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by othello 16y ago
Thanks ! It's actually really smooth in Chrome, Opera and Safari even in larger windows. It's as if Firefox was rescaling the canvas without hardware acceleration.
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Falldown Game in less than 1K of Javascript(js1k.com)
27 points by othello 16y ago|10 comments
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by othello 16y ago
Woz' interview in Founders At Work seems to confirm that Jobs played a major part in many design decisions on the initial Macintosh, especially the removal of extension slots: We had a real argument over slots. (...) Steve said, "All peo
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The Cybernetics of Black Knights(thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com)
2 points by othello 16y ago|0 comments
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by othello 16y ago
Certainly not, the high degree of decentralisation in Germany predates post-WWII by at least a century. [1] Before it was unified in 1870, Germany was made of a number of small independent kingdoms, loosely associated through the Holy Roman
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by othello 16y ago
the writing system is terrible in comparison to any alphabet system This is a common misconception (which I shared until I studied Japanese). Writing a sentence may be more of a hassle than with an alphabet based system - and even that wo
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by othello 16y ago
I feel the author really meant that it's ok not to be obscenely rich. Of course having a sizeable amount of savings is important for all the things you described. Yet the "low six-figures" income of her first example is probably largely s
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by othello 16y ago
If this delivers on its promise, couldn't it preserve Flash as a standard for video delivery online? Cutting bandwidth costs for video websites could be a significant incentive to slow down HTML5 adoption and keep Flash in the game a little
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by othello 16y ago
"Graphics driver" still sounds too complex. The code was probably poking bytes to the memory segment mapped directly to the display - just like in DOS days, where each byte of the 0xA000 segment represented a pixel when using a VGA 320x200
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by othello 16y ago
Why is it so surprising that a German movie on the last days of a German historical figure be shot in German ? A majority of the worldwide mindshare you are referring to do not think in English. Yet they do watch Hollywood movies in English
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by othello 16y ago
Thank you ! Procrastination becomes much harder when HN does not provide a continuous flow of interesting distraction.
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by othello 16y ago
Actually, French pops in at #24, right before Japanese at #30. Hence #1 Spanish, #2 French, #3 Japanese, #4 Sign Language.
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by othello 17y ago
I beg to differ. You could argue that the advances in technology since 1995 (while substantial, notably in IT) do not compare with the breakthroughs accomplished since 1810. Although we do enjoy faster and more mobile access to internet and