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bham
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Comment #1001988
I sort of did something similar for my Darts app for the iPhone, specifically for defining the throw model for the "AI" player. I found it easiest to simulate millions of random da…
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Comment #990615
I cannot imagine how horrible this must be. Oh, the horror!
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Comment #989898
What is your take on CouchDB? After some initial investigation, I've all but written off CouchDB for anything moderately write-heavy due to its single writer at a time design. I'm …
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Comment #989893
I think a good way to promote this would be to self-host the blog using a CouchDB application running on Cloudant instead of using Posterous.
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Comment #983083
Try not to use wait() like this. There was recently committed writeSync, statSync, etc. that perform POSIX API calls synchronously.
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Comment #983057
but this is history, boring, and by now not very interesting So it is in the past, boring, and in the past and boring. OK.
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Comment #983038
This reminds me of a funny Cracked skit about the 1979 game developer's conference wherein the birth of Frogger was reenacted. "Ok ok you are a truck driver and you try to run over…
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Comment #980819
There's also an ircd https://gist.github.com/a3d0bbbff196af633995
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Comment #980816
Array.prototype.each This is not needed. There's .forEach already.
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Comment #980786
So the decision comes down to sell now and take the guaranteed money, or roll the dice and go for the big win. As anyone who watches Cash Cab knows, take the money and run.
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Comment #979209
I'd love to find an eye-tracker and play with it to see what it is I tend to look at. Anyone have any experience? Chui Chui loves food, and is very fond of sugared squid! Good to k…
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Comment #979200
You implicitly trust that it is deleted when you click that button?
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Comment #979195
How can you have mistaken the Chrome logo for an evil robotic eye when it was engineered to resemble everyone's happy childhood game Simon http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&cli…
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Comment #956845
I just had some time to scan your repository on GitHub and noticed this: http://github.com/slact/nginx_http_push_module/commit/6823f7... Though it just looks like a stub for now. A…
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Comment #954181
This looks fantastic. Thanks for writing it. How would you go about restricting access to channels to a specific user or users? My first take would be to issue an unguessable id up…
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Comment #954159
Did they really need to have a f'in plane crash into a building?
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Comment #951608
Security by obscurity is not security at all. You should seriously consider opening up the source. As my great aunt Ada used to say, "more eyeballs are better than your eyeballs."
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Comment #931474
I wonder what this means for us Adwhirl users.
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Comment #930372
save cleverness for reddit please :)
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Comment #923303
Please refer to this independent and unbiased study that bolsters my point, a study which I authored.
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Comment #920390
Oh, I missed that. Great.
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Comment #919984
For a straight web site, I'm sure any of these are fine if not "pricey". What do you folks use for web service hosting? Sure, it can be just a web host like any other. But Heroku (…
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Comment #919902
Hmm, they look like a Wholesale Internet reseller.
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Comment #911525
I don't see an add-on for long-polling. I kid, I kid.
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Comment #911522
Please submit a few reproducible cases to the mailing list. I'm sure Ludo or I (or you) could even patch it quickly. Thanks!