dracolytch

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by dracolytch 12y ago
I always have a problem with these kinds of frameworks. Every time I try to use one, and want to do something more in-depth for fancy than a lot of the functionality out-of-the-box, then I end up having to hunt down the way to extend X feat
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by dracolytch 12y ago
Cute. It might be useful with some more presets and the ability to fade to something other than white. For now, it's just a cute joke.
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by dracolytch 12y ago
I have a real problem with an article that claims something about someone else that the other person themselves would openly refute. It's a classic straw man argument from the start... Assigning expectations and beliefs onto someone el
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by dracolytch 12y ago
This is a fun little game. Starts out hard, until you start learning some of the rules. 1's are your friend, as well as large numbers. It'll get easier as you learn more patterns, but there are some that are a good challenge.
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by dracolytch 12y ago
So... I'm conflicted about this. Sure, on one hand peer-to-peer streaming could solve some of the problems she's talking about, so long as there's a large enough audience for each video. Services like Steam have used P2P very
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by dracolytch 12y ago
On one hand the interface is interesting and novel, but I'm not sure it really has a lot to offer initially. It's much easier to visualize the relationships between pieces of data with how the linking works, but the individual dot
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by dracolytch 12y ago
CPU backdoors are a very real concern, but not only in the CPU but in the growing complexity of the motherboard chipset. For example, a malicious memory controller could manipulate data on the way to the CPU, causing a faithful CPU to do ma
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by dracolytch 12y ago
I think you underestimate the anger he's caused in the bureaucracy. Governments see him as a security threat, which means they'll spend military-level amounts to keep him under as much control as they can, and will justify that sp
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by dracolytch 12y ago
I'm not really sure changing the behavior of fundamental operations really counts as metaprogramming, but in many ways I think it's very in-line with some conceptual constructs JS already has in place. Considering that you can acc
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by dracolytch 12y ago
Might as well have an article titled "The Ethics of Dynamite".
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by dracolytch 12y ago
Not super surprising. JS can be used for all kinds of stuff, and is hitting something of a critical mass. I expect there to be some JS fragmentation at some point, with more specific variants being used for different things (jQuery is one k
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by dracolytch 12y ago
This is a common problem with a lot of these kinds of technologies... I've worked with the .NET entity framework, as well as spring .net. What people fail to really realize is that they are large, complex platforms which add a lot of &
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by dracolytch 12y ago
So there have been a lot of contenders to replace JavaScript, and it hasn't budged from it's market seat at all. Here's why: You can do almost anything in JavaScript these days. The down side? You can do almost ~anything~ in