slackito

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by slackito 16y ago
> For doing data compression has anyone ever heard about using these techniques to generate other things besides 3D game levels? These techniques are routinely used in the demoscene for making 4Kb/64Kb intros. In this kind of intros alm
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Mass-mirroring WikiLeaks(wikileaks.ch)
29 points by slackito 16y ago|0 comments
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by slackito 16y ago
Why should we go for "fairness" when hunting for food? Using our brains isn't fair? Animals won't show any restraint when using their strengths to kill any weaker prey.
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by slackito 16y ago
I don't think it's sarcasm (well, I'm not too sure about the colors part). Pretty much every non-alphanumeric symbol has more than one meaning in a language like C++, which (IMHO) makes reading code slower than it could be. For instance, I
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Sir, Please Step Away from the ASR-33!(cacm.acm.org)
2 points by slackito 16y ago|2 comments
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Demo of hardware accelerated 3D in new Flash Player 11 (video)(youtube.com)
1 points by slackito 16y ago|0 comments
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Water Droplet Bouncing on a Superhydrophobic Carbon Nanotube Array (video)(thoughtware.tv)
5 points by slackito 16y ago|1 comments
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Everybody thinks about garbage collection the wrong way(blogs.msdn.com)
3 points by slackito 16y ago|1 comments
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by slackito 16y ago
Seems to work OK on VLC, no RealPlayer needed :)
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by slackito 16y ago
>That gives them a huge advantage at programming over someone who just sees computers as a black box. Nowadays most videogames are played in consoles, which are effectively black boxes (except for some very experienced hackers).
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Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion(wired.com)
0 points by slackito 16y ago|0 comments
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by slackito 16y ago
The process reminds me of this post: http://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/355-How-I-M...
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YouTube getting into movie rental business(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by slackito 17y ago|0 comments
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Pitfalls of Object-Oriented Programming(research.scee.net)
4 points by slackito 17y ago|0 comments