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by bd 16y ago
Gmail uses Flash (Adblock shows block Flash thingie). ---- Edit: upon further inspection, it seems Gmail indeed does use Flash [1], just for a different part of the upload process (progress bar?). Drag and drop is only supported in Chrome a
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Scenes from Street Fighter 3 & Alpha in autostereoscopic 3D on iPad [video](youtube.com)
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by bd 16y ago
Please ignore the bad reporting / marketing spin and focus on what actually Chrome team did. The change is significant and important. It doesn't really matter that your current web applications will have more or less the same speed. Remov
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by bd 16y ago
Google revenue per employee is $1M+. Their profit per employee is about $300K. And keep in mind this is across all employees (including non-engineering staff).
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by bd 16y ago
Here are my results (Win7 64b, Core2 Duo 2.4 GHz): Minefield 4 b6 9737.7ms Opera 10.62 14490.8ms Chrome 7.0.517.5 dev 18375.4ms Firefox 4 Beta 5 21721.1ms Safari 5.0 22168.6ms Fire
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by bd 16y ago
The Up Arrow usually scrolls the page up. I could suppress it with preventDefault(), but this wouldn't work in Opera. I'm therefore hesitant to enable it. Maybe it's better to enable it, so that Opera users would complain and it would fin
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by bd 16y ago
If you are squeamish and like figs, this may comfort you. According to a comment in the original post, majority of commercial ones do not contain insects: "Only some kinds of figs (so called 'Smyrna' types) are pollenated by wasps. The vas
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by bd 16y ago
I do a lot of experiments around the edge of browser performance (and also regularly check other folks' demos in multiple browsers). Benchmarks are not completely representative to "real world" performance. There are always some areas which
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by bd 16y ago
Not a book, but Trolltech (makers of Qt) has nice recommendations for API design: http://doc.trolltech.com/qq/qq13-apis.html
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by bd 16y ago
It works in IE7 (pretty fast), just all particles have the same size.
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by bd 16y ago
This reminds me of this very very deep Mandelbrot fractal zoom: "The final magnification ... is 6.066e+228 (2^760)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foxD6ZQlnlU
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by bd 16y ago
It seems the author likes to use variable names to encode messages: - "Biyubi" looks like his nickname (on his chess site [1] contact mail is "biyubi@gmail.com") - there is also "o, S, C, A, R, T, G" which are his first name and surname ini
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by bd 16y ago
Maybe some font problem? How do you see chess symbols in Wikipedia page? It's possible to have missing or corrupted Unicode font (once my Arial got broken and I had to get it somewhere from the web).
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by bd 16y ago
It was recently updated (colors and anti-missile-spam feature): http://js1k.com/demo/670 Also cool to see other HNers participating (I made two 1K demos and one tweet). Some of my favorites (not mentioned yet): Wobbling tunnel: http://js
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by bd 16y ago
This technology is actually pretty fast. Drawing images is so fundamental for browsers that it tends to be heavily optimized. If your hardware runs well Google Maps, it will run well this engine (and also the other very similar one - Aves f
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by bd 16y ago
It's harder to tell when you watch just 3d because eyes can adapt pretty well to low light. I removed my 3d glasses while watching the Avatar to check how it looks. It was indeed much brighter and afterwards 3d felt quite dim (for some time
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by bd 16y ago
Technologically it looked very well for its time, but mostly it stand out as a game with "character" (art design, levels, weapons, sound effects, voice acting, writing). It was so cheesy and over the top that it became masterpiece (like Tar
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by bd 16y ago
More details in The Wall Street Journal: The game is being finished by Gearbox Software and will be published by Take-Two Interactive, publisher of the Grand Theft Auto series. The game is currently expected to ship in 2011, although giv
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by bd 16y ago
There were quite a lot of comments about this yesterday when announcement on Google blog was posted (instead of the direct link): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646430
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by bd 16y ago
Mostly for grouping. In general I use SciTE for code, Notepad++ for everything else (I use zillions of text files). Two separate applications give two distinct icons in taskbar, allowing me to switch fast between two groups (as opposed to f
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by bd 16y ago
I posted this screenshot the last time similar question was asked: http://alteredqualia.com/tmp/img/dev.png It's more or less the same now, just the code is different. Usually I have open at any time: SciTE, Notepad++, many browsers, Pyth
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by bd 16y ago
If only :). There are ways how to get around cross-domain security restrictions. Long ago, I have done it myself by a simple server-side proxy here (few lines of PHP): http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/evolve/ About Globe Genie optim
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by bd 16y ago
Now that would be clever. Though playing the demo with one eye on Task Manager shows only two processes (for the whole duration) - one hovering mostly around 50-60% CPU load, another at 0-5%. Checking this with my CPU intensive demos, this
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by bd 16y ago
Very cool, though it would be about 114% better if they used just normal divs inside a single window. If you manage to navigate away from the browser, good luck restoring the state. Also why to spoil beautiful content by putting chrome (low
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by bd 16y ago
I don't understand your comment. I wasn't trying to figure out how it was done, I was trying to figure out how to do it fast (irrespective of the present implementation), responding to the question: "I wonder if there's a faster way to do
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by bd 16y ago
Sampling bias. Try normal Google Maps, zoom out to see the whole world. Drag yellow StreetView dude, you will see blue overlay showing StreetView coverage (ignore isolated dots, these are Panoramio photos). You will see that South Africa is
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by bd 16y ago
Completely random drop would fare really bad (street view is very rare compared to Earth's surface). What I would do is a sort of "computer vision". Map has well defined colors for features, so you just need to check pixels with proper shad
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by bd 16y ago
Small world, I created a page referred to in the bug report :). Yes, Chrome's memory management got better [1] and Firefox's got worse (at least relatively, they know about the problem and made some improvements [2], but meanwhile other bro
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by bd 16y ago
Are you sure? I just made a quick test and it works ok in FF, Opera, Chrome, Safari, IE9 (Windows 7, Ubuntu 9.10): <body style="background:url(image.png)"> <span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0)">Hello world</span>
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by bd 16y ago
Somehow Firefox became the slowest kid on the block, simply by not improving as fast as others (FF4 is better, but unfortunately change is smaller than I hoped for). Which is really pity, it's still my primary browser and has a lot of good

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