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by dmaz 15y ago
Carmack has released id's previous engines, they're pretty interesting to read, and folks are still maintaining them. The technology ioquake3[1] is 10 years old now, but well-maintained as an open-source project. Darkplaces[2] is a heavily-
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by dmaz 15y ago
For more insight into McAfee's mind (and a bit of a "before" picture), take a look at Outside magazine's article from February 2008, "Flying John McAfee". http://outsidego.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=...
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by dmaz 15y ago
It's important to mention that for MasterChef, this was the season finale.
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by dmaz 15y ago
Not to be confused (as I was) with OpenSPARC. http://www.opensparc.net
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by dmaz 15y ago
It's been available on iGoogle for a while. Widgets can be "maximized", and some take on a denser UI, like this for Tasks.
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by dmaz 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2662694
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by dmaz 15y ago
Nice to see Samsung and LG on board with this, they're two of the AVC/H.264 patent holders. http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensors.aspx
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by dmaz 15y ago
"...the vast majority of processors in the coming decade will have no more than eight cores" I hadn't heard this figure before, but it sounds like another "640K should be enough". Although I do recall Intel predicting mainstream 12-core pro
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Revocation doesn't work(imperialviolet.org)
4 points by dmaz 16y ago|0 comments
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by dmaz 16y ago
The response says the server is "sffe". It seems to be used for static web hosting on android.com and providing HTTP error codes for other sites. I'm guessing it's running on the edge servers, but Google hasn't publicized what it is, that I
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by dmaz 16y ago
Looks like 10%[1], so Canonical gets 7.5% of the sale. For comparison Apple takes $0.29 per $0.99 song. [1] https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/join/comp...
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by dmaz 16y ago
Using it now, and yes, many animations run at a very low frame rate. More of the UI is built upon hardware acceleration, and it shows. I haven't used an iPad, but there are some pretty novel HCI concepts implemented here.
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by dmaz 16y ago
Not to mention those window UI mockups have been on the public Chromium wiki for around a year. (Without watermarks, too :) For the most part, Chromium development happens in the open. There are many interesting ideas, but more newsworthy w
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12 new file formats in the Google Docs Viewer(googledocs.blogspot.com)
136 points by dmaz 16y ago|34 comments
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by dmaz 16y ago
Quick takedown by Google. Lucky for the student, as he was easily identifiable through his .edu email address on the project. At my university I haven't seen anything this egregious, but students will use Google Code or GitHub for course pr
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by dmaz 16y ago
Nice to see an absolute scale in number of requests. It seems that the mystery device making 50% of the API calls was introduced or gained Netflix playback in October 2010 :)
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Internet 6.0 (2004)(technologyreview.com)
1 points by dmaz 16y ago|0 comments
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by dmaz 16y ago
Is this not a comparison of libvpx against itself using various parameters from GUI frontends?
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Dell Social Innovation Competition(dellsocialinnovationcompetition.com)
1 points by dmaz 16y ago|0 comments
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by dmaz 16y ago
Computer Modern helped me learning.
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World IPv6 Day(isoc.org)
2 points by dmaz 16y ago|0 comments
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by dmaz 16y ago
Not equivalent; HTML5 video is still being defined and is not yet in the mainstream.
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by dmaz 16y ago
The message is that Google is serious about making VP8 competitive. It won't be removing H.264 support from Android and YouTube anytime soon, but this certainly changes the HTML5 video codec battle.
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by dmaz 16y ago
Software Engineers, reduce or eliminate that caffeine intake.
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The cost of viruses for Google(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by dmaz 16y ago|0 comments
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by dmaz 16y ago
Russia primarily uses Vkontakte.
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by dmaz 16y ago
Russian humor can be challenging; I wonder what the story is behind the printout with the google.ru address and Steve Jobs.
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Android 2.3 to use ext4(android-developers.blogspot.com)
35 points by dmaz 16y ago|12 comments
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Event matching in Upstart(upstart.at)
1 points by dmaz 16y ago|0 comments
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Three ways for Ubuntu to help developers(mdzlog.alcor.net)
12 points by dmaz 16y ago|4 comments

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