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by fhd2 13y ago
Is it just me, or is the photo a rather unlucky pick? I'm seeing roughly 20 people, sitting in what is essentially a dark cellar. It would be completely colourless, if it wasn't for a handful of bizarre, childish gadgets here and there. I c
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by fhd2 13y ago
> Actually, fossil fuel power plants release more radioactive waste than nuclear ones. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power#Comparing_radioac... . That surprised me, but I didn't mean to say that fossil fuel power plants ar
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by fhd2 13y ago
> If you look at the numbers you'll see that nuclear energy is the safest and cleanest scalable energy source we've got. It's the energy source that has the fewest deaths per MWH produced, it doesn't produce CO2, etc. etc. How about nuc
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by fhd2 13y ago
I can confirm this, works just fine in Germany and ambulances are free (i.e. covered by mandatory health insurance). And even if it would be abused - which I really can't imagine - I'd much prefer 100 idiots free riding to the hospital to o
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by fhd2 13y ago
> Let's run with that reasoning for a minute. That means that they did a study and found not only that the Let's Plays were costing them sales, but also that the lost revenue was small enough that it would be more profitable to keep the
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by fhd2 13y ago
> It's a stupid move by Nintendo. Definitely not nice, but stupid? I'm not sure about that. I have some doubts that Nintendo (being usually very good at not making their community angry IIRC) would do this without reason. Can we rule ou
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by fhd2 13y ago
> Is C/C++ the next wave of web development? asm.js is certainly not targeted at writing web applications in C or C++. It's more about supporting arbitrary languages and getting existing native code bases (e.g. libraries and game engine
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by fhd2 13y ago
> I think that the whole asm.js thing has got people more people confused into thinking that they can't build fast applications in regular JavaScript I don't think you can blame asm.js for this. It's not targeted at web developers and r
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by fhd2 13y ago
I'm not entirely sure myself, but it seems to be a bit more involved than that. I recently came across a thread [1] discussing how to add support for Objective-C and it seems the approach is to compile the Obj-C to C++... I think only C and
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by fhd2 13y ago
I see two big issues here: 1. "Sane" is highly subjective. There is no single optimal language for all problems and audiences. 2. Pushing a new language to all major browsers is hard, like you said. Maybe even impossible, several huge corpo
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by fhd2 13y ago
Here's a version that's not Chrome-only: http://jsfiddle.net/eymAS/21/ I've been wondering why I keep hearing that the DOM is supposed to be slow. Don't people mean to say that rendering (i.e. mostly CSS) is slow? This fiddle is certainly