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by tdicola 12y ago
Awesome news. I'm kind of scared to think how much Python code is written to assume the GIL though. I have a feeling a lot of libraries and code will have very subtle race conditions and issues, but it's still great to have an o
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by tdicola 12y ago
> Do they say fanless in any of the marketing material? What are we watching? This is the product announcement video, it doesn't get any more marketing than this. I'm calling out that this is a shady tactic to associate the d
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by tdicola 12y ago
Are you honestly trying to argue my point is invalid because I said fanless means there is no fan on vs. in the device? Seriously?
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by tdicola 12y ago
Regardless, it's pretty shady especially when they try to spin it as 'another way to say fanless is thin'. No, fanless means there is no fan on a device. I don't see how there can be any gray area here.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Reminds me of the Surface 3 announcement and being told the device is 'fanless' when a giant picture of a fan on the motherboard is shown on the screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uaOMypr9Po#t=1532
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by tdicola 12y ago
Another good option is installing Linux side-by-side ChromeOS with chrubuntu. I have DOSbox and quite a few other games installed on my Acer chromebook and they run great. No need to worry about someone making a chrome extension or app, j
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by tdicola 12y ago
At least the free food is better at Google.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Awesome, thanks for listening to feedback and implementing this feature. One question though, is there a big uptick in Show HN posts today or is something wrong with the HN RSS feed? Just noticed a full page of Show HN posts on the feed an
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by tdicola 12y ago
Look at the sales of the game industry over time (page 12): http://www.theesa.com/facts/pdfs/esa_ef_2014.pdf It's pretty clear the entire industry is shrinking. I don't know about you but if I ran a ma
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by tdicola 12y ago
So what does Nintendo do when the market for $50 games has evaporated? It's far too late to start looking at mobile and other markets at that point.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Interesting article. I played with making Doom levels back in the day and it wasn't exactly easy. The tools (DEU, DETH, etc.) were generally clunky DOS apps that resembled very simplified CAD programs. Documentation was non-existent
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by tdicola 12y ago
Get a credit card, use it a tiny bit each month, and ALWAYS pay it off each month. Just having a card and not using it won't help much, but using it too much (i.e. holding a balance) will also not help. Realize though that you will a
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by tdicola 12y ago
2600 has been in print for almost 30 years, longer than probably most HN readers have been alive I would wager. You can get it on Kindle these days too, IIRC it's only a buck a month (but still published quarterly).
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by tdicola 12y ago
Haha, that is amazing! Nice work!
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by tdicola 12y ago
Very cool story. Can you imagine how fun an Army hackathon might be? 'We've hooked up this Missile Command arcade game to a Patriot missile battery. Now you shoot down enemy targets with a track ball!'
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by tdicola 12y ago
That's awesome, I'm glad to hear there are still folks playing Descent. Truly an underrated multiplayer game. I loved playing it on IPX over TCP with a modem way back in the day.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Hopefully nothing if you have a strong enough password. Chrome OS uses full disk encryption so there shouldn't be anything that an attacker with physical access could get to easily. If moving the phone near the computer suddenly unlo
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by tdicola 12y ago
Automatic unlock of your computer when your phone is near seems like the kind of feature that sounds great on paper but is a nightmare in practice. What happens when someone picks up my phone and walks near my laptop, they suddenly have ac
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by tdicola 12y ago
Is anyone else kind of creeped out by the presentation style? I can't really put my finger on why but everything comes across very wooden and out of touch with normal people.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I don't get it, I already have a domain managed by Google with my Google apps account. I understand they shut off this service for new signups a while back. So are they releasing a _new_ managed domain service? How long until I am f
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by tdicola 12y ago
Yeah I've been using git regularly for a year or so now and have never run into having to do wacky stuff like rebasing and whatnot. I just stick to the normal checkout new branch, hack on stuff, merge branch, move on. The more boring
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by tdicola 12y ago
Very cool. It's been ages since I did anything with DOS, but are you limited to 640KB of memory, or can this use real mode/etc. to get access to more memory?
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by tdicola 12y ago
How does this compare to Yeoman, and is it meant to be a replacement? I thought Yeoman was made by some Google folks.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Nice tool, also I had no idea about the moviepy library used by the tool. Looks like a really nice little library for making small video edits in python. Cool!
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by tdicola 12y ago
I'm really curious why we haven't seen a datacenter with a nuclear reactor as power source. Presumably the regulatory hurdles and costs are very high, but it seems like a great long term way to cleanly power a ton of servers. Ma
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by tdicola 12y ago
Awesome, nice work! I love the retro CRT look. For folks that haven't played text adventures in a long time, check out the annual interactive fiction competition winners for some great modern ones: http://www.ifcomp.org . T
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by tdicola 12y ago
I don't know anything about Cloudflare, but isn't using a CDN with dynamic web-apps difficult? Sure you can host static content like javascript, CSS, images, etc. but caching stuff like what feeds, articles, etc. you've read
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by tdicola 12y ago
Wow that's interesting that you use files to store the data. Is there any sharding across machines or is it all just one machine? Do you use big SSDs or old spinning disks?
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by tdicola 12y ago
Were they really cold emails? Sounds like it was a network of acquaintances and folks the author already had personal or professional contact with before.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Agreed. If I put myself down as an expert on something I would want to be prepared to give a complete run down of the internal workings, important design decisions that drove the implementation, etc. For example if I wanted to say I was a

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