orls

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by orls 15y ago
Hah. Wish I'd thought of some of these for last year's http://10k.aneventapart.com . I tried to write most of my JS for 10k 'pre-minified', using tricks akin to (but not as awesome as) these. Echoing other commenters, it was largely as an
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by orls 15y ago
Tower ( http://www.git-tower.com/ ) is a commercial Git GUI for Mac OSX that, by all accounts, is pretty excellent; don't know much about the team, but I believe it's their first product and doing OK. I think you'll find more desktop-app-
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by orls 15y ago
To my knowledge, sharing folders can only be done through the Web interface.
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by orls 15y ago
The NGINX contribution has been noted now; https://github.com/ry/http-parser/commit/8dabce6ec7142319bc5...
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by orls 15y ago
Interesting. Not really sure how much mileage there is in an XML representation of MIDI, other than as an implementation detail for bigger packages. I'd venture a guess that 'end-user' adoption is low? In the sense of, for example, people e
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by orls 15y ago
Can't wait till people are composing full songs as a series of YAML files and samples, then publishing them on Github. After all, there's not a huge amount of difference, conceptually, between remixing and forking!
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by orls 15y ago
Valve consistently anger or frustrate their core fanbase (e.g. the hot-air boycott over Left 4 Dead 2, the almost decade-long whining about Counterstrike game mechanics, and of course the frustration over HL3 / HL2:ep3). But the fans never
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by orls 15y ago
I firmly believe that to be a decent web programmer, you have to have gone through phase of writing your own web framework. In some ways, I don't think you truly appreciate the value of (and how best to use) any given framework until you've
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by orls 15y ago
You can see the changeover quite clearly by comparing the two against each other: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=fuck%2C+suck&... If we assume all pre-1800ish mentions of 'fuck' are definitely meant to be 'suck', it still
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by orls 15y ago
Great resources, I remember Flipcode fondly (if fuzzily) from 3D game engine dabbling in the past. I think it would be really interesting to see a reappraisal of these articles from a '10 years later' perspective, to see how the state of th
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by orls 15y ago
I might go with "Structured Javascript Applications", or something similar, as your chapter titles indicate a degree of concern for structure/robustness/non-spaghetti-code apps. Or maybe I'm just seeing what I want to see.
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by orls 16y ago
Exactly. I am constantly amazed at how oftem people tack the word REST onto things that are clearly not RESTful, and in some cases (like this one) specifically unRESTful. Please, people: REST does not simply mean "HTTP is involved somewhe
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by orls 16y ago
"When your only tool is XML, every problem looks like it's a schema declaration and a few XSLT transformations away from a nail" This almost exactly describes a Project Manager I've worked with -- he has had experience with a CMS system tha
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by orls 16y ago
This is actually a really, really well put-together platformer! Fast, just enough of a challenge, cute and fun, and brilliant music too. Fantastic!
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by orls 16y ago
Same -- it's taken me almost two years of reading HN before actually signing up, because everything I feel like saying has normaly already been said much better than I could.
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by orls 16y ago
A hypothesis is any testable, falsifiable conjecture. I can hypothesize that gravity is negative at one particular spot in your back garden. As I understand it, a theory is any hypothesis that is believed to hold (at least for now, under th
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by orls 16y ago
In my (limited) exposure to the think tank "industry", it seems that many make a fair chunk of their bottom line through memberships; companies buy memberships to receive publications & analysis, newsletters, networking opportunities an
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by orls 16y ago
The official site has it via http://soe.stanford.edu/alumni/cerf_lecture.html (sadly, requires Silverlight)
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by orls 16y ago
Aside from any discussion of the spin, 1st-world do-gooding etc, the absolute bottom line for whether this actually does any good is cost (closely followed by distribution/organization). There's a veritable glut of seriously awesome designs
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by orls 16y ago
That's really very impressive, I can imagine coming back to this as a rapid-sketch tool in a way that I never could with SketchUp. One suggestion: To aid camera/scene navigation, you might want to consider hotkey + drag to temporarily flip