jephir

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by jephir 6y ago
Second this. Internal referral is the most reliable way to get in the door in my experience.
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by jephir 6y ago
My interview performance actually got better once I stopped overdressing. I got more offers wearing a grey hoodie and jeans. And this was at big tech (not just startups).
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by jephir 6y ago
Actually the same person is maintaining Bitcoin. Satoshi is Adam Back, co-founder and CEO of Blockstream.
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by jephir 9y ago
The FIU bridge is truss bridge, not a cable-stayed bridge, see this NTSB update [1]. The bridge collapsed because it relied on a single truss with no backup to support the weight if it failed. This created a single point of failure where th
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by jephir 9y ago
> didn't the wholepoint of using Bitcoin is that there is a public ledger for every move? There is a public ledger for every public move. If you move money within your own organization there is no publicly visible effect.
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by jephir 9y ago
A 5-10% drop in a single day on the SPX would probably cause a panic. This happens on a regular basis with BTC.
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by jephir 9y ago
BTC trades like an accelerated stock market. Instead of crashing every few decades, it "crashes" every few months.
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by jephir 10y ago
> without copyleft we might not have the fertile collaboration of projects such as Linux, git Why would this be the case? FreeBSD and SVN were developed without copyleft. GPL is not necessary to get people to contribute to open source.
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by jephir 10y ago
There's a lot of talk here about TCP vs UDP vs SCTP vs x protocol. It's important to keep in mind that this is all optimization. Don't lose sight of the big picture. On one RTS we ended up just serializing world state over a
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by jephir 10y ago
http://horizon.io/ While Firebase is proprietary, you can export your database as JSON and import into RethinkDB.
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by jephir 10y ago
Yep. The WHATWG recommends just using the term URL instead of URI. > Standardize on the term URL. URI and IRI are just confusing. In practice a single algorithm is used for both so keeping them distinct is not helping anyone. URL also ea
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by jephir 10y ago
The biggest thing for me is that you can use secure WebSockets (wss://) without having to setup TLS on your origin server. This greatly improves the ability to establish WebSocket connections across proxies.
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Networking tutorial from wire transmission to TCP(youtube.com)
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by jephir 12y ago
> Code defensively, and don't get fancy unless you need to. You're not just complying with the language spec, you are communicating your intent to the other developers who will read and maintain your code. Leaving out semicolo
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by jephir 12y ago
Check out the different switch sounds ( http://techreport.com/review/23405/rosewill-rk-9000-series-m... ) before you buy a mechanical keyboard, each switch type has a distinct sound, and getting the wrong one can dr
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by jephir 12y ago
> I purposefully create passwords with caps lock on, what then? I think he means doing it on the server, i.e. checking the password as-is, if that doesn't work, then check it with case inverted.
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by jephir 12y ago
Does removing the runtime have any effect on the current effort to get Rust working on Emscripten?
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by jephir 12y ago
I agree, there aren't that many problems in IP compared to the www stack. Imagine if we had bytecode instead of Javascript, the web would be years ahead in terms of being able to create games, video editors, etc. and other high perform
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by jephir 12y ago
> Mistake or not, allowing all pointer types to be `nil` seems like simplification from things like option types. How do you see nil as adding complexity? Whenever you have null in a language, for every function you call that returns a r
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by jephir 12y ago
Go still has some unecessary sources of complexity, for example: 1. It uses null (the billion-dollar mistake) to indicate optional values. A better designed language uses an option type. 2. It has conflicting idioms for conditions. Error ty
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by jephir 12y ago
I've filed the issue here: https://code.google.com/p/webrtc/issues/detail?id=3892
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by jephir 12y ago
> Does WebRTC strike anyone as too many things in one package? It does too many things. I want to use WebRTC data channels for a multiplayer game, but the current implementation libraries tie-in all the media components. It would be nice
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by jephir 12y ago
> As a player (and a programmer -- but mostly a player), I'm concerned about the articles conclusions about the value of prediction, and the recommendation to avoid position popping by applying smoothing -- to quote the article, &qu
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by jephir 12y ago
A few months ago, I tried building the Google WebRTC implementation, but got an error about missing Java libraries. I'm not sure why Java is needed to build a C++ API, even then, requiring Oracle Java 6 and not working with OpenJDK. Er
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by jephir 12y ago
If you're a game developer, you should look at this Floating Point Determinism article, which shows some additional techniques for implementing deterministic physics with floating point. http://gafferongames.com/network
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by jephir 12y ago
Even for short-lived games, if you want to implement a replay system, you need your physics to be deterministic.
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by jephir 12y ago
I would switch to Stripe if they offered micro-payment pricing like PayPal's 5c + 5%.
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by jephir 12y ago
I've used submodules before to separate game assets and it just ended up being more trouble than it's worth. The problem is that it separates the history between your two repositories so it takes more time to figure out which asse
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by jephir 12y ago
> Q. Can asm.js serve as a VM for managed languages, like the JVM or CLR? A. Right now, asm.js has no direct access to garbage-collected data; an asm.js program can only interact indirectly with external data via numeric handles. In futu
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by jephir 12y ago
This is just a temporary limitation of asm.js because it has no access to garbage-collected data. In the future it should have support for managed languages.

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