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by Maciek416 16y ago
Not only that but it would be interesting to see natural selection processes evolving using something other than what's familiar to us (DNA). If something like this were truly separate from us, wouldn't it have evolved its own genetic syste
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by Maciek416 16y ago
I guess I might have phrased the question differently. I recently saw a video somewhere of Richard Dawkins talking about what he thinks of the possibility of extraterrestrial life, and among other things he was talking about his high degree
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by Maciek416 16y ago
If this story turns out to be true my first questions would be: 1) Do the arsenic-feeding microbes have DNA/RNA or some other system in place? 2) Do they appear to be subject to natural selection? 3) Have they spent this entire time in the
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by Maciek416 16y ago
The "360 view" (like Google's Street View) data for my city (Toronto) is wildly out of date. Across the office where I work there is an entire entertainment center complete with a 50 story condo on top -- which is entirely missing (and stil
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by Maciek416 16y ago
They used to work in VMWare/etc if you converted the VHD files, but for the last several months the new ones MS has been providing are made to only work with VirtualPC on Windows.
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by Maciek416 16y ago
Here's some more data from Mozilla's own testing setup: http://arewefastyet.com/?machine=5 Where JM+TM stands for "Jagermonkey + Tracemonkey". It looks to be gaining on V8 and Apple Nitro pretty fast, considering the timeline involved.
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by Maciek416 16y ago
This could present a significant barrier to reliable online shopping for clothes. It'll be interesting to see in the coming years, as more of these retailers offer online ordering (GAP is finally offering their catalog to us Canadians, for
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by Maciek416 16y ago
I'd like to know how much obesity is caused by a structural "finish everything on your plate" problem. By this I mean the tendency of certain folks to finish everything that is served, no matter what their hunger level is. Also, I've heard
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by Maciek416 16y ago
There's a similar service, myus.com , which accomplishes this for non-US residents.
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by Maciek416 16y ago
I've seen this type of markup produced by in-browser WYSIWYG editors that don't inspect the existing DOM/markup for redundancy when applying various styling commands. In some dramatic cases, you would see alternating re-wrappings of (strong
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by Maciek416 16y ago
The boy's gaze is made to point up and to the right to make it look (from our angle) as if he's facing the actress playing the game, but given that this isn't a holographic star trek TV, she's seeing the same picture we are.. Which means th
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by Maciek416 16y ago
A few years ago Bruce Sterling gave an interesting talk about the future of materials science, among other things. One of the highlights of the talk is his discussion of "mining the dumps". These metals won't go away that easily. In many ca
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by Maciek416 16y ago
This technique is somewhat reminiscent of Dazzle Camo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage What's interesting is that Dazzle camo is typically used to confuse the visual systems of human beings, not computer vision, but some of
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by Maciek416 16y ago
It doesn't seem to show a market cap or number of issued shares. Does anyone here know either of those numbers?
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by Maciek416 16y ago
A popular desk amongst many technical people I know for many years was IKEA's "JERKER" desk. It was well-known to be extremely sturdy -- able to hold very large CRT screens -- and relatively inexpensive in most countries. There were a coupl
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by Maciek416 16y ago
Wow, this is a tremendous piece of news. Not only is Canvas supported, but a huge list of other impressive standards-related stuff as well. To boot, there will be support for ES5. I'm not up to date on where the other browser-makers are at
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by Maciek416 16y ago
This is a pretty remarkable service, but there is one awkward caveat mentioned in the article: "Unfortunately, because of licensing restrictions, we can only offer Mass Effect 2 for play under Windows. So, if you do not have access to a PC
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by Maciek416 16y ago
I'm beginning to think that linguistic prescriptivism is going to have a hard time holding up against the crazy mixing bowl that is the Internet and, to a wider extent, globalization. It's fun to play grammar nazi and all, but I've started
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by Maciek416 16y ago
I've got a name fairly unfamiliar to many speakers of English, ("Maciej", or "Maciek" in the everyday diminutive form). There aren't any invalid characters in it, but I have on several occasions had it re-written or transcribed by a human b
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by Maciek416 16y ago
Without getting too politically-charged here, I find their association of the word innovation with patents to be awkward. While there's no question that some of these same metro areas would appear in the top right of any chart claiming to
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by Maciek416 16y ago
I guess the truck-load of revenue isn't sufficient because investors still expect Microsoft to push fresh and innovative products. They certainly have the people and the business units to do it (look at all the ideas that Microsoft Research
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by Maciek416 16y ago
John Hessler's blog, where he actually discusses methods for the cartographic analysis mentioned in the article, can be found here: http://warpinghistory.blogspot.com/ Here's a sample map made by the mapmaker Mateo Prunes (3200x1800): ht
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by Maciek416 16y ago
I tried to generate a "massive" amount of data, but I hit the script CPU usage warning pretty quickly :). Have you tried using Web Workers or perhaps timer-chunking your data generation loop?
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by Maciek416 16y ago
Actually, what you say touches on one of the reasons why Node is exciting for js coders. Working with Node's callbacks for I/O feels a lot like working with jQuery's XHR/animation callbacks. It's a consistent flow that will feel familiar fo
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by Maciek416 16y ago
It's cool that you're trying for basic API compatibility with Node, and it would be neat if you could make use of some of the libraries that have been written for Node. The only problem with that is that some code written for Node is alread
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by Maciek416 17y ago
They demoed this at jsconf this morning and it was quite impressive. They did a side-by-side comparison between the NPR iPad app and a sproutcore-powered equivalent in mobile Safari. The browser clone looked and ran great, and actually had
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by Maciek416 17y ago
This is amusing and absolutely true. The small town (population: 120,000) that I grew up appears on Google Maps before NYC or Washington are visible.
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by Maciek416 17y ago
I can't imagine there are that many companies out there who are making products like this. Nike+, Runkeeper, Garmin.. Who else? Having only ever used one application like this, Runkeeper, I find it interesting how similar it looks to Runkee
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by Maciek416 17y ago
One significant advantage that Selenium seems to have is that it accepts CSS3 selectors as target element patterns. Chickenfoot has XPath, but not CSS3. A bit of a bummer because this otherwise looks like it will be fun to play with.
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by Maciek416 17y ago
Like others are mentioning, Javascript is clean, familiar, easy, and has some compelling language features to boot (closures, JSON, etc). Cultural norms and design patterns in Javascript Land increasingly orbit around projects like jQuery.

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