lighthawk

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by lighthawk 11y ago
The Personal NetWare ad is just classic. That big stretching picture technique- they need to bring that back.
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by lighthawk 11y ago
I'm all for privacy. It just isn't implementable.
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InfowarCon 2014 Talks(infowarcon.com)
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by lighthawk 11y ago
Nice! How will it be monetized?
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by lighthawk 11y ago
Does anyone know if the issues people were reporting with simulator sickness have lessened with the version they plan to sell? see: https://forums.oculus.com/viewtopic.php?t=5127&start=20
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by lighthawk 11y ago
> it's likely the author brought it on themselves by pushing too hard. Don't fall into the trap of thinking this. It is the case some of the time, but not all of the time. When I first started working in tech in the mid-90s, it
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by lighthawk 11y ago
Neat! Now look at: https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript And try it: http://himera.herokuapp.com/index.html
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by lighthawk 11y ago
> Firefox was literally born in the dark ages of browser development to serve a clear need(s): lean, fast, modern. Yes, and imo Firefox was the best browser for several years, until Chrome/Chromium took hold. Chrome is faster, it&#x
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by lighthawk 11y ago
> Where do you put the settings and search buttons? My opinion: 1. They go on the remote controller itself as magnifying glass and gear buttons, if you have that luxury. If there is no UI pointer, there is no need to provide anything els
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by lighthawk 11y ago
It looks good, and don't want to shoot down the UI, but here are some suggestions: In regard to pictures 4 and 5, Roku tried the fully horizontal menu for a while, but wasn't great. It's too limiting. Think about using a vert
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by lighthawk 11y ago
Neat service! But, why does something saying it is p2p always seem to have some centralized dependency? In this case, it's GitHub auth. It seems that the initial authentication of you are who you say you are could be done via transferr
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by lighthawk 11y ago
> I get that this is aimed at the startup crowd, but I've always felt that this sentiment is pretty privileged. I think Sam is right to say this, though. There are plenty of people holding themselves back. I hold myself back because
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by lighthawk 11y ago
Though the Apple Watch is still cool, I'm still seriously thinking of getting a Pebble Time: https://getpebble.com/pebble_time However, development for the Time so far hasn't been as easy as I'd thought, e.g.
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by lighthawk 11y ago
A term for code written in an undesirable way to tie you over in the short-term is a "hack". Not all hacks are bad. But, if I see "// this is a hack to..." or "# this is a hack to..." or similar in co
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by lighthawk 11y ago
I like the idea, but would prefer if GitHub just integrated this functionality. Otherwise, how will the developers know that something was voted on unless they use these third-party tools?
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by lighthawk 11y ago
> under a republican president Democrat or Republican doesn't matter. Lobbying and who is offered and receives campaign contributions, etc. matter. It's about manipulation, money and power/getting re-elected, plain and sim
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by lighthawk 11y ago
Someone should do this for Boston.
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by lighthawk 11y ago
> A bunch of neato things such as build-your-own-sigils, which felt even more "Ruby-like" than Ruby's own capability I like custom sigils, those are pretty cool, e.g. def sigil_i(string, []), do: String.to_integer(string)
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by lighthawk 11y ago
> Elixir does not compete with ... Ruby ... I think it does, actually, though not intentionally. José Valim was a Rails core dev and as far I can tell he took on Elixir to address concerns with performance. In http://elixir-la
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by lighthawk 11y ago
> we consistently get around 90% compression For unicode and BSON?
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by lighthawk 11y ago
> Learn to document your successes and be able to verbally communicate why anything you do is important or useful to less technical users. And on the software engineer/developer side of things the same applies. This is why whenever
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by lighthawk 11y ago
"And we now have some exciting news to share: we are running MongoDB on RocksDB in production for some workloads and we’re seeing great results!" Some stats and a way to replicate would be nice here.
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by lighthawk 11y ago
> Update: it was pointed out that this started way before Docker Yes, like in the 90's, at least, when people started using Java. Even prior to Maven there were jars, and we didn't really know what was in them. And prior to tha
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by lighthawk 11y ago
And next thing you know, some AI will want it's say in court, and it will likely have a very convincing argument.
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by lighthawk 11y ago
I'm surprised by how few are listed here and that "successful" wasn't even defined by any parameters in the initial question and no one has mentioned that yet. Does successful mean profitable? Reached some revenue target
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by lighthawk 11y ago
> In particular XP is effective for web server products. I was on a team that used it effectively to develop a Java back-end framework, which was not web services nor hosted by a web server. While I agree not everything fits into XP, you
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by lighthawk 11y ago
While I totally applaud this effort, how does it not lie? It inserts code into the actual source claiming it is on a line in the original file, but it is in a different line in the compiled version. That seems like it could be a problem at
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by lighthawk 11y ago
"Variables should be named using Hungarian notation." Please note that this is from a different time and space, and that you should not apply such rules to every language.