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That's a great link, I had not seen that article before. Though, in practice,the actual framerate to vary from the specified by much more than the -10 / +5 fps that he lists. His f…

I would really, really love to know the answer to this too. It's hard to describe my surprise that my 5-year-old PC, with a low power 1.6Ghz CPU, can easily breach 100fps while pla…

Criticizing Dustin for an incident regarding which you have not sought his side is very poor form. Similarly, criticizing his argument ad hominem highlights only your own bias with…

Nice! That's great to hear, since it's always perplexing when native code ISN'T the fastest... Kind of makes you have to ask, "If there is a better way, why isn't that the native w…

Cuil made it on in the special category for the "Failure to Launch" award as did MobileMe.

Hmmm... a larger version of the most annoying kind of flash ad on the web. I want those 15 seconds of my life back.

This is something we looked at for a while when starting out, and even posted on HN to ask about ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=203864 ). In the end, we chose Flex because i…

It's not a programming book but... "The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal" It's an awesome book about the history of computing, human-…

Vote for JamLegend too! Gotta love the underdog in the music category...

It would be nice if all the TechCrunch trolls could go back to TechCrunch.

Those links are all to companies who have the puzzle sent in with the application, not given in the interview. Also, on that note, Joel Spolsky advises ( http://www.joelonsoftware.…

By the way, at the bottom of that, I discussed a few thoughts I had on how to tackle the issue of triggering concurrent cache refreshes in a clustered environment. Would appreciate…

You're technically right. For reference, look and feel fall under "trade dress" [ http://www.ivanhoffman.com/tradedress.html ]. In brief, the relevant case law is: "To recover for …

I agree. The idea is great, and would save some dev time and learning about various communication streams, but it's not affordable. Were we to switch to MessagePub just for the e-m…

some of those are obvious, but the Ad Planner was an interesting trick...

There's a subtle difference here that isn't being highlighted: Releasing often does not mean giving in to feature creep. Feature creep and lack of coherent direction was the failur…

It's nice to see such a rational comparison of languages. So often, I see blogs written by people who only understand one language and blindly compare its' elegant solutions to arc…