tshannon

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   by tshannon 8y ago

   I haven no strong feelings personally one way or the other, so could you enlighten me as to why 16:9 is a mistake, or why 4:3 is preferred?
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   by tshannon 8y ago

   My wife (then girlfriend) got John Carmack to email me for my birthday in college.
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   by tshannon 8y ago

   Hm. Proton's are heavier that electrons...
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   Choosing a Library to Embed Static Assets in Go(tech.townsourced.com)

   3 points by tshannon 9y ago|0 comments
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   by tshannon 9y ago

   So a lot of these comments seem to be criticisms of potential vulnerabilities (which is par for hacker news really). I'm curious if there are better alternatives out there that aren't vulnerable to the same issues, like a single
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   by tshannon 9y ago

   I wish these productivity recommendations could be applied at my company (From Elon's memo in the article) > Btw, here are a few productivity recommendations: > – Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost alwa
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   by tshannon 9y ago

   Thanks, my comment was a genuine question. If that is the case, then their PR statement is indeed very cold.
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   by tshannon 9y ago

   See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16814565 Doesn't your statement admit that Tesla is at least partially at fault? Something their lawyers would probably never allow.
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   by tshannon 9y ago

   I agree that this statement seems cold, and blames the driver, but from a legal perspective, can it be anything else? They can't admit anything or publically take any responsibility, because it could be used against them in the court c
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    by tshannon 9y ago

    I'm betting the future will be more of a hybrid of both approaches. Either that or DAPs will be relegated to tech and / or privacy conscious circles.
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    by tshannon 9y ago

    I wonder how practical it would be to have some sort of plastic filter / water processing plant where these rivers dump into the ocean. It would be in all of our best interest to fund something like that, but I wonder if you could do
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    by tshannon 9y ago

    So, the same can be said about writing dreary software as well. It can be fun thinking about the most effective / efficient way to move data around, or to structure your code, even if it's just for a straightforward CRUD app.
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    by tshannon 9y ago

    I agree that it'll be hard, if not impossible for bitcoin to work as well as normal systems built on normal trust. However I think we increasingly do need some system of verifiable trust in a world where anonymity is common, since all
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    by tshannon 9y ago

    The FAQ on the website is a good place to start: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/frequently-asked-q... When is CockroachDB a good choice? CockroachDB is well suited for applications that require reliable
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    Show HN: Open-sourcing a side project: Townsourced(tech.townsourced.com)

    1 points by tshannon 9y ago|0 comments
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    by tshannon 9y ago

    Yeah I think the point is, errors shouldn't be overloaded with too much extra structure. They should be errors. If additional structure is needed, it should probably be sent separately via the common multiple returns idiom in Go.
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    by tshannon 9y ago

    Only slightly on topic question, but are there a lot of webgl games out there, or only demos? Any games I find are either toys or incredibly poorly performing. WebGL seems to mainly be used for demos.
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    by tshannon 10y ago

    Yep, I agree. I see it more as a list of priorities, not necessarily sequential steps. 1) Make it work 2) Make it maintainable 3) Make it fast All three should be on your mind when developing something, but if you have to choose between 2
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    by tshannon 10y ago

    I've built a lot of her plans. They are quite well thought out, and include a lot of detail. It makes it easy to modify it to your needs.
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    by tshannon 10y ago

    The first language I see making use of webasm is typescript. They can see a lot of performance improvements over javascript by including type information in the compiled assembly.
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    by tshannon 10y ago

    Maybe they used an old flag?
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    by tshannon 10y ago

    Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that radiating heat is actually really hard in space. It seems counter intuitive, because space is so cold, but it's mostly a vacuum. To transfer heat, you need a medium for the heat
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    by tshannon 10y ago

    If uncertainty is such a big problem, aren't there any technology solutions for it? Can radar be used to tell the density of materials along the whole boring route?
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    by tshannon 10y ago

    The name may just be low hanging fruit to comment on if one has nothing else to add to the conversation.
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    by tshannon 10y ago

    You're right, most people probably won't need cockroach db, but in my opinion, one of the nicest things about CDB is that it uses the postgres wire protocol. So by all means, scale up your single DB server. But if you ever get th
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    by tshannon 10y ago

    At a greater risk of losing a server in your cluster due to automatic shutdown after too much clock-drift, right?
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    by tshannon 10y ago

    I always enjoy these insights into how they are building Cockroach DB. Could you imagine having this level of detail laid out during the development of postgres or mysql?
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    by tshannon 10y ago

    That is absolutely fantastic. I feel much more confident about the future of rethinkdb now.
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    by tshannon 10y ago

    I would say the look is more BSG, but the characters and story are more Firefly, although darker.
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    by tshannon 10y ago

    I believe gitlab used slony, not the native replication. I'm not well versed in postgres, but that's what I gleaned from reading their event log.