techtalsky

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by techtalsky 12y ago
Yeah, or you could just play candy crush on your phone. There's always going to be a cool level of dorky absorption that's great as a learning opportunity and obsession for people so inclined.
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by techtalsky 12y ago
You know, I love inform 7 and was incredibly inspired when I first saw it and played with it. I DID try to create a simple game but was stymied by the documentation. There's a tutorial with the most basic game, and then there's
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by techtalsky 12y ago
Kind of nice, basically turns form submission into a bare-bones API call.
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by techtalsky 12y ago
Yeah, the Nested Set model is cool but it does not use recursive postgresql queries under the hood: http://mikehillyer.com/articles/managing-hierarchical-data-i...
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by techtalsky 12y ago
Hm, I didn't realize that. I'm using it on a Rails 4 project and haven't had any problems.
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by techtalsky 12y ago
There's a great Ruby on Rails gem called acts_as_sane_tree (after the non-recursive acts_as_tree) that uses postgresql's recursive queries. I'm using it on a project and have found it useful with good performance: https:&#x
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by techtalsky 12y ago
I'm a little shocked that out of 124 HN Comments (at the time of this writing), no one has linked to or referenced the study in any way. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3227547 Did I read it? No,
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by techtalsky 12y ago
I love the idea of Open Source applications being distributed this way. Here's our application.... and everything required to run it in a virtual machine.
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by techtalsky 12y ago
Hm... I saw some cpan links and a slideshare presentation. I was prepared to be impressed by said "couple lines of Perl". ;)
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by techtalsky 12y ago
I have to say I saw every single pixel of every Keen game and I MUCH preferred the pure side view games over the isometric side view games of Episodes 4-6 and Keen Dreams. Episodes 1-3 had such an amazing, precise pixel design and a great
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by techtalsky 12y ago
My takeaways from the site for people who would like a summary: SIREn encodes [...] the index using a completely different model than Lucene, [...] it uses its own disk format, low level compression algorithm and query operator implementati
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by techtalsky 12y ago
No, that's not really "the real question". Kids are smart. The know how to get what they want and parents can't be everywhere at any moment. SOME percentage of kids are going to figure out how to pay for goods with ve
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by techtalsky 12y ago
I think there's a significant difference in that Ensure and Jevity aren't meant to be sustainable as a long term food source, and don't optimize for cost per meal.
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by techtalsky 12y ago
Well, also consider the point she's making. So you had to switch to matlab, but you were able to, perhaps partially because you already had a grounding in programming in a language you found pleasurable.
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by techtalsky 12y ago
This was really sweet. A somewhat inconsequential hack but incredibly touching writing about it. I love this kind of video game writing.
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by techtalsky 13y ago
In the financial times article, which is more in-depth, they mentioned taking serious security precautions for the exhibitions like searching people thoroughly and providing special headphones. It does indeed still seem possible for a dete
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by techtalsky 13y ago
I definitely don't think it's just raw engineering talent. I agree that there's most certainly a social aspect to it. I think it has to do with professionalism, architecture chops and experience, a sense of good workflow an
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by techtalsky 13y ago
Well "mystery mean navigation" refers to something specifically where there's little chance of understanding what the icons refer to without rolling over them, much like "mystery meat" in your fridge that you can&#x
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by techtalsky 13y ago
I'm a little surprised this wasn't emphasized in the article. It doesn't matter where the equipment is: the us government can still secretly force you to backdoor it and lie to your customers and the press about it.
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by techtalsky 13y ago
Well Explosions in the Sky do pretty well.
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by techtalsky 13y ago
Alright what is it. Now I want to hear it.
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by techtalsky 13y ago
Or, just accurately reclassify marijuana so it's not schedule 1.
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by techtalsky 13y ago
Zero dollars flow to music license holders via Grooveshark. It operates in a legal grey area. Also the file metadata is set up by uploaders and is a lower quality than Spotify in most cases. I don't know what the Grooveshark Android
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by techtalsky 13y ago
I don't mind having playlists for albums but the biggest problem is that enough playlists impact performance and slow the client to a crawl, especially on Windows.
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by techtalsky 13y ago
I guess I'm not surprised. 100% discussion about whether Haiku deserves to exist, zero discussion about the post. Can anyone talk about the significance of the removal of the hard processor limit?
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by techtalsky 13y ago
No, looks cool though. That would impact deployability to heroku though, yes?
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by techtalsky 13y ago
I'm working on a project that requires a tree datastructure (basically a graph but with only single-direction parent-child relationships) and the number of nodes will stay under a thousand. I could have chosen a graph database, but fo
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by techtalsky 13y ago
Yeah, loderunner is one of its far inspirations, but honestly you have no idea the depth of play of Spelunky. Game designer Derek Yu made an all-time-classic only a few years ago in Gamemaker. It's a platformer-roguelike with permade
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by techtalsky 13y ago
Thank you. My company uses ApolloMQ but in a relatively low-data setting. (10-15 queues, with less than 5000 messages in a queue at a time) I don't know that it would make it worth it to move to a different data store but the idea w
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by techtalsky 13y ago
Can this be used as a drop-in replacement for LevelDB on queue technologies like ApolloMQ that use LevelDB as the default?

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