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by rdw 13y ago
Great news for the folks working at Makani! I hope Google continues to develop the product. Every time I've spoken to anyone at Makani, about tether materials, motor design, carbon fiber manufacturing, whatever, they've known their shit v
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by rdw 13y ago
asm.js is translated into native code before it's run, which is exactly the same as PNaCL, which is delivered in a non-executable format that has to be translated to the native architecture before it's run. The two technologies are just di
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by rdw 13y ago
Fantastic. It's amazing how attached I become to the good ones, it's like I've discovered a precious truth. So here's some driving rain: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,1,2,2,0,2,0,3,1,2...
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by rdw 13y ago
The reason that this is so is because of regulations.
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by rdw 13y ago
Double Fine has their own engine, they don't use Unreal.
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by rdw 13y ago
I know a few people who have switched to Dvorak, and every time I see them using a computer they seem to grapple with one of a few new inefficiencies that stem from using a layout other than the standard: * Having difficulty finding symbols
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by rdw 13y ago
String concatenation is usually way faster both at runtime and at code-time than the alternatives.
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by rdw 13y ago
Technically, you could use something like PyInstaller[1] to bundle the runtime and all libraries into an executable package. Practically, no one ever does that. :) [1] http://www.pyinstaller.org/
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by rdw 13y ago
They address that in the article: "By now you’re probably wondering how a person wearing one of our contact lenses would be able to focus on an image generated on the surface of the eye. After all, a normal and healthy eye cannot focus on o
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by rdw 14y ago
Many of the most productive programmers (in terms of text editing ability) I know are heavy mouse users. Watching them work really opened my eyes and taught me a few good habits. One of the skills that you have to develop is the ability t
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by rdw 14y ago
As someone who's contributed to Eventlet, I've always felt that the only way that it could get over this scary hurdle (and it is legitimately scary) is for it to be integrated within Python itself. Almost all of the weird problems come fro
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by rdw 14y ago
It seems like the inter-region bandwidth test would be especially likely to be negatively affected by increased adoption of GCE. They lay a fixed amount of capacity, and if there's relatively few other customers, you get a proportionately
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by rdw 14y ago
It's possible to have a single-player experience, where one player controls all of the cities in a private 'region'. It's alluded to here: http://kotaku.com/5988848/tips-for-playing-simcity Ironically, if they hadn't included that featur
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by rdw 14y ago
The LaTeX support seems very nice. Nice job! The concept of a paper as a DVCS repository is a very natural one, and it's exactly how I would write my papers back in the day. I'm curious how the "host the data and the code" comes in. Perh
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by rdw 14y ago
This is the first I've heard of Adobe dropping the Flash Tax, and I'm having trouble finding any confirmation of it. Where did you hear about it?
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by rdw 14y ago
I know, me too. Just gotta take that into account when dealing with the American public, I guess.
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by rdw 14y ago
Personal experience doesn't really help with understanding something like this, so the fact that no one you know has said anything in support of this idea doesn't mean that it's not widely believed. At the time of the war, as many as 70% (!
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by rdw 14y ago
The other important function of hellbanning, and why I'm considering using it, is that by obscuring the moment you decided to execute the ban, you make it more difficult to reverse engineer what the criteria were. That makes it harder for
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by rdw 14y ago
I think it's an inherent property of human society that disagreement is easier to write, more compelling word-for-word and idea-for-idea. War is more interesting than peace, and so on. So I do think that natural tendency will bias online
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by rdw 14y ago
I was about to jokily reply, "same", but then I vaguely remembered that maybe the community standards discourage low-content comments. As they should. But the emergent result is that people add content by adding disagreement.
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by rdw 14y ago
I'm pretty sure Apple's policies prevent developers from charging a different rate on iOS than they do on other platforms (specifically for subscriptions, but maybe also for one-time IAPs). This definitely protects their platform, but I'm
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by rdw 14y ago
You know this is a good explanation of the technique because in retrospect it seems obvious and clear.
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by rdw 14y ago
They also don't properly filter keyboard events, so Cmd-Left navigates to the next most recent article, rather than browser-back.
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by rdw 14y ago
That's interesting that you mention Realm of the Mad God. My understanding was that it was pretty standard App Engine. I just checked the traffic with Wireshark, and it's still hosted on App Engine. This job posting for developing the se
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by rdw 14y ago
Dangit, Jeff, you didn't answer my question. Share your secret colocation deals with me! :) Power is also a big cost as well. To quote the prgmr colo: "Please note; power, generally speaking, is a bigger deal than rack units. I'm more li
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by rdw 14y ago
Yeah, $1/Mbps sounds like a steal to me as well, which may be why it's a limited-time special offer. thatamurgy's Pinboard links lead to this hosting provider: http://prgmr.com/san-jose-co-location.html The machines in the original post b
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by rdw 14y ago
Where's he colocating those servers? Last time I dabbled with colocation, the bandwidth costs per-server were by far the dominant cost. I found it difficult to get anything at all for small quantities of servers. Looking at he.net at the
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by rdw 14y ago
It's almost precisely a year since they introduced Git support. That's cool. Part of the history to remember is that Mercurial and Git started at about the same time and on almost equal footing. GitHub was frequently cited at the time as
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by rdw 14y ago
The author appears to have awoken from this binary worldview. He didn't realize that there were other services out there beyond github and sourceforge. Kind of like people who don't know that there are browsers other than Internet Explore
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by rdw 14y ago
Not exaggerating at all. I've never been in a position where I felt I had to lower my standards below "the best in the world (for our team)", and I've always been able to turn down a candidate who doesn't meet that criteria without having

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