jwiley

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by jwiley 6y ago
I assume you’ve actually played the game on a console, and experienced game breaking bugs? Or maybe you subjectively consider the quality to not match your well thought out expectations previous to purchasing it? Can you please expand on
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by jwiley 6y ago
CD Project forced their employees to crunch to get a game out, missed deadlines, and shipped a game that is buggy on some definition of last-gen hardware. Assuming all that is true: how is this news? This essentially describes every ambit
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by jwiley 6y ago
Yeah thats definitely possible, I may be misremembering the specifics. I think for us the end result was the same: it made us a lot less likely to help them improve their product.
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by jwiley 6y ago
The company I worked for at the time decided to pay since it was affecting users and we had to do an annoying work around. If I remember correctly we got the $100 back a month or so later, with a one liner reply saying something to the eff
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by jwiley 6y ago
This reminds me of finding and trying to report a bug in Internet Explorer 5.5 20+ years ago (not a difficult task). To report a bug, I had to pay. Yes that's right, I had to put in a credit card, and pay $100. If it turned out it wa
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Use This Method from a Former NASA Engineer to Defog Your Windshield in No Time(lifehacker.com)
2 points by jwiley 6y ago|0 comments
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by jwiley 6y ago
Yeah absolutely, I want all my research papers to have snappy, attention grabbing headlines instead of clear descriptions of the subject they are addressing. How about: "Leading temporal autoencoder expert reveals the No. 1 trick to d
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How to hack your process memory(medium.com)
1 points by jwiley 6y ago|0 comments
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by jwiley 6y ago
Very creative use of the technology. I wonder when GPT3 will evolve to handle more languages, and what if any steps they take to reduce cultural bias? If I was in Japan these recommendations would certainly be less useful. :)
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by jwiley 6y ago
Cached version of the article since it seems swamped right now http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pyUsrEA...
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by jwiley 6y ago
I was thinking of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Ray_(Amazon_Kindle) ...roughly the same thing, or maybe the same thing under different branding.
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by jwiley 6y ago
Others specifically mentioned Kobo as an alternative. I did a high level pass over the ecosystem before choosing them as an alternative to the Amazon monopoly, they seem somewhat equivalent to Chrome vs Firefox: - supported formats, for th
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by jwiley 6y ago
It seems like this is nothing new: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/03/12/simple-ap...
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by jwiley 6y ago
Is there any non-paywalled variant of this story at another news site?
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by jwiley 6y ago
I wonder why patches for individual security updates are pushed out individually instead of following the hard release process? We moved away from that in the web / app space decades ago, it's hard to imagine saying "guys, w
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Zerodium expects iOS exploit prices to drop as it announces surplus(securityweek.com)
73 points by jwiley 6y ago|24 comments
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by jwiley 6y ago
It would be useful to have a more direct comparison between this and Redux (assuming its not on the website and I missed it). In what use-cases is it preferable, in which would it not be a good fit? In the comments you mention O(1) vs O(n
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by jwiley 6y ago
Can you expand on "the Trump/Iran release was estimated to be pretty close to the diffraction limit"? What is this in reference to?
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by jwiley 6y ago
I worked for a small health products reseller around 2008 that had stores on Amazon, Yahoo (when that was a thing) and other marketplaces. It was well-known that any exclusive distribution deals between the health products reseller and man
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by jwiley 7y ago
I used Crystal with VS code, I don't remember the autocomplete issues, but I'm not a big consumer of that functionality. Syntax highlighting (and I think formatting) were supported with the plugin I used, which was good enough fo
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by jwiley 7y ago
I tried Crystal for a small hobby project a few months back, and was generally impressed by the stability, ease of use and documentation. I found the type-system very straight forward, and with less mental overhead than Rust, obviously wit
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by jwiley 7y ago
Fantastic game, greatly enjoyed it. 5/5 on the ycombinator app store. :)
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by jwiley 7y ago
Is there anything to stop an application from touching the cache periodically (in the Unix sense of updating modification timestamps without changing values) on load? If so, assuming the application is used more than once every 7 days, this
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by jwiley 7y ago
Thanks for posting! Applied on the website
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by jwiley 7y ago
Thanks for your post! Whats the best way to apply? I know in some cases HR systems can be overwhelmed...is it possible to send a resume to you or hiring managers directly?
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by jwiley 7y ago
I used to be pro-TODO, I find myself today firmly in the no-TODO camp. I work daily on a large, mature code-base, littered with cryptic TODOs left by developers long-gone. They are generally as useful as street-signs in a ghost town. TODO:
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by jwiley 7y ago
'main.dart.js' in the example Flutter KENKEN app linked in the blog post: Chrome - 359kb Firefox - 990k I agree that Chrome is becoming more and more a proprietary channel for Google products, which is probably what its original i
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by jwiley 7y ago
I've heard anecdotally from people working in non-profit agencies assisting with tax preparation that there was extensive lobbying to prevent changes that would make it easier to file for the earned income tax credit. The average retur
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by jwiley 7y ago
I like the idea of multi-cloud very much, kudos to the author for pushing for it. One crucial issue that isn't addressed by a hexagonal architecture however is data egress charges. Data egress is the gravity of the cloud services world
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The Race of Our Lives(morningstar.com)
24 points by jwiley 7y ago|10 comments

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