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by rudiger 15y ago
The title is Google != Evil . Kind of a big difference.
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by rudiger 15y ago
What's the current consensus on augmentation of built-in prototypes [1]? Is it still a contentious issue? [1] http://michaux.ca/articles/javascript-the-good-parts-built-i...
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by rudiger 15y ago
Hehe, great interview. I liked this part: "Waren die Inseln in Tiny Wings eine bewusste Designentscheidung?" "Gibt es unbewusste Designentscheidungen?"
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by rudiger 15y ago
Well, a Bitcoin-mining MMO game probably should be free. It would have a larger install-base, and people would be more tolerant of a miner running in the background. Also, MMO games generally have pretty low graphics requirements (to appeal
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by rudiger 15y ago
What exactly is "Watson-like technology"? According to IBM, Watson "understands words and sentences rather than the formatted data computers normally process". What does this even mean? I haven't heard anything about the software , excep
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by rudiger 15y ago
Why not embed a Bitcoin miner in a regular, installable MMO game and use their GPU ? A single gamer's GPU could be worth more than thousands of casual gamers' browsers. Also, MMO gamers can be just as "dedicated". Bonus points for using Bi
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by rudiger 15y ago
Actually, regular CPU miners are nearly 1,000 times slower than GPU miners. I wouldn't be surprised if a JavaScript miner was several orders of magnitude slower than that (ie. a million times slower than GPU miners). What about using game
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by rudiger 15y ago
Link: http://cubiq.org/iscroll-4
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by rudiger 15y ago
Care to do an analysis of the impact to your app's sales when this is all over?
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by rudiger 15y ago
What makes it depressing?
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by rudiger 15y ago
It's about layers of abstraction. The Bitcoin architecture provides an abstract, lower-level interface for higher-level functionality to be built upon [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_layer
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by rudiger 15y ago
Deletion at most places is just a flipped bit.
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by rudiger 15y ago
What is Joshua Schachter's affiliation with Honestly? Has he made any comments regarding this mess?
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by rudiger 15y ago
I like that Twitter forces you to be honest about who you're following. Then again, I have the same problem with instant messaging's Appear Offline (it erodes the value of the network, and destroys the discoverability of weak connections)
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by rudiger 15y ago
Witholding the truth isn't lying.
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by rudiger 15y ago
I play it safe. My strategy with Social Media Experts™ is to round up and assume that 100% of them are clowns.
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by rudiger 15y ago
In 1997, Microsoft rescued Apple with a $150 million investment just so that Apple could survive as a viable competitor. http://www.apple.com/ca/press/1997/08/AppleMicrosoft.html
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by rudiger 15y ago
If that's all they're doing, how are they getting malware?
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by rudiger 15y ago
I'd argue the opposite; I've found it to be very positive to travel and host with AirBnB and CouchSurfing when it comes to, ahem, the opposite sex. Friend-of-a-friend might get awkward, but then again, that's never stopped us either.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Please don't editorialize headlines like this. The comparison to Apache and Tomcat is a small part of this article.
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by rudiger 15y ago
The maximum length should be 160 characters, not 140. When SMS was developed, research was done to show that 160 characters provided enough space to communicate most short messages [1]. Less characters were shown to be too tight. Unfortunat
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by rudiger 15y ago
There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Kelly criterion betting will always have huge swings, and there's a huge danger of over-betting if you don't precisely estimate your odds. For this reason, players will often bet an amount like "half Kelly" (simply half the bet given by the
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by rudiger 15y ago
paul would argue otherise
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by rudiger 15y ago
You're not mistaken. We were calling it chrome since the Xerox 8010 Information System.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Windows; the Win32 API is great to develop applications. Microsoft puts an emphasis on maintaining software backwards compatibility. int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, PSTR szCmdLine, int iCmdShow) { ...
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by rudiger 15y ago
You're not missing the boat on anything; my primary use for the iPad is as a coaster.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Why would LivingSocial make such a crappy product? This isn't like them at all.
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by rudiger 15y ago
New MacBook Pro models are shipping with TRIM support for bundled Apple SSDs.
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by rudiger 15y ago
anyone still using groovy or did clojure, scala, et al. eat their lunch?

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