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Haha, seems appropriate given that the rocket in question looks exactly like the first thing everyone builds in KSP once they get the radial separators.

It'd be really great if NASA found some particularly charismatic engineer to act as a colour commentator and talk about the technology at play. The silence while we wait for a new launch time is peaceful but a bit dull...

Admittedly looking at the figures on ustream it's a lot more popular than I thought it'd be, but still less than the higher end of what you see on Twitch, and they don't get to plan when a stream goes viral.

It boggles my mind that a 12 year old playing DOTA can reliably stream to an audience but NASA can't figure it out.

EDIT: Seems they've swapped their stream for the ustream one, guess they can.

Apart from what appears to be a slippery slide in the top left :/.

Unfortunately I could easily see that happening.

I imagine he's saying that they're more likely to be detected and raised as concurrency bugs because of the tool, as opposed to remaining mystery "I swear it works on my local box" bugs like so many race conditions do.

If a neighbor has unprotected wifi it could feasibly connect there and start phoning home.

I imagine he'd be dodging collections.

EDIT: If his insurance hadn't paid it, obviously.

While I don't think it's a great solution (give up my vacation time to do more work?!?) I'm surprised so many people think this only plays to the employer's advantage. I've been in a number of interviews where the potential employer has lied through their teeth about what they do and how they do it and even stupidly accepted an offer as a result of one. Going through this process there would've saved me the miserable few months before I had to resign.

Pretty bad to see from the BBC, but at least you don't have to sign in to see it.

Generally I find that two monitors is useful so I can have a browser or android emulator open in one and the code open in another and easily switch between them... I'm guessing Linus doesn't do a lot of UI development so it doesn't really matter for him.

$15 worth of $3/gallon gas can take an efficient car a long way - there's a pretty big gap between paying that to travel 100 miles and paying it just to not drive anywhere for a few hours. It makes little difference to the wealthy, but for those who can barely afford to drive as it is it makes the situation even worse.

But that's not the reason it's jerktech, it's because the parking space was already paid for with taxes. What monkey parking's doing isn't much better than brigands setting up in front of a bridge and demanding a toll from anyone who wants to cross it.

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Babe Ruth? So by "a higher percentage of people" you mean "Americans and few others"

Looks like some random brit decided he was finally going to get around to making that blog he'd always wanted and just happened to pick whytheluckystuff.net as his domain, which was conveniently expired.

He's currently staring at his analytics page in disbelief. "Wow, my writing really is that good!".

Sydney, followed by Melbourne: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101349774

Finally Australia finishes outside the top 3 in something and I can be happy about it!

EDIT: Although that article says San Jose is the 5th even though the source disagrees. Confusing.

If success is the best revenge, this guy is god-tier.

What big products? The only one that I know of is blogger. Google also recently stopped supporting it and made it an independent open source project, which is a mark against it.

I'm not sure where you got the idea that the compiler was advanced - what it does is amazing but incredibly slow.

The development tools were fine in 2008 but they're showing their age now... the browser plugin only runs in Chrome, Firefox and IE, and it's only fast enough to be productive in Firefox. There are no browser plugins for Safari or mobile and doing a compile to a WAR can take minutes on a big project, which means development for mobile can be glacial.

I've just worked for a year on a big GWT project... it seemed like a good idea to start with but I've grown to hate it over time.

Eclipse is silly no matter what language you use... yet he uses Eclipse?

Nice to see that they've made the Android sender apps dependent on Google Play Services rev 15, but not actually released that yet.

Guess I'll keep on waiting for the _actual_ release.

That'd be easy enough even before the release of the SDK - open the video on the Chromecast, audio on the sender app, use the websocket connection between them to keep them in sync, Bob's your uncle.

Making it so that you only downloaded the video on the Chromecast and the audio on the sender app would be a little more difficult, but not insurmountable.

The problem is that a chosen few got help to put their apps on there and be first-to-market, while everyone else was left in the dark with no documentation and not even an expectation of when the SDK would be released. Up until today it supported a tiny subset of what it claimed - MPEG-DASH playback had to be done via dash.js, which can't even run smoothly on the device, SmoothStreaming playback was completely impossible unless you rolled a complete HTML5 player from scratch using MSE.

Meanwhile, the Netflix app isn't even a proper HTML5 app - it's literally flashed onto every device sold and opened via a command. The Hulu app's player is named "chromekey_player.js" so presumably they were able to start before the Chromecast was even called the Chromecast.

While Google are under no obligation to provide an even playing field, it wasn't a great start for the platform - hopefully things will be better now.

I can't imagine why you would want to list 1 star reviews first... generally 1 and 5 star ones are the least informative (either "I'VE PLAYED FOR 5 MINUTES AND IT'S THE BEST GAME EVER" or "MY PHONE CRASHED WHILE DOWNLOADING THIS IT'S A VIRUS!!!", and 2-4 reflect though-out reviews.

Makes sense... can you imagine how many 12 year olds are gonna find this as a result of googling "Xbox 360 emulator" and send him poorly spelled emails about how to install it on their parents' iPad?

And they haven't tweeted his blog post even though he added the HTML! Terrible!

You're right about him being funny - when he's demonstrating all his half-finished games it reminds me a lot of Carrot Top's prop comedy.

True... I'm guessing what they're getting at is that the execs want to focus on the boys at the expense of the girls - they'd rather have just 60 boys watching the show than 50 boys and 50 girls, because it's only boys who are going to be getting the toys under their Christmas tree, and 60 > 50.

In conclusion, you should invest in time travel research.

Funnily enough he was referring to the fact that doubles are proper nullable objects, the inverse of a common reason for people saying that Java sucks.

Listening to notch umming, ahhing and changing stuff at random in a desperate effort to get his program to work makes me feel so much better about my own (similar) programming process.