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by shubber 15y ago
What I don't see there is collisions. Without a fast collision tool, it's hard to do whole classes of games anything like efficiently. It's a little disappointing that, having written a renderer adapter with native code, there isn't colli
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by shubber 15y ago
Man, those chairs look uncomfortable.
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Crime doesn't pay? It does if you're a phone crammer(arstechnica.com)
3 points by shubber 15y ago|0 comments
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by shubber 15y ago
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecm... Big PDF. It's a bit dense, but unambiguous. Nota most bene, though: not every browser implements everything you'll read in the standard. But, if a higher percentage of JS
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by shubber 15y ago
Honestly, I think my initial reaction was severely overstated. I know from personal experience that skilled engineers do learn differently than I do. It just continues to surprise me that they do :) The other edge of the sword, though, is
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by shubber 15y ago
Pity there's no mention that RRDTool has been around for decades, pretty much stable. It's worth remembering that old tools aren't necessarily obsolete.
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by shubber 15y ago
I have to admit, that's kind of brilliant.
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by shubber 15y ago
I feel a bit churlish, but this kind of thing always leaves me nonplussed. jQuery and Javascript have excellent references, and I have a hard time understanding how anyone really learns any technical topic without working with the technolo
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by shubber 15y ago
Can't speak to interoperation with WiaB, but I've always been very pleased with ejabberd. Surprisingly simple to set up and administer, pretty much hands off once it's up.
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by shubber 15y ago
If only it were true. I started in on Sprockets to get my feet wet for Rails 3.1, and have to say I was disappointed. Sprockets is a textual concatenator, which makes it appropriate when you're writing short snippets throughout a project.
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by shubber 15y ago
Sprockets, as it exists, can't do module loading: it's a Javascript concatenator. All it does it copy the contents of <filename.js> in place of //= require 'filename.js'. Gotta, say, I just spent a chunk of time converting a projec
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by shubber 15y ago
How many times are we going to see "Look! They changed their site design, and the new one is awful!" The archetype is grousing about the new Facebook design, but it seems like any change gets a bunch of complaints. I know: it drives traff
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by shubber 15y ago
And, intended or not, at Stallman
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by shubber 15y ago
I think the shouting in the wilderness is directed primarily at the amount of gee-whiz attention paid to lionizing LulzSec. That big brands are leaving their figurative safes unlocked would make an interesting and responsible story. Laugh
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by shubber 15y ago
Honestly, modeling state with polymorphism can be really elegant and powerful. There are a few decisions to make (for instance, do States explicitly make transitions happen, or do they return the next state?) But in general, anywhere you s
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by shubber 15y ago
Zed Shaw also has a nifty blog post about explicitly hacking Ragel to model a state machine - iirc it has to do with an anti-griefing messaging system. Worth googling.
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by shubber 15y ago
I tend to think inherent in your reply is an idea that I only see with older developers: that we should actually understand the whole stack. Newer developers are content to let more and more of the development ecosystem be someone else's
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by shubber 15y ago
Tell you what: assume it's a loop, and I'll hook it to something that does have friction. Or, we could just nail it to something. I mean, if we're talking about inelastic megastructures, the logistics of manipulating a frictionless string s
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by shubber 15y ago
I gotta say, this reads like a web developer commenting on a networking issue. The big red flag is "some DNS servers let you do this." In the web world, that's what a standard looks like - some browsers implement a feature, and it has a p
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by shubber 15y ago
What's alarming about this is that it's suggestive of attacks that will work in many PaaS environments and allow an attacker who's hired service for one deployment to escape to the hypervisor and take control of systems deployed by other cu
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by shubber 15y ago
And that's the profound comment, I think.
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by shubber 15y ago
Forging ahead into a problem space without understanding the contributions of others has three possible outcomes: * Brilliance! You produce something wonderful, un-derivative, and that you otherwise would never have hit upon * Convergence:
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by shubber 15y ago
What I'm curious about is how to reliably transit service across Regions. ELBs live in a particular Region, so they don't help. You could certainly register multiple ELBs to the same CNAME and do a limited round robin that way. But, even
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by shubber 15y ago
The obvious next step is to use comments as CAPTCHAs: "which of these 3 comments is spam?" Then, use the CAPTHCA-breaker that results to filter spam.
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Ask HN: Jargon for "pure hourly rate"
1 points by shubber 15y ago|1 comments
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by shubber 16y ago
The thing is, existing politics has analogies for all the programming-inspired ideas that come up here. To wit: fomenting revolution. If you want to tear it all down and start from scratch, rise up and overturn the standing government by
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by shubber 16y ago
Believe it or not, that's the premise of a republican democracy. There's just more prose and less code involved.
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by shubber 16y ago
There's two responses that spring immediately to mind: First, "what time is it?" There's lots of cases where a single centralized authority can provide definite and concrete advantages. Second, ultimately, every system of authority (and no
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by shubber 16y ago
As much as there's ways that computing could be (and is unevenly) used to increase retail-level government, there are good reasons to continue to include human beings in the governing process. A few notions to look into: * Condorcet voting
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by shubber 16y ago
My favorite bash trick is still Ctrl-O: submit command and advance history by one. If you ever find yourself counting up-arrows to repeat a sequence of commands (that aren't worth scripting for whatever reason), next time, go to the top of

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