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12y ago
I think he means that lot of the new website designs change the scroll behavior because they think it's cool (just like <blink> was), but they make the user experience worse in most cases.
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12y ago
If you query the two databases parallel then the response time should be equal to the slowest one of the two database responses (not the sum of them). But if you use two database then you have to maintain both of them and if they are on th
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12y ago
... and to lazy.js : http://danieltao.com/lazy.js/
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12y ago
Also there is lazy.js which is even more faster than lo-dash especially when chaining multiple methods. http://danieltao.com/lazy.js/
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12y ago
Yea, let's not support cleaning up the oceans because it requires and e-mail address.
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12y ago
And also emscripten-qt: http://vps2.etotheipiplusone.com:30176/redmine/projects/emsc...
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12y ago
It's called the "lotus effect" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_effect And it works even with honey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJtQ6dvcbOg
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12y ago
I welcome our chocolate battery overlords.
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12y ago
https://github.com/worrydream/Tangle
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12y ago
It can provide "your existing browsing experience" without being a web app: by running as a browser extension locally.
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12y ago
I think he is talking about optical illusions like the "Checker Shadow Illusion": http://www.businessballs.com/shadow-optical-illusion.htm So we perceive the same color as a different one depending on the other co
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12y ago
Why only males? What about black womans? Aren't they even more vulnerable?
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12y ago
So kids shouldn't play before they go to school?
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12y ago
Yes, I'm not sure why they are lying when a simple google search can reveal it's not the world's first: http://www.atlastsolutions.com/intel-nuc-i3-i5-with-4th-gene... There is even a bigger but still mini fa
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12y ago
Oh, the JSBench performance: Safari: 6.5x Chrome: 1.1x Firefox: 1x
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12y ago
> unlike something like carbon fibre, if you crash you only have to go to a DIY store for replacements I'm not sure what you mean, but there are carbon fibre sheets just like wooden sheets. It's a little harder to cut and more
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12y ago
Looks like you just have to use boiled water to make clean ice: http://www.instructables.com/id/make-crystal-clear-ice!/ And bars already have a "boiling machine" (cafe machine) :)
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12y ago
On etoro.com you can even copy the transaction of others with one click. Can you do the same on Nvest or it just provides information?
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12y ago
Famo.us ( http://famo.us/about ) claims they can do performance comparable to native speeds with HTML (+JavaScript). Their code is already open source: https://github.com/Famous/famous It can render to
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12y ago
To be pedantic: It's blocking from displaying it but not from the downloading.
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12y ago
Another interesting thing: "This month we will be building out our CUDA cluster to have 147,000 GPU cores to allow us to better predict who you will date." From: http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2013/01/
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12y ago
There is "Rain Room" art installation that uses depth sensing IR cameras (not LIDAR) to stop the raining around peoples in the room: http://youtu.be/EkvazIZx-F0?t=1m56s Maybe it works only because they use multipl
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13y ago
It's art! :)
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13y ago
Looks like the similar Foldscope is more powerful because it can do up to 2000x magnification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldscope
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13y ago
Looks like the developer considered security and built it into the product but the customer asked to remove it: “The option for encrypting the over-the-air information was removed early in the product’s life cycle based on customer feedback
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13y ago
> they're also css haters They (Famo.us) cannot hate CSS too much because they use CSS transforms to do their animations. http://www.infoworld.com/t/web-applications/fast-and-flashy-...
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13y ago
A pinned tab: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/pinned-tabs-keep-favori...
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13y ago
There is more pixels captured compared to a single shot image as you said: "series of shots made upwards". So it captures some pixels that is hidden when the camera moves upwards, but if the simulated parallax is bigger than the o
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13y ago
Knockout too pollutes the HTML with it's own "language" in the "data-bind" attribute (for example: data-bind='value: itemToAdd, valueUpdate: "afterkeydown"') True separation would be if there wil
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13y ago
Looks like Erlang is already getting one step closer to the metal: http://erlangonxen.org/ http://kerlnel.org/ Also there is another project that can be related to that goal: "Our aim is to remove the
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