sorbus

13 ms·

61.
by sorbus 15y ago
> Chrome becomes very unhappy under such circumstances (since it uses about ~100 MiB per tab) You must be looking at very media heavy sites, then. Looking at Chrome's task manager (shift-escape opens it), my per-tab memory usage ranges
62.
by sorbus 15y ago
There are various premade dating site systems that can be found by googling (mostly non-free). Similarly, a search for "ruby on rails dating site" turns up an open source social network, http://lovdbyless.com/ , which might be a good plac
63.
by sorbus 15y ago
The above poster is - as I understand it - pointing out that this study does not necessarily contradict the hypothesis you mentioned. A small amount of exercise is shown to be beneficial, but it is entirely possible that larger amounts of e
64.
by sorbus 15y ago
There's also always the Orion drive - basically dropping nuclear bombs out of the back of a ship and riding on the blast. Do you know how it and the Bussard Ramjet (which I think is what you meant) compare in terms of mass needed to run? Of
65.
by sorbus 15y ago
Comment thread pagination is not reducing the number of items visible on pages (eg, /newest, /ask, /news), it's splitting up comments onto multiple pages. Completely different things.
66.
by sorbus 15y ago
This is far preferable to the situations caused by the removal of freedom of speech. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," as the saying goes. I may be forced to defend some people who make my
67.
TSA Closes Terminal Over Science Project(blog.makezine.com)
2 points by sorbus 15y ago|0 comments
68.
by sorbus 15y ago
Probably related to the MSM stuff that caused HN to get really slow yesterday. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2865985
69.
by sorbus 15y ago
Identifying the problems is important, even if you don't propose a solution, though. In a situation like this, discussing all the aspects of the problems - not just as arm chair strategists[1], but actually going out and getting hard data[2
70.
by sorbus 15y ago
In theory all articles have a "flag" link. If enough people flag an article, then it's killed. That's basically HN's version of a "report spam" button. (I say "in theory" because there is either a high karma threshold or the potential to lo
71.
by sorbus 15y ago
I've never observed Chrome to choke when upwards of 50 tabs are open, while firefox, back when I used it, would fall over with around that many. So experiences vary.
72.
by sorbus 15y ago
Yeah, UI/graphics are a big learning curve for DF. It's great for people who were into roguelikes before they found it, but even so. Tile-sets make visualization a lot easier (although if you've gotten into the game without one then they mi
73.
Why Minecraft Works (Design Concepts)(hobbygamedev.com)
123 points by sorbus 15y ago|32 comments
74.
by sorbus 15y ago
> the one thing that brings them money > their dominant source of income. That's advertising. (I admit to being slightly facetious, though).
75.
by sorbus 15y ago
That the implementation of an encryption library in Javascript is not a reason to mistrust services which use that library?
76.
by sorbus 15y ago
> The only way to be sure would be to see sales numbers from Microsoft. The fact that Microsoft hides those numbers is telling. Or we could look at the size of the market at times when we know the percentage of the market they have, whi
77.
by sorbus 15y ago
You want Google to open source their advertising framework?
78.
by sorbus 15y ago
> Edit: Thanks for all the downvotes HN. Nothing better than to see your comment grayed out while this comment is still going strong. As it seems to be my job to explain how messed up the voting patterns are on HN, here it is: Comments
79.
by sorbus 15y ago
We're talking about the Fukushima disaster, not the Chernobyl disaster. Fukushima has caused no deaths from radiation thus far.
80.
by sorbus 15y ago
Given sufficiently god-like technology, you could run a simulation of the entire world repeatedly, modifying variables until you get a world with a copy of Sagan who fits exactly all the historical information available with him. Something
81.
by sorbus 15y ago
Very little. However, if companies are making their own problems and the same set aren't used for every job posting, it would be harder to make a general how-to for every problem on the site. It also would probably not be that hard to deter
82.
by sorbus 15y ago
Here's what appears to be the original press release that this article (and related ones) are getting this from: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11080201-e.... "At 2:30 pm on August 1, as radiation level of surface of con
83.
by sorbus 15y ago
This is actually a pretty well accepted theory that's been around for a while.
84.
by sorbus 15y ago
Reading this comment, I thought that the 2,000 to 5,000 year claim was complete rubbish. Turns out that it's not, which is a bit surprising - it's supported solely by computer models at this point, not genetic evidence, and is probably cont
85.
by sorbus 15y ago
Also an endless number of people trying to kill you. Not to mention that - while Genghis Khan's religion isn't known - it was probably either Shamanism or Tengriism, and he was "interested in learning philosophical and moral lessons from ot
86.
by sorbus 15y ago
Yep, there are "indirect descendants". If X is a direct descendant of Y's sister (or other sibling), then X is an indirect descendant of Y. Doesn't make much sense, and it's hardly ever used, but there you go. Another reason to say "direct
87.
by sorbus 15y ago
That's not what it means. Look into P/E ratios (especially when they're calculated by dividing market cap by annual earnings). A P/E of 10-17 is normal. You're assuming that market cap is based on yearly earnings, which is simply wrong.
88.
by sorbus 15y ago
Facebook apparently already has a facial recognition system, which startles me a bit. Not surprising in the least, of course, just I'm worried that I hadn't heard of it before.
89.
by sorbus 15y ago
If one of the bystanders cares enough, they'll use their phone to take a picture of you. From there it's entirely possible to link that picture of you to other pictures of you online (facial recognition and all that), and then to your ident
90.
by sorbus 15y ago
> If Google was really focused on innovating instead of patenting like they said they wanted to do a few days a go they would let this drop and focus on innovating. Because clearly everyone at Google is spending all of their time on thi

More ›