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by abdias 11y ago
Found this a little ironic, in a funny way - the article was written in association with IBM. Funny enough, the movie 2001 which the article images are from, is hinting to IBM but in an obscured way. For example, the name HAL is IBM shifted
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by abdias 11y ago
Why not use it to find corruption in government - that would be much more useful for the most.
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NATO and MS team up to allow NATO to look for backdoors(ncia.nato.int)
10 points by abdias 11y ago|0 comments
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by abdias 11y ago
These are not the only magazines CIA funded. They where very active in the (radical) feminist movement and funded among other "Ms." and Gloria Steinem, who also was sent to Moscow for Socialist meet-ups, payed by the same. Also th
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Our love of technology risks becoming a quiet conspiracy against ourselves(theconversation.com)
78 points by abdias 11y ago|64 comments
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by abdias 12y ago
Ah yes, I think this was one of the first things I looked for this in particular at the first run when I just got my first Amiga. Brings back good memories!
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by abdias 12y ago
Additional details in this interview with Dave Haynie (raise both arms who remember Dave!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSyF_2OwN3I (about 7-8 mins, but for Amiga-vets it is an interesting interview in whole).
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Show HN: We miss the snow already, right? Lets get some in the browser(epistemex.github.io)
1 points by abdias 12y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Professional Particle System for JavaScript(github.com)
3 points by abdias 12y ago|0 comments
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by abdias 12y ago
It wasn't presented as evidence for any claim. "Apparently" isn't a claim. The correlations between the ideology and what happens with Facebook is synonymous though, so it's neither far fetched. But I guess you need
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by abdias 12y ago
Considering that Zuckerberg is a great admire of China and apparently socialism[0], it doesn't come to me as a huge surprise that these "ethics" are guidelines for Facebook. “I’ve also bought copies of this book for my collea
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Show HN: Fast and free Photoshop PSD reader for the browser(github.com)
3 points by abdias 12y ago|0 comments
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by abdias 12y ago
Maybe a silly question, but why not just export the illustrator file (when inside Illustrator) as SVG?
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by abdias 12y ago
This is a JavaScript retro context for canvas which help you produce "retro" looking graphics, such as non-aliased lines, indexed palettes (comes with retro palettes for CBM64, VIC20, ZX Spectrum and 20 others), low resolution, di
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Show HN: Retro Looking Graphics in the Browser (feature demo only)(epistemex.github.io)
1 points by abdias 12y ago|1 comments
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by abdias 12y ago
This is a hue/saturation/lightness wheel control, or color-picker if you like. It has plenty of options and can be adjusted in size and appearance. Being able to super-impose it on top of the image being adjusted was a key factor
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Show HN: Hue-Wheel for HTML5 browsers(github.com)
1 points by abdias 12y ago|1 comments
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by abdias 12y ago
I have discovered this as well. Although 100% of my own GitHub projects[1] are JavaScript, more than half appear as CSS due to the included documentation. Ideally, the project manager should be able to define the language composition in the
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by abdias 12y ago
I use them for timing functions such as various easeings etc. But also for graphics, though here I tend to use cardinal/catmull-rom splines more. Edit: I did make a JS implementation of the latter if anyone's interested (MIT): ht
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Show HN: Powerful 2D Transformation Matrix for JavaScript(github.com)
2 points by abdias 12y ago|0 comments
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by abdias 12y ago
True, it was approved by W3C and Tim Berners-Lee a while back ( http://www.infoworld.com/article/2612478/html5/berners-lee-a... ), and was criticized - understandably so. For instance: If someone do research fo
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A Simple Event System for Custom Objects in JavaScript (MIT)(github.com)
1 points by abdias 12y ago|0 comments
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by abdias 12y ago
If only voting represented quality and usefulness. Unfortunately, it's most of the time emotional. Throw in conformity and political correctness, and you have a powerful tool serving both.
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Sony threatens to sue Twitter(scribd.com)
71 points by abdias 12y ago|44 comments
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by abdias 12y ago
No, they don't want to join EU, twice by public election, to keep their sovereignty. However, through the EOES agreement, establish through political back-doors against the will of the people, they are in effect part of EU, but without
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by abdias 12y ago
What will snow do?...
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by abdias 12y ago
I believe it's based on what the brain considers valuable information (or necessary to determine the situation). When you drive a longer distance the first time it seems like a year. After driving the same distance plenty of times the
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Realstic candle-light flame using the new ParticleJS engine(epistemex.github.io)
2 points by abdias 12y ago|0 comments
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ParticleJS – Snow demo(epistemex.github.io)
6 points by abdias 12y ago|0 comments
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Real-time particle engine for JavaScript(github.com)
1 points by abdias 12y ago|0 comments

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