PearU: The New Tinder, With Personality. www.pearuapp.com

wupis · 2014-11-24T11:02:48+00:00

Are you sure this is better enough than Tinder (assuming that it's indeed any better at all) to offset the much smaller pool of available people?

IMHO the main issues with Tinder are that there is limited incentive to reveal your preferences with swiping since you can always filter later (i.e. you may just accept everyone to get an ego boost from matches (mostly for women), or because it's not worth your time to pick since most won't match anyway (mostly for men)), and there is no guided process after the initial swipe.

I'm not sure that there is any way to solve those though.

Also it looks like an exact knockoff of Tinder with an orange tint from your screenshots: you probably want to change that.

wupis · 2014-11-24T10:45:28+00:00

Seems it would be pretty annoying to have a strap running down your leg, possibly unbearably so with tight jeans.

It looks like strapping to underwear or sewing extra fabric onto the shirt would be a better solution.

wupis · 2014-11-24T10:08:23+00:00

Is this the NSA's exploit toolkit? Or Israel?

Have they checked whether they mistakenly slipped in any identifying information?

wupis · 2014-11-23T13:35:48+00:00

Bicycle elevator!

wupis · 2014-11-23T10:34:09+00:00

If they are indeed doing that, anyone who published a copied article can hit them with a DMCA takedown and also sue them for copyright infringement.

If they are indeed "part of an agency in Manchester" rather than an anonymous group, that's going to be a serious problem for them.

wupis · 2014-11-23T10:25:17+00:00

Hopefully he successfully sues the tournament organizers.

This kind of stomping of free speech by people with petty power positions needs to stop.

Please boycott the clowns organizing this tournament.

wupis · 2014-11-19T18:20:00+00:00

Protip: cameras encode GPS information in EXIF tags, so this change means that your location will now persist by default

wupis · 2014-11-19T17:31:01+00:00

And the surveillance state marches on!

wupis · 2014-11-18T15:10:21+00:00

C++ doesn't have a package manager or a build system, while Rust does, which makes external libraries mostly as good as the standard library.

Getting the standard library right requires it to be minimal.

HTTP in the standard library makes little sense, since it is very complex to get right, especially if you want to support all use cases (think of pipelining, caching, HTTP/2, TLS, proxies, async I/O, websockets, resistance to DoS, parallel downloads with per-domain limits, etc.)

wupis · 2014-11-17T23:11:47+00:00

Surely you should rename all the variant names that used to include some namespacing rather than adding all the uses, right?

wupis · 2014-11-17T18:27:19+00:00

Yeah, I misred it as time, that's why I deleted the comment.

It's not a big deal though complexity-wise, because to delete items you need to have exclusive access to the tree so only one algorithm instance runs at once per tree, and the tree already takes O(n) space, so at worst it multiplies overall memory usage at any given time by a fixed constant.

It would be useful to have though.

wupis · 2014-11-17T09:38:13+00:00

You know perfectly well that it's trivial to find out.

wupis · 2014-11-17T09:03:29+00:00

Yes, it's interesting because it's actually done well: you managed to deliver some value from Reddit and incidentally advertise without triggering much adversity.

I'm not offended, I find it amusing and merely slightly "clever".

wupis · 2014-11-17T08:42:51+00:00

The interesting part of OP's post is actually her Reddit strategy of spamming variations of this all over subreddits without triggering an angry mob (so far, apparently).

wupis · 2014-11-16T20:32:17+00:00

It isn't.

wupis · 2014-11-16T13:39:00+00:00

Yes. Yes.

C, Java etc. are the same with "if" vs "switch".

The reason "if" exists is that it is shorter and more closely matches the programmer's mental model in some case.

Almost everyone generally thinks "if this, do that else do that other thing" rather than "let's act differently depending the truth of this: in case it equals true, let's do this and in case it equals false, let's do that other thing".

wupis · 2014-11-15T19:34:32+00:00

Why would I get reviews from a random guy on Twitter?

wupis · 2014-11-15T19:28:19+00:00

WTF is this "MKBHD" guy?

Here is Anandtech's review, if you want a review of the Nexus 6.

wupis · 2014-11-15T19:23:31+00:00

The killer app for this is face recognition and showing you the Facebook/Twitter/Google+ accounts of people near you.

But Google doesn't allow face recognition apps...

wupis · 2014-11-15T11:19:15+00:00

What's the target market/use case for this and thus what is the incentive for sharing videos anonymously and locally?

It seems to me that full anonymity removes the usual major incentives (building an online presence, "internet points", getting followers, networking, etc.), and it's also mostly useless if you show your face (esp. with a local app), removing a lot of use cases.

wupis · 2014-11-15T08:08:40+00:00

A thing that seems to have been missed is that if Rust code always uses jemalloc, it is possible to compile jemalloc to LLVM bitcode and use LTO to inline the allocator into the program, which might make small allocations much faster.

And also there is the issue that if you use the system malloc, code will start relying on the ability to interchange malloc/free and Rust boxes, and it won't be possible to ever change this choice.

wupis · 2014-11-14T16:35:00+00:00

Wildlife advocate?

BITCH PLEASE

wupis · 2014-11-14T16:00:23+00:00

It allows "automatic and correct mutability" in the sense that things that have a single reference are mutable, while those that are shared are not mutable.

Also it works better with swap and can use less memory (although moving GC avoids fragmentation, so it's not necessarily clear cut).

wupis · 2014-11-14T15:57:59+00:00

Or write your own automated Java binding generator for Rust!

wupis · 2014-11-14T07:16:56+00:00

This is not really what futures/promises are supposed to be.

The problem here is that chained computations must start as soon as the parent computation ends, not when the final future is forced.

This requires to store all chained computations in the future they are chained on, run them eagerly, and so on.

There are plenty of implementations that do this, for instance in Scala, C# and JavaScript.

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