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kibibu
12y ago
As fast as physically possible means "as fast as allowed by physics". It's all physics!
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12y ago
I hadn't really considered foveated rendering on mobile, but that's a very interesting idea.
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12y ago
RAGE is doing substantially more of everything than Quake III, so I think the difference between Quake III from 1999 and RAGE from 2011 is a poor parallel to draw with iOS6 to iOS7. A better comparison is that Windows 8 runs faster than W
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12y ago
So you collided with a stationary vehicle, and it's entirely their fault?
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12y ago
I'm not convinced that's how the split works - I don't think I've ever heard the phrase ".NET programmer", for example, and it was originally a desktop tech. See also: "App developer", "Java deve
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12y ago
> Hopefully in a month I'll have lost this weight I think it's important to have realistic expectations here - 20kg in a month is a massive weight loss, and you're setting yourself up for failure if that's your goal.
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12y ago
This IMO has a much better UI than TimeMachine's. It lets you see all your backup tasks in one spot, rather than having to "Select Disk", and it has 100% less space gimmick.
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12y ago
I believe for the action scenes in 300 they recorded the whole lot at 120fps and selectively dropped or merged frames to get back to 24fps
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12y ago
Couldn't restaurants ask for some form of id for bookings that match the ones available on RestaurantHop?
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12y ago
> What if the internal code incorrectly stores the fruit in a temporary file? Genuinely curious - how would you write a lower-level unit test to account for this? If my "testAddFruit" method directly hits the temporally flimsy
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12y ago
And Linus Torvalds
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12y ago
> He-said-she-said, bleh Documented by text messages in the complaint
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12y ago
The argument that Python is "second best in more things" seems like a poor one to me, because it doesn't account for the size of the gap between first and second in some cases. For one anecdote - during my PhD studies, I knew
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12y ago
I was curious too, so here's a jsPerf: http://jsperf.com/check-for-undefined-argument On Chrome 35, looks like comparing to void 0 is a bit faster. Would love some more samples though.
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12y ago
This is a new feature launched by one of the biggest web brands there is, so presumably theres no back catalogue.
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12y ago
> Which is an OK trade-off for certain situations (like reading your game data from disk). Although in some cases this is how your fancy-pants console security gets busted. See: http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Twilight_H
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12y ago
Encourage everybody you know to vote for an alternative. In particular, though, don't tell Abbott voters how terrible they are for voting for him. People will get defensive and actually strengthen their views under criticism. ( http:&#
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12y ago
Presumably "Cheese Pizza" is slang for child exploitation material?
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12y ago
I love this sort of thing: > Be warned that 50 million digits of pi takes up 50 megabytes. This can take up to 4 hours to download with a 28.8k modem!
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12y ago
For window management, BetterTouchTool lets you do Win7 style window snapping.
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12y ago
In 2006 it was competing with DailyMotion and Vimeo at least.
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12y ago
YouTube wasn't super huge when Google bought them though, I'd suspect twitch has bigger brand recognition now than YouTube had then.
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12y ago
How many times did they have work-stopping outages before CC?
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12y ago
I'm sure your words are comforting to those graphic designers who missed print deadlines due to this outage.
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12y ago
No braces?
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12y ago
It also has an entire repeated sequence, which is very strange.
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12y ago
I didn't even realize it scrolled until I saw your comment and went back.
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12y ago
> assuming the map walk operator is bidirectional, which it isn't, but should be You shouldn't necessarily be able to walk off a cliff and then turn around and walk back up it.
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12y ago
If you want your mind totally blown, view the source of this page.
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13y ago
Many of the students in the class got through those prerequisites with, say, 70% on the final exam. That means they have a very tenuous grasp on much of the content, and so teaching with at least some overlap with the prerequisite is usef
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