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by tlack 16y ago
Fantastic idea and challenging path to build it - kudos!
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by tlack 16y ago
I don't doubt you (you surely know more about this than I do), but I would think that most of Flash's actual horsepower usage would go straight into the low level graphics engine - tweens, displaying sprites, boundary boxes. Is there really
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by tlack 16y ago
One thing I'd like to see on your homepage is some text highlighting the differences between your system and other, similar applications that have come into the market in the past year or two.
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by tlack 16y ago
There are 3 120 and 4x5 film development places within 15 minutes (driving) of my apartment.
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by tlack 16y ago
I think the only thing to do is buy a vintage old film camera and buy all the film you can. I switched from digital to film a few months ago and I'm enjoying the process so much more.
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by tlack 16y ago
I thought the drag could be beneficial in a way similar to wave power generators: pull on the balloon would operate a hydraulic piston, etc.
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by tlack 16y ago
It's an interesting idea (more wind higher up, without the expensive tall shaft required for a regular wind turbine), but how does it get relaunched when it falls to the ground? Wouldn't a balloon or regular kite be simpler and just as effe
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by tlack 16y ago
First off, and most importantly: the business idea itself is sound. I'm saying that as a guy who's transitioning into doing a lot of stuff on FB, and it's a frustrating process. This factor is more important than anything else. The homepage
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by tlack 16y ago
How does this work? Did they port Erlang to Android?
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by tlack 16y ago
I'm not a CouchDB pro by any means but I've been following it from a distance for some time. The main feature of CouchDB is that it's a fast, scalable database that also allows you to host your apps inside of it, with each "view" being stor
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by tlack 16y ago
"One million" sounds like a lot, but "35 thousand" doesn't - the daily load isn't as scary as it seems, unless you are doing a lot of heavy lifting or it's verryyyyy bursty.
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by tlack 16y ago
At this point in my career, I'm pretty confident in my abilities to get a lot of work out of minimal hardware, but it took me a lot of hard lessons to get there. Here's my random input for what it's worth. So you're saying the structure of
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by tlack 16y ago
$250k? That's disturbing.
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by tlack 16y ago
There is sentiment that Reddit's developers are too quick to adopt the latest me-too web technology which overall doesn't benefit them. So I think what he's implying is that it's money wasted on EC2 when a traditional server would be more c
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by tlack 16y ago
What you're saying does not make sense when you consider that this didn't happen with the previous iPhone.
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by tlack 16y ago
Why do I have to download it if it's web based? Can't I just use it?
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by tlack 16y ago
Are you feeling depressed and uninspired in general? Often I find that when I'm not into what I'm doing in my life at that time, I begin to lose the mental energy to form brilliant, creative, highly structured thoughts. Once I get "the rush
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by tlack 16y ago
To pay the salary of the people working on the site?
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by tlack 16y ago
A great value-add to this would be if it would start a service on some remote server and let you view the output there, perhaps charging you for the feature.
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by tlack 16y ago
Disturbingly bad results for Bert! Thanks for the helpful link.
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by tlack 16y ago
Also curious about how this compares to BERT, which uses Erlang's binary term format, which makes sense to me since so much infrastructure uses Erlang these days.
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by tlack 16y ago
He was on Reddit being a total douchebag too when I and others notified him that his great feat of engineering was just FIGlet done 20 years too late.
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by tlack 16y ago
How are the plants not dead in the first photo? Small bushes like that would die immediately in such oily muck I'd expect.
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by tlack 16y ago
It seems, from the later demonstrations in the article, that the content is at least somewhat unique on these sites. I think that alone would keep it from being penalized on G.
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by tlack 16y ago
I'm glad this came out - IO Lists are still a big gray area in my understanding of (and love of) Erlang. There's something about this guy's writing style that is amazingly approachable for me. It just clicks. Wish I could say that about so
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by tlack 16y ago
That would be interesting: if the govt required BP to "buy back" any oil the public can bring in, if it was easily tested to be of whatever quality, such as 50% oil:water mix. Let the public clean it up at ~$50/barrel - it's at $71/barrel n
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by tlack 16y ago
I'd suggest that most people who switched to nginx from Apache did, in fact, notice a huge decrease in load. Otherwise why would anyone make the switch and stay with nginx? It's a risky proposition. Personal anecdote: on a very popular blog
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by tlack 16y ago
Prefer scp/sftp over git. Am I supposed to publish site assets like 20gb of images in git? You can still trigger server-side actions when a file is pushed if you allow ssh. Other than that, more details on the service would be nice. How do
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by tlack 16y ago
How could Afghanistan fall so far in only 20 years? It must be a razors edge between cosmopolitan society and chaos. What a disturbing topic to ponder.
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by tlack 16y ago
Is there any way to get this transparently persisted to all of your SSH connections, no matter how deep you tunnel? Something like the way $DISPLAY is transmitted? That would be amazingly useful if so. I tend to do a lot of work bouncing ar

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