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by rsp1984 12y ago
I find myself so heavily disagreeing with almost every aspect of this advice, that I feel the strong urge to leave a response, although I did not intend to. >Having a co-founder is very important and necessary to achieve this goal becaus
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by rsp1984 12y ago
> WebGL 1.0 is almost 4 years old. OpenGL ES 2.0 was then latest and greatest. Latest and greatest for mobile yes but the desktop world was already on OpenGL 4 at that point. My whole point was that they could have just ignored mobile an
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by rsp1984 12y ago
It's a bit of a shame that WebGL settled for the lowest common denominator (i.e. OpenGL ES 2.0 capabilities). This was probably to enable WebGL on mobile devices that would have otherwise been locked out, but it heavily restricted thin
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by rsp1984 12y ago
If I understand it correctly a lot of the geometry effects build on the ability to do texture reads in the vertex shader (OpenGL calls it "vertex texture fetch"), a not much-noticed, but incredibly powerful feature of modern WebGL
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by rsp1984 12y ago
As someone who grew up with C and C++ have to say that I rather like Javascript. Sure it has its hacks and edges but whenever I code stuff in it I find myself being about 5x more productive than using Java or C/C++.
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by rsp1984 12y ago
I would like to point out that any existing issues with web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS/PHP/your newest hyped web framework) are merely a symptom. The underlying cause, and the thing that actually sucks, is the fact that
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by rsp1984 12y ago
> It's commonly asserted that ideas are worth next to nothing, the difficulty is all in the execution, etc. I don't think that's entirely true. If your idea is just a vague one-liner like "facebook for pets", the
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by rsp1984 12y ago
Thanks for your answer. However I still don't fully understand the problem I'm afraid. How is the trust required to move money cross borders different to the trust required to have an account with money at your bank? That acct is
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by rsp1984 12y ago
Let me ask a dumb question: If money exchange is the main problem that Bitcoin solves, then why isn't the problem of money exchange attacked directly instead, i.e. through some other less volatile classical stores of value like gold or
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by rsp1984 12y ago
I wish it was easy like that. I don't know anyone who has successfully "not-bothered-away" bullies. They will stop as soon as it's socially no longer a gainful action for them. Not bothering may be part of it but it&#x27
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by rsp1984 12y ago
> bullies don't leave you alone because you're awesome, they leave you alone because their bullying doesn't work on you (because you're resilient to personal attacks, or you pretend to not care until they exhaust the
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by rsp1984 12y ago
I imagine to those of us are lucky enough to reach adulthood without any big hardship in life such a lifestyle can be very appealing, but unfortunately I reckon it's not how it typically plays out. This entire viewpoint is based on the
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by rsp1984 12y ago
I would agree with your opinion if the American visa system wasn't a total mess. "Having visa taken care of" is an incredibly easy thing to say but a very hard thing to do in reality without legal assistance, or more generall
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by rsp1984 12y ago
I agree with the author by 100%. What a beautiful article. The experiences described almost perfectly match my own experiences at Google and they were one of the reasons I left. (I assume the author is talking about Google here) If there&#x
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GPU: Changes Everything (1999)(nvidia.com)
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by rsp1984 12y ago
Evan, I disagree. Your comment goes to great lengths explaining unhappiness in "achievement-oriented" people but you make the mistake of treating "achievement" and "success" as synonyms and therefore the whole
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by rsp1984 12y ago
This is one of PG's most misunderstood essays. The title is to blame as well. It should rather be called "What's wrong with the school system" since the essay's main point isn't about Nerds and what distinguish
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by rsp1984 12y ago
Maybe I'm just oldschool but I found that auto-vectorization hardly ever does what one thinks it should do. I view it as a nice tool in my belt but I don't ever expect it to magically speed things up for me by large factors. If I
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by rsp1984 13y ago
Thank you for this explanation, this makes so much more sense now.
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by rsp1984 13y ago
The page states prominently that the website will be closed after April 23rd. Primesense is Apple's property. Apple can do whatever it wants with it. Lastly the open source code will still be available, only the website will shut down
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by rsp1984 13y ago
Those who are looking for the OpenNI drivers, they are still open source and can be downloaded through https://github.com/OpenNI/OpenNI2
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by rsp1984 13y ago
This is fantastic technology. Is this based on accelerometer measurements?
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by rsp1984 13y ago
What is not clear from all the reports: Has his partner Platon Lebedev been pardoned as well or is he still imprisoned? As far as I know they were facing much the same charges.
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by rsp1984 13y ago
I find the example is incredibly confusing. I expected this to be an optimization of a dot product or matrix multiplication or similar but as it stands it seems to be an element-wise square of a VECTOR_LEN * N matrix with subsequent accumul