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by maxmcd 10y ago
I like this take on UDP v TCP: https://1024monkeys.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/game-servers-ud... While agar is a casual clicker the core game experience revolves around sorting out collision conflicts. I can se
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by maxmcd 10y ago
Maybe because JPG bytes or more likely to be manipulated when sending around the web?
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by maxmcd 10y ago
Well, they have a paid tier. I feel like there's room for a little optimism when superusers are funding the existence of free plans.
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by maxmcd 10y ago
The bounding boxes look more exact than that. I have also only seen that new type of captcha with images that look like they are from streetview.
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by maxmcd 10y ago
There is anti-boosting logic that disables your account if you abandon too many games
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by maxmcd 10y ago
It would seem the takeaway here is: In the first 3 months of 2016 famous people died at 2x the rate of previous years. Since then there has been a normal rate of famous person death. "Quantity of famous people dying" is measured u
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by maxmcd 10y ago
In my limited experience the market asking for and building sites on dreamweaver has completely shifted to squarespace, wix, etc.
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by maxmcd 10y ago
Github pages is nice, night be hard to set up email entry for a less-technical user. Most of the non-technical friends I have enjoy using Unbounce.
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by maxmcd 10y ago
That is the goal. This runs on App Engine, Google's PAAS, if the Java lock-in is anything like the Python lock-in I have experienced this won't be very useful outside of their infrastructure. At least not without a major rewrite.
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by maxmcd 10y ago
The parent is likely referring to dumping the GAE Datastore data into a Postgres instance for reporting and other analysis. Not swapping out the primary datastore for the app. This comment elsewhere in this thread explains the strategy nice
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by maxmcd 10y ago
https://a-k-apart.com/faq#size
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Of Course I’ll Let You Execute Arbitrary JavaScript Code in My Users’ Browsers(tech.metriccollective.com)
11 points by maxmcd 10y ago|0 comments
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by maxmcd 10y ago
Looks like it's up now.
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by maxmcd 10y ago
Ah, whoops, yep, fair enough.
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by maxmcd 10y ago
If you're already using React-Router a nice solution might be to infer all of the valid paths from the React-Router config and push valid pages for those paths to gh-pages. Would involve an unusual build step, but would get you valid 4
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by maxmcd 10y ago
Looks like in 2013 the top 1% earned 21% and paid 41% of California's taxes. https://www.ftb.ca.gov/aboutFTB/Tax_Statistics/Reports/2013/...
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by maxmcd 11y ago
Or just the browser with the least amount of funding tied to advertising.
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by maxmcd 11y ago
Software Engineer | Metric Collective | New York, NY | ONSITE A little bit about us: Metric Collective is a holding company based in New York, NY. We are in the business of building profitable, self-sustaining business machines. Sometimes t
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by maxmcd 11y ago
Sure, no disagreement here. I'm looking at it slightly from the other direction. Knowing PayPal's history, and how hard fraud is to nail down on the web, I'm assuming that the 5% is actually much larger, and that the fraud de
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by maxmcd 11y ago
The fraud department at PayPal has to exercise a large amount of caution because if they make a mistake they lose more money. The lending department at PayPal can be more opportunistic because they can potentially turn a profit with a succe
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by maxmcd 11y ago
Related or not, this is certainly against the "rules": https://www.painscience.com/donate-by-linking.php
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by maxmcd 11y ago
better link: http://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2015/12/07/_no-drill_... Was trying to get more specific details about the alternate treatment, but information seems limited to: - Application of
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by maxmcd 11y ago
The parent article contains this line: > "trust your numbers and growth to give yourself confidence in the face of rejection" I don't imagine the people that you're worried about this being dangerous for can always fi
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by maxmcd 11y ago
https://github.com/shariq/burgundy
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by maxmcd 11y ago
This seems to be the source: https://github.com/shariq/burgundy Training word list: https://github.com/shariq/burgundy/blob/master/wordserver/ol...
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by maxmcd 11y ago
This is a solved technology problem[1]. A technical solution has not changed the fact that people do not want all of their pictures scanned by a third party. 1. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/microsoft-launches-free-cloud-versi...
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Show HN: Gitbao, Deploy Go Web Servers with 1 Click(gitbao.com)
10 points by maxmcd 11y ago|0 comments
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by maxmcd 11y ago
Seems high quality enough to me. Was more commenting on the fact that it seems atypical to see paid content being so openly accepted in this community.
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by maxmcd 11y ago
This is an advertorial! Fascinating. > WSJ. Custom Studios is a unit of The Wall Street Journal Advertising Department. The Wall Street Journal news organization was not involved in the creation of this content. Very confused as to why t
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by maxmcd 11y ago
Yep, looks like you are correct: http://news.fiftythree.com/post/118777260503/introducing-thi...

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