nkallen

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by nkallen 5mo ago
Here is the model viewable in a web browser, for anyone interested https://share.plasticity.xyz/r/BDt8nFGQYVsdhi-v5SHSOn6jtBQUV...
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by nkallen 5y ago
don't sleep on shapr3d which is also very awesome
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by nkallen 5y ago
Mr Dildonic it's definitely not illegal, the poster is a troll
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by nkallen 5y ago
I agree with you -- it's hard to safely kill a runaway thread but it's not hard to kill a runaway process. But I think it's worth noting that the performance characteristics of IPC can be very bad
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by nkallen 5y ago
I appreciate your feedback and I totally want to market it in the way you propose. But let me be real: I am one person doing everything. I expect to have all that stuff by September when I plan to launch 1.0. If I were "in control&quot
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by nkallen 5y ago
When I get to version 1.0 I will do all of those things. For now this is a beta, more for artists who are interested offering feedback to affect the design of the app.
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by nkallen 5y ago
I think it's fine for people to have varying philosophical takes on what should be the normative goals of open source software licenses. Obviously the FSF takes a rather maximalist stance. I personally find this aggressive goal and som
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by nkallen 5y ago
It is for sure a murky area where I'm working out the details. You don't have the full kernel. But you can think of it a bit like a scripting API on top of the kernel, which is not uncommon in CAD apps, like OnShape's Feature
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by nkallen 5y ago
> So external contributors can only provide patches without being able to test themselves I suppose. My intention is that if you buy a license for plasticity, you can then build locally and test locally. You can contribute back or not de
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by nkallen 5y ago
That’s exactly my take. What exactly constitutes a “derived work” in the gpl (plug-ins do!) is counter intuitive to me. Even the lgpl definition of “dynamic linking” is something that scares me in the context of npm modules, which is why I’
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by nkallen 5y ago
Please correct me if I’m wrong but I was not under that impression https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5419923/can-gpl-be-re-li... I thought I am the copyright owner and I can offer my code under as many licenses
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by nkallen 5y ago
Yes that is correct. I am not ok with others. Edit: Jesus do you really not recognize sarcasm? People are free to use whatever license they want and I’m free to explain why I choose lgpl over gpl
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by nkallen 5y ago
I will say I’m constantly bewildered by which license to choose. I’m using copyleft to defend myself a bit. But weak copyleft because I’ve hate that the gpl prevents blender plug-ins from being closed source or linking against something clo
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by nkallen 5y ago
Parasolid and Acis are the only other options. I have a lot of admiration for OpenCascade but unfortunately its functionality is very limited for my needs. I’m considering parasolid but, no, I can’t keep this price point with it
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by nkallen 5y ago
I think the main thing to understand is that blender has minimal nurbs support. For example, try doing booleans, fillets, or offset surfaces with blender nurbs. You can’t. Nurbs are good for some shapes and bad for others. In addition to ma
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by nkallen 5y ago
I want to emphasize to everyone that this is for concept artists. It’s nurbs used to create interesting shapes and fillets. While there are some parametric features, they’re completely de emphasized compared to something like fusion or soli
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by nkallen 5y ago
This is a significant issue for anyone doing business with Russia. I’m happy with c3d in general but there is a possibility I will be forced to use another kernel
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by nkallen 5y ago
A full build from scratch would require the c3d headers, which I can’t provide. What I am planning is to something like this: divide the app into two pieces, an npm wrapper around the kernel and the electron front end that uses the module.
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by nkallen 13y ago
I wonder if you could handle backpressure this way, somewhat analogously to a thread-per-connection with a bounded number of threads. I don't think node.js API exposes the necessary functionality, but the point is that it's possib
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RESTful interface for reading/writing to Git, in node, coffeescript and libgit2(gitdb.elasticbeanstalk.com)
1 points by nkallen 13y ago|0 comments
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by nkallen 13y ago
sam don't waste your time this is a joke
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by nkallen 13y ago
I know exactly what I would do in your situation. Tell the CEO you need to go to Thailand for 8 weeks to chill out. Avoid quitting so that you can keep your Visa. Strongly consider going to your primary care physician (cheaper than a psychi
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by nkallen 15y ago
I think it is fair to criticize Dispatch in the following sense: "is this a library you should use in production code?". I think the answer is no, because it has an API that, while terse, is difficult to read and maintain; and furthermore i
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by nkallen 16y ago
There is no better time than during an outage to add these features. In my experience, band-aids are better way to resolve an outage than fixing root-causes. Make the problem go away by commenting out code, returning empty result-sets, (or
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by nkallen 16y ago
Suggestion: In additions to hiring scalability experts (many will claim to be experts but most aren't), talk to your investors to find outside technical advisors who have worked on and are still working on similar problems. Find advisors fr
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by nkallen 16y ago
Can you design the system such that you can turn off ("darkmode") features in an emergency? For example, in an emergency you can turn off badge-awarding as it is known to be RAM intensive (and degrade by seeking to disk). To the extent that
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LRJew: An LRU efficiency simulator(github.com)
2 points by nkallen 16y ago|0 comments
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Big Data in Real-Time at Twitter(slideshare.net)
3 points by nkallen 16y ago|0 comments
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by nkallen 16y ago
Note that it's in the process of being released: it's as yet unusable by outsiders. Honestly, I did not expect this to make Hacker News so soon. :( I have not used Neo4J first hand. It has really cool features, but it is not a distribut
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by nkallen 16y ago
I think you've given a good suggestion for upcoming blog posts. Gizzard is used by two systems at Twitter. One of them is called FlockDB and we are working on open-sourcing it (indeed, FlockDB is why we open-sourced Gizzard). FlockDB stores

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