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ggoodale on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @04:11PM
from the jerryryle.github.io dept.
Posted by
ggoodale on Friday March 11, 2022 @12:06PM
from the alexturek.com dept.
Looks like that only works for 5GB files or less, which is a shame.
Rad! Haven't run across Archive Team before. Looking into them now.
Interesting - hadn't considered that possibility. Thanks! I'll look into it.
Seems reasonable, though given the size of the file I'm probably going to have to host it somewhere for seeding purposes rather than just parking it on my home fileserver (yay Comcast monopoly in my area).
Posted by
ggoodale on Monday December 09, 2013 @04:27PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm in the process of shutting down Word2[1], an MMO scrabble-like word game we built for Node Knockout back in 2010. The game's world is amazing - ~265MM tiles, ~123MM played words, over 1MM unique players. Once all personally identifiable information has been removed, I'd like to provide it to interested parties to play with. The clean dataset will be ~15GB compressed - what's the preferred...
If that were the case, how would the data input into your cell phone get stored on the card? I believe at a minimum Coin uses BLE to transmit card data from your phone to the device.
Seems like you've got a WAIS to go.
Thanks for clarifying! Makes sense.
Having spent a fair amount of time in PhoneGap, I recall one of the tricky bits of using stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString to call into JS land was that it could block, leading Apple to impose a 5 second timeout on that particular API call. Is that still the case? I recall that making loading large objects created/fetched via native code more complicated.
Congratulations on 2.0, regardless!
The accuracy is definitely a mixed blessing - interpolation, velocity awareness, and (screen-independent) gestures go a long way toward a good user experience.
The device can be positioned anywhere you like, but I'm guessing there's a definite learning period if you have it somewhere other than under your monitor (sort of like what I imagine Wacom users have the first time the use a screen-mapped tablet).
It's also possible that medical applications (and, by extension, deploying the hardware in a hospital) would require them to have a whole different set of dev, manufacturing, and QA procedures, much like flight control and other "mission critical" software.
The replay button in the local web UI is enough to make this instantly useful. Thanks for building this.
What's the storage multiplier for TokuMX vs. straight mongodb? Will my total size on disk go up or down?
Is there a feature roadmap somewhere detailing what order these and other features will be added (actual schedule is great too!)?
The 16 hour talk time is in reference to the battery life of the phone, I'm guessing (the next bullet references 30 days' standby time).
Clearly an organization that values people skills.
Posted by
ggoodale on Monday June 25, 2012 @08:29PM
from the webcache.googleusercontent.com dept.
It's viable. Drivers exist for most of the interesting storage engines you'd use for user records, leaderboards and the like. You'll need to pay attention to any server-side operations that require heavy CPU and ensure those tasks don't block time-critical operations.
You may or may not get the same level of concurrency as someone's custom-tuned C++ backend, but you won't have to pay an arm and a leg to license it, either. :)
Posted by
ggoodale on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @12:59PM
from the github.com dept.
At the moment, just the Facebook plugin for Facebook Connect authentication.
Great service - I've used it to build a modest application or two for Android and iOS. One caveat: Phonegap plugins that include native components (for example, the Facebook plugin) can't be included in apps built with Phonegap Build (yet).
Posted by
ggoodale on Monday May 30, 2011 @09:27PM
from the ongamestart.com dept.
If the final versions aren’t available, Samsung wants “the most current version of each to be produced instead.”
Given that Apple hasn't announced an iPad 3 or an iPhone 5, what are the odds they simply ship Samsung's lawyers an iPad 2 and an iPhone 4 and call it good?
Could this be made into a bookmarklet? I could see using this to diagnose issues on 3rd party sites where source access isn't available.