MrScruff

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by MrScruff 14y ago
What the html platform is lacking? My last project was built around QT, OpenGL, CUDA and made extensive use of various C based linear algebra libraries and was ~20kloc of C++. I'm sure it could be reimplemented as a web app but it would b
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by MrScruff 14y ago
Compared to the way torrentfreak and techdirt treat the issue of intellectual property, John Gruber is an impartial observer.
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That would open Google to accusations of hypocrisy, no? http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/20/google-gundotra-video/
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The latest comparative performance of 2D drawing in one runtime vs another doesn't have anything to do with my argument.
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I'm just saying that the provision of video streaming as a web api is not a particularly technically interesting development. It's just a gradual beefing up of the browser as a thin client. And until support for the features are widespread,
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You obviously don't work in games...
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That argument works for anything, as long as you can convince the browser vendors to implement support for it and provide it as an api. So I would argue that's much closer to the definition of cherry picking an example.
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This is a fairly accurate depiction of the current state of the industry. It's fair to say that it's difficult to think of a good reason to stay in vfx other than that the work itself is so darned enjoyable.
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by MrScruff 14y ago
No. I happen to use anything. I am not against Apple, I am against the Apple fanboyism. And any type of fanboyism. 'Fanboy' is a pejorative term used on the internet to try and infer irrationality in others. It's like hipster. It doesn't
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by MrScruff 14y ago
With all respect, I have hard time seeing Apple laptops outside the US. Indeed. And where I am (also outside the US) I have a hard time seeing non-Apple laptops. Anecdotal evidence isn't really that useful when we're talking about global
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Their is a continuum between dance music and mainstream pop music in Europe in the same way their is for hip hop in the states. So it's not unusual for it to be played on standard pop radio stations.
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by MrScruff 14y ago
Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. If by acting in my best interests I mean 'checking available applications for security issues and API compliance such that they won't use my resources (battery, data) in unexpected ways', then I think you
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by MrScruff 14y ago
Will future civil servants temper their actions because they don't want to find their names in the middle of another shitstorm like this? I would agree with this statement if you changed it to read 'temper their actions against well conne
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I can't speak for the OP, but I imagine he wants some of the traits traditionally associated with an appliance (extremely low maintenance primarily) combined with some of those associated with general purpose computers (running software not
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by MrScruff 14y ago
We can all find articles supporting one view or another. I'm not sure if this discussion is headed anywhere useful though. You may regard the proceedings against him as 'nonsense', and 'clearly' an attempt at mudslinging. But in reality nei
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by MrScruff 14y ago
The only thing that's protected Assange from being bundled into a jet and whisked to a foreign jurisdiction is his high profile. The only reason you think he's at risk of being bundled into a jet is his high profile. If he'd used his tech
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I have no problem with some level of scepticism. However having read a number of articles from both sides regarding his alleged offences, I see no evidence of conspiracy. The fact that he is a celebrity cannot deter the Swedish authorities
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By your own argument Assange has elevated himself above criticism by putting himself in the firing line. Any reported failing, minor or serious, can be attributed to media bias/conspiracy and safely ignored. Isn't that exactly what the arti
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by MrScruff 14y ago
The benefits of instancing are felt more keenly in ray tracing because of the need to keep geometry in memory. If you're just dealing with direct lighting it's very easy to load and discard geometry as required as you rasterize the frame. O
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by MrScruff 14y ago
Consider an analogy. When we reason about the performance of algorithms, it's important to know both the worst case performance and the typical case. They're two separate bits of information.
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Linus probably has a similar amount of domain specific knowledge about being a prosecutor as Ortiz does about kernel hacking.
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I'm beginning to wonder if all the people preaching this 'Aaron died for your benefit so now you must suffer' line are Catholics. Taken to the extreme, this line of reasoning is what makes certain terrorist groups think killing random civil
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Really? 'Affiliation with MIT right now, even as a student, looks to me like affiliation with the Nazi youth.' Not unreasonable?
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by MrScruff 14y ago
If you are defending his comments. What a sad sad action. You're going to have to do a bit better than that if we're going to have a discussion...
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by MrScruff 14y ago
HN needs to "man up" and accept that the majority of the attitudes in the original post are exactly why things ended the way they did. What exactly do you mean by this?
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It's not fair to single out one individual, particularly when the not so subtle (and completely speculative) inference is that the discussion led to Swartz's suicide.
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by MrScruff 14y ago
I say shame on all the people creating throwaway accounts to sling mud around. 'Let's take a step back.' Techcrunch publish an article singling out a single negative post (among many more) on HN from 120 days ago, and suddenly the pitchfork
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And the witch hunt continues. This is all very reminiscent of the furore around the prank call nurse who committed suicide in the UK, with people calling for the unfortunate DJs to be charged with murder. I would have expected a more ration
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by MrScruff 14y ago
Sure... And if I display the exact same frame twice in a row at 48fps I get 24fps. So anything that 24fps can do, 48fps can do too. I'm not sure what your point is. If a film maker frame doubled 24fps and projected it using a HFR system n
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HFR is superior to 24fps in every conceivable way. Film makers have a wide variety of creative tools available to them to help them tell a story, of which HFR is one. We're talking about art, not a technical quest to reproduce reality as

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