ken_railey

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   by ken_railey 15y ago

   Unfortunately, the PayPal of today is a far cry from Peter Thiel's original vision. It was supposed to be an extra-governmental currency more akin to something like bitcoin, until Ebay got ahold of it. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A
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   by ken_railey 15y ago

   Public works also destroy jobs, since the wealth to fund them has to first be extracted from the public.
3. 33.▲
   by ken_railey 15y ago

   Yes, but in the grand scheme of things doom usually is right around the corner.
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   by ken_railey 15y ago

   The shader language is called AGAL, here is an intro: http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2011/04/intro-to-adobe-...
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   by ken_railey 15y ago

   The situation is not quite so cut and dry, I think. AS3 was supposedly intended to be an implementation of ECMAScript 4, which was derailed by the (ECMAScript 3.1) Harmony project. Also, I believe the Tamarin AS3 compiler used by Adobe is