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by plastroltech 8y ago
Interesting and possibly relevant to note that SQLite is not your typical opensource project: "Open-Source, not Open-Contribution: SQLite is open-source, meaning that you can make as many copies of it as you want and do whatever you wa
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by plastroltech 8y ago
The fact that it doesn't can be exploited by running it in a virtual machine and using the snapshot feature to go back in time. That's how we made this Website is Down video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SNxaJl
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by plastroltech 9y ago
Holy shit Boing Boing.
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by plastroltech 9y ago
Will this technology be licensed for redistribution or only for online API use? I ask because in the video game scenario it would be great to have this in a library I could distribute instead of relying on the API to be available at all tim
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by plastroltech 9y ago
WRT the second point, since HTTP is stateless doesn't it make a new connection for every request via whatever network is available?
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by plastroltech 9y ago
Interesting... so there no security concern with using HTTPS on a public Wifi? I thought there was some way the connection could be hijacked. Thanks for the response.
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Ask HN: Any tools to force TLS handshake to use “more secure” network?
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by plastroltech 9y ago
I am surprised at the number of people who think they can do everything without a framework and that everything would just be better if they weren't weighed down by the horrible affliction of using one. Frameworks provide real value an
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by plastroltech 9y ago
I always liked Brian Moriarty's definition of story: "a particular causally related sequence of events". Which certainly does allow for a conflict free story. The important thing is that a story has events which are causally
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by plastroltech 9y ago
Totally agree. Modern IF is amazing. Check out the annual Interactive Fiction Competition for good games: https://ifcomp.org/ . Also, Inform is a fascinating "English language" programming experience! For example h
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by plastroltech 9y ago
This reminds me of some words of advice I noticed in an even older manual for the Apple II floppy disk drive: "To load a program named AGATHA, use the command LOAD AGATHA and the program of that name, if there is one in the catalog, wi
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by plastroltech 9y ago
My feeling is that as an adult I have the ability to "think creatively" when I want to. I don't feel like a study of this nature really takes that into account. I'd be curious what would happen if they added a segment of
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by plastroltech 9y ago
There is so much FUD around this PATENTS file. If Facebook had not included this Patent grant and had released React under only the BSD license then any user would be in the exact situation which everyone is complaining so loudly about bein
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by plastroltech 9y ago
This is my blog. Glad you like it. I used yEd for the dependency graphs. There's a lot of detail on how I did it in the first segment: http://thewebsiteisdown.com/twidblog/puzzle-dependency-graph... . Also availab
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by plastroltech 9y ago
The site is back up now.