TronPaul_

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by TronPaul_ 5y ago
I imagine Lucene would have fit the use case better than Elasticsearch, especially if the author found SQLite to work well. Given that the indexing and searching seems very minimal SQLite seems like the right choice, but more people should
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by TronPaul_ 10y ago
I've looked at possibly seeking employment in NZ, but most of the shops (at least the one posting on the sites I've searched), are .Net or MS shops, which I'm not too terribly interested in. Hopefully this job fair will have
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by TronPaul_ 11y ago
The best way is usually to not tie game state to frame ticks. See Bethesda's Creation Engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuyp-S7FPNI for why that's a bad idea.
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by TronPaul_ 11y ago
144hz monitor here. Pretty sure the game is tuned for 60fps and thus 144hz monitor is playing like turbo speed.
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by TronPaul_ 11y ago
Having a daily short, informal, morning meeting certainly helps us. You don't need to be standing up to have "standup". Dogma for dogma's sake is the king of anti-patterns.
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by TronPaul_ 11y ago
I was waiting for the /s as well. Having spent some time on the internet I've spoken and chatted with people for whom English is a second language. Are you telling me that their deficient understanding of English indicates a lack
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by TronPaul_ 11y ago
It's not just the fact that they're low-cost loans. They're almost zero-risk loans (you can not declare bankruptcy on student loans), which benefits lenders and encourages schools to increase prices.
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by TronPaul_ 12y ago
I was all excited until I read that on the Google Play page for the app.
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by TronPaul_ 12y ago
I was a student very recently and if I class was boring, or too easy (easy enough I could get by without good notes) I distracted myself, with or without a laptop. Most Mathematics professors don't allow laptops to be brought to class,
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by TronPaul_ 12y ago
Needs a crossover endpoint that takes a url (and schema) for another universe's API
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by TronPaul_ 12y ago
I started running into that problem quickly as well. One of the examples I crib off of is Overholt ( http://mattupstate.com/python/2013/06/26/how-i-structure-my-... ). It still feels strange in places, but
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by TronPaul_ 13y ago
If Amazon wants to "compete directly with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo," they'll need to do more than make an Android console. If they can't get cross platform titles, then all they are is an overpriced Ouya.
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by TronPaul_ 13y ago
How Walmart could have avoided this PR disaster while still helping people: Give the employees that would be receiving food from the store itself rather than asking other employees to donate. It hurts to think about this.
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by TronPaul_ 13y ago
Is there anywhere in the article that has a quote from the Obama administration that suggests the title of the article. All I get from reading it was that SOPA had a provision to make streaming a felony and that people fought against it. No