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601.
by mbell 13y ago
> If it hit a large city, it could immediately wipe out millions of people. I'd bet that an ocean impact would be worse, the resulting Tsunami could level dozens of cities.
602.
by mbell 13y ago
As someone who has instructed parents and other non-techies on how the number of fingers and how to move those fingers on a multi-touch display, I don't consider it remotely trivial for 'most people'.
603.
by mbell 13y ago
Perhaps I'm just not envisioning it correctly but this seems to replace looking at the screen to touch a button with looking at the screen to figure out how far apart my fingers are, or how many fingers have touched the screen after hi
604.
by mbell 13y ago
I think part of what tends to get missed is that while AAA game development certainly has software development as part of it, it's a relatively small part of the overall project from a person power and cost perspective. It's not u
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by mbell 13y ago
Here is one example of why I think Date is broken: For quite awhile (maybe still?) calling `new Date()` made a synchronized call to a static method to try and figure out the default timezone. That created nasty lock contention in multithrea
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by mbell 13y ago
It's unclear what difference that makes in the context of my post. The fact remains that the modulation and signaling protocols developed for use in modems were designed within the constraints of electrical transmission across miles of
607.
by mbell 13y ago
No need to take my word for it, here is the spec: https://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-V.90...
608.
by mbell 13y ago
That is unlikely, the relevant standard is V.90: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V.90_(recommendation) Only downstream was 56.6k PCM, upstream was 33.6k analog-modulated, so two consumer modems hooked together would only
609.
by mbell 13y ago
56.6k speeds required a digital POTS, it transmitted PCM through the digital portions of the network only to become analog at the last moment, from the nearest pole switch to your house. In other words, the modem you were calling had to be
610.
by mbell 13y ago
Communicating through copper wires using electrical signaling at audio frequencies is _very_ different from communicating through air using acoustic waves. Even assuming 'perfect' speakers and microphones you have completely diffe
611.
by mbell 13y ago
You can also setup a CloudFront deployment and point it to your app server as the origin. Fast and cheap way to serve static files without having to configure nginx/apache. Well...cheap as long as you don't need SSL.
612.
by mbell 13y ago
> "I’ve included transaction logs at the bottom of this message. Review the vendor’s dishonest actions and use whatever means you deem necessary to bring this person to justice." We need the government! I'm not following h
613.
by mbell 13y ago
I think this ironicly named library is the culprite: http://areaaperta.com/nicescroll/
614.
by mbell 13y ago
I would think using an async logging framework is a cleaner and faster approach i.e. something like log4j or glog that does IO in a separate thread. I suppose such an approach is less ideal when using a language that isn't truly concur
615.
by mbell 13y ago
Living in the US: I've been using tunnelbear ( https://www.tunnelbear.com/ ) to proxy through the UK to watch the BBC streams. NBC is worse than horrible, their commentators rarely understand the sport they are covering,
616.
by mbell 13y ago
A lambda doesn't capture anything, it's just an anonymous function. A lambda can be a closure, but it doesn't have to be. Closures come in two primary flavors, bind by value or bind by reference. Some languages implement only
617.
by mbell 13y ago
It's still a closure, just a closure with immutable capture, just like Python. Also like Python, you can get around it by boxing the variable you would like to modify (or using nonlocal in Python 3). IMO the lack of exception transpare
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by mbell 13y ago
Thanks to Stripe for running the ctf! It was great fun. I'd be interested to know how much of the load was generated from folks looping 'git push' on level4 in order to find a test case the benchmark bombed on (or just to rn
619.
by mbell 13y ago
ngmin takes care of this issue for the most part: https://github.com/btford/ngmin
620.
by mbell 13y ago
Heres's a trick using pseudo elements : http://codepen.io/anon/pen/pIFna
621.
by mbell 13y ago
> Asking those who were able to extract the most wealth to help the most in paying to protect this shared system, and help those who were exploited by it That is already what happens. e.g. the top 10% by income already contribute >70%
622.
by mbell 13y ago
I found it interesting that New Hampshire, Vermont and New Jersey seem to be pegged at the far low end of engagement for every paragraph. Bug or lack of interest in twitter/STU in those states?
623.
by mbell 13y ago
I actually wouldn't mind a 'bookmarklet' type app that lets you change bootstrap's less variables and updates your own actual pages in real time. Similar to what FontFriend or SubtlePatterns have. It'd be useful for
624.
by mbell 13y ago
It's not terrible, it's certainly impressive that they achieved that level of isolation with holes in it. Windows designed for high sound isolation will have STC ratings in the 40-48ish range. An STC increase of 10 equates to half
625.
by mbell 13y ago
I pulled the TL numbers from the paper and came up with an STC rating of around 31dB for the 20mm hole model. That is roughly the same STC rating as a decent dual pane window.
626.
by mbell 13y ago
> Code becomes less OO Frankly...good. If there is one thing Java desperately needs, it's less OO code.
627.
by mbell 13y ago
This looks really nice. I wish Java would do something about getters and setters. It's very awkward that they are not incorporated into the language but so many libraries assume they exist that it's a defacto requirement to genera
628.
by mbell 13y ago
You can just add a new raidz (or any type of vdev) to the zpool.
629.
by mbell 13y ago
It's a $1.50 MCU at low volume which probably has off the shelf USB drivers. Why would you build-cost-optimize a prototype for a product you never plan to mass produce? Choosing the path with lowest engineering cost is almost always th
630.
by mbell 13y ago
That is just running the TCP/IP layer speaking RS232 and relying on an external IC for lower layers. It's not at all what the GP is looking for. It should probably also be noted that a minimum TCP header, with no data attached, is

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