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theswan | 12 years ago | on: Game servers: UDP vs TCP

In re the sections on "hiding the lag" - Bungie (the guys behind the original Halo games) have a pretty cool presentation on how they hid lag in Halo Reach.

http://downloads.bungie.net/presentations/David_Aldridge_Pro...

theswan | 12 years ago | on: Airbrb.com #coworking

Looks like they've been sitting on this joke for a while.

  Updated Date: 2014-03-28T14:26:39-0700
  Creation Date: 2012-02-20T19:27:58-0800

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=air...

theswan | 12 years ago | on: Square Market Accepts Bitcoin

Makes me wonder - would we ever get to a point where it's in Square/Stripe/Coinbase/et. al's interests to contribute mining power to help their own transactions along? Or is that pretty much taken care of by transaction fees?

theswan | 12 years ago | on: Square Market Accepts Bitcoin

How is Square/Stripe getting around the issue that most exchanges wait for 6 confirmations before a transaction is accepted? Are they ignoring the risk of a double spend and just going ahead once a transaction has propagated to the network for mining?

theswan | 12 years ago | on: Apple's Mistake (2009)

In a way, I think Google really did orphan "Android," the open source project. Key parts of the current Android experience (Google Now, Google launcher, music player, Hangouts/Messaging, etc.) are now closed source and only available to OEM parnters who sign with Google (http://www.tested.com/tech/android/458759-android-44-kitkat-...). The AOSP equivalent components are painfully ancient.

This has happened over the last few years as Google began exercising more control over the platform and secure a better experience; now - there's Android, the somewhat orphaned OSS, and Android, the Google experience OS.

theswan | 12 years ago | on: Alcatraz – Package manager for Xcode 5

Interesting that just a little bit ago there was an article on software installation security (albeit from a different angle).

Theoretically speaking, is it safe to curl and install something via plain http:// and no checksum verification?

theswan | 12 years ago | on: Apple CarPlay

Am curious who is in charge on manufacturing the device.. Both car manufacturers and Apple have history of wanting build the "whole widget."

theswan | 12 years ago | on: Apple CarPlay

I think this suggests either talks between Tesla and Apple didn't go well, or something even bigger (integration wise) could be coming up.

theswan | 12 years ago | on: Apple CarPlay

Do you mind providing examples of use cases re Google Now vs Siri? Not disagreeing with you - just haven't owned an Android device in the last year to know.

theswan | 12 years ago | on: IOS Users are the New Windows Users

I think downvoting != disagreeing to the point, but rather, downvoting = disagreeing that this article is worth the time to read.

theswan | 12 years ago | on: VsMe Gaming – Mobile Gaming with Bitcoin

You can't really assume that mobile devices can't cheat though - you could (rather) trivially inject cheating javascript into a WebView.

theswan | 12 years ago | on: 'Godfather' of Helvetica font, Mike Parker, dies at 84

For a kick:

http://www.ironicsans.com/helvarialquiz/

theswan | 12 years ago | on: Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen

Not having very much knowledge about the financial industry - is this also an issue with marketplaces that deal with fiat monies?

i.e. Dwolla, Balanced, Stripe, Venmo, all serve as intermediaries for moving money - do these companies have bank accounts that hold onto massive sums of money? What protections would go into keep those accounts secure?