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by bd 16y ago
If we got extinct, I'm pretty sure we would like to get cloned.
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by bd 16y ago
All this sounds reasonable. Though given how huge proportion of all crimes goes unsolved (even violent crimes are just about 45% "cleared" [1]), it also makes sense that ones who got caught will be on average less smart than ones who got aw
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by bd 16y ago
The effect of intelligence may be even harder to assess reliably - are smarter people simply committing less crimes or are they just harder to be found / convicted?
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by bd 16y ago
The key to Akihabara performance is small number of actual pixels being drawn/computed. Resolution of game's <canvas> is just 320x240 (check "view image" in Firefox) which is then blown up by browser renderer to 640x480 (in a same w
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by bd 16y ago
Mark Pilgrim's "Dive into HTML5" book draft: http://diveintohtml5.org/ ppk on JavaScript: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/contents.html Mozilla's documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/HTML5 CSS3 Preview: http://www.css3.i
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by bd 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS ? It wouldn't be much of cold war if both sides didn't have missile navigation systems. Also China seems to be building their own: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compass_navigation_system
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by bd 16y ago
Also it could be that people who misspell these terms are easier to monetize.
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by bd 16y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, I just added quick and dirty permalinks.
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by bd 16y ago
Periodic table shows colors of elements (I used ones from Jmol). No exports yet, though in Firefox you can save any canvas element as PNG just by right clicking on it. Maybe for other browsers I could add PNG export via data URI. Proteins a
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Show HN: CanvasMol molecule viewer (JS + canvas demo)(alteredqualia.com)
72 points by bd 16y ago|11 comments
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by bd 16y ago
Here is my quick attempt to reproduce the effect just with CSS2 and transparent PNGs: http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/css2-spotlight.html It's still a bit buggy around the edges, but it's much faster than CSS3 one. Plus it works al
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by bd 16y ago
Is it because of government related jobs? "So you lived in the imperial seat in the US, the one are where 75% of people are working for the government (directly or indirectly), and the one place that actually GREW during the current recess
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Spiral optical illusion: JS canvas rendering demonstration how it works(alteredqualia.com)
1 points by bd 17y ago|0 comments
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by bd 17y ago
Flash can do both vector and bitmap graphics (which is BTW much faster than current canvas implementations, even in fast browsers like Chrome [1]). Adobe used canvas probably because you can redo vector graphics with a decent performance
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by bd 17y ago
Whenever "vector look" is not what you aim for. One huge example is games - vast majority of games use bitmap graphics. Or if you want to do some pretty data visualizations like heatmaps. ---- Edit: Here are some examples showing what fast
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by bd 17y ago
Different use cases. It's like why there is a need for both Illustrator and Photoshop. SVG is great for vector graphics but for fast bitmap-based graphics you need <canvas>. You do not want to handle bitmaps where each pixel is an
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by bd 17y ago
I did a very simple game on GAE in its early days and the biggest trouble were very costly writes. Basically you could forget about applications that needed to write game state to datastore in each step. Even the simplest possible writes we
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by bd 17y ago
Are you ready to process 15 petabytes of data that LHC is expected to produce annually? http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/Computing-en.html
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by bd 17y ago
As far as I'm aware, MetaFilter users are pretty much ok with this way of supporting the site (they were actually asked before implementing this [1]). In fact, it was frowned upon posting affiliate links with users' codes. [1] http://metat
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by bd 17y ago
Well, considering this is a game design class , it's actually quite clever. Also, details do matter: instead of Farmville it could be more like Dungeons & Dragons where professor is your dungeon master.
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A Dramatic Demonstration of the Power of Mental Frames by Simon Singh [video](youtube.com)
36 points by bd 17y ago|15 comments
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by bd 17y ago
For the moment, Reddit is using Cassandra just for persistent cache, which implies high read/write ratio. Also it seems most of reads are done from the memory anyways (they mentioned 6GB RAM for 94% of their database in old memcachedb setti
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Fate of a Social Games Company: The story of what happened to PMOG(raphkoster.com)
2 points by bd 17y ago|0 comments
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by bd 17y ago
" According to the conservative media watchdog group Family Safe Media, the porn industry makes more money than the top technology companies combined, including Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Amazon." No way. Let's keep things in perspectiv
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by bd 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_and_change
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by bd 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortality
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Effort shock: how the Karate Kid ruined the modern world(johndiesattheend.com)
158 points by bd 17y ago|71 comments
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by bd 17y ago
How do you know if the site has changed if you are using adblock? What about people that are using a computer with adblock already installed? If, for example, your site has a community and ads are indeed "of legitimate interest", your com
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by bd 17y ago
NotebookCheck has much better review: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Lenovo-Thinkpad-T410-252...
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by bd 17y ago
5 days ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1142424 8 days ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1138142

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