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by pkroll 12y ago
You'll have to spend a great deal of time to beat the presets already used by Handbrake/x264, and you'll only be able to do it on a particular clip. There's a good article[1] on the presets and how they impact quality, w
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by pkroll 12y ago
You're not anonymous when you drive a car today: it's got a license plate and there are cameras everywhere, never mind that you're probably carrying a phone that acts as a universal locator for you to any government agency th
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by pkroll 12y ago
I drink far more Coke Vanilla Zero than could possibly be good for someone when at home, and yet when eating out I generally get iced tea with no sweetener. You may know a closet soda addict and not even realize it. :)
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by pkroll 12y ago
As the others have said, Coke Zero contains aspartame. However, it also contains acesulfame potassium which is another sweetener, so it may have a little less aspartame than Diet Coke. (The effect of multiple sweeteners is generally greater
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by pkroll 12y ago
All languages are not equal, but "better" or "worse" depend on the opinion of the person asked much more than you're implying.
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by pkroll 12y ago
On the DK2, you can look down at the bottom edges/corners and see out the, I'm guessing, airholes.
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by pkroll 12y ago
Rails is excellent for building CRUD apps, what it was designed for, and as you say that covers a lot of ground. Plenty of code available for all sorts of common features on the web. I learned Ruby specifically to run Rails, and mostly, Rub
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by pkroll 12y ago
Go wasn't an option then. Obviously the languages that WERE options, weren't preferred. The article mentions the authors lack of Java love specifically. There are plenty of other situations where Ruby (or something else) was event
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by pkroll 12y ago
You have a hard time believing that statement, or you'd rather not? 'cause other than calling the author a liar, you're saying it's not possible for someone to be excited about the language. That's awfully presumptu
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by pkroll 12y ago
"It's Stockholm Syndrome." "It's one of the languages for those that can't." The reason so many Go advocates seem irrationally biased is because they're under near-permanent assault. Personal assault.
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by pkroll 12y ago
Actually, that brings up an interesting question: does muscle memory act like "regular" memory, with a curve of forgetting and with spaced repetition being a viable solution? If it did, then you could adapt at least some of these
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by pkroll 12y ago
That's excellent, though I like the take Coding Horror lists from a Brendan Gregg book. http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-infinite-space-between-word...
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by pkroll 12y ago
About 1 billion smartphones shipped in 2013. $2 billion stops excuses for a lot of things, but this isn't one of them. Oculus will absolutely have to make due with the screens being made for phones.
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by pkroll 12y ago
I'd bet half the Oculus Rifts dev kits were in "enthusiast" hands and not serious developers. I think your assumption that every rift not sold to a dev is one less available to a dev, is incorrect. They've made 130,000 d
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by pkroll 12y ago
If it follows the timeline of the Crystal Cove prototype, I'd guess... 8 months.
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by pkroll 12y ago
Level 2 Upgrade was also the 16K RAM, IIRC. Which I might not, but I know I got both the ROM and RAM upgrade at the same time, and if it'd been more than $300 I think my parents would have sold ME.
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by pkroll 12y ago
Parents got me a TRS-80 Model I, 4K RAM, 4K ROM BASIC. Going to the 16K RAM and 16K ROM Microsoft BASIC a little later felt like getting all the power in the world.
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by pkroll 12y ago
Color? That'd be the TRS-80 Color Computer, very different from the TRS-80 Model III, which was a (slightly) improved version of the TRS-80 Model I. Different CPU (6809E) in the CoCo, most of the TRS-80s used Z-80s till you got to the
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by pkroll 12y ago
Some reviewers seem to have that opinion, but many, many people use the high-frame-rate-simulators on their home TVs. I've seen the first two Hobbit movies in 48 fps and wish everything was there or higher. Hell, there are projects lik
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by pkroll 12y ago
Same, I can see the words (backwards) before clicking a tile. Chrome works fine, except it seems like after a match the first click on a tile doesn't do anything, and I have to click again to make it flip.
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by pkroll 12y ago
A quick Googling would have shown two REPLs for Go, though they're old and haven't been updated in a long time. I'm guessing the Go playground and "go run file.go" compiling and running so quickly, make it not a rea
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by pkroll 12y ago
Is that the problem, or is there just SO MUCH on PHP that it's hard to find the good stuff?
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by pkroll 12y ago
The key word there is "is." When Java was at the same point in its life as Go, the big selling point wasn't tooling. Tooling came along with the success.
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by pkroll 12y ago
As a C-64 owner that went through several, and then a few power supplies, the same could be said about Commodores.
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by pkroll 12y ago
Eh, the Z80 had a memory move command that was fast and convenient, and successors (Z80K!) that went to 32 bit. Now, the 6809, that was a sweet 8-bit. :)
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by pkroll 12y ago
Sure: Raw C++ isn't necessarily OPTIMAL C++, and PHP is really, really optimized for the read-multiple-queries-render-to-a-page case (at least for MySQL it is).
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by pkroll 13y ago
Except, you have to get one of the existing ones to clearly win, or else you end up here: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by pkroll 13y ago
That depends entirely on the expressed views of the person they're running against. I accept anyone I vote for is going to do things I don't like. Maybe most things. Avoiding the vote because there's no candidate that's
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by pkroll 13y ago
It's an opinion, so just stating "useless" and moving on doesn't actually help in any way. Describing why he thinks it's useless, or upvoting comments that he agrees with, might actually help.
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by pkroll 13y ago
Steve McConnell, in Code Complete, said in 1993: "These articles contain the whole goto debate. It erupts from time to time in most workplaces, textbooks, and magazines, but you won't hear anything that wasn't fully explored

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