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by bd 16y ago
What’s the worst that JavaScript might actually do, based on the sites that are out there? I'm using NoScript since I barely escaped from being infected by quite sophisticated malware few years ago. Innocent site (local public transport)
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by bd 16y ago
"But I feel that Flash is still going to keep it's hold on Browser based games for a long time, since hardware acceleration is going to be a must for games that need more power then JavaScript can provide." That's where WebGL comes into p
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by bd 16y ago
Quote from my friend (who earns his living doing Java development): "Java is COBOL of nineties. Future generations of programers will fly here from the Moon to piss on our graves for inflicting it upon them."
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by bd 16y ago
Aha, so that's probably why JavaScript timers on Windows have around 15ms accuracy: http://ejohn.org/blog/accuracy-of-javascript-time/
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by bd 16y ago
You didn't read carefully - not Sunspider, V8 benchmark: Firefox 3.6.4 494 IE9 1200 Safari 5 2644 Opera 10.54 3393 Chrome 6.0.437.3 5148 Saying that Chrome is 10x faster than Firefox on
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by bd 16y ago
This is getting silly. It's fantastic that we finally got canvas in Explorer, but people are putting too much weight to one demo designed to highlight one particularly well performing feature (HW accelerated image draw on canvas #). This ha
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by bd 16y ago
Are you sure about HW acceleration of canvas? I didn't find any mention of this in release notes. I just ran few of my canvas demos in IE9 preview and while being pretty fast, they didn't seem to be HW accelerated. Performance seems to be r
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by bd 16y ago
This is almost a perfect example of "sick system" (or how to keep people in abusive work/personal relationships): Rule 1: Keep them too busy to think. Rule 2: Keep them tired. Rule 3: Keep them emotionally involved. Rule 4: Reward
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by bd 16y ago
A more interesting picture would be one where all of the even numbers are omitted. I made canvas renderer to check it: http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/ulam-spiral.html It's not checkerboard, but there are horizontal and vertical
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Selling $20 bills for a hundred dollars - Max Bazerman on negotiation(mfinley.com)
31 points by bd 16y ago|4 comments
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by bd 16y ago
Don't worry, there will be loaders with HTML5. When your application uses a lot of assets, it's pretty much unavoidable, independently of underlying technology. In fact, it's probably going to be worse, at least at the beginning, as JS curr
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by bd 16y ago
Here is a description how it was done: http://mrdoob.com/blog/post/695
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Water Type by Mr.doob(mrdoob.com)
1 points by bd 16y ago|1 comments
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by bd 16y ago
If you liked Primer, check also Timecrimes: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480669/
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by bd 16y ago
Here are comments from the previous time this was posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1055968
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by bd 16y ago
Don't worry pink buddy, help is on the way: http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~inky/internets/epic_box.swf
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by bd 16y ago
Yep, I also remember Blockout fondly. Way more fun than Tetris, despite being much less popular.
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by bd 16y ago
About slowdowns. Which browser/OS do you use? I know I have troubles on Firefox on Windows 7. I do compensation for actual elapsed time, but unfortunately this doesn't help when setInterval fires too late (in FF I can get occasional "jump"
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by bd 16y ago
Yes, a good point. I confirm, also in my experience problems are very dependent on particular sound files. Some work perfectly fine, some make troubles. And it's not just encoding, it seems to be dependent also on what's inside the sound fi
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by bd 16y ago
Probably they didn't use canvas for the same reason as Google (for their current Pac-Man logo game): DOM based renderer will work on more browsers. Canvas emulation for Explorer is not very fast. This may not be a problem for chart-like app
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by bd 16y ago
Unfortunately Flash is currently pretty much unavoidable if you want sound effects in JS games. I experimented with <audio> tag in HTML5 game few days ago: it's fine for media player type applications (where you play longer sounds w
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by bd 16y ago
This made me curious to check his actual work. It seems like math and music is not always a winning combination: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZazYFchLRI (Metastasis) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yge7GNl5p_k (Psappha) http://www.yo
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by bd 16y ago
Disaster is probably too strong word, but given current browser and operating system share Google's new fonts are much less useful than they appear to be. Despite what it may look like according to most vocal people on the web, great majori
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by bd 16y ago
On Windows 7 it looks the same (ugly aliased) everywhere (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, Explorer). On Windows XP it's even uglier (according to BrowserShots screenshots linked upthread). On Ubuntu, Chromium and Firefox are pretty, Opera d
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Show HN: CubeOut - remake of classic game Blockout in HTML 5(alteredqualia.com)
2 points by bd 16y ago|0 comments
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by bd 16y ago
No need for rigging the system, few simple rules and many individual actions can produce complex behaviors. New queue on reddit moves very fast - currently the oldest item is just about 7 minutes old. It's very easy to go unnoticed by targe
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by bd 16y ago
Explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg
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by bd 16y ago
Ouch, this is very disappointing. O3D was technologically better approach than WebGL. JavaScript is a perfect scripting/glue language, but unfortunately it still sucks at numerical computations. Yes, even with all the massive progress that
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by bd 16y ago
Following YouTube's related videos trail - this is based on Argentinian political ad which won the silver lion in the Cannes Lions Ad Festival in 2006: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFz5jbUfJbk
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by bd 16y ago
Here is a very similar effect in canvas: http://29a.ch/2010/3/24/normal-mapping-with-javascript-and-c...

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