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I imagine Lucene would have fit the use case better than Elasticsearch, especially if the author found SQLite to work well. Given that the indexing and searching seems very minimal…

I've looked at possibly seeking employment in NZ, but most of the shops (at least the one posting on the sites I've searched), are .Net or MS shops, which I'm not too terribly inte…

The best way is usually to not tie game state to frame ticks. See Bethesda's Creation Engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yuyp-S7FPNI for why that's a bad idea.

144hz monitor here. Pretty sure the game is tuned for 60fps and thus 144hz monitor is playing like turbo speed.

Having a daily short, informal, morning meeting certainly helps us. You don't need to be standing up to have "standup". Dogma for dogma's sake is the king of anti-patterns.

I was waiting for the /s as well. Having spent some time on the internet I've spoken and chatted with people for whom English is a second language. Are you telling me that their de…

It's not just the fact that they're low-cost loans. They're almost zero-risk loans (you can not declare bankruptcy on student loans), which benefits lenders and encourages schools …

I was all excited until I read that on the Google Play page for the app.

I was a student very recently and if I class was boring, or too easy (easy enough I could get by without good notes) I distracted myself, with or without a laptop. Most Mathematics…

Needs a crossover endpoint that takes a url (and schema) for another universe's API

I started running into that problem quickly as well. One of the examples I crib off of is Overholt ( http://mattupstate.com/python/2013/06/26/how-i-structure-my-... ). It still fee…

If Amazon wants to "compete directly with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo," they'll need to do more than make an Android console. If they can't get cross platform titles, then all the…

How Walmart could have avoided this PR disaster while still helping people: Give the employees that would be receiving food from the store itself rather than asking other employees…

Is there anywhere in the article that has a quote from the Obama administration that suggests the title of the article. All I get from reading it was that SOPA had a provision to m…