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I use to control WS2812 LED strip and synchronize it real time with the music being played in the party room.

Also- a PiHole.

The "Kennedy" comment really made me giggle. I have some dislike for some trends of applications addining great amounts of white space.

I have to agree that the interface, and the "Real Names" requirements were the two biggest hurdles for me to even to start to like Google+.

I really liked the concept of circles, but whenever I did get around to using the social network, it never felt as social and engaging as Twitter. Even when I did find an intersting discussion, it was hard to keep track of replies. Reddit/HNews/Twitter have a tree-like structure for the comments, but Google+ was mostly flat, and hard to keep track of any debate.

I would lose interest on Google+ as soon as I tried to read a comment thread, and close the application altogether.

For example, on C#, I sometimes have to do:

  var value = (await (await startRequest()).GetBody()).Root;

While the Rust syntax would make this a little more clear, I do not think it is a dealbreaker.

Spanner does not support foreign keys, but they do support table interleaving, which can fill some of the gaps.

Table interleaving is also important to ensure that correlated data that is colocated in the same server in the cluster.

I find Spanner an absolute beautiful database, and I recommend people to checkout CockroachDB as well, which is inspired by Spanner.

CockroachDB And you can get pretty close to being schemlass with the json column, and maybe with the inverted index.

On what grounds would it be appropriate for the reporter not be allowed to finish their question? Can the White House just silence anyone that are asking difficult questions?

Anyone have a source for the "25-page report"?

I use TypeScript every day, and I like it way better than JavaScript, but here is an example of a bad error message: http://ss.nican.net/photo_2018-10-22_22-09-58.jpg

Would you be alright if the game publishers can publish guidelines for what is acceptable?

Much like StarCraft, I think there would be interesting competitions and challenges for people to develop AI for the game. There could also be challenges for games in developing better interfaces, helpers, and plugins.

Putting the lawsuit under "Copyright infringement" is a strange choice, but I have to agree that fighting cheaters in video games is a good fight.

In one hand, the user should have ownership of their computer, and what happens in it. The user should not be prevented from testing and modifying whatever occurs in their memory, in the same way, I can load Adblock, or Reddit Enhancement Suit, to make my experience on a website better.

On the other hand, online gaming has become a sport. Having cheaters in-game is almost like bicycle racers using enchantment drugs for a competition. I would hate to lose a bicycle race for having another athlete using illegal unhealthy drugs, as I would have to lose an online game for other players paying hundreds of dollars for a significant unfair advantage.

For me, there should be a new kind of law that would cover gaming cheating behavior under unfair gameplay. Users are detracting from the experience from the other players, who are playing the game on an even playing ground.

I find GTV 5's strategy particular interesting, that instead of banning cheaters in online servers from playing, they just moved players to a "cheaters pool," in which cheaters can play with other cheaters. It still allows everyone to play the game, but now they are put up against other players who also have an unfair advantage, and have to compete for a better strategy.

I recommend the book too. It is a great story on how passion drove the development of such great games.

I have seen plenty of local-machine fast key-value stores, such as LevelDB (By Google), or RocksDB (By Facebook), but I have a hard time imagining what they are for.

What are the use cases for such a library?

Look at MySQL asynchronous replication.

Some of the porting-quake links are broken. You have to add the "/wordpress" bit.

Even in the coast of large cities, like NYC or Boston. The real state cost of having a data center in those regions are high, but it would be much cheaper to just hide your servers underwater, near where your users are.

Here is some simple documentation on how it is done in C#: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclie... It is slightly verbose, but I find it immensively valuable. No ORM required.

Talking about an easy experience for failover, and horizontally scaling, I recommend taking a look at MemSQL or NuoDB. I think MemSQL did a really nice job in creating a fast bare-bone SQL solution, with an easy to use management interface. https://docs.memsql.com/operational-manual/v6.0/managing-hig...

I have a curiosity: Some new SQL technologies, such as NuoDB, or MemSQL, chose to implement horizontal scaling by separating the data storage and transaction processing machines. I find this awesome because the data storage can scale independently from the heavy lifting of maintaining transactions and running big queries.

Additional machines can be added or removed from processing queries without having to scale the storage, and not have to worry about the complexities of data sharding, and data rebalancing.

Does anyone have experience with this kind of paradigm? Can PostgreSQL do something similar?

I have been curious to ask someone who is knowledgeable about databases/MySQL: Spanner has a feature for creating interleaved tables, which helps data locality when performing joins on a distributed database. [1] Is this an important feature for a large database, and does MySQL provide anything similar?

[1] https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/schema-and-data-model#...

The dolphin emulator's blog is doing awesome blog posts as usual. Reminds me of how JavaScript compilers[1] also compile several versions of the same function, as the interpreter gains more insight on how the function is used.

[1] https://wingolog.org/archives/2011/07/05/v8-a-tale-of-two-co... (Wow, 2011, time goes by fast)

I am curious, how does it get an AST from the JS, and compiles it to compute kernels?

I am more impressed at that ability to blend colors on a print, but like you would on an ink-jet printer.

I see that way too often. Bonus points if the exceptions are being logged in different ways, in different parts of the library.

As an employee of a large company, I can relate to this experience. The manager has grandiose views about the product, but has no data to back his claims.

Does anyone have an good example app using modern Angular?

Looks like cool features, but I have a hard time envisioning on how they all work together.

I always wondered if using SQLite for the back end for a distributed map/reduce jobs was efficient. Each machine holds part of the data in an SQLite file.

It would not solve the usual sort/group by problems that require cross-machine communication, but would take full advantage of SQLite's optimizations for other problems.

I also recommend watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsf2_Au6KxU , made by an engineer at Valve.

Which physics engine is that? ODE?

If people are interested in looking at more cool content on the subject, I recommend you looking at:

- http://drc.mit.edu/technology/

- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cga/drc/

- https://github.com/RobotLocomotion/drake/wiki

- http://robots.ihmc.us/humanoid-control-workshop/videos

I attended WPI during 2013-2014, and worked with Atlas. I am very excited and impressed by Boston Dynamics. (And hopefully start working on the field again.)