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Encrypted messaging library based on ZeroMQ(code.google.com)
2 points by niktech 15y ago|0 comments
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Looking Around Corners using Femto-Photography(web.media.mit.edu)
2 points by niktech 15y ago|0 comments
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by niktech 15y ago
I've had the experience of embedding Awesonium as a GUI system for an educational game/project I worked on back in college. http://sourceforge.net/projects/learn-cnc-game/ The project is based on the Quest3D engine, so a wrapper had to be
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by niktech 15y ago
Great idea! If only searching on your site brought up exactly the same themes as searching on Themeforest (eg: searching for "Landing Page" on Themeforest returns 150 results while doing the same on TheThemeList brings up just 6).
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IPad App Gives Pilots Cheap Synthetic Vision(wired.com)
4 points by niktech 15y ago|1 comments
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Watching 3D TV by stimulating eyelids with electrodes(youtube.com)
1 points by niktech 15y ago|0 comments
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by niktech 15y ago
I actually own the domain NewCircles.com and was working on an idea very similar to what Google has done here (including group video chat) but with emphasis on users finding and joining NEW circles instead of just organizing existing friend
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by niktech 15y ago
The Powerfood Nutrition Plan: The Guy's Guide to Getting Stronger, Leaner, Smarter, Healthier, Better Looking, Better Sex With Food! http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1594862354/ref=redir_mdp_mobil...
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The Oiling of America (2000)(westonaprice.org)
1 points by niktech 15y ago|0 comments
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by niktech 16y ago
I've never heard of Houdini so I had to look it up (it's a purely procedural 3D animation package): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houdini_(software) Here is their demo reel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leJks6ay4tg Apparently Maya, So
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by niktech 16y ago
SFU was replaced with SUA in Vista. SUA supports more of the POSIX standard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
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by niktech 16y ago
This approach is higher performance, officially supported by Microsoft and comes with all Ultimate Vista/7 installations. Cygwin runs as a user-mode app that emulates the POSIX environment using the underlying Windows APIs. SUA is an integr
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Run any Linux application natively on Windows (Vista and 7) without Cygwin(informationweek.com)
14 points by niktech 16y ago|13 comments
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by niktech 16y ago
Why not do it behind the scenes? Simply use the existing MD5/SHA1 hash as input to bcrypt and update all password hashes in your database in one go. Then, whenever the user logs in you first apply the old hash function followed by bcrypt be
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by niktech 16y ago
You can also take 1. to the extreme and write a mini-OS from scratch. Bootloader and all. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1605119
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by niktech 16y ago
Very interesting. Eagerly waiting for Node.js bindings.
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by niktech 16y ago
I used to work there a few years ago and now I work at a 'big, boring organization', as some might call it. Having interacted with people who've been at EA most / all of their careers, I can enumerate the following reasons why they stick ar
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Lord of War, full movie now on Hulu (US only)(hulu.com)
0 points by niktech 16y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Using 5-drive RAID 0 array as another cache layer
2 points by niktech 16y ago|1 comments
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by niktech 16y ago
How is Tokio Cabinet used? I was trying to find code that uses Tokyo Tyrant to interface with Tokyo Cabinet but didn't find any. I did find a compiled tokyocabinet.o object file - does anyone know where/how it's used since it's not compiled
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by niktech 16y ago
I realize that running Node on top of the .net runtime will probably be significantly slower than running it on top of the highly optimized V8 engine, but some perf numbers would be interesting nevertheless.
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Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity(hulu.com)
10 points by niktech 16y ago|7 comments
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by niktech 16y ago
Direct link to an iPhone watchable video: http://vimeo.com/channels/carsonifiedtv#10506751
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by niktech 17y ago
I've also been working on something similar. It's a small world we live in.
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Ask HN: Using Cassandra instead of MySQL from the start?
4 points by niktech 17y ago|1 comments
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by niktech 17y ago
In related news: The truth about user perception of Flash finally emerges: http://i.imgur.com/xbA8W.png
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by niktech 17y ago
The way Adobe handled this issue just goes to show how terrible their QA and bug triage processes are. Personally, I've been withholding from using Flash blocking plug-ins because I always thought that it would take away from my experience
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Microsoft fixes IE vulnerability(microsoft.com)
1 points by niktech 17y ago|0 comments
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Everything you wanted to know about corn syrup sweeteners(sweetdisguise.com)
2 points by niktech 17y ago|0 comments