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by unoti 16y ago
Perhaps it's just word definitions you and the author are disagreeing on. Making the organization more efficient is a big win, we can probably all agree. Making the people more efficient through improved systems is a big win, we can probab
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by unoti 16y ago
> I'm lucky enough to work somewhere that has almost legendary catered meals (Google) No, it's truly legendary.
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by unoti 16y ago
"Hirelite is on a mission to put headhunters out of business. We host speed interviewing events using video chat where 20 job seekers talk to 20 companies for 5 minutes each..." Hey, what an awesome idea!
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by unoti 16y ago
Perhaps it's not too late for you. He's re imagined Robotron as a voxel game. Think of other classic arcade games that could be taken to their roots and reinvented with voxels. Any classic could be interesting: zaxxon, donkey kong, Astero
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by unoti 16y ago
If you're convinced computer react to your moods, you should consider reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. There's an entire chapter dedicated to the concept. It's philosophy, not science, but interesting and possibly wise n
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by unoti 16y ago
While it's true that physical infrastructure is never free, there is communications infrastructure available that is truly independent and distributed. For example, Ham Radio has the ability to send digital signals around the world. Equip
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by unoti 16y ago
Agreed. Biting the bullet.
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I thought that Akka was going to be the missing link on Scala also. So I started investigating and building, and ran into some roadblocks. In particular, I found that Scala offers actors, but the distributed and highly available cluster a
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by unoti 16y ago
Things that may be interesting bullet points: * How load balancing is handled. Load balancing isn't just for ultra high volume sites that need multiple machines. The main use case I have for load balancing has to do with reliability, part
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by unoti 16y ago
Regarding independence of young children, Penn and Teller did a fascinating episode about stranger danger. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfrSoiaLixg The full episode is on Netflix. You may not agree with all the ideas, but watching the
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by unoti 16y ago
Some or all of it may end up being B.S. After all, where's my flying car. But much of it may end up being true. In 1975, someone told me that everyone would some day have their own, personal phone number, that was just for that person ,
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by unoti 16y ago
A real-life example. I worked on the call routing system that is used by large cable companies and a large satellite TV provider. When a call comes in, the computers dynamically routes the call to the best place to handle the call. It ne
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by unoti 16y ago
Another example is that complicated systems often get to the point where a great deal of their functionality becomes highly configurable. Where they are essentially either creating their own scripting language (less common today, but this
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by unoti 16y ago
I used to work for Linden Lab, makers of Second Life. A few months ago I resigned to work full time on this game within Second Life, http://flurbils.com . I'm actually making more money now than I did working for the man. Plus this way
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by unoti 16y ago
Cool, mesmerizing, innovative! Love it!
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> Building a plausible a-religious moral philosophy... You should definitely read Anathem by Neal Stephenson! He does exactly that, and a lot of other things.
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> 99% of my web browsing is still on my laptop This is because parent does not own an iPad. That number would drop a lot.
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by unoti 16y ago
> The only thing I really miss from Emacs is being able to "Ctrl-K" 3 times and pressing "Ctrl-Y" once to move 3 lines. With Vim you have to count the number of lines ahead of the operation, which is a real speedbump. I agree this is a
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by unoti 16y ago
You raise an interesting point: what you're editing has a big impact on the effectiveness of the editor you're using. When I first learned vi, I kind of hated it because I was editing code on an ancient system that used a COBOL-like lang
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Brilliant, exactly. Another important point here: A big benefit of doing changes like this is that vi has the special command "." which repeats the last change. With a single keystroke, it makes the same change you did last. In practice t
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by unoti 16y ago
For those of you looking at this video to get an idea of the power of vim in the hands of a serious user: although this person is using it quickly, he is nowhere near a master. The key to vi is that any time a user is pressing the same ke
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by unoti 16y ago
If you're committed to the style points that you get from writing good software, seriously consider starting to do that in a language other than PHP. But aside from that issue, consider this: You have probably create quite a war chest of s
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Python is generally faster than PHP, particularly if you're not using APC or Zend. But the real benefit of using Python is the vast amount of software out there to do so many things. For example, PyBrain ( http://pybrain.org/ ) may be rig
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by unoti 16y ago
I use Python + Redis using Hotqueue ( http://pypi.python.org/pypi/hotqueue/0.2.1 ) for all the processing of flurbils.com. All of the scoring for the game comes in from Second Life via http requests that are handed off immediately to a bac
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by unoti 16y ago
Holy cow, those solutions are tiny. They make me feel small and inadequate. Once I'm comfortable with functional programming, those solutions become readable? Or is it a fundamental truth about functional code that it tends to be concise
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by unoti 16y ago
Thank you! This is very relevant to my interests.
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Absolutely true. Which won't happen until the developers of a game such as Eve can use bitcoins for buying something more than phone cards and online poker chips. Developers need to eat.
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A bitcoin<->pog exchange sounds like a business that'd have at least one customer, then... I've looked at bitcoins, and then figured that I don't really have much use for the things I can buy with them, including phone cards or on
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Would ya'll be willing to give feedback on a similar thing I'm struggling with? I've been contemplating this same question a lot of the past few months. As many readers point out, the type of application you're writing weighs heavily on wh
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That's a great point. I meant what's important to the company , which hopefully is the same thing as what's important to management. It's funny how thought provoking your question is, though. Because a lot of developers, as you point out

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