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by moconnor 12y ago
I can really recommend Jordan Mechner's Karateka and Prince of Persia journals for a look into game development in the 80s. Every time I read one I come away energized with the same passion for creating something unique. Edit for link:
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by moconnor 13y ago
I doubt that you can do take these batteries on international flights at all: http://www.britishairways.com/cms/global/pdfs/lithium_batter... states that no Li batteries with >160wh are allowed on board or
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by moconnor 13y ago
Looks interesting but nothing on the site seems to answer my question: can I run node.js apps here? Flask? Or is it wordpress / PHP only?
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by moconnor 13y ago
We were trying to make airplane-sized birds, which don't exist in nature for a variety of very good reasons. Equally, our materials science wasn't good enough for flapping wings at the time. I expect to see flapping wing designs a
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by moconnor 13y ago
"Tips and leads" fits the document very well. It's also used in context in e.g. http://thecenter.uab.edu/media/2013/01/Intelligence_and_evid...
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by moconnor 13y ago
The Intel compiler is extremely good at finding and exploiting vectorization (SSE/AVX) opportunities; using these instructions in hot loops is becoming key to getting anywhere near peak performance out of modern CPUs. Most people don&#
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by moconnor 13y ago
The video is well worth watching. After several minutes of dry technical commentary, you suddenly get "Now we destroy a castle with a cannonball!" The snowballs colliding is extremely impressive.
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by moconnor 13y ago
Unfortunately this is miles away from how email has been marketed to (and is used by) the general public.
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by moconnor 13y ago
This is a really interesting problem. There's the expectation - and desire - for all software, particularly development tools, to be open source. This seems to make it harder for independent developers to devote time to creating great
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by moconnor 13y ago
This article is from the December 2011 issue, it's 2 years old now. However, the self-management principle at Morning Star still seems to be in effect: http://morningstarco.com/index.cgi?Page=Self-Management
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by moconnor 13y ago
Surely it's the other end that is insecure. If this starts growing then sniffing unencrypted emails from Square offering "sign-up to receive your money" sounds profitable enough to be interesting to some actors.
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by moconnor 13y ago
Someone's probably paid per link they create, independent of the value of that link. Perhaps spam generation could be disrupted... :-)
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by moconnor 13y ago
Hand-written assembly can be just as readable as any other language. See https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II/blob/m... for a good example!
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by moconnor 13y ago
Or over-generalized with the logic split up and hidden in the interactions between a dozen (sub)classes.
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by moconnor 13y ago
It's an implementation issue that matters if you're writing a system that needs to offer high performance today. Regarding writing assembly - that's fine, you could also write a routine in C and call it. The thrust of my comm
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by moconnor 13y ago
C and C++ compilers can produce faster execution than Go or JVMs as they support SIMD vectorization e.g. SSE/AVX. For CPU-bound workloads you can get more than 2x speed up. It doesn't mean you should write your entire server stack
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by moconnor 13y ago
If the poisoning is obvious to the intended recipient, at some stage it will also be obvious to anybody collecting enough (poisoned) data on them. This is a bit like the spam / spam filter arms race.
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by moconnor 13y ago
So the software industry will be next, right? Zero cost distribution. Is this a factor in the popularity of offering SaaS?
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by moconnor 13y ago
Genesis3D? I contributed a little to that back in '98! There were big plans at the time, though they didn't come to anything of course. I remember working on the collision code late at night. Those were the days :-)
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by moconnor 13y ago
Yes, renting in Germany is very different to the USA or UK. In Germany, if you pay your rent the landlord pretty much can't legally get rid of you. Similarly, the amount they can increase your rent is legally capped. It's very muc
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by moconnor 13y ago
Jailbreak it and use PuTTY as your SSH terminal, it does a stellar job.
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by moconnor 13y ago
It's socially expected to use business devices and do work on a plane. Same in Starbucks. In a nice quiet cafe by the sea that sort of thing is simply out of place.
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by moconnor 13y ago
I think you summed up exactly what's wrong with the Microsoft approach to documents here. In Pages, or Google Docs, it's just a document. It's always saved, always up to date, it just works. That's the future.
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by moconnor 13y ago
Do you remember the Surface teaser advert? The design language of the device is about aggression, dominance, edge. This is socially out of place in some settings. Also, I'm entitles to my social hangups. We live in a social environment
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by moconnor 13y ago
It's not about fashion-conscious style. Pulling out the Surface in a nice cafe to work in feels... awkward. Out of place. It's clearly a business device for office work, and doing office work in a cafe feels like an imposition. Th
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by moconnor 13y ago
Author here. Before spending so much time with the Surface I'd have been really enthusiastic about the idea of a Microsoft Phone following the Nokia purchase. Now, I just can't see them getting all the little details right. It&#x2
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Microsoft Surface vs. iPad and Linode(yieldthought.com)
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by moconnor 13y ago
Just to dispel a common myth: in general, Ocaml cannot be as performant as C++ today. As far as I'm aware, no Ocaml compiler performs auto-vectorization of loops, which means no SSE for you, leading to a 3-4x slowdown on last-generat
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by moconnor 13y ago
Did inspector Javert have a number? The prisoner in Les Miserables was 24601.
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by moconnor 13y ago
This; if I'm typing and jumping around the code at full speed for long periods it usually means either: 1. I haven't understood the problem 2. I haven't understood the solution 3. I need to spend five minutes improving my Vim

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