Morphling

I do work with web projects, but I hardly live in github, sure it's an important tool and I tend to visit the site quite often especially if I'm working, but I see no need to keep it open all the time, but maybe I'm not solving hard enough problems for that to matter.

See that "you don't remember to close them down" part gets me, or rather doesn't. I mean I have a lot of tabs open when I'm working, but at the end of the day I close my browser and I don't have any fixed set of pages that it opens or last session, it just opens on the new tab page and asks for commands.

I just can't stand if my browser has so many tabs open I can't read the what the hell it is from the header and since I always use browser only on half of my screen with editor on the other side (actually since I have 21:9 screen I've split it in 3 so I can have project | editor | docs) that gives me at most like 15+-5 tabs to work with.

But maybe I'm just the weirdo out of everyone.

"to read a full story" and I didn't actually even care...

Not bunnyhopping, but similar idea a game called Gunz: The Duel had many animation glitches where you could cancel animation lock with higher priority move. The action would execute, but the animation would be cut in short with a shorter animation which allowed you to perform a new longer animation move.

Commonly it was called kStyle or "korean style" in west since the game was korean and koreans came up with the bug. It made the game everyone was doing it flying through the map with swords swinging wildly it was a lot of fun and definitely raised the skill ceiling and someone how it didn't seem nearly as cheaty as the bunnyhopper in articles video.

I hear quite a few people talking how they have 30-50 tabs open, how do people manage something like that? And why would anyone need so many simultaneous tabs open?

Unless Firefox opens sites instantly (instead of 1-2 sec wait) then I don't see any speed benefit.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the author probably has a lot of heavy addons that do stuff that is not needed. Biggest example probably is AdBlock Plus which bogs down any browser considerably and poking around with family's and friends' Chromes I see that a lot of them have several ad blocking extensions as well as couple privacy extensions is it any wonder Safari or Firefox with no addons is faster?

I like the idea and the price isn't too bad either on it's own, but then I would have to get wifi lamps and a wifi coffee machine and a wifi door lock... I think I'll pass for now

They talk about ensuring that open source works on the machine, anyone else concerned if they will try to inhibit close source software? Like this whole shitstorm around GCC?

Yeah, I'm not aerospace engineer, but couldn't you just put the roof like 10 cm above the rotors so it has enough air flow?

I wonder if you could just create some kind of roof over the rotors, thus negating the "attack".

This might be a bit of a stretch, but if you were to send in plain text just something meta-ish like datetime and the actual message would be sent as image for example, could we get around this?

E.g. when your-favorite-three-letter-agency comes asking for decryption you just decrypt the plaintext portion for them?

Also there doesn't seem to be anything that is actually "countering" anything at the moment

I actually think Azure is nice platform, but they've effectively priced me out.

What I mean is that if I want a basic VPS on Azure it costs ~10€/mo to run the server for the month, but there are many VPS providers who offer a lot better hardware for same price.

I guess Azure is meant for bigger needs than mine where you can run 100-200€/mo by default and then scale up when needed, but since my little blog + test/dev server won't need to be scaled it just seems too expensive.

At first Oculus seemed like a cool idea, but you can really only play "simulator" games with it, games where you sit in a vehicle otherwise it ruins the VR feel and you might as well just play on a monitor.

Only other thing I've seen was some sort of sculpting thing, but I'd imagine the novelty would wear out there pretty fast.

More I think about whole VR thing the less I think it will actually be a thing. I'm sure when Oculus Rift comes out for reals a lot of people are going to buy them, but I don't really see a lot of value for developers supporting them in most games, but someone comes up with killer app/game for it.

"But they are ugly and now everyone is teasing me about them. I want a refund"

I just wonder if she could've easily fixed all the issues by changing her mouse or how she hold it instead of opting for this nose-touch-pad.

If she is still doing thous 11-15 hour work days and her neck doesn't get tiered, I really think she might have had too hard of a grip on her mouse or just a bad mouse in general.

Am I missing something obvious here? What would change if this piece of software/algorithm was ported to Ruby? I mean Rubyists would get to use it, but what else would change? This whole thing seems very strange, like if someone would create a cure for a disease and give it out for free and tell everyone how it was made but insit that he be the one who injects every single patient personally.

This isn't really a new concept, but previously I've seen this attack used from USB memory sticks which modified firmware. The idea being that you could use them as sort of dead drop and the target would still be able to see that it's fully functional storage device and it would still act like HID (e.g. keyboard) and execute the commands.

But since Teensy is a different beast, maybe there could be some new neat things you could do with it.

I guess if you are super optimizing your website then getting rid of all the useless stuff is fine, but at least I don't notice big enough performance increase to get rid of jQuery even if it's just for the $('selector').

As I said I have no idea what they did and maybe I'm just being naive, but $1 million per year seems like plenty to keep a website online.

That still doesn't answer how to managed to spend $4 million a year

Dr. Dobb's, we had close to $3 million in revenue, almost all of it from advertising

Is that actual quote from the site? Since now it just says: "Dr. Dobb's, we had healthy profits and revenue, almost all of it from advertising"

I'm just curious how they would manage to spend $3 MILLION in 4 years and how it wouldn't be profitable to run a website that was ONLY $1 million revenue.

I've never even heard of the site until now, so I have no idea what they are doing, but it really seems odd that money was an issue if you are raking in millions.

I don't know what it is, but I feel same about programming as achieving anything else in my life; if I can do it, so can everyone else. I know how much effort I put into things, like, say a my B.Sc and while it too seemed big and hard thing when I started out I've managed yet again swindle my way through it without much of a hassle.

Maybe it's about more you know about stuff the more you know how little you actually know, if that makes any sense at all...

Looks interesting. I wonder how the hit detection works, I mean if there was some sort of way to boost the signal and just create device that would terminate every player in a given area.

Maybe they could start building apartments which would be open for rent for public as well?

First it was feminist agenda to transform gaming into something that fit their narrow world view, but since that failed pretty hard and even the most brain washed white knights are starting to see through their ruse especially in the light of the scandal around the depression quest.

Now as a last resort all these same people are trying to paint the word "gamer" as something bad and undesirable.

I'm not really surprised if they come up with a new term that they try to define with their agenda, gamers just have to be smart enough to see through their bullshit.

Don't know where Patrick here found his definition of the word "gamer" to associate with brands. In my opinion just because you see "gamers" as kids swearing over xbox live with shoveling Doritos and Mountain Dew in their face doesn't define the meaning of the word for the rest of us.

For me the word "gamer" simply means a person who likes playing video games, probably likes talking about them and isn't trying to push agenda.

Phone OS: iOS

I guess there isn't much you can do with this, but is changing from Android to iOS really big enough difference?

Europe tax is real with every product. Like I was going to buy Lenovo laptop for work, but as soon as I said that I was from EU the price almost doubled.

All these cloud IDEs seem to be popping up everywhere, but I just don't see the value in them. I use Vim as my editor so I can use everything over SSH anyways, so I just use Vagrant or SSH back home if I'm working on my Chromebook.