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by jcl 16y ago
Wow... I wonder how far we are from having a marketplace for widely Liked sites to sell their ability to post to their audience. (Unsavory startup idea!)
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by jcl 16y ago
In a wonderful illustration of the article's thesis, the song is also unnameable in the New York Times -- even as a matter of record. Fortunately Wikipedia has no such inhibition, so historians won't need to guess at the song title. :) ht
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by jcl 16y ago
I'm not sure if this helps in your particular case, but I believe some of Exposé's functions are mapped to four-fingered multitouch swipe gestures on the touchpad (up and down).
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by jcl 16y ago
In fact, Native Client started as a browser plugin for Firefox, so portions of it certainly could be integrated into other browsers. However, the developers have moved from the plugin to direct browser integration to overcome limitations i
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by jcl 16y ago
Hmm... The Wikipedia article for the circle-drawing algorithm indicates that while it uses the same error-accumulation strategy as Bresenham's line-drawing algorithm, it was not actually invented by Bresenham. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by jcl 16y ago
True, you need to find enough hours, but it doesn't need to be 40 hours a week. The article lists her yearly total as greater than $200,000; while that means she is only working 10-15 hours a week, it still compares favorably to other "pro
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by jcl 16y ago
I haven't been able to find such a quote from eight years ago, but the same logic doesn't apply to the iPod... You can play any MP3 file you want on an iPod without Apple's approval, and playing MP3s is arguably the iPod's primary function
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by jcl 16y ago
It's also reminiscent of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier in WWII who was commanded to carry out guerrilla tactics in the Philippine jungle. Believing reports of the war's end to be an Allied deception, he continued to attack and raid the l
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by jcl 16y ago
For what it's worth, unpainted marble has a much higher degree of subsurface scattering (light diffusion within the material) than a painted surface does, which makes it a more lifelike approximation to flesh -- deemphasizing surface detail
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by jcl 16y ago
ActionScript is not JS plus sugar. ActionScript 3.0 adds statically-typed variables and class-based inheritance. A good compiler can use these additional constraints to produce better code -- performing more like Java than JavaScript. It
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by jcl 16y ago
You are assuming that the only thing preventing Flash from working on mobile is that it hasn't been "optimized" enough -- that opening the source to Google and Apple will unlock performance otherwise unattainable by Adobe. But suppose Adobe
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by jcl 16y ago
I guess the article's author wants us to contrast the puerility of the director's apps with the fact that it's his job to decide which apps get rejected on the basis of content. But maybe this is exactly the kind of person one would want in
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by jcl 16y ago
An interesting article nonetheless. The "failed" attempts at least suggest that the perceived slowdown is not simply a matter of your brain processing information faster -- that it instead stores more superfluous information than normal. S
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by jcl 16y ago
I also wonder if they will be painted white, as in the illustrations. Most pylons I've seen are unpainted, presumably to minimize maintenance costs.
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by jcl 16y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't Oracle's Java patents apply to .NET implementations as well? Apparently, they cover fairly generic virtual-machine-acceleration-and-security stuff.
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by jcl 16y ago
Or that a player will plow through all the vowels early, and -y-- doesn't match many words.
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by jcl 16y ago
The Android platform itself is free, but, as I understand it, important software written for the Android platform needs to be licensed by handset makers: the Google Maps app, access to the Android Market, etc.
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by jcl 16y ago
The difference between the App Store and the Android Market is that the latter is not as actively policed. The Android Market has a fairly restrictive content policy, which (among other things) prohibits "promotions of hate or incitement o
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by jcl 16y ago
I think the point of his link was to show that OSX contains easter eggs, implying that Apple is being hypocritical by including easter eggs in their own software while rejecting iPhone applications that include them. But this reasoning is f
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by jcl 16y ago
Apparently the author isn't happy with the messiness of his current build process, but plans to release the source eventually: https://code.google.com/p/android-apktool/issues/detail?id=7...
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by jcl 16y ago
As a side note, if you enjoy playing Minesweeper but don't like losing to a bad guess, you might want to try the implementation in Simon Tatham's puzzle collection: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ Unlike most other im
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by jcl 16y ago
Obviously, the author is advocating pet rental. OK, maybe not. But perhaps this represents an unfulfilled need in the marketplace? You can certainly get some benefits of having a pet without having it live with you long-term (or hospitals
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by jcl 16y ago
It's one thing to record the signatures of open wireless networks in a given location. But, from what I hear, Google was also recording the payloads of the packets it intercepted. I can understand people being upset by this, especially if
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by jcl 16y ago
There is a write-up on the history of US health insurance here: http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/thomasson.insurance.healt... As I understand it, employer-sponsored health insurance is not required, but it is expected in many jobs. Acco
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by jcl 16y ago
Thanks for that note. I had no idea you could access pressure-sensitive events in Javascript, but it seems Wacom installs a browser plugin to expose a Javascript API (I assume that is how the app is getting it). http://www.wacomeng.com/we
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by jcl 16y ago
It is the same in the US: http://www.google.com/search?q=irs+independent+contractor+te...
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by jcl 16y ago
Good job; it looks amazing... That one's my favorite (although the tunnel is also nice).
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by jcl 16y ago
There was some analysis posted when the article originally appeared on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1227936 As I understand it, the trig calls are just to establish the camera position and direction. The rest of the calculatio
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by jcl 16y ago
they claim to not have any DRM, registration, pingbacks, etc. If you read what they wrote, they made no statement at all on pingbacks. They define what they mean when they say the game is "DRM-free". And since this definition does not p
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by jcl 16y ago
90% seems to the rate everyone comes up with when they actually measure it, judging from various independent games blogs and feedback from acquaintances in mobile gaming. I wouldn't be surprised if the rate holds for AAA titles as well. On

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