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by mr_luc 13y ago
I'd say that the JS world does need one of these. There haven't really been any admin panels in the javascript world to my knowledge that are far beyond the "weekend project" phase. (Please note that I phrased that stron
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Apart from democracy, ie systems that let majorities of individuals pick either the laws directly, or the leaders, what system would be the 'ultimate solution' for any country? I agree that just because you get to democracy doesn&
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'Electric cars for everyone! Woohoo!' ^^ that's the exciting bit, right? However, you don't get there without Tesla. Why not? Because you can't compete with low-margin products in a low-margin industry, and still
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Working on her desktop? Or maybe, to paraphrase a sibling comment, she's working on the blacktop?
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As long as nothing's blocked, latency could go up 'a lot' (sub-ms -> ms, maybe 1ms->2ms with batching) without meaningfully impacting overall throughput. I can definitely see millions of networked memcache calls being a
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by mr_luc 13y ago
"Have Spacesuit, Will Travel" by Heinlein mentioned this -- I remember as a kid I hadn't understood it.
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When you say 'game that runs on the client' -- I'd clarify that you're talking about the authoritative game logic. Ie most multiplayer games ship the same physics code on client and server, but the server is the authorit
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Off-topic on the subject of restaurants: I use the ML approach of combining other people's algorithms. :) My first time in a new place, I'm usually with friends, and I imitate their orders. On the rare times when I'm not, I a
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by mr_luc 13y ago
That's an interesting connection, thanks for sharing it. I wonder if that's because the US military felt it had/has its back to the wall in terms of the success of its mission, and thus was forced to do the more effective thi
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Can you please explain what [8] does show, then? [8] seems to show that the ENTIRE IP RANGE is assigned to nsa.gov. Just seeing that some innocuous-looking services are running on some IPs in that range doesn't mean anything for or aga
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by mr_luc 13y ago
20k is nothing ... for direct phone sales. It's a lot of F-22 fighters, though. And a lot of Christmas hams for one family (but not a nation). How many times do 20k customers pool millions of dollars to go towards the development of a
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The book is chock-full of fascinating, real research, much by the author. It's a classic. It's not psycho-babble or, as another comment thought, a "business self-help guru" book.
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Sorry -- it's a reference from the book "Influence", which is a fascinating and, dare I say, influential tome. It doesn't mean anything more complicated than it reads as.
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It makes sense. Good servers are compliance professionals, whether you or they know it or not, and their pivotal role in the experience means that the good ones can make good money. But I know that I've not gone back to restaurants pre
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I think we're interested in this because frank feedback is an age-old aspect of 'geek culture', but it's obviously not that important; I'm sure neither of us is too invested in his point of view. Continuing the thre
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by mr_luc 13y ago
"Someone else who you respect" ... but is he an expert on flight prices specifically? Is he a booking-a-flight guru that a majority of world-class flight-bookers go to? Does he make money from helping you find that $300 ticket? If
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by mr_luc 13y ago
Wait, hold up. I don't think his comments translate into "you are stupid." They translate very clearly into "that is a terrible idea." With perhaps a shade of "don't 'pivot' because your feet are
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Wait. What about the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine?[0] And how can making a physical product not count -- surely any physical product sold in the United States has some kind of qualifying documentation associated with it which cou
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by mr_luc 13y ago
Every large tech company wants a patent portfolio, as a defensive moat. But the companies I mentioned don't actively engage in shakedowns, as far as I know; I left Microsoft off of that list because of its poorly disguised attempts to
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by mr_luc 13y ago
Google, Twitter, Yahoo and Facebook need to make this insurance happen. They all want to help erase software patent abuse anyway, right? Are they serious about it? If so, they could put together this insurance at reasonable/subsidized
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by mr_luc 13y ago
Great idea, pretty site. Very minor concern: I see "Hu" instead of "Hi" in 'Hire', because of the script. I didn't see it on first glance, but when I navigated to the demo profile I did, and now I see the
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First, great description. Second, he says "scarce resources," you say 'no, it doesn't deal with that," but then say that it deals with "distribution of 'goods and services.'" Isn't that the
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And those side projects can be pretty significant, as well as fun. One of Churchill's side projects was corresponding under the nickname "Former Naval Person."
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The takeaway I got from this: DOM reflows are the major unsolvable source of perceived slowness. Cool. So, in an app where you avoid reflows, is mobile web fast? Why or why not? How avoidable are reflows? Can anyone point me to any articles
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Welp, I had to stop reading that halfway through ... ... but then I came back to the tab and finished it. So, do we know why SWAT teams are being used for regular police work like serving warrants? Is it basically because cops get to feel
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BankFan: tweet like Bank of America(github.com)
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Holy cow. It's built on macros, and macro-friendly! And I can use it with the node.js ecosystem! As a guy who built his own npm-installable macros.coffee, [0][1][2] I am torn. I love macros enough that I felt I needed to have them in
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Yeah - but there is a real distinction between theory and hypothesis, which that guy is probably acutely aware of. (Cmd-F on one page of his site shows the word hypothesis used 17 times). Reading a bit more, it seems like he's got expe
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Claims, yes. But he doesn't claim it. He puts it forward as a hypothesis. All useful hypothesis are, by definition, extra-ordinary.
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Just more detail: seriously, look at the video from one of those Enlace Ciudadano events, and then take any still frame of video, and try to make him look stupid. The worst you can say is that he might look a little too earnest. He just did

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