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by thexa4 7y ago
Not caching your error pages is a good way to bring down your servers once something goes wrong. We usually have a short cache for errors to make sure there is an upper limit to the amount of requests coming through the cache.
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by thexa4 7y ago
Cool, is kind of like STUN but for networks with almost no connectivity. Create a binary that sends info when started, submit it and wait for it to send the info from Redmond to your server. Too bad there is no return channel or you could m
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by thexa4 7y ago
Because if the computations you are doing are valuable spammers would use the results of those computations to offset the cost. It's basically the same reason why cryptocurrencies cannot do meaningful work or it would be possible to do
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by thexa4 7y ago
I wonder how they will manage the heat when parked in the sun. Being an ideal absorber does not seem like a good quality for a car to have.
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by thexa4 7y ago
https://perkeep.org/ Designed for long term storage, supports multiple storage backends and can replicate them.
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Water by David Foster Wallace (2012)(fs.blog)
1 points by thexa4 7y ago|0 comments
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by thexa4 8y ago
Isn't that always the case with frameworks vs libraries? A database can be seen as a library but you build your entire game on top of the engine which makes it like a framework.
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Show HN: Prime Time – Countdown to next prime unix timestamp(primetime.maxmaton.nl)
6 points by thexa4 8y ago|1 comments
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Domain Registrar Can Be Held Liable for Pirate Site, German Court Rules(torrentfreak.com)
118 points by thexa4 8y ago|36 comments
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by thexa4 8y ago
We've used LDAP for authentication by binding as the user and checking if they belong to certain groups. Those groups are then used to give the user certain abilities. https://github.com/debolk/bolklogin User mana
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by thexa4 8y ago
The layout constraints system on iOS works pretty well once you understand that it uses a global constraint solver: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Us...
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by thexa4 8y ago
If you want multiplayer you're most likely better of with Unreal. Implementing multiplayer on Unity is possible but relatively tricky to get right. Other than that, it really depends on your team.
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by thexa4 8y ago
Couldn't you make the same argument about logging out from Facebook?
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by thexa4 8y ago
The moment I figured out that the world is messy, but programs can't be. A lot of concepts are very easy to describe in natural language but are very hard to write down unambiguously.
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by thexa4 8y ago
Dreamweaver was pretty good at this back then.
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by thexa4 9y ago
If you can create a function that creates an infinite grid of buildings you can blend that using another perlin noise function. The techniques used in raytracing can probably help as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYe
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by thexa4 9y ago
Started learning colemak a while back and reached 5wpm blind. Stopped once I noticed I didn't actually know my passwords in text form but always typed them using muscle memory. All in all it was cool to learn but made it much harder fo
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by thexa4 9y ago
You can make high quality 3d animated movies in your basement but if you're alone and have no assets at all it will take a very long time. Free software we've used to make short films include: Blender (3d modeling), DaVinci Resolv
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by thexa4 9y ago
He did another one a while later: http://calculatedimages.blogspot.nl/2014/07/3d-lightning-2.h...
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Nokia selected by Vodafone to be its partner for Mission to the Moon project(nokia.com)
2 points by thexa4 9y ago|0 comments
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by thexa4 9y ago
I used https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula... and https://iapp.org/news/a/top-10-operational-impacts-of-the-gd... Easiest way to comply is not storing any identifiabl
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Facebook, Google and Twitter to change TOS to make them compliant with EU rules(ec.europa.eu)
1 points by thexa4 9y ago|0 comments
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by thexa4 9y ago
A fetchmail cronjob will probably get you pretty far. I use this to backup my mail.
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by thexa4 9y ago
I work on Empires Mod, a 10 year old real time strategy and first person shooter hybrid. It's playable for free and still has an active playerbase. It's very satisfying to fix bugs that have been around for more than 5 years. We&#
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by thexa4 9y ago
I use proxmox ( https://www.proxmox.com/en/ ), it has support for ZFS out of the box and allows you to run services in containers.
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by thexa4 9y ago
The best idea I've heard about a purpose for the universe is the theory that it evolved to create black holes which contain 'child' universes inside. That would mean the purpose of the universe is the same as the purpose of l
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by thexa4 9y ago
You can attach an USB Ethernet Network Card using USB On-The-Go. Then if you have a rooted OS you can run whatever you want or you can create an app instead. You probably want an OTG cable that allows you to charge it while using the networ
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by thexa4 10y ago
Good to know other people also had the same problem. If I build it I'll certainly try selling it :)
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by thexa4 10y ago
I haven't yet, thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into it.
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by thexa4 10y ago
Yes, it's a large 3d game made in the Source Engine. Luckily all tools are scriptable using bash. Using svn for the game assets would work but to build them we would still need the shaders for example, which would live in the git repos

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