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by mjfisher 11y ago
I have no idea. We've been using it for a couple of years or so now, and have a wonderfully varied set of products built using Haxe and its libraries. If anyone browsing the comments section is interested in a familiar-ish, statically
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by mjfisher 11y ago
Good, I think? It wouldn't be a deal breaker at interview for me (or even something we test for, come to think of it), but they were right in that it is a magic number. Unless you are doing something where the context is so perfectly o
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by mjfisher 11y ago
> COPPA affects all websites or services even if you don't target them at children. I don't believe this to be true. I am not in anyway a lawyer (so please consult one before taking my advice), but I've got a fair degr
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by mjfisher 11y ago
I don't think so - it certainly doesn't feel like security theatre to me. Minecraft never had to worry about COPPA; Notch never set out to create a game targeted explicitly at children (it's just since found a huge market the
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by mjfisher 11y ago
That said, COPPA concerns will almost certainly come into consideration here. It's not just data storage, but ways that Personally Identifying Information (PII) might be shared through a product, and whether that sharing is approved by
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by mjfisher 11y ago
For those who want a little context in-thread: "Eve is an open source Python REST API framework designed for human beings. It allows to effortlessly build and deploy highly customizable, fully featured RESTful Web Services. Eve is powe
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by mjfisher 12y ago
That's an interesting perspective - what's a slow startup time in this context? A quick back-of-the-envelope test on my machine for both node and python suggest similar (around 100 ms) start up times for the bare environments. Do
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by mjfisher 12y ago
I'm a huge fan of antirez in particular for this. So many other devs would have shrugged off the occasional latency as acceptable, or a poor measure of true performance, or blamed it on nebulous EC2 performance issues. Which happened,
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by mjfisher 12y ago
It's somewhat of an indictment of our industry that I genuinely can't tell whether this is clever, semi-ironic marketing for a real product or flat-out satire.
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by mjfisher 12y ago
> It's lightyears better than Puppet/Chef, and I am glad both exist. :) I'm pretty new to the world of CM, and have just started playing around with Chef and Vagrant. I've been pleasantly surprised by the utility of
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by mjfisher 12y ago
Also interesting to note is the partial redaction of a sentence immediately after the bomb was dropped a few pages later. It's been literally cut out of the paper: http://www.mphpa.org/classic/COLLECTIONS/CG-A
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by mjfisher 12y ago
That blog in [1] is a good read, so thanks for the link. If anyone wants to get around the required registration, pasting 'drip-drip-drip-the-emergency-surveillance-law-erodes-our-civil-liberties' into Google News search and follo
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Code Golf – Draw with your CPU(codegolf.stackexchange.com)
2 points by mjfisher 12y ago|0 comments
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by mjfisher 12y ago
Just speculation, but I've sometimes seen GPS traces like that when a unit enters a building. You can get a very erratic, low-accuracy set of data points back that look qualitatively similar to the pattern in your link.
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by mjfisher 13y ago
I can't be the only one who thinks tablets have the potential to be an extremely positive early-stage developmental and educational aid? Of course, abandoning your child in front of an iPad for hours on end is not good parenting - no
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by mjfisher 13y ago
I'm not sure just from that screenshot that there is any real dynamic lighting/normal mapping. It's surprisingly difficult to tell, but I think they might have just blended radial gradient over the top of a darkened level bac
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Metaphors to Explain Software Development(mjfisher.net)
1 points by mjfisher 13y ago|0 comments
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by mjfisher 13y ago
Technical merits and uses aside, I'm still floored that this kind of thing is even possible. I've loaded it up and there's Monkey Island running on ScummVM running in a Linux VM running in Chrome's Javascript VM. Stunnin
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Levelling Up as a Developer(mjfisher.net)
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by mjfisher 13y ago
The thing I find most fascinating about tunnelling electron microscopes is those "ripples" you can see around the atoms. Because of the tunnelling effect that those microscopes rely on, they're actual manifestations of the electrons' quantu
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by mjfisher 14y ago
Perhaps I'm missing the point, but I'd be wary of advocating pure automation as a replacement for a good old-fashioned manual eyeballing. The point of a smoke test is that for all your care in testing and deployment, you still might have mi
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by mjfisher 14y ago
I am most definitely not your target customer for this (not yet, anyway - one day, maybe, who knows?) Still, it's quite clear how well you demonstrate value - that last paragraph is exactly one sentence long and yet has five concise, conc
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by mjfisher 14y ago
I don't think that's how YAGNI should be applied. I've always found it to be a great rule of thumb provided you're also constantly refactoring. So in your example, perhaps the first column addition is justified. When it comes time to add th
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by mjfisher 14y ago
And to torture the (apt) metaphor further - put a master chef in a large-chain fast food kitchen, force him to use the cheap frozen ingredients and the company's standard recipes, and you'll still end up with the same low grade hamburger yo
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by mjfisher 14y ago
Just in case people are browsing the comments trying to decide whether this is worth spending reading time on: it is. The headline is rather off-putting, but the article is a somewhat qualitative and nuanced discussion of a number of failed
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by mjfisher 16y ago
I've actually been put off Node a little because I've not seen any examples using this style of code. I had (perhaps stupidly) assumed that the scope of a closure was necessary for a lot of Node functionality; generally speaking, are all th
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by mjfisher 16y ago
Good to know! If a periodic model is a potentially viable way of looking at things, could it be squared with thermodynamics? Specifically, the constant increase in total entropy.