soccerdave

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by soccerdave 11y ago
Your comment said "is not usually a large bottleneck (but it is measurable)" which implies that there is a performance impact. If they are trying to eek out as much performance as they can from an already terribly slow device the
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by soccerdave 11y ago
Have you used one of their new products launched last quarter? They are horribly slow.
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by soccerdave 11y ago
Amazon's most recent line of Kindle Fire tablets are horribly slow products. They sacrificed their hardware in order to make a super cheap tablet (which in my opinion is a mistake because it leads to poor user experience). I'm s
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by soccerdave 11y ago
This is one reason why I would never trust the most important part of an application (it's data) to someone else's service.
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by soccerdave 11y ago
Right now I use 3 Softlayer virtual servers to serve up 15TB of static files a month. It costs me a whopping $168 a month. The same 15TB on AWS would cost $1325 a month. I consider saving $1157 'significant'. Softlayer no lon
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by soccerdave 11y ago
What do you consider significant? If you are doing over 10TB then you'll be paying lower and even lower the higher you go. This doesn't help the smaller players doing under 10TB. Do you know of people under 10TB that have nego
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by soccerdave 11y ago
Ideally, none of your servers on EC2 should be 'permanent' :) Although having EBS available makes it easier to start relying on them as if they are permanent.
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by soccerdave 11y ago
This is one of the first scripts that I made myself after migrating to ec2. I initially programmed it in ruby, but just recently re-wrote it in Go. I don't cache the hosts and it usually takes around 0.5 - 0.7 seconds. My ruby imple
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by soccerdave 11y ago
While it has declined, it is still almost a billion dollar industry on its own just on Facebook. You asked for "examples of games making heaps of money" and I included links to a bunch of them.
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by soccerdave 11y ago
Here are a bunch making anywhere from $50k per day to a whole lot more. You may need to be Facebook logged in to view them. https://www.facebook.com/games/query/top-grossing/ Edit: Also, I believe Kongregat
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by soccerdave 11y ago
Flash games are easily a multi-Billion dollar a year industry. You mention games shifting towards Steam. I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of games on Steam that are still created in Flash. Flash (through Air sdk) provides an ama
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by soccerdave 11y ago
There is a still huge industry of web games (99% of them in Flash) because that is still the best technology to write cross-platform games in the browser. Kongregate, Armor Games, millions of people playing games on Facebook.
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by soccerdave 11y ago
The lack of double-dash in the stdlib really annoys me. Almost all command line tools use a single dash for single letter arguments (-h) and double-dash for anything longer (--help).
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by soccerdave 11y ago
Oregon region is not down. I'm logged in to several servers there. But there is definitely some networking issues going on connecting to that region.
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by soccerdave 11y ago
We are seeing packet loss from various locations.
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by soccerdave 11y ago
I was able to use 'dnu build', but that looks like it builds a dll and places it in a folder. I was curious if it's possible to build a single executable (similar to go) that can be run. Also, 'dnx run' is slightl
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by soccerdave 11y ago
I followed the steps here. Do you happen to know how to build the command-line app in to an executable? I was able to run it with 'dnx run', but not sure how to build it
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by soccerdave 11y ago
What exactly does this line mean from their 'Pro' plan? "Includes everything from Self-Driving Mode plus the ability to directly customize deductions, earnings, and more." I don't have any clue if the free plan woul
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by soccerdave 11y ago
Flawed was probably the wrong word to use, maybe unrealistic view would have been more appropriate. As a developer in the Flash gaming community, one of my pet peeves is the loud outcry from the tech community to kill Flash. Flash is stil
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by soccerdave 11y ago
There are millions of people a day that play Flash games across many websites. Many of the members on HN have a flawed view that just because they don't use flash then no one else does.
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by soccerdave 11y ago
One cool use that we are using Lambda for is to destroy EBS snapshots past a certain date. We tag snapshots with a 'retention_days' tag and then a Lambda process kicks off daily and deletes the old snapshots. The great thing abo
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by soccerdave 11y ago
An app does not have to request the special permission to play background audio in order to play sounds.
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by soccerdave 11y ago
Doesn't an iOS app have to declare that it is going to do background audio? If so, what was their original legitimate use case for having background audio? Edit: Here's a link to the apple docs that show apps have to declare wha
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by soccerdave 11y ago
We have a business with 100mbit for $57.99, but last time I got a quote for higher speeds it was around $99.99 for 175 mbit and $153.99 for 270 mbit. They also charge us 14.99 for a static IP address.
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Chattanooga to offer 10 gigabit internet service starting today(timesfreepress.com)
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by soccerdave 11y ago
I would imagine more along the lines of targeting users of competing products to try to get them to switch to yours instead.
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by soccerdave 11y ago
Of course he is, where I live in the US 142k could buy you a nice 1400 square foot house.
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by soccerdave 11y ago
I'm curious. Does anyone know if Apples statement actually means you must fully support IPv6 or if you just can't submit an app with hardcoded IPv4 addresses? I just tested one of our apps that uses IPv4 only domain names and it
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by soccerdave 11y ago
I wasn't aware of this shortcut until now. I've been going the long route through Settings. Thanks for the tip!
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by soccerdave 11y ago
This is a main reason that I have avoided Android so far. The iOS permissions model is a far better model. At least with the next release of Android (Marshmallow) they are fixing some of this and hopefully you will be able to use apps wit

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