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by rdw 10y ago
WebRTC is UDP. It's not easy, but it's there!
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by rdw 10y ago
I feel like you could make this argument about Apple just as well. It's got a larger market cap, so even more arguably successful. And they break compatibility (judiciously) in order to create a better product.
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by rdw 10y ago
That analogy isn't great -- plenty of places in the world have power crises, and they do respond by limiting consumption of power. In actual water crises, such as the one in California, limiting and controlling consumption is the respo
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by rdw 10y ago
False dichotomy. There is a third alternative: a non-abusive advertising model takes over the industry. It's certainly plausible. All pre-internet advertising avoided tracking of individuals. There exist even now advertising agencie
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by rdw 10y ago
There's a huge additional burden on the customer to select the right device, do special steps on purchase to remove the manufacturer's crapware, avoid mucking up the internals by installing the wrong software. If you value your ti
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by rdw 10y ago
It's an SSD. I suspect there's some sort of middleware that's scanning every file, like antivirus or something. That kinda thing adds up quickly.
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by rdw 10y ago
AdBlock Plus is already doing this: https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads It might just lead to escalation, it has so far. The point is there is a plausible way forward. It's the story of countless industries, just b
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by rdw 10y ago
It creates opportunity for disruption. The established players see their costs go up and effectiveness go down. A new player comes in who has non-obtrusive ads, and sees outsized success. Everyone else either dies off or fast-follows. I&
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by rdw 10y ago
I think a lot of Mac users are forgetting how awful the Windows ecosystem still is. One gets used to everything mostly working and think that that's how it is on the other side, too. Meanwhile, one guy I know bought a new Windows lapt
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by rdw 10y ago
This is not really true in California, at least, where we've voted ourselves a bunch of tax increases via the proposition system.
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by rdw 10y ago
Sharing secrets with remote co-workers. It's easy enough to use that I can expect pretty much anyone to be able to figure it out in real-time.
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by rdw 10y ago
https://github.com/lidgren/lidgren-network-gen3 This is a very mature library. Supports Unity despite not having an asset store package. It's got the same sort of channels/reliability model that enet and Rak
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by rdw 10y ago
I've done a bit of game development for the Web. Unless things have changed very recently, a major performance bottleneck is draw calls. It feels a lot more like a mobile platform (< 100 draw calls) than a desktop platform (1000 d
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by rdw 10y ago
Is it just me or does JSON-LD's use of urls as keys feel very XML/SOAP-Y?
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by rdw 11y ago
Took me a bit of searching to figure out the 200/121 numbers. The answer: "first measurement is for inprocess handler, second is for inworker handler"
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by rdw 11y ago
Apple has tools to see whether your app is loading external content and modifying itself, though. I think you can deceive them by making it seem as though it does so in an allowed manner (e.g. no code execution) during review, but they&#x2
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by rdw 11y ago
That's a ternary, not an if expression.
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by rdw 11y ago
I have an eyeX and the precision is not as high as a mouse. I don't think it can ever be, the eye is just not that controlled itself. Having low latency from the device seems even more important to me.
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by rdw 11y ago
Sous-vide is better for some dishes because the temperature is controlled, and generally low. If you want a rare steak, the temperature should be 120 F ( http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/06/food-lab-complete-guide-
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by rdw 11y ago
http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/08/the-food-lab-complete-gui... http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/02/the-best-buffalo-... This one made the news when it came out, because it&#
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by rdw 11y ago
Not enough new tech involved! Consider getting a Searzall to solve that problem: http://www.bookeranddax.com/searzall/
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by rdw 11y ago
It does but this is because you can't easily wear glasses under the devkit.
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by rdw 11y ago
This is totally a great explanation, thanks! This sort of thing is why I hate working on platforms (but also why it's so in-demand).
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by rdw 11y ago
This bit jumped out at me: "200 API servers ... to serve 3000 requests per second". That's only 15 RPS per server. Is that normal for Rails?
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by rdw 11y ago
Can anyone explain to me what it actually is? Everything I've read about it is through this sort of know-nothing journalistic filter. They often focus on the "kill a monster and it stays dead" angle, so that seems like a rea
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by rdw 11y ago
Interesting! Does it come with source?
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by rdw 12y ago
It has not been that easy, in my experience. Apple did not sell an unlocked iPhone 6 until last month, and I think they may have done the same locked-only-for-a-few-months thing with the 5s. I don't recall seeing earlier iPhones for s
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by rdw 12y ago
On top of this, mechanical circuit breakers would have vibration issues when mounted in a moving vehicle. If it's too vibration-resistant, it might not trigger under overcurrent conditions. If it's not vibration-resistant enough
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by rdw 12y ago
It has a depth limit, as well. It's truly a 2x2x2 cube. In my current setup, I can lean forward quite a bit, till the monitor is a little too close for comfort, but I cannot lean back at all. In playing with it, I've noticed th
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by rdw 12y ago
I have an EyeX. The eye tracking is very effective -- spookily so. Imprecise but low-latency, which is the right tradeoff to make. It can be faster than mousing, if the UI is set up just right. The main limitations that keep me from usin

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