jwatte

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by jwatte 12y ago
Having been in on two previous attempts, let me state my wry amusement at this go-around :-)
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by jwatte 12y ago
The "Docs" and "Download" buttons on the front page have different height and font sizes. (Chrome on android)
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by jwatte 12y ago
The frequency sensitivity curve of rods is different from reach of the cone types, too. If some rods contribute to daylight vision, then everyone is tetrachromatic to some extent.
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by jwatte 12y ago
Can you do the math for me of every user on the internet times every program downloaded?
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by jwatte 12y ago
If Rust is widely adopted, and if this commit adds a kilobyte to every language and every library downloaded by everyone, would the fun for the author be worth it?
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by jwatte 12y ago
Consider the bizspark program for msdn licenses. I agree that MSVC is an awesome IDE and debugger, except for creation 2002 which was terrible. The more tools you know well, the wider are your options for each problem you want to solve. Vim
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by jwatte 12y ago
If VoIP actually used the capability to deliver higher call quality, that would be one thing. But these services almost universally sound like vocoder compressed noise in an echo tunnel. They're as bad as cell phones, and have as much
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by jwatte 12y ago
At some point, the time to print will be 5 minutes. At some point, the set of "highly specific parts" will cover 95% of the things that break in your life. At some point, "search + print" will be faster and cheaper than
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by jwatte 12y ago
I think we got to this point over a year ago. 3D printers are the new "I can build you a home page on the web." Printrbot has had a good $300 FDM solution for a long time; to get significantly better, you really need SLS or Resin
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by jwatte 12y ago
Why is it a problem if legitimate email costs $0.01? If it's not even worth that to you, perhaps it's not so "legitimate" after all. (Organization internal mail doesn't need to pay itself) The main casualty would be
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by jwatte 12y ago
The math is well known, and many libraries exist. I bet you could replace the OS X and Mac hardware with more cost effective hardware and software with an engineering effort in the low man years, if not less. Which would presumably pay back
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by jwatte 12y ago
There is lots of undefined behavior that causes crashing, although usually of the target program, not the compiler. Crashing compilers is nothing new though. I can't count how many ICEs I used to run into in certain versions of certain
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by jwatte 12y ago
Which vendor? I have experience with two brands in similar condos, one good, one not so much...
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by jwatte 12y ago
$2500 for a mobile developer job in Tokyo? Does that even pay for taxes and rent and food? The going rate in the bay area (also expensive) is about 4x that. Why would anyone with mobility choose Japan then? (Other than as a language immersi
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by jwatte 12y ago
We might think that smoking can be bad for individuals, and decriminalization is good for society at the same time. However, a seven month time period is not enough to read the experiment on many the variables claimed in the article (blight
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by jwatte 12y ago
Illustrator needs disruption, true. But Photoshop needs disrupt even more! (And don't get me started on only two computers for the full subscription install!)
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by jwatte 12y ago
I have been driving the 80 mile "real range" Leaf for three years and it gets me to work and back without recharging. Because it charges when parked, I experience zero charge time. If you are single without family (so only one car
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by jwatte 12y ago
If we believe in evolution as expression of genetic traits, And we believe that intellectual capacity has evolved, Then we believe that intellectual capacity is a generic trait. (Remains to determine whether intellectual capacity genetic tr
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by jwatte 12y ago
More people not doing menial tasks means more people able to apply their brains. The society that can best capitalize on that resource will win.
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by jwatte 12y ago
That makes sense of there is an actual difference, or if the creating is for learning only. Given that the post said nothing about goals, I'd like to know.
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by jwatte 12y ago
What's wrong with gamedev.net and gamasutra.com?
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by jwatte 12y ago
If I want a $30 device, I get a pi. If I want to actually spend money, I get a NUC. $100 is a terrible price point for most hobbyist gear -- too expensive for cheap-os, too poor support for real work. Just ask the hard kernel / odroid
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by jwatte 12y ago
1 read abd understand other people's code 2 build, then rebuild, your own systems After 10,000 hours of this, assuming you keep climbing rather than just doing the same thing over and over, you will be competent.
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by jwatte 13y ago
You are right. The biggest pocket book has the biggest chance. Who is that? Zenimax? Facebook? IP claim fights when executives leave is not new in tech.
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by jwatte 13y ago
That's not true. Backbone pays for long haul to meet me room. ISP pays for last mile from meet me to consumer. Comcast decided to not only not pay for interchange equipment, but also to charge twice for traffic. Classic monopolist mo
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by jwatte 13y ago
Then the ISP shouldn't sell you bandwidth it doesn't have. That's called "fraud" in most other businesses.
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by jwatte 13y ago
I pay that price for that service, but comcast doesn't deliver that service to me, because they decided to throw away the existing play book of Internet peering. Can we class action sue comcast?
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by jwatte 13y ago
Comcast charges me, the customer, for Internet access. This means access to any network that's present in a meet-me room. That's how the Internet works - each participant pays their share for getting to the exchange. Comcast knew
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by jwatte 13y ago
I find that Pololu pre-crimped loose cables are convenient, and they slip right into standard 100 mil pin header housings. For anything up to a few amps, this is a fine kind of connector for DIY projects. For higher power, I use screw termi
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by jwatte 13y ago
Wait, what? You're less than 20 people and the CTO doesn't write code? That's news, and weird in all ways. Danger ahead! But there are many things I assume in this story. Is everyone full time? How many people are there? How

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