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by rictic 16y ago
With realtime multi-person editing and operational transforms showing up in Google Docs my guess is that there's a decent amount of cross-pollination going on there.
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by rictic 16y ago
As mentioned above, Apple has one patent out of hundreds in the H.264 pool, and one patent in MPEG-4 Systems Pool. Maybe they'll be a part of it and maybe they won't, but it doesn't sound like they're big players in the video patent space.
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by rictic 17y ago
I thought this example was well chosen. Downloading mp3s is a familiar thing that's very easy to do, but may not be ethically defensible in the final analysis. If you want to have a discussion about copyright though, you're poisoning the w
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by rictic 17y ago
Well, even assuming that they're using top quality solid state storage, you're going from (at worst) hundreds of nanoseconds per retrieval to (at best) a hundred microseconds per (page) retrieval. Still very significant for some data acces
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by rictic 17y ago
That's silly, zero sum thinking. Unless the market for a good is saturated (everyone who would buy it will), making the production process more efficient creates both wealth and (often) new jobs as the producing company can now grow. As an
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by rictic 17y ago
Are you sure? I thought most non-enterprise SSDs are MLC.
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by rictic 17y ago
Nope, no locks needed in Node. This is one of the little joys of javascript: no threading at all. None. With Web Workers you can have processes, but there isn't shared state; everything is done through message passing. All parallelism is
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by rictic 17y ago
"Maybe it makes you feel better because you only have a 120 IQ, but that precludes you from achieving anything meaningful in math and science." Child prodigy and Fields Medalist Terry Tao disagrees: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-a
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by rictic 17y ago
"The innovation on the web has always begun with the code -- and always with proprietary solutions." Minor correction: lots of innovation has taken place in open source implementations first, which aren't proprietary.
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by rictic 17y ago
node.js (both the core and projects which build upon it)
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by rictic 17y ago
I think a parallel could be drawn to that Sci-fi and futurist favorite: the cyborg. Can we embed electronics into people today? Yeah, actually. But we only do it in extreme cases (cochlear implant, pacemaker, etc). It's so much easier to
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by rictic 17y ago
I think the larger project has to do with the language-neutral framework that he's advocated for (and is now apparently building). Google's now definitely got static analysis for Python, Javascript through Closure Compiler, and Java throug
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Google has quietly released a static analysis framework for Python(sourceforge.net)
64 points by rictic 17y ago|9 comments
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by rictic 17y ago
Interesting, thanks for setting me straight, it's good to know that the world is saner than it appeared. I recall some images being corrupted with the copy task in ant and that was the explanation that I received.
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by rictic 17y ago
The java build world is perverse. Maven and Ant are imperative, highly limited, domain specific languages using XML for syntax. If that doesn't set off just about every warning bell in your head, consider that Ant performs character set de
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by rictic 17y ago
Difficulty rampup (and the rate at which you introduce new concepts) is very tricky to do right. Valve did a lot of user testing for Portal to get it as smooth as they did. If you're interested in this stuff, don't miss Portal's developer
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by rictic 17y ago
There is far less of a difference here than might appear at first blush. These graphs might be useful for getting an overview of the grammar productions for these languages, but I don't think they are very helpful for comparing them. The a
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by rictic 17y ago
You can design and sell objects. The objects can consist of a 3d model and some programming to give it functionality. Example include clothing and body modifications; furniture and buildings; vehicles like planes, boats and dragons; and a
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by rictic 17y ago
One solution that will almost certainly get implemented is WebWorkers. From that you get string-only message passing (though it'd obviously be easy to do json-encoding of data in messages) between js processes. That, combined with event ba
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by rictic 17y ago
You can run Team Proggit's bot locally pretty easily (one click if java is working right): http://rictic.com/marioai/
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by rictic 17y ago
Ok, if that's the basis of your objection then the situation of dating a woman who is physically unable to have children is analogous to dating a man?
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by rictic 17y ago
I'm not sure about git vs hg, but I'd definitely say that the speed of git is a win vs svn. For example, running status to see the state of the working directory. With svn it takes a couple of seconds on small repositories, and it can easi
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by rictic 17y ago
I found http://www.squidoo.com/squidoo-in-public to be delightful.
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by rictic 17y ago
I'm not quite sure what you're saying, but it's worth mentioning that the levels generated by the engine are rather simple. For example, there are never any gaps so wide that they can't be jumped across easily, so no fancy bouncing needed.
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by rictic 17y ago
He hosted it on git, the source is still out there: http://github.com/defunkt/hpricot/tree/master
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by rictic 17y ago
You say that with a lot of confidence but I can't see how you can possibly be so sure. Furthermore, Apple has already released one update to iTunes since details about the Pre's USB signifiers were known. Breaking support for the Pre as it
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by rictic 17y ago
It's my understanding that you can buy an iPhone without a contract, it's just ~$600 more expensive. Visual voicemail is right out on other carriers though. 3G might work though, depending on your carrier.
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by rictic 17y ago
The most novel thing I've heard about Dalvik is their zygote technique for minimizing app startup time. The zygote is is a Dalvik process that's loaded and ready but for the actual bytecode it will need to run. To start a process it first
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by rictic 17y ago
Data point: I use mint.com. This morning I awoke to three text messages, all telling me in one spammy way or another that I could get a "cash advance". All three messages were from different numbers, and one of them was from a number that
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by rictic 17y ago
That query on Freebase, ready to compose and consume as JSON: http://tinyurl.com/on79u3

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