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by bd 17y ago
The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly c
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Jesse Schell’s mindblowing talk on the future of games(fury.com)
159 points by bd 17y ago|33 comments
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Average Social Gamer Is a 43-Year-Old Woman(gigaom.com)
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by bd 17y ago
I just tested FF3.5.7 and it's noticeably smoother than FF3.6.
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by bd 17y ago
Rearranging is quite fine, it's crossfade and zoom that is very jerky on my notebook. I suspect it could be something about transparencies. Firefox has long tradition of slowdowns when dealing with alpha-channel transparency, especially whe
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by bd 17y ago
The animations are so smooth. Unfortunately not in Firefox, at least for me (FF3.6 / Win7). Especially this test was horrible: http://razorjack.net/quicksand/demos/one-set-clone.html Chrome, Safari and Opera performed much better. Even
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by bd 17y ago
A lot of people grew up in 80s with computers used primarily for games. I was a kid in glory days of 8-bit computers (Atari, Commodore, Sinclair). There were many many millions sold of those. So yes, many precocious youngsters of my generat
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by bd 17y ago
There seem to be many theories, people even write books about this: "For over 100 years, research on the Moon illusion has been conducted by vision scientists who invariably have been psychologists specializing in human perception. After r
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by bd 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse :)
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by bd 17y ago
I wonder if results would be different if cooperation would result in a loss (as opposed to merely smaller reward). Psychologically, it's much easier to forgo additional reward than to give up what you already have. People have tendency
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by bd 17y ago
Thinkpads used to have IPS displays (FlexView). Lenovo stopped offering them as they could not procure a reliable supply. http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=75 They did look considerably better: http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/1
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David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 min(ted.com)
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by bd 17y ago
Exactly. Check how Pinboard differentiates itself against Delicious: http://pinboard.in
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by bd 17y ago
It depends on how they computed average life expectancy. Due to high infant mortality, life expectancy of survivors can be in fact much higher. "Life expectancy is heavily dependent on the criteria used to select the group. For example, in
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by bd 17y ago
I'm not aware of any such research either, yet the possibility that people which would later in life develop serious illnesses have higher chances to die as infants in harsh conditions does seem like a plausible explanation of apparent be
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by bd 17y ago
This is orthogonal. One guy getting in a better shape after diet and exercise is quite expected. Whole society being virtually free of big bad diseases is, on the other hand, extraordinary claim: "When it comes to the top 10 health risks f
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by bd 17y ago
"My guide told me that they have a 50% infant mortality." This would explain "the secret of longevity and perpetual health" - quite literal survivorship bias.
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by bd 17y ago
There were many other similar installations, see for example here: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=3d+building+proj... Edit: BTW based on author's comments on Vimeo, the first video (top right) in the original post is indeed f
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by bd 17y ago
I would guess multiple projectors, an accurate 3d model of the building and skillful art direction. You project a video-textured model of the building over the real building. There were some other videos of similar installations floating ar
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by bd 17y ago
I don't remember details, it happened already some time ago. It was actually quite sophisticated malware - heavily obfuscated, assembling itself from pieces spread all around the world, jumping through several hoops of compromised servers.
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by bd 17y ago
"Firefox forces you to download an executable and then manually run it, so a user would be conscious that he or she is installing a program." Unfortunately not. I already encountered malware specifically targeted to Firefox that was fully
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by bd 17y ago
Nonsense spam messes with adaptive spam filters. They learn bad rules, thus it becomes harder to identify real spam. ---- Edit: I don't know how effective it really is, but this seems to be the motivation for why spammers at least try this.
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by bd 17y ago
The ability to work hard seems to be even more talent-based than being smart. Executive functions [1] are supposed to be highly heritable, more so than the intelligence [2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_functions [2] http:/
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by bd 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001 See in particular the most recent paper from NASA (November 2009): Life on Mars: New Evidence from Martian Meteorites "New data on Martian meteorite 84001 as well as new experimental studie
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by bd 17y ago
Yes, framerates do matter, but other things matter more. There is a tradeoff of what you are going to use your computing power for - do you want pretty or smooth? As explained in a linked article from Insomniac Games, majority of people pre
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by bd 17y ago
Independently of line height, it still looks much better indented.
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by bd 17y ago
Here is hacker's blog (hosted at PirateBay's blogging platform): http://igigi.baywords.com/ He seems to be on a crusade against bad security practices - RockYou was just one out of many sites he hacked (other sites are mostly Czech and Sl
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by bd 17y ago
There are some inaccuracies in BBC report. Here is what happened according to Slovak news [1]: Slovak police was training explosive sniffing dogs at Poprad airport. They planted several samples of explosives in passengers' luggage (90 grams
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by bd 17y ago
Their source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427344.800-mini-ice-... Some more details in the ESF press release: "Geological evidence shows that the Big Freeze was brought about by a sudden influx of freshwater, when the glacial
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by bd 17y ago
"The entire industry of pick up technology is based on the premise that there may be a technique that can successfully attract a woman." As far as I understood, the real point was not there is some magic bullet that can attract any partic

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