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by mayoff 11y ago
Yeah, that surprised me too, considering that Unreal Engine is free (until you ship) including source code, which is hosted on github (behind a free registration).
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by mayoff 11y ago
It was more like a McGuffin.
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by mayoff 11y ago
This is going to sound harsh, but here's my take. When you're farting around, you want to read “fun” questions and answers (e.g. “Interesting uses of sun.misc.Unsafe”), and when you see stackoverflow moving away from the “fun”, yo
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by mayoff 11y ago
There's already a standard EV charging port, called J1772, and the Tesla Model S comes with a J1772 adapter. A Tesla Supercharger has a maximum output of 100 kW (400V, 250A). J1772 level 2 has a maximum output of 19.2 kW (240V, 80A) bu
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by mayoff 11y ago
Attributed to Casey Muratori by http://chrishecker.com/Kurt_G%C3%B6del_is_Laughing_His_Ass_O... - “Does anyone want to bet as to which will gain self-awareness first: Wolfram Alpha or Wolfram, Stephen?”
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by mayoff 11y ago
I've always been charmed by EWD's handwriting: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF
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by mayoff 11y ago
http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
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by mayoff 11y ago
You are, of course, free to set up your own public source code repository. Many have done so: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=live555
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by mayoff 11y ago
Why not the Dell 5k monitor as your second display?
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by mayoff 12y ago
SQLite's WAL support might alleviate your locking problems.
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by mayoff 12y ago
I think the Git Parable is an excellent explanation of the underlying git model. http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.htm...
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by mayoff 12y ago
Consider using PRAGMA SECURE_DELETE = 1 if you want to make these forensics more difficult/impossible. https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_secure_delete
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by mayoff 12y ago
What is the advantage of this over a Raspberry Pi?
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by mayoff 12y ago
I dropped and cracked my iPhone 6 for the second time yesterday. The larger size and rounded edges make it much more likely to slip out of my (normal sized adult male) hands. I get one more cheap replacement out of Applecare+. If it happens
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by mayoff 12y ago
The idea of the “hello world” program was promulgated by Kernighan and Ritchie in “The C Programming Language”, and they saw it the way kylec does. Quoting “The C Programming Language, Second Edition”: “This is the big hurdle; to leap over
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by mayoff 12y ago
A lanyard with a magnetic connector doesn't suffice. If the enemy cuts the cord, the magnetic connector won't release and the computer won't know anything has happened.
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by mayoff 12y ago
I thought about this too when I read about how the FBI seized Ulbricht's laptop. I decided that a simple string isn't sufficient. You want the loop to be either a conductor or fiber optic, so that the system can detect when the
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Siggraph 2014: Tangible and Modular Input Device for Character Articulation(youtube.com)
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by mayoff 12y ago
The Amazon app lets you subscribe to physical goods (just like you can on the Amazon web site).
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by mayoff 12y ago
“Despite the seemingly obvious answer—tomb art discovered in the 19th century depicts laborers pouring water in front of a block-hauling team—debate over how the pyramids were built is almost as ancient as the pyramids themselves.” In other
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by mayoff 12y ago
I wouldn't recommend Swift to anyone that's new to the iOS SDK. I answered this question recently on stack overflow ( http://stackoverflow.com/a/25751738/77567 ). Here's what I said: - Objective-C w
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by mayoff 12y ago
I hope somebody reinvents this library. I know it's hard to release something to the public, and easy to throw stones. But I'm going to do it anyway. I just don't see the “elegance” in this library and I see several problem
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by mayoff 12y ago
I don't know if it has any hardcoded digits, but it's documented to compute pi using the Chudnovsky formula. http://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/SomeNotesOnIn...
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by mayoff 12y ago
My favorite graph paper: http://whitelines.se/function/
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by mayoff 13y ago
> Checkpoint/Restore In Userspace, or CRIU (pronounced kree-oo, IPA: /krɪʊ/, Russian: криу), is a software tool for Linux operating system. Using this tool, you can freeze a running application (or part of it) and checkpoi
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by mayoff 13y ago
It doesn't matter to Tumblr if HNers boycott Tumblr the web site. It might matter to Tumblr if HNers boycott Tumblr the employer or Tumblr the business partner.
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by mayoff 13y ago
Because Web technology just doesn't have the performance to do what I want to do. Because every time I use a language that lacks Smalltalk-style keyword messages, I find myself missing them.
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by mayoff 13y ago
I think “Forevruary” would be a little better.
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by mayoff 13y ago
UIView has recursiveDescription (though it's not declared in the header as it's for debugging only). For NSView (on OS X), try _subtreeDescription. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4166879/how-to-print
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by mayoff 13y ago
To me this feels like a return to classic geocities design. http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/ http://www.bellsnwhistles.com/page29.html http://www.11points.com/Web-Tech/11_Best_Old_School_Animated...

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