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by otis_inf 11y ago
IMHO a lot of people stop with twitter because they don't get the right social circle going: they follow a bunch of people but don't gain much followers and who they gain aren't really engaging in any activity, so it feels as
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by otis_inf 11y ago
> Surprisingly most normal folks don't really get what "follow" means, and the slightly arcane terminology of twitter. The learning curve is a bit steep - and most users sign up, hang around for a while, don't really
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Metallic by BluFlame, Evoke 2015 4KB compo winner(pouet.net)
7 points by otis_inf 11y ago|1 comments
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by otis_inf 11y ago
> linq102: Cross Join I think it's an inner join, not a cross join. SelectMany() produces a cross join.
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by otis_inf 11y ago
You mean, on WIndows they e.g. use FFmpeg and on mac Libav (example, I don't know what they pick) ?
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by otis_inf 11y ago
It might hurt you but it looks like it doesn't hurt you enough that you decide 'pick a side and stick with it'. What I don't understand is why you don't simply pick ffmpeg and be done with it? E.g. it's good en
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by otis_inf 11y ago
> I have to say that, at least in tone, FFMpeg struck me as being more mature about the whole affair. same here. And regardless of what their codebase smells like, their stuff works and does what it says on the tin, letting people play
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by otis_inf 11y ago
> Attacking me is not really objective. In the decades I'm developing software, I've learned that there is no developer out there liking somebody else's code. There's always something. You can think you're object
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by otis_inf 11y ago
Hello, nice to meet you :) I use jira and I like it. I don't like github issues that much in comparison because it lacks features I love in Jira, like subtasks on an issue. But YMMV of course ;)
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by otis_inf 11y ago
You too miss a vital point: every user of github who doesn't pay for using the service adds to the costs of running the service. The popular it gets among free users, the more costs github has. What you're referring to is precisel
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by otis_inf 11y ago
But it was tedious though. The OS gave you a tremendous long number you had to punch into your phone and then it gave you numbers in return you had to type into the OS, but as that screen wasn't available to you you first had to write
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by otis_inf 11y ago
> The reality is that nothing you do on a computer connected to the internet should be considered private. So let's accept that as a baseline? Why is that even 'normal' ? It's my PC, not theirs. I licensed the OS, but
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by otis_inf 11y ago
> I wonder if that is going to be what it takes to fix today's bloat problems: Google takes the hammer to sites that too much advertising cruft. That could get interesting: Google, using the argument that all those ad-related script
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by otis_inf 11y ago
Can't you draw the shadow as a blended polygon where you gouraud shade from full opaque to full alpha the penumbra area? (so you thus have to draw triangles in that area)? This will produce soft shadows (due to the shading) and will ta
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by otis_inf 11y ago
Now the wait is for the PR to make the github commit profile picture contain the word 'Rockstar' with green pixels.
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by otis_inf 11y ago
Great work! two points of criticism: 1) The site still talks about carburetors and has no mention about fuel injection systems, while in Europe all cars sold must have a fuel injection system for quite some time now, so this looks quite out
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by otis_inf 11y ago
Agreed, I also didn't understand the real point the author was trying to make: if you hate it, say so and be done with it, don't wrap it in a 'I love you to death but..' kind of way. I think with 'go' as a lang
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by otis_inf 12y ago
See: https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet This is an extensive list of (non-MS) OSS libs and tools for .NET , complete with descriptions. The URL might suggest this is the .NET source, it's a set of text documents
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by otis_inf 12y ago
My testing showed that AsNoTracking is faster than dapper. But indeed the tests were purely focused on materialization and not query parsing: linq query parsing takes a lot of time, so with lots of predicates etc. you'll see much slowe
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by otis_inf 12y ago
Hyperdex is the result of their ongoing research at Cornell University. They have a commercial spinoff which sells Hyperdex Warp which adds full ACID transactions on hyperdex. So if you don't need full acid transactions, you can use th
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by otis_inf 12y ago
MongoDB is like MySQL: it promises you the world, and you believe it can deliver, and it often does, till that day when it committed a transaction which it shouldn't have, tripped over its own clogged up mess and spilled your carefully
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by otis_inf 12y ago
I likely miss something, but I find it intriguing that the movie isn't apparently based on her work, yet she wants the original contract being honored because the movie IS based on her work: if the movie isn't based on her work, t
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by otis_inf 12y ago
And then I hit Backspace while not inside the editor pane I moved the camera in front of and was transferred back to HN through the browser's back feature. Not sure if that was meant as a 'enough played, back to reality' nudg
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by otis_inf 12y ago
It might be an idea to use a more formal, functional oriented language to implement your ideas, e.g. F# or haskell, where defining what you're going to need and want to achieve is half the work? Though it might indeed be redundant, as
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by otis_inf 12y ago
You're new to writing software? Because after 20+ years in the trenches, it can become second nature to you. The thing is: to get from A to B is a journey you can perform in a million different ways. When you're new, and young, su
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by otis_inf 12y ago
Agreed, windows 8.1 isn't that bad. I hated it to death when I migrated to it due to the dreadful metro shit, but thankfully you don't have to deal with that if you spent some time making sure it's out of your way so booting
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by otis_inf 12y ago
Absolutely. And it's actually rather odd. People are tend to spent more money on a coffee they buy at starbucks than they're willing to pay for an app they use e.g. every week. Maybe it's because a lot of users have absolutel
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by otis_inf 12y ago
Oh yeah very recognizable (I'm a professional software dev now for over 20 years too ;)). It's indeed key to have the dev of the software used to do support as well, at least for some time. I try to do support for my own work as w
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by otis_inf 12y ago
You almost never had to consult with a vendor, development team who wrote the stuff you're using, or otherwise 3rd party who supplied you with a piece of software or hardware you're using with your own software in those 20 years o
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by otis_inf 12y ago
The feature he needed was an optional feature which did cost a lot of money and wasn't available right away so it was useless for this problem at hand as clients were threatening to leave the next day.

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