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Thermoelectrically Pumped Light-Emitting Diodes Operating above Unity Efficiency(physics.aps.org)
2 points by fridek 15y ago|0 comments
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by fridek 15y ago
If one could write a fit function that returns a value correlated to the meaning of such random image, some genetic algorithm could be used. Also, this would be a perfect project to finally nuke copyright on images. Could also work with ran
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by fridek 15y ago
Eval breaks both JIT[1] and garbage collection [2] (unless used very carefully). It also affects Google Closure Compiler [3]. What is even better - it won't ever be fixed, at least not in the terms of performance. [1] http://echo.nextapp.c
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by fridek 15y ago
Some of the tests they link prove the opposite of what they say in the slides. Also, saying that eval is not evil is evil.
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by fridek 15y ago
I'm just saying that it's a very silly protection. It's not like piranhas, more like having a moat full of herrings. For me it's this kind of protection that says "hey! there is something interesting here" but is not really preventing anyon
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by fridek 15y ago
I'm very suprised that they keep some secret, custom gear in a semi-public shared data center. What exactly prevents no-googlers from wearing their own headlight or using a flash in camera?
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Learn Three.js by writing 3D Tetris(smashinglabs.pl)
18 points by fridek 15y ago|0 comments
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by fridek 15y ago
I think that you should consider if your opinion is the opinion of statistically significant number of users. From what I know, wordpress.com has millions of users and only small percent take part in such discussions. Can it be because most
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by fridek 15y ago
The submission is dead now, but just in case ;) http://www.smashinglabs.pl/3d-tetris-with-three-js-tutorial-... Part 2 is also online and part 3 is ready to be released on Monday,
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by fridek 15y ago
I was thinking about CFA mosaic and JPG compression, I think these may introduce some axis aligned artifacts. But maybe they took it into account (using raw format?) or effect is not relevant in this case.
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by fridek 15y ago
Have you considered that this pattern may be a result of camera internal structure rather than structure of objects?
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by fridek 15y ago
It's inspired by Blockout. There is a lot to improve, but there is a little potential in such game. I was rather considering turning it into a tutorial, it's around 500 lines of code and may be a good, simple introduction to WebGL games. Wo
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by fridek 15y ago
I'm thinking if I should check ground hit better or disallow rotating blocks wildly ;)
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3D Tetris with WebGL (Three.js)(github.com)
23 points by fridek 15y ago|10 comments
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by fridek 15y ago
Demographics are my age and gender, not my tablet and interest in specific products. It's not very hard to see what you did there...
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by fridek 15y ago
After 4 pages of unrelated marketing research questions I've closed the page.
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by fridek 15y ago
Great story and the game is looking good. Do you plan to release your algorithm (as a code or paper)? I wonder how much does it take to check if a level is beatable.
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by fridek 15y ago
You should consider adding badges. For example: wasted 4+ hours on 9gag/facebook in one day.
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by fridek 15y ago
You should've written it in Dart or CoffeScript. That would be even more trendy and pointless. Please, don't repeat good projects without making any improvements. And do NEVER use jQuery only to say that you use it.
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by fridek 15y ago
You might want to read this review from one of buyers: "This isn't really the place for this comment but I have to say it...Haven't read the book yet but I thought I would check it out as I could borrow it free with my Amazon Prime account
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by fridek 15y ago
You may want to watch this: http://www.webofstories.com/play/17152?o=SH Don't use something because it's cool, use it when you're sure why you should.
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by fridek 15y ago
Few months ago a similar game was released on Android: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rejectedgames.isla...
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by fridek 15y ago
These demos run perfectly well on my Intel card. There are also interactive music videos like http://www.ro.me/ or http://lights.elliegoulding.com/ which are running fast enough. OpenGL ES is almost the same as OpenGL, the only feature
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by fridek 15y ago
Now we are getting somewhere ;) Graphics are not an issue, physics may be. Still, you would be surprised how fast compiled JS can be. It requires some discipline but if your code is good, performance is not that bad. And some data structure
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by fridek 15y ago
I'm using Google Closure to get rid of the bad parts, but still it's not very good. I did some testing with game AI, graphics and so on - JS is far from perfect for such things. Maybe it's a lack of tools, maybe of some features I was used
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by fridek 15y ago
Yes you can. Have you seen Team Fortress 2 in WebGL? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQrC5YLKFUY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmvj6-CFbbA JS is not very pleasant to code with, so writing an actual game logic could be a bit painful, but
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by fridek 15y ago
It's JIT compiled and WebGL shaders are compiled as well. It is a native code executable on CPU, read how Crankshaft in V8 works. It's true that JS is at the moment N times slower than C++ (N in range 1 to 10). It's not true that you need
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by fridek 15y ago
WebDirectX was rather humorous thing, but the point is that if IE would support any API, we could write some wrapper and actually let things work. Now it's as you said, only hacking. There is not much money (equals manhours) involved when t
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by fridek 15y ago
This is 2D and done in coffescript which sounds like cheating ;) 3D math is not that simple and it has to be done really well. I look forward to see a good 3D physics so if anybody has found/done it, please share.
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by fridek 15y ago
And there is no operator overloading, so you have to go with prefix notation. It's not that bad unless you want to write something like GJK collision detection. I actually do, so you see why it annoys me so much.

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