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Depends on the game, but usually turning up the FOV to much higher than most defaults will help a lot. But screen size, etc. will have an impact as well.

https://slate.com/technology/2011/07/netflix-streaming-is-ki...

It’s convenient, it’s not that expensive, and the selection is just good enough.

Welp, netflix (and others) are 3 for 3 on eroding those advantages.

Not sure that it makes sense to compare NATS to gRPC. Maybe the thinking is because gRPC supports bi-directional streaming? The integrations are wildly different, though.

I didn't realize it was time to drag this old chestnut out of storage. Nothing like dusting off a decades long flame war. I'm sure everyone will come to an agreement this time.

Looks like github is down, and aws is having issues, too.

https://downdetector.com/

I should've stayed in bed

Is this why facebook is down?

The big concern I have here is that the address resolution seems similar to DNS... Which is very bad, IMHO. Are they taking necessary steps to mitigate ddos and Man in the middle attacks? If they're not, they're seeing themselves up for major disaster.

There's already a PR to fix this, looks like there's a missing space after one of the minus signs.

From the slack post:

In other words, if you’re one of the approximately 99% who joined Slack after March 2015 or changed your password since then, this announcement does not apply to you.

Hackers compromising plaintext password would seem to apply to everyone using Slack, whether their account was compromised or not??

And in the cryptocurrency space, we need way more than 7 decimal places.

Works on my machine

This seems like it has potential for being the core of an interesting interview question. Maybe something along the lines of "You are hired as the Chief Shunter (lol) of a new rail company and the CEO, to cut costs, has stated that only half of all cars will have toilets. What instructions will you give the shunters? What complications could arise? What is the optimal solution and how would it impact UX?" etc. etc.

Couldn't the microplastics just come from the plastic bottles the water is bottled in?

"Every branch of every repo gets its own sandboxed directory. Your revision history in each branch, including uncommitted stuff, is persisted, as are build artifacts. When you switch contexts, each project is just as you left it."

Isn't that just svn? Why force a git-shaped peg into an svn-shaped hole?

Personally, I don't need to be shown how simple a graph database can be. I need to know how it will interact with real world data.

I need a browser plugin or something to let me know when I'm visiting the website of a company that has thrown in with gov't surveillance.

Except not, because satellites are now hardened against this kind of radiation as a side effect of hardening against cosmic rays, etc.

source: the article

I can count on zero hands the number of times I've needed to solve a problem by navigating the branch tree.

I've lost count of the number of times that two eternal branches and feature branches with pull requests (+ code review) has saved major flaws from getting to production.

The develop branch is perfect for automatically deploying our bleeding edge to our test server.

Although, if we move to a more continuous deployment approach, we may transition away from two eternal branches. But when GitFlow was first written about, continuous deployment really wasn't the trend that it is now.

Methods will continue to evolve...

Who cares? I love reading some of these book exceprts. Got me to buy and read the history of Marvel. This stuff is pretty interesting.

It feels like they reinvented the wheel on a lot of things (especially on the monitoring side). I also wish there was some more detail about the caching/endpoint side of things. We rely heavily on Akamai's services for their edge servers, caching, and site acceleration. I don't see anything like that here, but maybe they're just not mentioning it?

They don't have to ban other app stores. All they have to do is require that apps that run on your device be signed by Apple's certificates... which requires the App Store ecosystem.

If you jailbreak device to be able to run unsigned code, of course this restriction goes away and you can use whatever app store you want... like Cydia, for instance.

Does this cause audio de-sync issues on Android?

As a lead developer, if my developers are only motivated to do something each day because of being held accountable the next day, then I hired the wrong people. I want people to be self-starters. I shouldn't have to babysit and micromanage what they're doing each day.

We use stand-ups as opportunities to discuss obstacles that people are encountering and discuss opportunities for pair programming. I use them as an option in my training toolkit. If we're working on fairly routine things (like setting up unit tests, database layers, etc.) then I don't bother with stand-ups at all unless I sense a need (like someone hitting a wall).

Why would breach-of-contract have anything to do with the DMCA?

I guess we're already doing these. We use a pull request workflow and I get an email when a developer creates the pull request. I inspect the changes in the request and approve and/or merge the changes into our main development branch. EZPZ

There will still be room for full VR and its applications with a mature AR device like HoloLens.

After seeing that Autodesk is finally iterating on some of their software to support the rapid protoyping/3D printing community in major ways, I'd like to see what kinds of tools Autodesk could come up with. I see Holo Studio as the MS Paint of "Holographic computing" or whatever we're calling it now.

Is that a killer app, I guess not, but if this HoloLens device is really running Windows 10, and the API's are baked into the OS, that puts it MILES ahead of where Google Glass was, and developers will be able to do something more interesting than take photos and share them on Google+.

I suspect he's referring to all the litigation surrounding Google Book Search.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Books#Copyright_infringe...

But as far as I know, there has been no ruling, yet, as everything is either still pending, or settled out of court.

HTML6 is conceptually HTML with XML like namespaces.

Aaaaaannnnnndddddd I'm done. Thanks, but no thanks.