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akx
15y ago
Or you can let the browser do it for you. <canvas width="256" height="240" style="width:512px;height:480px"></canvas>
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akx
15y ago
I'm finding the light gray on white text pretty hard to read. EDIT: Not to mention there are places that could use some copy editing...
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akx
15y ago
The inversion example only inverts the R channel, then uses the uninverted R value for G and B...
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15y ago
>>> list(range(13)[::-1]) == list(xrange(12, -1, -1)) True
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Short and useful Python snippets - Stack Overflow
(stackoverflow.com)
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15y ago
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15y ago
And more often than not `xrange` is what one needs, not `range`. (Not relevant with Py3k though, but everyone is still in 2.x-verse.)
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15y ago
Some critique: I tried with a couple lengthier bits of code that JSLint happily eats and I get an "Illegal token" error with no coordinates or anything to help me. Ah well. Also not very happy with the custom scrolling in the source text ar
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15y ago
Yeah, that's sort of mind-boggling. Example: http://inform7.com/learn/eg/rota/source.txt
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16y ago
What is up with this naming thing anyway? Comet is a pretty well established term... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)
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16y ago
I just made this - a parametric sculpture generator for Minecraft - using Three.js: http://bit6.net/minetricks/minetricks.html
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akx
16y ago
Why not build it in pure AS3 instead of a .fla? This means people who don't have access to the Flash IDE or Flex Builder can't do diddly squat with it. Pure AS3 would enable use of the free Flex SDK instead.
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akx
16y ago
Oh the irony... I get a popover for SecurityWeek's "Free Subscription!" email briefing.
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16y ago
PC LOAD LETTER
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akx
16y ago
Qbasic on a 286.
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16y ago
Omena Hotels ( http://www.omenahotels.com/ ) does this in Finland in several locations, and it works very smoothly. If you reserve a room in advance, you pay online and get a keycode or you can also just do chip & PIN at the door if the
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16y ago
Firefox 3.6 too.
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16y ago
If you want to do Python web dev with something that's reasonably close to PHP (that is, not a lot of handwavey magic stuff or wiring), I heartily recommend Flask, http://flask.pocoo.org
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16y ago
This has actually happened -- with the spam mail following the same template as yours -- to at least three Hotmail accounts I know, one of which is my old account and the others my friends'. This was maybe three or four months ago, that is
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akx
16y ago
Hah, excellent. Now it does that for me too.
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16y ago
Excellent idea. I'm looking at the cpu tab now -- will probably apply to all tabs; how about a general "value" gauge that's the average of all values (for non-star data such as speed, cores and price, scaled to the full data set's minimum a
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16y ago
Yeah... taking a look at "en.svg" -- <image width="200" height="408" image-rendering="optimizeSpeed" ... So instead of letting the browser even attempt to do a good job at upscaling, the author is forcing it to not do that.
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16y ago
I tried 6 products I had at hand, no match for any of them...
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16y ago
Nirsoft has many, many good password recovery tools. http://nirsoft.net/password_recovery_tools.html