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by paulhodge 14y ago
Another vague thing is, how do they define "key employee"? The article describes it as, "those notable enough to make it into the tech news". How does one get to be so notable? Having a high-responsibility job at an important company probab
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by paulhodge 14y ago
Funny story, an early version of the OnLive controller used the letters L,I,V,E, which spelled EVIL when read a certain way. http://9to5google.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/onlive_control...
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by paulhodge 14y ago
To be fair, there's a constant din of people predicting doom for almost any company that has success. And for several years, the naysayers have generally been wrong (like, billions of dollars wrong) about FB & Zynga. So, how do we tell
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by paulhodge 14y ago
I noticed the same thing and thought I was going crazy. It turns out that the blog link goes to a stripped-down alternate version of this page: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/why-you-wont-see-hard-...
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by paulhodge 14y ago
I had the same thoughts. It seems like a small case of lunacy to build an ambitious state-of-the-art platform for high-performance multiplayer gaming, while also trying to run inside the browser. They won't even have access to UDP sockets,
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by paulhodge 14y ago
That's more like the worst of both worlds, going through the NaCl API is a pain, and debugging a NaCl app is much trickier than usual. It's a ton of work for little benefit, compared to just using Qt.
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by paulhodge 14y ago
It's not that magic; this kind of development is what message queues have been enabling for years (ActiveMQ, ZeroMQ, RabbitMQ, etc). It's a nice way to architect systems. Bridge looks like a nice evolutionary step forward, in terms of ele
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by paulhodge 14y ago
You talk as if there is perfect market choice - that if a majority of customers want something, it will happen. In the real world, there is not perfect market choice. There are many factors which make it impossible to have perfect market ch
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by paulhodge 14y ago
This idea has some history to it, I remember reading that they tried to use this same analysis in the trials against Kevin Mitnick. Some clever sysadmin had recorded Mitnick's telnet activity (as it went across some crappy modem) and claime
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by paulhodge 14y ago
Ha, that is a fun read. My favorite part, where one guy points out that the Google search for "g-wan web server" has 2,440,000 results. The reply: Google search results for: "a-wan web server": About 8,030,000 results (0.29 seconds)
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by paulhodge 14y ago
That sounds like a modern version of the Chewbacca Defense. "If Instagram is worth $1B, then <insert any crazy logical conclusion you want to make here>"
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by paulhodge 14y ago
I mean server-side (can we check the source for that?). The server could crack the hash, and the server could use various pieces of data (ip address, http headers, etc) to try to figure out more about the password's owner.
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by paulhodge 14y ago
Still, hashes can be cracked, and an evil password-checking website can then associate the password with all of the other personally-identifiable data that browsers are known to leak. I don't think this particular site is being evil, but it
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by paulhodge 14y ago
Ah, blogs. Accuse someone of stealing from an old magazine, and while you're doing it, take some pictures from that same magazine and slap a huge version of your own logo on them.
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by paulhodge 14y ago
If you're analyzing lotteries, one thing you have to think about is the diminishing utility of money. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminishing_marginal_utility ). Your first dollar is a lot more useful than your millionth dollar. Or ano
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by paulhodge 14y ago
It's not a 'waste' when you can resell the domain, in fact it sounds like he could even turn a profit: > Arzuage says he doesn’t want to sell the domain, even though he has already had offers in the high six figures should he change his
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by paulhodge 15y ago
TL;DR - Science!
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by paulhodge 15y ago
Thanks! Yeah, might as well wait for the next release rather than debug an old version.
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by paulhodge 15y ago
It's not too hard, it was just a combination of laziness plus not being able to decide on a multiline comment syntax that looks nice. Anyway I just added it, using {- and -} separators (as in Haskell)
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by paulhodge 15y ago
Definitely possible, though you would store those tweakable variables in special MyVariable objects (rather than have them be normal C++ variables). With Circa you could grab the object that holds then variable's data, and then have C++ cod
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by paulhodge 15y ago
For the repl, can you try "circa_d -repl" (one dash instead of two)? There is definitely some breakages in there, and most of those samples won't run currently. I'm rewriting the app that runs things in a graphical shell and I hope to have
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by paulhodge 15y ago
That's a great idea. The landing page is definitely looking a little dry.
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by paulhodge 15y ago
Definitely a good point and I'll make that change. I was hesitating to only use -- because I thought it might be unfamiliar to some. But it works great for Lua & Haskell! For variable scoping, if you use the same name inside a "for" or
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by paulhodge 15y ago
Yeah, that was a fun hack! I think live C++ recompilation is something that is occasionally theorized about, but rarely attempted.
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by paulhodge 15y ago
That is an excellent point. I have some videos up ( https://vimeo.com/user6866395/videos ) but I neglected to add them to the new site.