their compatibility again, I would buy that!

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