borlak

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by borlak 2y ago
The way my mud did it, and I believe most muds (considering I took my implementation from another popular codebase), was not by forking. Sockets are just files, so all we did was save everything including players, execl() another instance o
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by borlak 12y ago
Tidbit inspired me to write my own web-miner, which I open sourced. It's hacked together as I was really just trying to learn how the cryptocoin&mining stuff worked. The mining rate you get with straight javascript is truly abysm
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by borlak 13y ago
Does Yahoo have a public bounty program?
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by borlak 13y ago
You probably would if you travel, or go to conferences...
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by borlak 13y ago
The top answer in that thread is excellent. Basically, "it depends". having dealt with extremely DB-intensive applications, I have developed a personal motto of "be nice to the DB". Let the DB be a secure storage of your
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by borlak 13y ago
He posted on a real person's wall with the initial bug report. It says right on the /whitehat page not to do that, and he mentioned /whitehat in his bug report, so he should have known.
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by borlak 13y ago
What do you mean? The SWF progress bars are one of the few that can actually be relied upon. A good example: http://armorgames.com/play/12141/kingdom-rush The Microsoft installation progress bars are the ones I
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by borlak 13y ago
It doesn't have explosive bolts.
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by borlak 13y ago
Also a bit problematic if you happen to roll your car over on its top...
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by borlak 13y ago
It sounds like you want everyone to be a system administrator. That is not going to ever happen. The human history of inventing has one very consistent theme: making things easier for ourselves. "Computers" will only become easi
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by borlak 13y ago
The main turnoff for me when it comes to Rails is watching other major companies like Twitter completely rewrite their application away from Rails. Growing pains -- the kind of pains we all want to endure some day. If you are planning to g
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by borlak 13y ago
Also Android 4.2.2
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by borlak 13y ago
In the book "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" (1966), an electromagnetic catapult is used to deliver goods from the Moon to Earth. It is similar to what you described -- just a really long tube (or rail) at the highest elevation pos
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by borlak 13y ago
I really wouldn't call this an alternative. If you are running memcached, it's very unlikely you can switch to Groupcache. Parts of your application may rely on the expiration feature. But the biggest change is the inability to
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by borlak 13y ago
I can give some examples but my point was basically you have to test for your specific desired user base, and these kinds of posts don't really mean much. Some things that we did: autoplaying videos. enormous graphics and big text. l
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by borlak 13y ago
Your target audience is going to heavily influence most of these. At a previous company our target audience was older women. We A-B tested every single element on our landing page, and I can tell you, using the advice on this site would be
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by borlak 13y ago
Russia isn't worried about America becoming too powerful. Russia's stance is that your country should worry about itself, and leave other countries alone. Putin has said many snarky remarks in this respect. http://en.
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by borlak 13y ago
This phrase 'direct access' -- I wouldn't assume, if there exists something like PRISM, that it would have 'direct access' to anybody's servers. More likely, the data would be given from a company TO PRISM. Yo
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by borlak 13y ago
You can't just view anyone's private photos. They have to have been logged into facebook (have a session) and then go to your domain with the exploit.
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by borlak 13y ago
That is what the US is about, and the citizens have spoken through this petition that we want it changed. Responding to petitions by telling the petitioners to petition harder is kind of pointless.
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by borlak 13y ago
In my experience RDS has been amazing, and I am a MySQL guy. I say it like that because as a MySQL guy I would much prefer to setup my own server and use a third party engine like Percona or Maria, but RDS(MySQL) performance has been incre
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by borlak 13y ago
What is the "problem" that you want solved?
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by borlak 13y ago
There should be a simple "no" or at least "no, undecided"
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by borlak 13y ago
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by borlak 14y ago
Ruby isn't cool anymore? Are startups cool? I think we'd all agree startups are pretty cool. Going through the HN job postings, my findings are: Ruby with 6.5 jobs Python with 4 Java and ObjC each with 2 Node.js and CoffeScript each with
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by borlak 14y ago
That quote from Zuckerberg reminded me of when Groupon CEO refused to sell to Google for $6 billion... You can have all the view you want and believe in yourself -- but willpower doesn't equal success.
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by borlak 14y ago
A DDOS of HN is quite strange indeed. There should be some kind of ransom involved, but seeing as HN doesn't make money (I assume) from these forums, there is nothing to ransom.
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by borlak 14y ago
They could still have all these social/online features and not require internet-DRM to play. You play your game, and if you want to do something social and the servers are down -- it sucks, but you can still play, and take part in the socia
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by borlak 14y ago
I haven't had to use it in a long time so my memory is fuzzy...but last I remember, when the actual Verified by Visa form pops up, there is an option to disable it.
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by borlak 14y ago
Verified by Visa is incredibly annoying to the consumer. I've abandoned payments because I forgot my password. Now I have it turned off completely.

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