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by xjay 10y ago
He was at HandmadeCon 2015 [1] where they talked about the network code/design in games he had worked on, and various subjects relating to the gaming industry. This article was referenced at Gamasutra a few days ago, to which his respo
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Microsoft announced a free upgrade to Windows 10, saying users can opt-in now to prepare their systems for the upgrade. IT professionals wanted control over this upgrade. Microsoft responds by providing registry settings to block the upgrad
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Perhaps it's just part of an ancient social ritual--where the sub-system recognizes the doctor type (basically a checkpoint in the system) as an authoritative verification of usefulness to society. My imagination is running wild at the
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So there's basically a social selection sub-system running in the background. Perhaps this sub-system extends to people (unknowingly) "outing" themselves to other instances of the sub-system--should they become something akin
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Related thoughts specifically concerning ransomware (controlling write access): Operating systems with a GUI typically have file associations bound to executables. One could use that knowledge to restrict write access (or even read access),
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Not sure why someone would downvote this. Incompetence is pretty much a constant in IT in varying degrees, but I'd expect IT professionals to know about kb3080351. It's certainly not "news" given the media attention this
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I know one of their Windows 10 preparation updates reset a telemetry setting in Windows 7. I recall it was "Turn off Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program," which is disabled by default. There might have been other set
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There's Lynx--the text web-browser. [1] Someone wrote up their experience using Lynx on the web around 2012. [2] Conclusion: "Not all the sites are usable with Lynx, but many of them offer at least basic functionality using the te
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by xjay 11y ago
I remember that message very well from a funny commercial [1]. "To achieve full freedom in life, you must never own more than seven things, or else they'll own you!" I won't spoil the rest. [1] Thorn - Freedom in Life h
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I discovered his Strange Loop talk a few months ago. Funny guy! (He is one of the creators of Erlang.) The part where he talks about "the entropy reverser" is ~32 minutes in [1], related to the article linked by parent. [1] "
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What's difficult about it? ISO 8601 is an established format. It's better to differentiate a new format from the old, common build number formats w.x.y.z. One of the tags could also contain the file name, or other context within [
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Easily solved, as we're free to attach any internal versioning scheme: 2016-01-01T11:51:10+00#R#+Feature#(Semver 13.0) 2016-01-07T10:50:21+00#R#Fix#(Semver 13.1) 2016-02-11T09:31:44+00#R#-Feature#(Semver 15.0) 2016-02-20T10:2
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I'm not sure how to address your first concern (readability), because I don't have the context in which you would need to distinguish one version from another; as opposed to something presenting the versions to you, like a program
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So.. What's wrong with using datestamps? Use ISO 8601, and add whatever flags you need, and establish some minimum standard vocabulary the AI can search for. :> Development #D: "2016-02-16T15:17:32+00#D#API" Relea
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Thanks for the suggestions! I found some more tidbits in these StackOverflow answers: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/145751/has-wh...
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Yes, I alluded to that by way of the sixth bit, I just had no reference to whether it was something they chose to do, or had no other choice at the time.
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As you say, it's about conventions, but with a case-Sensitive system you are more likely going to HAVE TO enforce naming conventions, because there's a distinction now. Otherwise you'd write "MidiPort"/"MI
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The owner of this Youtube channel works at VPRI with Alan Kay. I believe he mentioned he got a bunch of these tapes from Alan, which he has then been digitizing and uploading now and then. A number of these ACM talks were recently made avai
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by xjay 11y ago
Curious. Are there examples of programming languages that allow spaces in identifiers? Obviously, it would need to be designed for that. I'm against the case-sensitive nature of some programming languages, and file systems for that mat
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This was also a point brought up in a recent talk [1] on software engineering, and what has happened since the "software crisis" was recognized in 1968. The speaker, Mary Shaw, talks about Design Guidance, and how a decision chart
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I'll correct some things: 1) The speaker said projection, not survey. 2) I interchanged "developers" and "programmers" at the top of the slide, but the speaker lumps "programming like things" into the 90M
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Alan Kay: "It turns out there was this term called 'coding' back when I started, and the term called 'programming'. So a programmer actually wrote flowcharts. That was the high-level language used back then. These
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My first thought was that "real programmers" are those who deal with floating-points.. "God is real, unless declared integer."
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Programming is ultimately about systems. There's a recent talk [1] by Mary Shaw from Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU). It's about what has happened since the NATO conference in 1968 (dubbed the Software Crisis), and what engineeri
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The imaginary eWii would trigger electroshocks on collisions, causing short muscle spasms.
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You could virtually punch someone with this tech. Transduce this! Blind people can feel their way around a user interface, or perhaps a projected face from a 3D door camera.
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To turn it around; maybe browsers don't utilize space very well? Imagine if we could divide a tab into regions of sites instead? Having a maximum line length is the humane thing to do, unless the person has phobias of empty spaces, of
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The idea is to have a maximum line length that makes sense to human beings, and that's what the site does now. It is very pleasant to read the text. Thanks for considering the feedback. PS: The typographical rule I based 32em on comes
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Sure! Matthew Butterick opened my eyes on the world of typography. He has a site with tips: http://practicaltypography.com/ He also has a very good talk called "Typography for Docs": https://www.youtube
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I don't have a comment on the work itself, but like most sites, it has no awareness of line length, and it's therefore painful to parse the information without resizing the window. Both HN, and the linked website, could benefit gr

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