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811.
by mbell 14y ago
> They're not going to rebuild what Google did and I'm not seeing them using, I don't know: Cassandra, Hadoop, etc There is a non-zero amount of irony in your bashing of Java then picking out two projects that apple isn't using, but you
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by mbell 14y ago
1 + 2 are exactly why I do it. If your muddling around with the internal state of another object there should be alarm bells in your brain triggering you to think "should i really be doing this?"; It should look weird. Hiding fields behin
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by mbell 14y ago
> Getters and setters, C# style. That is, instead of I just stopped using getters and setters all together unless I have a real use for them. The most common reasons are: because they are required by some third party library or they ar
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by mbell 14y ago
Oops, thanks for the fix
815.
by mbell 14y ago
One problem is that S3's object availability is only 99.99%, which sounds good, but if your site has 20 assets it needs to load (html, js, img, fonts, whatever) then 1 out of every 50 non-cached loads could be expected to be missing an asse
816.
by mbell 14y ago
Unless i'm missing something whatever you enter is only stored in local storage. S3 is just serving the static assets of the site.
817.
by mbell 14y ago
Your right that the way to solve the current issue is to increase voltage, but that creates a list of other problems, the most notable of which, death, you've already touched on, but here some others: 1) You likely still want USB charging
818.
by mbell 14y ago
> 40W over 20 seconds doesn't sound too daunting. It would be 40W _for_ 20 seconds, or 800 Joules, which is a lot of heat, enough to boil 3 grams of water that started at 20C or increase the temperature of 30g of aluminum by ~30C over a
819.
by mbell 14y ago
True but you've got to consider the numbers we're looking at here. As an example an iPhone 5 has a 5.45Wh battery, if you wanted to replace that with a super-cap and charge it to 5V in 20 seconds you'd need to provide ~1000W of power or 200
820.
by mbell 14y ago
That would work, but you'd need to use about 0 gauge wire between the devices. If you tried that with something the size of a lightning cable you'd have a decent chance of vaporizing the wire/connectors.
821.
by mbell 14y ago
I've heard this argument a few times: "It charges so fast that the density doesn't matter". What often gets missed is that for it to charge fast, you need to provide a lot of power, a lot more than any current changer and laughably more tha
822.
by mbell 14y ago
> it sounds like everything is C. Which is a scary thought. :\ Why is that scary?
823.
by mbell 14y ago
Just value the vote in some proportional manor based on its location on the page. For example: voting for the top comment only adds 0.1 to the comment_score but voting for the bottom comment adds 2.0 to its comment_score, etc.
824.
by mbell 14y ago
> IE8 is perfectly fine, No, its really not, its a huge pain in the ass to support unless you handcuff yourself to its limitations. > and also somewhere between 20-30% of your users. Those numbers are wildly skewed by market segment
825.
by mbell 14y ago
Ug...that is some ugly code. I can't believe they are arguing that this (Spark): get(new Route("/") { @Override public Object handle(Request request, Response response) { Integer age = request.queryMap("us
826.
by mbell 14y ago
IE8 is a complete mess in comparison to modern browsers. To support IE8 you often have to go through a lot of extra work after the site works in modern browsers to get it functional even if your not doing something particularly complex. A
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by mbell 14y ago
Altium Designer does a pretty awesome job at this, pulls all pricing data and stock levels from Digi-Key, Mouser, etc right into the editor.
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by mbell 14y ago
Most dual E5 motherboards have 16-24 DIMM slots, 32GB DIMMS exist but are insanely expensive and big, most likely they would use 16GB DIMMS so they probably have 256-384GB of ram per box. They could in theory be using some custom motherboa
829.
by mbell 14y ago
I find this 'intro app' much more engaging: https://github.com/pcottle/learnGitBranching
830.
by mbell 14y ago
Flat response isn't really the target for headphones. At least not a flat response in the manor these measurements are being taken. Headphone drivers are very close to your ears which causes frequency dependent effects. Also there are iss
831.
by mbell 14y ago
'Active Noise Canceling' in an open space isn't a reality. You can do it, in an anechoic chamber, with a massive array of microphones and an equally large number of speakers, and even then, you can often only target a particular area. It
832.
by mbell 14y ago
> The problem is likely in engineering, like a database that isn't scaling. If it were that simple, just cut the number of users per cluster and throw 10 more up. > I think if they could cut a decent size check to fix the issues Dou
833.
by mbell 14y ago
We're talking about EA here. You need to include the latency required to go through enough bureaucracy layers to approve the expenditure of funds on another cluster.
834.
by mbell 14y ago
Given your response - I don't understand why you would then make the statement about Chaos Monkey. It also appears that your earlier statement appears to be false: "We do not waste any time "architecting for failure"". If you can pull t
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by mbell 14y ago
> We do not waste any time "architecting for failure": our databases run on RAID arrays with hot standbys, no need for chaos monkeys. Ha - your in for some fun the first time your hardware fails.
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by mbell 14y ago
A big reason most hobby boards use LDO regulators is that buck-boost topologies are comparatively complex. PCB layout is critical and protections are more complicated. You'll have a really bad time if you try to build a buck-boost switcher
837.
by mbell 14y ago
I played with it more and the UI windows seem to make a huge difference, with them all open it drops to around ~25-30fps or so. I probably had only a couple open to get the original 40fps number. With all the windows closed on the air it
838.
by mbell 14y ago
I'm getting 40fps on a 2012 Macbook Air using Chrome so I doubt its a lack of GPU power, more likely an issue with drivers and/or the compositor.
839.
by mbell 14y ago
Wasn't one of the points of the OP that Apple is doing a poor job of supporting the systems they do sell? I honestly don't understand how this issue is any different than the numerous companies whom purchase generic hardware to run linux on
840.
by mbell 14y ago
There is no need to bootleg any software and no it is not 'Illegal'. You can and should buy a copy of OSX which you can do on the app store without much issue. It is however, against the 'terms of service' which is not a legal issue but o

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