stavrus

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by stavrus 2y ago
This just reads as a random mishmash of missteps the company has taken over its 33 years of existence (remember, it's older than Amazon or Google) rather than a proper critique of when it arguably lost its shine in the public's ey
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by stavrus 3y ago
I don't think the license change is unwarranted. At a previous employer we used Terraform but the pricing on the cloud/enterprise offerings was prohibitive enough that we instead had a dev create simple wrapper scripts in our CI&#
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by stavrus 4y ago
Is this a new requirement? I remember for Kubecon Seattle 2018 using an iOS app (named KubeCon+CNC) that was nothing more than a schedule viewer for the event. It didn't even use native views and given how narrow the audience for the
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by stavrus 4y ago
For what it's worth, I hope you do end up writing more posts in the future. It's easy to overlook or forget the pains and lows of projects in hindsight, especially for particularly successful ones like the ones you've worked
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by stavrus 5y ago
> But something happened after the success of WoW the company grew quickly and with that came some bad people and after the merger, Bobby Kotick could exert his influence. I don't think this was the case, and that rather WoW's
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by stavrus 5y ago
> This is the money they could have used to have a buffer to deal with these situations or to improve their systems. Matt Levine covered this last year [1]. The basic gist of it was that the CEO is focused on the shareholders, and the be
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by stavrus 5y ago
This isn't specific to the M1. I had my MBP 2016 13" die in the same exact way about two years ago. Same failure mode where it just refused to boot no matter what I did, though it was possible to sort of turn it on if you left it
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by stavrus 6y ago
Your repurposed analogy isn't quite right. Google is providing a service by running around and grabbing those samples. Value is provided not only to you, the searcher, by receiving an answer to a question you posed, but to the coffee s
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by stavrus 6y ago
What's frustrating to me is that even though a lot of these frameworks and tools keep advertising themselves as making you more productive and letting you write less code in the pursuit of better client experiences -- ie, creating an &
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by stavrus 6y ago
I remember watching a GDC talk of JAM ( https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1018184/Network-Serialization-... ), which was Blizzard's solution to network serialization for WoW back in 2004. The talk even had performa
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by stavrus 6y ago
It seems a lot of people are missing the true concern here because they only read the first half of the article. Going to paraphrase the article a bit here but yes, the website is capturing the filled-in data even if the user hasn't hi
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by stavrus 7y ago
> They're also free to circumvent the software and play the game without it [...] People shouldn't have to abstain from playing a game they bought because the game company doesn't have total access to their machine. Imagin
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by stavrus 7y ago
You don't have to sacrifice your computing freedom and privacy. These anti-cheating modules tend to be explained to you upon game installation, so if you're not comfortable with what they do then just cancel the installation. You&
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by stavrus 8y ago
Unfortunately this doesn't apply for warranty repairs directly through Apple, as Apple won't bother using this port. They'll just tell you you're SoL and happily remind you of their iCloud services for backups. I had thi
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by stavrus 8y ago
One of the level designers for WoW has apparently written a book on the game's original development. The Kickstarter [1] for it failed due to an unrealistic funding goal, but if you're looking for something along those lines it mi
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by stavrus 9y ago
I'm not seeing how the two paragraphs are incongruous. The company is selling their brand, not the user info, when they run the promotions. If no-one signs up for the promotion, no user info gets shared. Ultimately it's the users
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by stavrus 9y ago
Interestingly enough Warcraft 3, despite being almost 15 years old, still gets new patches. The latest one came out just a month ago [1]. [1]: https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20753797075
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by stavrus 10y ago
This might particularly interest you: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/08/why-explore-space.html The gist of it is, in 1970 someone asked a director of NASA why billions of dollars were being spent on exploring s
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by stavrus 10y ago
> Those have no costs, except for limited maintenance, and the game development has paid itself years ago. So it is virtually pure profit. In the years since WoW came out Blizzard came out with a centralized authentication, billing, and
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by stavrus 11y ago
A friend did some research in this area, comparing FPGAs, CPUs and GPUs. He published a paper [1] in regards to performance for several common Linear Algebra computations across a variety of input sizes. In particular, Figure 2 shows you wh
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by stavrus 11y ago
Why would you consider these analytics scripts useless? The article mentioned several reasons they want to be tracking this timing information (monitoring of slow backends/CDNs and the performance of their own scripts) - having that in
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by stavrus 12y ago
A lot of companies force you to sign an agreement that essentially hands over the rights to anything and everything you do while employed, even if you did it outside of work hours and on your own personal equipment. I'm not a lawyer so
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by stavrus 12y ago
One of the main limitations is actually power, as increasing the frequency increases the power draw. All that power turns into heat, which has to be dissipated. Modern processors already shut off inactive cores and change the frequency of t
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by stavrus 12y ago
Just want to point out that if you're using an encrypted filesystem, vagrant up will fail if NFS is enabled. The workaround is to use rsync to maintain the synced folders, a feature introduced in Vagrant 1.5. Just use vagrant rsync-aut
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by stavrus 12y ago
That was probably the case back in vanilla (pre-expansion) WoW. With the introduction of cross-realm battlegrounds in 1.12 - a month before the first expansion - followed by the activation of arenas in the first expansion, they most likely
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by stavrus 12y ago
A similar case happened with the Eve Online cluster (~50,000 concurrent users) a couple of years ago. A programmer, who for some reason had access to the live cluster, confused his local development instance with that of the live cluster an