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by bd 16y ago
"But really, an IL that doesn't support integers? An IL where a member field access may involve looking up a string in a hash table instead of being a single machine instruction? Propose that as an IL to a compiler guy and they'll laugh at
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by bd 16y ago
If you are on Windows, I heartily recommend TortoiseGit: http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ It's like permanent cheat sheet right where you need it.
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by bd 16y ago
There was an excellent presentation about real life social networks by Paul Adams from Google making similar observations: http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ...
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by bd 16y ago
People will tell you things ... This is a topic that: a) people really like to brag about, b) it's hard to separate "hanging around" hours from really productive hours, c) even if you can distinguish those, it's a major pain to accurately
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by bd 16y ago
As the official video is currently down, here are some examples from AlternativaPlatform which are using these new APIs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m053MqzstVg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgwi0lWgX8w
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Molehill - Adobe's new HW accelerated 3D APIs for Flash(labs.adobe.com)
46 points by bd 16y ago|15 comments
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by bd 16y ago
Does this mean human beings can effectively prevent ice age? These are supposed to be cyclical, so it's pretty much guaranteed sooner or later we will have to face one.
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by bd 16y ago
Nice perspective, I can easily imagine finding one janitor with PhD in 200K town. There is absolutely nothing surprising about this (in contrast to seemingly high 5000 PhD janitors in the whole US).
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by bd 16y ago
Hacking on mrdoob's Three.js / WebGL: http://alteredqualia.com/tmp/three/three-obj-3.png http://alteredqualia.com/tmp/three/examples/obj_convert_test... http://github.com/alteredq/three.js
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by bd 16y ago
While it's not crazy fast, it's perfectly playable on my Thinkpad (Core2 Duo 2.4Ghz, 4GB RAM, Radeon 3650, 256 MB, DX11). I even put up almost all graphics settings to max. About the only time when rendering is really slow is in diplomacy v
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by bd 16y ago
You are right. According to Wikipedia, SAT 1600 (post-1995) is 99.93 percentile, so about 1 in 1429 (3.4 standard deviations). Given that there are millions of people taking SAT, in absolute numbers there should be plenty of people hitting
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by bd 16y ago
Not all successful people have very high SAT scores, not all people with very high SAT scores are successful, but I would guess among very successful people there will be disproportionately many people with very high SAT scores. Anecdotally
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by bd 16y ago
When I updated Ubuntu in VirtualBox, I got X-Windows completely broken. This helped: "If you are testing Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat in VirtualBox, you may notice that guest additions are not working, it seems that the problem is the new
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by bd 16y ago
It's interesting how negative were comments on the original post about the redesign. HN can be very tough crowd to please :)
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by bd 16y ago
Don't feel bad, it's just how cperciva rolls :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083
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by bd 16y ago
"Even if you're not looking for a job, we'd love to hear what you thought about the challenge." I would be curious how many people did you lose because of phonecall requirement (before you changed it). Also CSV for just a list of 22 numbe
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by bd 16y ago
Do you really trust Myers-Briggs tests so much? "Studies have found that between 39% and 76% of those tested fall into different types upon retesting some weeks or years later" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator#Rel
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by bd 16y ago
Curiously, company site [1] seems to be already pretty old (all info points to 2006, domain was registered in 2004) and it describes pretty much the same technology. So New Scientist got it wrong when telling startup was founded just now to
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by bd 16y ago
If ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, does it also mean that animals see world more like babies (and vice versa)?
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by bd 16y ago
I guess it could be because IE9 is probably built upon new APIs that came only in Vista, where Windows switched to HW accelerated windows management (which was pretty fundamental system-level change): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_D
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by bd 16y ago
Unfortunately I'm afraid some fragmentation is going to happen, though not necessarily around browser axis. This is actually a deeper problem. It's not about standards, it's about performance. "Old" web (where old is almost anything up to j
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by bd 16y ago
I just ran it through usual menagerie of browsers (Win7 - CH, FF, SF, OP, IE) and Chrome was the only one with really bad performance (surprisingly even on HW accelerated canary build). It's quite refreshing to see MS guys pointing out perf
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by bd 16y ago
There are actually quite a few such sites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Game It's one of these concepts that keeps poping up independently at many places (there used to be edit wars at Wikipedia pages about manual versions
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by bd 16y ago
Interesting factoid - boss in the story was not just some random Wall Street dude, it was D. E. Shaw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Shaw
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by bd 16y ago
Zynga can have absolutely crazy growth on launch. FarmVille was growing few million users a week. Also keep in mind interactive multiplayer games with persistent state are different beasts compared to usual web applications. Games are very
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by bd 16y ago
Surprisingly, this is the first time this article was submitted to HN. It was already discussed here before (with many comments), but it was submitted as a comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=619197
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by bd 16y ago
Did you already try to update GPU driver? I had really bad crashes (high pitch noise, bright white flash, driver killed) on Firefox 4 and Chrome 7 when they started to use HW acceleration and problems went away after the update. Though this
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by bd 16y ago
Atari 800 XL. Mostly playing tons of games, a little bit of BASIC. Nice side-effect: I learned English earlier and better than my peers. Being stuck in a game was perfect motivation, dictionary was always at hand (thank you Adventure).
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Zynga And Facebook Are Killing Soap Operas(businessinsider.com)
1 points by bd 16y ago|0 comments
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by bd 16y ago
I don't know, there are some slight differences in canvas font renderers between Firefox and Chrome even in unaccelerated browsers. Try to use exactly the same font settings as in Bespin. It may be that "10px Arial" is ok but "0.9em sans-se

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