borlak

The way my mud did it, and I believe most muds (considering I took my implementation from another popular codebase), was not by forking. Sockets are just files, so all we did was save everything including players, execl() another instance of the MUD, and exit. Same port wasn't an issue with SO_REUSEADDR.

On boot as it's loading players, their file descriptor ID was saved, so it loads it up and resumes talking to the socket. It also loads the ID of the server socket descriptor. No need to send information to a new process as it just loads the previous game state.

If you're curious: https://github.com/borlak/acmud/blob/7c2442dfccfc28364fc399a...

And: https://github.com/borlak/acmud/blob/7c2442dfccfc28364fc399a...

Tidbit inspired me to write my own web-miner, which I open sourced. It's hacked together as I was really just trying to learn how the cryptocoin&mining stuff worked. The mining rate you get with straight javascript is truly abysmal, even with web workers (much worse than the standard cpuminer).

I found a couple examples that do the scrypt part with GPU in browser, but your browser has to support custom shaders, I think (I forget the details), and the version most browsers support doesn't allow this (again, my memory is sketchy about the details).

Anyway Here you go, NJ! https://github.com/borlak/cryptocoin_scrypt_stratum

Does Yahoo have a public bounty program?

You probably would if you travel, or go to conferences...

The top answer in that thread is excellent.

Basically, "it depends". having dealt with extremely DB-intensive applications, I have developed a personal motto of "be nice to the DB".

Let the DB be a secure storage of your data, not a calculating part of your application. But like the top answer says, sometimes it is not practical to do a calculation within the application. In my case, we had a few database servers set aside just for reporting, so we could slam them with difficult queries and not worry about affecting data.

He posted on a real person's wall with the initial bug report. It says right on the /whitehat page not to do that, and he mentioned /whitehat in his bug report, so he should have known.

What do you mean? The SWF progress bars are one of the few that can actually be relied upon. A good example: http://armorgames.com/play/12141/kingdom-rush

The Microsoft installation progress bars are the ones I remember as being ridiculous. Often going backwards, showing ridiculous install times, etc.

It doesn't have explosive bolts.

Also a bit problematic if you happen to roll your car over on its top...

It sounds like you want everyone to be a system administrator. That is not going to ever happen.

The human history of inventing has one very consistent theme: making things easier for ourselves. "Computers" will only become easier to use, and require less knowledge of the humans that are using them.

When "computers" go wrong, a human with that specialty will fix it. You have that specialty. Why can't everyone fix their own cars or HVACs or bake their own bread?

The main turnoff for me when it comes to Rails is watching other major companies like Twitter completely rewrite their application away from Rails.

Growing pains -- the kind of pains we all want to endure some day. If you are planning to grow, why wouldn't you start with something you know has an end game (like PHP or Java)?

The often cited slowness of Rails, mixed with companies rewriting their codebases, and the flurry of vulnerabilities in the past year has caused me to take Rails less seriously.

Also Android 4.2.2

In the book "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" (1966), an electromagnetic catapult is used to deliver goods from the Moon to Earth. It is similar to what you described -- just a really long tube (or rail) at the highest elevation possible.

I really wouldn't call this an alternative. If you are running memcached, it's very unlikely you can switch to Groupcache.

Parts of your application may rely on the expiration feature. But the biggest change is the inability to overwrite a current cache key. Every application I've used does this constantly (object updates).

Groupcache in its current form is useful for a very narrow set of applications.

I can give some examples but my point was basically you have to test for your specific desired user base, and these kinds of posts don't really mean much.

Some things that we did: autoplaying videos. enormous graphics and big text. lots of "as seen on !". landing page was probably 6000-7000 pixels high and the form was near the bottom.

Your target audience is going to heavily influence most of these.

At a previous company our target audience was older women. We A-B tested every single element on our landing page, and I can tell you, using the advice on this site would be a complete disaster.

Russia isn't worried about America becoming too powerful. Russia's stance is that your country should worry about itself, and leave other countries alone. Putin has said many snarky remarks in this respect.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin

This phrase 'direct access' -- I wouldn't assume, if there exists something like PRISM, that it would have 'direct access' to anybody's servers. More likely, the data would be given from a company TO PRISM.

You could even argue that an API would not be 'direct access'

You can't just view anyone's private photos. They have to have been logged into facebook (have a session) and then go to your domain with the exploit.

That is what the US is about, and the citizens have spoken through this petition that we want it changed.

Responding to petitions by telling the petitioners to petition harder is kind of pointless.

In my experience RDS has been amazing, and I am a MySQL guy. I say it like that because as a MySQL guy I would much prefer to setup my own server and use a third party engine like Percona or Maria, but RDS(MySQL) performance has been incredible.

The only thing I would complain about is the lack of a proxy or load balancer in front of their Multi-AZ setup. With any failover you are forced to have a downtime of 3-5 minutes while DNS propagates.

What is the "problem" that you want solved?

There should be a simple "no" or at least "no, undecided"

Also consider subscribing to:

TheRoyalInstitution (science stuff, professionally done)

periodicvideos (excellent channel, chemistry stuff)

numberphile (math)

minutephysics (physics)

sixtysymbols (physics/math stuff)

DeepSkyVideos (space stuff, not updated often)

psyfile (psychology, not updated often)

engineerguyvideo (was really good, now rarely updates)

computerphile (brand new channel, no content yet, from same guys as the other *phile channels)

and for fun: JoergSprave (the slingshot guy, but his creations are quite cool if you like physics)

Ruby isn't cool anymore? Are startups cool? I think we'd all agree startups are pretty cool.

Going through the HN job postings, my findings are:

Ruby with 6.5 jobs

Python with 4

Java and ObjC each with 2

Node.js and CoffeScript each with 1

Sorry for not sourcing anything, I don't want a massive post. Seems Ruby is still pretty cool. Anyway, this is quite the normal distribution here from my experience. And in the interest of full disclosure -- I am not a Ruby developer.

That quote from Zuckerberg reminded me of when Groupon CEO refused to sell to Google for $6 billion...

You can have all the view you want and believe in yourself -- but willpower doesn't equal success.

A DDOS of HN is quite strange indeed. There should be some kind of ransom involved, but seeing as HN doesn't make money (I assume) from these forums, there is nothing to ransom.

They could still have all these social/online features and not require internet-DRM to play.

You play your game, and if you want to do something social and the servers are down -- it sucks, but you can still play, and take part in the social stuff when it is up and working.

For online saves -- there is a local backup for when the online system is down.

These are not difficult things. They are just trying to fight an ever-losing battle against piracy.

I haven't had to use it in a long time so my memory is fuzzy...but last I remember, when the actual Verified by Visa form pops up, there is an option to disable it.

Verified by Visa is incredibly annoying to the consumer. I've abandoned payments because I forgot my password. Now I have it turned off completely.