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811.
by yarrel 12y ago
Assertions without evidence etc. ;-)
812.
by yarrel 12y ago
Lag reduction is a big issue, and one that everyone is actively working on. I tried out two Oculus Rift DK2 demos at SIGGRAPH this year. The first didn't have the new head tracking, and you had to strap yourself in to a walking pod t
813.
by yarrel 12y ago
Will this wipe out Mono? Please say yes.
814.
by yarrel 12y ago
"Binary sexuality is a nice story." PONG
815.
by yarrel 12y ago
Are they using the non-free Oculus Rift SDK? If so this is another example of just how little Mozilla understands its own mission.
816.
by yarrel 12y ago
If I want a modal editor, Vim is there. I don't want a modal editor. Breaking Emacs to make it more like Vi is cargo culting.
817.
by yarrel 12y ago
I multiply by three. My justification for this is that coders think only of coding time, and that the rest of the time is taken up with communication etc. I tested this against an expert management estimate once. The difference was less tha
818.
by yarrel 12y ago
1) By spending the time to do so. 2) Use oracles.
819.
by yarrel 12y ago
If I was more conspiracy-minded than I am then I'd say that the confusion is presumably intended to make military drones more acceptable.
820.
by yarrel 12y ago
"The bureaucracy of the EU no longer has a monopoly of power and it has little to be proud of." The need to reform the EU bureaucracy is desperate, but it is very difficult to argue this when the debate around the EU being so all-
821.
by yarrel 12y ago
It's the Disney Princess problem.
822.
by yarrel 12y ago
Optimizing out inefficiency and waste is part of good programming. So yes.
823.
by yarrel 12y ago
Dogs are excellent hackers.
824.
by yarrel 12y ago
I can never remember the precise names of parameters. ;-)
825.
by yarrel 12y ago
Partnering with Microsoft [almost] never ends well. Good luck to Docker.
826.
by yarrel 12y ago
Did they remove the DRM infection mechanism in this build?
827.
by yarrel 12y ago
There are, but Objective-C was unique at the time in terms of being object-oriented and late binding and compiled to machine code and interfacing efficiently with C code. IMO these features made it more productive than C++ or Pascal f
828.
by yarrel 12y ago
I knew of Lovelace and Hopper but not the others by name. I do wonder to what extent this is a socioeconomic class thing.
829.
by yarrel 12y ago
That's a very binary take on gender.
830.
by yarrel 12y ago
s/nuanced/restrictive/
831.
by yarrel 12y ago
"SELinux does not block the exploit" Of course not. The exploit doesn't come in coloring book form.
832.
by yarrel 12y ago
F# is pretty hipster.
833.
by yarrel 12y ago
Downvotes are not an explanation.
834.
by yarrel 12y ago
Nothing on their GitHub yet. Their Facebook page header has what looks like some F# on it.
835.
by yarrel 12y ago
It's another CLR monstrosity (see the code on their Facebook page)? Why!!!???
836.
by yarrel 12y ago
Simply use DRM. Some media can be marked as "slow download" and the web browser has to respect this. Write it into the HTML spec et voila! One happy Tim Berners-Lee.
837.
by yarrel 12y ago
Kudos to Oculus for this. The firmware is 2-clause BSD with an additional patent grant.
838.
by yarrel 12y ago
GNU social is a decentralized social network - http://gnu.io/social/ GNU Mediagoblin is a decentralized media sharing network - http://mediagoblin.org/ Both are standards based.
839.
by yarrel 12y ago
Interesting brand dilution for Oculus there.
840.
by yarrel 12y ago
s/dead/complete/ ;-)

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