killertypo

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by killertypo 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16879392 massive
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by killertypo 8y ago
And FoundationDB has held our data durable through all of this.
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by killertypo 8y ago
There is not The speed and durability has gone unmatched. We can write millions of transactions per second w/ millions of reads w/o issue. We have never lost data or found data to be inconsistent.
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by killertypo 8y ago
this is amazing and this is huge for us - FoundationDB is one of the fastest most scalable distributed KV stores.
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by killertypo 9y ago
I've been in environments without any sense of monitoring; pingdom and esx health checks that provide only a tiny frame of reference to the real health of an application. Being able to know the true health of a service is an absolute g
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by killertypo 10y ago
TraffickCam enables you to help combat sex trafficking by uploading photos of the hotel rooms you stay in when you travel. Traffickers regularly post photographs of their victims posed in hotel rooms for online advertisements. T
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by killertypo 11y ago
this is pretty true, having nearly drowned once I freaked out and grabbed all over my savior. Thankfully he was at least 5-6 years older than me and had no problem containing me as he dragged me to the side of the pool. There is a reason l
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by killertypo 11y ago
Scary video, reminds me of camping as a child. My mom was a life guard growing up and she taught us all to swim and was pretty good at spotting other kids in the pool. Had a friend of mines little brother responding just like the kid in t
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by killertypo 11y ago
This is always a difficult task to tackle, especially when dealing with data sources like Active Directory that want a surname and given name, which may not always be the case for everyone. Admittedly the best answer is to get a "Famil
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by killertypo 11y ago
one of my first projects as a consultant fresh out of college was HORRIBLY coded by my standards today. Sometimes I still fire it up and it still works (which fills me with pride); however, perusing the code hurts my eyes and I often wonde
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by killertypo 12y ago
> I'm curious how having the capability to either take a picture of me or possibly have a video conference improves the end user experience? First of all - doing the latter would involve me being forced to stop a moving car to engag
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by killertypo 12y ago
the verbiage is crappy and vague, but I can see a use if you need support or help and they want to give you a personable experience. That said, this issue is two-fold...it is very easy to get riled up about security (especially as it seems
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by killertypo 12y ago
the sad part of this is that of the team of developers I work with (when i was on the M$ side) NONE wrote commit messages, save for one guy. So this would be an impossible game, and quite a sad one as well. I would like a game along the li
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by killertypo 12y ago
something like this is just too important to not donate money to.
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by killertypo 12y ago
yeah but a lot of them are more mobile friendly which means they're not using flash as heavily anymore. I know this only for research purposes of course...
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by killertypo 12y ago
http://moviepilot.com/posts/2015/01/16/9-incredible-examples... here is a great example of how to make interesting and compelling art without drawing your females as hyper sexualized pieces of meat. Sans
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by killertypo 12y ago
> Personally, I experienced this with programming. When I learned to program in high school, it never struck me as a chore; it was always just interesting and I enjoyed it. that was me when I picked up my first K&R book in elementary
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by killertypo 12y ago
the portrayal of men is just as dumb and unrealistic. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy comics quite a bit (Infinity Guantlet anyone? Planet Hulk? World War Hulk???) I think hyper sexualization of any gender is stupid and serves more as sof
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by killertypo 12y ago
> Meanwhile, in our more "enlightened" mainstream American culture, people write angry blog posts filled with stupid impact font image macros about how they literally judged an entire medium by its cover, because the female bod
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by killertypo 12y ago
yeah but that's conflating simple with optimized, which i doubt this is. A lot can probably be done to make this run much faster. This is not a AAA title.
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by killertypo 12y ago
I noticed this as well, but I use a trackball mouse and I can flick the ball and get good responsiveness.
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by killertypo 12y ago
did you look at the source, that was written by a mathematician, he took careful care to calculate out every pixel of padding and space. Probably for his specific monitor :)
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by killertypo 12y ago
TIL, thank you for that.
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by killertypo 12y ago
how does HHVM compare to PHP 7 in terms of speed savings? PHP 7 is supposed to be pretty damn fast from what I have seen. I guess benchmarks are hard to read because they're dependent upon a lot of factors. It would be interesting t
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by killertypo 12y ago
not always, but most certainly is true very often.
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by killertypo 12y ago
the disrespect and downright abuse of women in technology is both disturbing and downright disgusting. When will it end? What will it take for people to back off gender for a moment and listen to what people have to offer. Who cares what i
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by killertypo 12y ago
hahah well I am very comfortable with C and other languages, but I love python for it's versatility and ease of use! It has some very expressive one liners that are surprisingly coherent for being one liners.
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by killertypo 12y ago
this is absolutely wonderful, as someone who dabbles in gamedev on the side this is immensely useful (just like gameprogrammingpatterns.com). I love math, it is my favorite subject (numbers are beautiful) but sometimes I don't know the
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by killertypo 12y ago
I NEED to work Go into one of my projects, but dammit I love Python so much. it is a warm and safe and comfortable cocoon. :)
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by killertypo 12y ago
and still IS depending on the distribution. Squeak and Pharo are great from what I understand, but are lacking some of the enterprise features present in Cincoms distribution. Though for 99.999% squeak and pharo are going to be more than

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