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by ender7 15y ago
From my wikipedia dive: the Voyager spacecraft are powered by "radioisotope thermoelectric generators", each of which is essentially a barrel full of plutonium spheres. As the plutonium decays, it generates heat. The resulting heat differen
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by ender7 15y ago
What kind of performance increases could we see if we simply added type annotations to Javascript? Would this give the VMs a significant boost? Something like AS3 (Harmony) syntax: var foo:int = 3; var bar:string = "A nice string";
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by ender7 15y ago
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Ad+Hominem+Tu+Quoque [edit] This relates to your point because you are literally one click away from knowing the definition of such phrases. It is no great burden to ask that you occasionally Google phrases that peopl
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by ender7 15y ago
I opened my inbox today with an e-mail from my mother: Subject: I LOVE THE GOOGLE HALLOWEEN IMAGE!!! XXXOOOXX, Mom I think people greatly underestimate the value of the Google doodles. They give off a sense of honest friendlines
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by ender7 15y ago
1. Change this page [1] to have a single, canonical tutorial. Just one link. You can have links to other resources and third-party guides further down, but there should be one awesome entry point into "how to get shit done with Twisted". 2.
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by ender7 15y ago
I don't understand why there seems to be so much confusion as to how node works. Here's my mental model: 1. The basic part of the system is a single thread running an event loop. It has a queue of waiting events. Every time the event loop s
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by ender7 15y ago
No offense to the Twisted guys, but after developing a project using Twisted, you could not pay me to do so again. Their documentation is a joke, they managed to completely gunk up their architecture with a crudely bootstrapped attempt to s
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by ender7 15y ago
This (along with the Filters spec, with has a lot of overlap) are quite welcome for me. - Real drop shadows! It turns out that many modern UIs have objects with irregular shapes. box-shadow only does...boxes. Not terribly useful. - Real glo
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by ender7 15y ago
Apple's in a tight spot here - either they leave things as they are and piss off developers (and, by fiat, piss off users), or they have to start forcing users to more proactively manage their remaining space. One can probably easily imagin
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by ender7 15y ago
Oh man, does mentioning the name of famous people or parties count as partisan now? How exactly would you like your news? "A party tried to vote on a bill today. A leader of that party said it was a good idea." Since HN is targeted at the s
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by ender7 15y ago
Apple has also demonstrated (many times) that it is willing to use its patent portfolio aggressively, not just defensively.
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by ender7 15y ago
This kind of stuff is par for the course when developing for web iOS, sadly. To get truly good easing functions, you usually have to write your own (the built-in ones in CSS are limited and rarely look good). Scrolling the page disables ALL
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by ender7 15y ago
All right guys, this is getting absurd. I am having a ton of fun using NodeJS to actually build stuff . It's fast, it's scalable, it's maintainable, it's great. Yet another pants-on-head troll has decided that NodeJS is a crime against his
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by ender7 15y ago
While the ability to write your own shaders is awesome, I'm actually most excited about the built-in options. The ability to add a non-crappy (read: not a simple box) dropshadow with one line of CSS makes me jump for joy. If they pull this
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by ender7 15y ago
So, this may be a silly question, but what exactly are you doing that's going to use so much freakin' CPU? Situations where blocking is going to be an issue: 1. You have roughly equivalent CPU usage per request, which means that you just ha
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by ender7 15y ago
I've been tempted to write rants like this before. Ryan's point seems particularly centered around Unix, which makes sense. My experience of trying to get stuff done in Unix has taught me that it is a really powerful, extremely well-thought
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by ender7 15y ago
You are correct. This article is misleading on many levels. A CSS pixel is ALWAYS the exact same thing as a screen pixel, unless: 1. The browser's view has been "zoomed". This can occur on desktop browsers or mobile browsers, although it's
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by ender7 15y ago
If you are still in radiology, I'm not surprised by this. Radiology is one of the few times that you can be a doctor and expect to work something like a 9-5 day. There are other ways to have a decently normal life as a doctor, but on averag
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by ender7 15y ago
This is really awesome. Reminds me of a game a friend and I back in college for stylus tablets that was essentially Pokemon, but where you had to draw your Pokemon before you could battle with them. This was for a class in pen stroke recogn
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by ender7 15y ago
Some of these are really welcome changes for me (native JSON, bezier curves, TLS sockets, DisplayObjectContainer.removeChildren). And yet... And yet I'm still planning on switching my web app to HTML5. This is coming from a guy who's sunk o
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by ender7 15y ago
It's easy to start filtering yourselves into the camps of "the rich are too rich, tax them!" or "the rich earned their money, you have no right to take it away!". Then you can yell at each other from across great echoing divide until the su
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by ender7 15y ago
The feasibility of a giant, easily hit target that is vulnerable to almost all forms of attack makes its use as a military vehicle a little questionable to me. Obvious civilian uses, though.
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by ender7 15y ago
Flash's general architecture makes it a lot easier to create things like 2D games. You certainly can write great games in JS, but it requires a helluva lot more domain knowledge, as well as a lot more tweaking and hackery. Many things tha
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by ender7 15y ago
For one thing, the article is not suggesting that the climate change hypothesis is based on some random simulations that someone came up with (it's based on an incredibly rich amount of observational data, see final point below). He's talki
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by ender7 15y ago
But...why? Google makes money selling ads. It doesn't make money selling you support contracts for software that you've been locked into. From what I can tell, Android exists so that Google isn't at the whim of Apple. The big G's greatest f
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by ender7 15y ago
(disclaimer: I work for Google) I really don't understand this post. The author's argument seems to be: 1. Google won't share its trade secrets with me 2. ??? 3. Hey guys, I hear Amazon has some great cloud services you can pay for! Amazon
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by ender7 15y ago
However, their pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo about "what the eye desires" aside, Wired is right that people hate non-yellow light. Hate. This is a hard psychological limit. No amount of energy efficiency will get around it. If you make LE
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by ender7 15y ago
That's a false equivalence, though. China's "rules" are much worse than most of the "everywhere else"s. Thus, they will continue to have trouble attracting foreign investment. Which is, perhaps, exactly how they want it.
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by ender7 15y ago
This kind of uncertainty (will the government suddenly decide that my product is unworthy?) and lack of protection (copycat products will instantly abound) seems like it greatly discourages foreign investment in China. But...do they need it
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by ender7 15y ago
The following quote didn't really fit with my post, but I like it too much not to share it. Take heart! Your limitations are not as strong as might believe. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog,

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