Dan Maas

Amazon ELB goes down, taking your site off line, and there's no status event or warning? The ELB metrics look OK, but requests are lagged...

Hey @day9tv pro Go caster @Hajin_lee wants to work with you! Make it happen! :)

I voted for Learning Data with Docker! by @C3H3tw @docker https://www.docker.com/community/globalhackday/18/ … #dockerhackday

#vestrek what was changed or different this time when the VFX team revisited the Star Trek universe?

Lesson learned: if you need an RPC protocol for Python/Twisted, don’t use AMP, use HTTP (with urllib if necessary for synchronous calls).

Usability testing is like putting your software through Touchy-Feely.

@ID_AA_Carmack Fascinating book on ancient architecture software development (Apollo AGC) Eldon Hall's "Journey to the Moon"

It is sort of depressing when it becomes clear that it is more effective to do crappy parallel work than good sequential work.

Dear Washington Post Social Reader App: PLEASE SHUT UP

@ID_AA_Carmack In offline rendering, aside from brute-force raytracing, spherical harmonics/point-based algorithms are useful for big scenes

What is the largest conference/trade show for the CAD/CAM industry?

My attempts at creating edge loops can only be described as "horrifying"

@ID_AA_Carmack Thoughts re: mmap-in-place vs. serial I/O for data storage http://www.dcine.com/2011/09/04/john-carmack-on-data-storage-for-graphics/ …

or is just any synchronous wait on disk I/O death for a game engine? my case is offline rendering, lots of streaming thru uncached datasets

@NIV_Anteru @ID_AA_Carmack is mmap-in-place still > serial I/O in cases where not everything fits in RAM/bufcache, w/random access patterns?

Sold ATVI and NTES at +10% and +23% over the last 12 months. The "Wrath of the Lich King will exceed expectations in China" trade worked!

@CultOfRazer any way to program one of the thumb buttons as an additional "middle" mouse button on OSX? I only see "primary" and "secondary"

I think my overuse of parenthesis in writing has something to do with using LISP day in and day out for 11 years.