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by greggman 10y ago
The average commute in Tokyo is 80 minutes on an extremely packed and uncomfortable train with lots of sick and often smelly people. Urban density is not in and of itself a solution traffic
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by greggman 10y ago
This probably doesn't matter but one of the advantages of WebGL is it's just OpenGL ES so porting to it is relatively simple. On the other hand all the big engines already support multiple backends so adding another for yet anothe
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by greggman 10y ago
There's a market imo for a full solution that includes front end and entire backend including deployment, seemless scaling, seemless upgrading, seemless backups, seemless local dev, seemless staging, etc. 99% of web apps need the same
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by greggman 10y ago
The problem with those listings is they count by the city's full area and not just the urban area. So for example Hong Kong is often listEd low. Go to HK and you'll quickly understand why that way of measuring is wrong.
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by greggman 10y ago
The hb-1 visa does require the same salary same as norway http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/h-1b-employers-what-w...
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by greggman 10y ago
Just making sure you know you can read your messages at messenger.com and avoid the rest.
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by greggman 10y ago
Interestingly the Constitution gives no real power to the Supreme Court. It wasn't until the mid 1800s that the Supreme Court's powers were semi instilled http://www.wnyc.org/story/giggly-blue-robot
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by greggman 10y ago
Cute but just in case this is an extremely inefficient way to display this kind of data both inefficient in speed and in memory. It also fails in firefox because the algorithms for sorting 3D css are not specified. Or if they&
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by greggman 10y ago
I'd be curious to know of that's true. Japan has it everywhere and by everywhere I mean porn manga in every convenience store in the country of which about 3% depicts acts with children. Does Japan have a higher rate of real incid
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by greggman 10y ago
Uber sounds pretty evil > The FTC claimed that Uber was advertising an annual median income of over $90,000 per year for uberX drivers in New York and more than $74,000 for uberX drivers in San Francisco. But, as the commission found out
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by greggman 10y ago
And yet I'm told by other security minded people I should epoxy over my USB ports. So which is it?
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by greggman 10y ago
For me it's which browser am I least likely to get my machine owned. I'll be happy to switch back to Firefox when they aren't near the bottom of that list. http://www.cvedetails.com/product/3264/Mozi
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by greggman 10y ago
What's your definition of rich white people? Just curious. AFAIK I've never met any "rich white people" of the type portrayed in nearly every Hollywood movie about school (high school or collage). I'm not saying the
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by greggman 10y ago
That's great. I wish we could figure out how to change the culture in general though. Some cultures in the world value smarts. USA culture generally does not
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by greggman 10y ago
Hmmm, so as cars get cheaper (no driver needed) maybe we'll see mobile billboards by the thousands. I wonder how many other possible unintended consequences there will be
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by greggman 10y ago
Been 3.5 year for me. I hate it. I hate being isolated. I hate going for days without seeing anyone (they're at work and have families after work). I have done many personal projects but they are not as fulfilling for me as team projec
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by greggman 10y ago
Many games have these issues. Dev equipment for unreleased devices the need to stay locked away, for large games multiple terabytes of data updated daily.
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by greggman 10y ago
It's not free. You must own an iDevice or a Mac to use iCloud and worse if you pay for one device you get 5gig. If you pay for 2 you don't get another 5gig
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by greggman 10y ago
> In fact you could argue it's in the best interest of drug companies to keep us sick! This assumes there's only one drug company. If company A's medicine heals me an company B's medicine does not then I chose company
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by greggman 10y ago
I've seen lots of examples of luck. This is not to suggest that tenacious people wouldn't succeed in some way or another but only that their current positions would be different. Some good examples: Ed Catmull in his own book ment
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by greggman 10y ago
I'm going to shamelessly push http://webglfundamentals.org
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by greggman 10y ago
I don't want to dis shaders on shadertoy, they are amazing toys (which is why it's called shadertoy). And, that shader you linked to is amazing as well. But, for example on my 2015 MBP it runs at 8fps in a tiny sub portion of a wi
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by greggman 10y ago
AFAIK WebKit2 does not use a separate process for graphics. Graphics calls go directly into whatever api is appropriate (CoreGraphics, OpenGL). Where as Chrome that's not the case, all OS/Driver level graphics happen in the GPU pr
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by greggman 10y ago
AFAIK the difference is Safari is not as secure as Chrome. Chrome's multi-process security comes at a cost in that pretty much everything a webpage wants/needs to do needs to be shuttled between processes. All network request, all
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by greggman 10y ago
Where can I get a free OSX machine?
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by greggman 10y ago
I'd take the opposite stance. Where's the critical thinking from the people who've drunk the VR kool-aid. I know not a single person that has 9x9 to 12x12 sq ft of space to dedicate to room scale VR. On top of that, having pl
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by greggman 10y ago
I worked at Naughty Dog, shipped Crash Team Racing and worked for 6 months on Jak & Daxter. These are my understandings. If someone there as different recollections I'm happy to be corrected. The LOD system in Jak & Daxter was
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by greggman 10y ago
Is any service better? Apple Pay?
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by greggman 10y ago
I actually did get phished by this. I think I just got lucky I had 2fa on and they didn't phish that too http://blog.greggman.com/blog/getting-phished/ The worst thing is I don't know how to help my less
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by greggman 10y ago
Here's a great old animation on this topic https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxucpPq6Lc

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