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by bprater 8y ago
From their FAQs: >> How big would a modern CPU be at this scale? >> The Apple A8X, found in the iPad Air 2, contains about 3 billion transistors. (This is comparable to the number of transistors in modern desktop computer CPUs a
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by bprater 9y ago
I'm a software engineer and hobbyist cinematographer. This camera is meant for people like me. The reason for a camera like this is to open the tool set up for active development, in a way that traditional camera-makers haven't op
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by bprater 9y ago
While it's accurate that cine cameras use a human focus puller, its an oversight in this cameras engineering not to include a way to drive the len's focus or the aperture. (Blackmagic's early cinema cameras used these 'd
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by bprater 11y ago
You may have not noticed it, but the benefits of film have been going extinct this decade. Check out how many feature films are shot digitally versus on film. Unless you are Spielberg, you are shooting digitally. Currently, there are small
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by bprater 11y ago
Philips uses ZigBee, so you'll have to add the cost of an expansion board.
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by bprater 11y ago
Unless it was an industrial-sized drone, I don't see it doing much damage to a helicopter. Helicopter blades carry an enormous amount of energy in them. There are stories of Vietnam-era military pilots using the rotor's blades to
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by bprater 11y ago
How does someone like John Carmack continue to find passionate areas of interest for himself? He's still painting pixels on a screen, but he seems to continue to explore parts of his programming palette that excite him -- most recently
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by bprater 12y ago
12 years is the middle years for a career programmer. Enough to know what patterns aren't serving you, and enough to know that there is still a bunch to learn.
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by bprater 12y ago
Effective and also scary. That same video feed could be archiving (for eternity) every single citizen's movement, action, or even words: "Citizen #5135: In 2015, spit on sidewalks 28x this year, jaywalked 49x, etc..."
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by bprater 12y ago
How long does the system send out: "Are you alive?" messages before it sends out the logged message? What if a family needs more immediate access to the data?
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by bprater 12y ago
If you want a comprehensive read on this topic, check out the book Code by Charles Petzold: http://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softwa...
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by bprater 12y ago
"21 December 2012" was the proposed date of the Mayan Apocalypse. So the end of the world would have been a few month early.
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by bprater 12y ago
LIDAR -- that's related to driverless vehicles. I wonder if this might have implications in that space?
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by bprater 12y ago
Interesting how 'meh' the comments are. I thought that building live APIs on the web looked pretty amazing.
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by bprater 12y ago
Jeremy Allair and his brother invented the Coldfusion programming language, later bought by Adobe. Bright dudes!
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by bprater 12y ago
Knotted wood is much more challenging to split. Even with a hydraulic splitter, chunks of wood with lots of branches can stall a machine pressing with tons of force. Great demo, but unrealistic unless you only chop beautiful limbless tall o
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by bprater 13y ago
The article is light on 'What is Typescript'. Can someone explain what TypeScript is?
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by bprater 13y ago
"With this technology, it's conceivable that 5G wireless could displace both cable and DSL connections within a few years, as is claimed in the presentation." A few years?! This statement should give landline data providers,
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by bprater 13y ago
I. Don't. Get. It. You only get one good chance to make an impression. And although I see a lot of products blowing up my webpage, I have zero context about how anything works or why I should care. Guys, if you are building something y
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by bprater 13y ago
John Carmack coming in as CTO probably added $25M to that figure. Regardless, Oculus's concept is the future of gaming -- anything that can trick the brain so substantially is going to be a winner.
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by bprater 13y ago
Think fractals...
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New H.265 codec on test – 4k TV may be here faster than you know it(eoshd.com)
7 points by bprater 13y ago|2 comments
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by bprater 13y ago
The 'superbowl' of the game mentioned in the article -- League of Legends is happening tonight at 8pm PST. Watch the event here: http://na.lolesports.com/ I've been a gamer all my life and this game keeps hoo
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by bprater 13y ago
Recently, Own3d.tv shut down. Twitch immediately picked up the slack, and many top-tier gamers started streaming there. Often, you can find top gamers getting 10k-20k viewers as they play games like League of Legends and Warcraft.
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by bprater 13y ago
It's just data. Good luck vacuuming it up from every crack of the Internet.
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by bprater 13y ago
The Canon 18-55 is actually rated pretty highly at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Canon-EF-S-18-55mm-3-5-5-6-II/dp/B000V... I own a video production company where we exclusive use DSLRs, and the 18-55 is a great beginner's lens. Here's the
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by bprater 13y ago
Fascinating way to view the development of an app. I'd love for more developers to do this!
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by bprater 13y ago
The main UX design miss is that, as a user, you don't have any context where you are in the stream of videos. You also can't tell if you are moving left or right with the videos. It ends up feeling frustrating to me. One of the more curious
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by bprater 13y ago
If you've never seen the it before, it's worth going outside to check it out if you are in the right areas. Saw it when I was younger in Missouri, pretty spectacular!
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Futuristic Handheld Stabilizer Could Change the Filmmaking World(blog.vincentlaforet.com)
1 points by bprater 14y ago|0 comments

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