Presumably as a kind of word play on ‘the rise and fall of ancient civilisations’, it’s just a tiny pun to try and make a catchy post title I think
Getting Jitsi running is actually trivial (depending on your definition of trivial). I went from zero to fully running in about 30 minutes on a fresh Ubuntu server when I wanted to check something one time. It might…
I remember following those same tutorials and not really learning much (but I was probably 11 at the time). I also remember that the OS includes were around £300 and there was no way I could ever afford that. I…
This is really nice, good work! I once made a similar thing, but it was more of a creative-play-thing for children (so no way to create tiled graphics, but hopefully easy to use and fun to play with). It is at:…
This site doesn't seem terribly useful -- looks like they're mostly looking for shiny things; pretty buttons, nice on-boarding flows, fancy modals etc. What I would like is a nice in-depth analysis of the UX in highly…
No. And if your comment was a headline, that wouldn't be either. :)
According to the book 'Night School' by Richard Wiseman, just lying down for a nap, even if you don't manage to sleep, is still beneficial.
Undertaken? How far out in the road are you riding? I've never undertaken a fellow cyclist in my life, out on the open road, and I can't think that I've ever seen it done.
I feel the same. And I often wonder if the 60 year old versions of ourselves will feel much the same about the crazy, misguided 37 year old fools they remember once being.
Have you seen the Game Programming Patterns book (http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/). It was originally a blog that later become a book, and I think you can browse most of the content online. It's full of interesting…
<quote>(Some of the responses here are hilarious. I feel like I'm reading a Slashdot thread from 1998.)</quote> +5 Insightful
Presumably if you go this route you can't enter any organised sporting events or do any form of competitive racing? Just saying, because as you get older, if you start getting some fitness back you'll possibly want to…
I dislike mocks. I've never seen the point in testing code against an entirely fictional representation of the most complicated and slow part of the system, just because it happens to be more convenient. Of course it's…
Indeed, and maybe we'll see some of the big companies hire and assign people to work on it now. I hope so. It'd be good to see the code audited too, though I'm not sure how you'd go about that with a project like…
All software has bugs. That's an unavoidable reality. You need to learn to deal with that fact.
It certainly would not defeat the point to pay the OpenSSL engineers. Free and open software is about your freedom to modify and share software, not about taking no money. Open source software still costs a lot of money…
I always love to read Don's stories, they're always pretty great, and this post is no exception. The last few paragraphs are poignant, and not because it's about Steve, but because the emotion is real and you can relate…
Carousels have their place, but I agree, not on a conversion page. Also, never create a carousel that randomly shuffles between images. If an image is worth showing, show it and let the visitor see it without changing…
When I see people talk about X% improvement because of some new tech, I always think about Fred Brooks and the No Silver Bullet essay. Nothing changes under the sun.
Me too. That's what 6x4 will always means to me -- standard sized prints. As for the wording of the options, in maths terms, I never think in terms of 'so many lots of something' -- it's just 6 times 4 (well, I guess…
It sounds like some other people in the terrorism case pleaded guilt, and there are even details of the planned attack. Technically a thought crime, but the kind of thought crime you want to stop becoming a 'reality'…
Except he eventually gave them the password, which means he didn't just 'innocently' forget his password. However, it looks like he was trying to cover up for fraud rather than terrorism, so maybe he decided that guilty…
I doubt there are many UK lawyers specialising in this niche area of law stalking the HN forums right now. But you never know :) I wonder if a big part of the reason for his jailing is that he actually did give them the…
I think, but I'm not completely certain, that what he's trying to say is that your plan changes based on whether you hit the goal in the timebox or not. Which I guess is kind of true -- you can't really plan beyond the…
Technically, SSL is still working fine. The 404 page-not-found result is delivered over the secure channel :) I know nothing about the Microsoft Bing servers, but my stab-in-the-dark guess would be that somebody changed…
Presumably as a kind of word play on ‘the rise and fall of ancient civilisations’, it’s just a tiny pun to try and make a catchy post title I think
Getting Jitsi running is actually trivial (depending on your definition of trivial). I went from zero to fully running in about 30 minutes on a fresh Ubuntu server when I wanted to check something one time. It might…
I remember following those same tutorials and not really learning much (but I was probably 11 at the time). I also remember that the OS includes were around £300 and there was no way I could ever afford that. I…
This is really nice, good work! I once made a similar thing, but it was more of a creative-play-thing for children (so no way to create tiled graphics, but hopefully easy to use and fun to play with). It is at:…
This site doesn't seem terribly useful -- looks like they're mostly looking for shiny things; pretty buttons, nice on-boarding flows, fancy modals etc. What I would like is a nice in-depth analysis of the UX in highly…
No. And if your comment was a headline, that wouldn't be either. :)
According to the book 'Night School' by Richard Wiseman, just lying down for a nap, even if you don't manage to sleep, is still beneficial.
Undertaken? How far out in the road are you riding? I've never undertaken a fellow cyclist in my life, out on the open road, and I can't think that I've ever seen it done.
I feel the same. And I often wonder if the 60 year old versions of ourselves will feel much the same about the crazy, misguided 37 year old fools they remember once being.
Have you seen the Game Programming Patterns book (http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/). It was originally a blog that later become a book, and I think you can browse most of the content online. It's full of interesting…
<quote>(Some of the responses here are hilarious. I feel like I'm reading a Slashdot thread from 1998.)</quote> +5 Insightful
Presumably if you go this route you can't enter any organised sporting events or do any form of competitive racing? Just saying, because as you get older, if you start getting some fitness back you'll possibly want to…
I dislike mocks. I've never seen the point in testing code against an entirely fictional representation of the most complicated and slow part of the system, just because it happens to be more convenient. Of course it's…
Indeed, and maybe we'll see some of the big companies hire and assign people to work on it now. I hope so. It'd be good to see the code audited too, though I'm not sure how you'd go about that with a project like…
All software has bugs. That's an unavoidable reality. You need to learn to deal with that fact.
It certainly would not defeat the point to pay the OpenSSL engineers. Free and open software is about your freedom to modify and share software, not about taking no money. Open source software still costs a lot of money…
I always love to read Don's stories, they're always pretty great, and this post is no exception. The last few paragraphs are poignant, and not because it's about Steve, but because the emotion is real and you can relate…
Carousels have their place, but I agree, not on a conversion page. Also, never create a carousel that randomly shuffles between images. If an image is worth showing, show it and let the visitor see it without changing…
When I see people talk about X% improvement because of some new tech, I always think about Fred Brooks and the No Silver Bullet essay. Nothing changes under the sun.
Me too. That's what 6x4 will always means to me -- standard sized prints. As for the wording of the options, in maths terms, I never think in terms of 'so many lots of something' -- it's just 6 times 4 (well, I guess…
It sounds like some other people in the terrorism case pleaded guilt, and there are even details of the planned attack. Technically a thought crime, but the kind of thought crime you want to stop becoming a 'reality'…
Except he eventually gave them the password, which means he didn't just 'innocently' forget his password. However, it looks like he was trying to cover up for fraud rather than terrorism, so maybe he decided that guilty…
I doubt there are many UK lawyers specialising in this niche area of law stalking the HN forums right now. But you never know :) I wonder if a big part of the reason for his jailing is that he actually did give them the…
I think, but I'm not completely certain, that what he's trying to say is that your plan changes based on whether you hit the goal in the timebox or not. Which I guess is kind of true -- you can't really plan beyond the…
Technically, SSL is still working fine. The 404 page-not-found result is delivered over the secure channel :) I know nothing about the Microsoft Bing servers, but my stab-in-the-dark guess would be that somebody changed…