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by starwed 15y ago
In a sense they were ahead of the game: they took a principled stance not to partially implement standards they considered unnecessary, just to score extra points on Acid3. The change to the test is (to some degree) an acknowledgement that
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by starwed 15y ago
WotC uses Silverlight for their online D&D 'Character Builder' -- it is effectively a core product along with the standard rule books. (PHB, DMB, MM) Tis somewhat niche, but D&D is king of that particular niche.
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by starwed 15y ago
Your problem with the book seems to be that it is general, rather than applicable to your particular field. Why on earth would expect that it would be? I took and enjoyed linear algebra using that text-- it didn't specifically address the
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by starwed 15y ago
That'll eventually be a non-issue, as js libraries arise that abstract away all that stuff. Right now it seems we're in the phase of tons of scattered libraries, all with their own pros/cons, often written by just one or two folk. But even
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by starwed 15y ago
Well, sure, that's impressive in and of itself. But this contest is ultimately about the game, not the code.
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by starwed 15y ago
Wouldn't a principle advantage of an actual, innovative 3D chip be better component distribution? That is, on average all the parts will be much closer to each other, than if they were arranged on a 2D surface.
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by starwed 15y ago
Eh, it would actually be more reasonable in that context. Dipping into wikipedia for a quick quote: > The shift to agricultural food production supported a denser population, which in turn supported larger sedentary communities, the
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by starwed 15y ago
So this is a way of dissipating heat more efficiently, such that chips can be apparently be stacked on top of each other -- does that really help all that much for consumer (and especially mobile) stuff? Seems like you're still generating t
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by starwed 15y ago
From her novel Barrayar : >" The people’s right to access information shall not be abridged. It’s the first item in the Constitution. "
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by starwed 15y ago
Possibly the OP meant running on a mobile device? I tried to see if Fennec would handle it, but their browser sniffing didn't let me find out...
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by starwed 15y ago
It also promotes the utility of such lists -- that they spark discussion! ;)
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by starwed 15y ago
For a graphical grasp of this concept, take a bell curve, and then plot only the top 0.1% of the bell curve. That's the distribution of abilities among people who are any good at all at chess, and it is no longer anything close to a bell
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by starwed 15y ago
There could very well be a biological/psychological need to create discrete gender roles -- that doesn't necessitate that the gender roles themselves are biological in origin!
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by starwed 15y ago
That's a little like saying there must be a thunder god, because nearly every culture has the same idea. Thor Lives!
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by starwed 15y ago
Your anecdote isn't, by itself, even a single datapoint against Panda -- traffic might have been reduced because searchers have ended up at a site more useful to them!
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by starwed 15y ago
From TFA: > It's apparently the graphical design that's at issue, not the name.
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by starwed 15y ago
The article does say that: > Amazon has been working on a multi-touch screen/e-ink hybrid tablet device. Presumably it's just much, much easier to develop the backlit tablet than one using e-ink. The technology will be there eventual
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by starwed 15y ago
There is a specific answer -- the designers must have thought it had specific advantages over the previous behavior. Whether these advantages exist and are worth it can be argued about, but they hopefully had something in mind! :)
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by starwed 15y ago
Weirdly, with the table designs, he switches to using italics for the %s without discussion. I assume that's because, in the absence of a dividing line, it provides an additional hint that the two blocks are separate? That seems to weaken
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by starwed 15y ago
This was actually enough for me to avoid buying an Optimus equipped netbook I had my eyes on... :(
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by starwed 15y ago
It's a type of Exquisite corpse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_cadaver According to wikipedia the original version was text only, while I think the pure image version is most common on the internet, but the alternating version is
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by starwed 15y ago
Some not very technical discussion of what was involved here: http://blog.mozilla.com/dmandelin/2011/04/22/mozilla-javascr... (Scroll down to the 'Type Inference' section) And somewhat more technical (although mostly about IonMonkey) here
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by starwed 15y ago
Firefox addons are traditionally written using the same API the browser itself uses. That's what makes them much more powerful than Chrome extensions, but clearly more fragile to breakage. They're starting to offer a separate extension SDK
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by starwed 15y ago
To save anyone else from my mistake, this is about baseball, not the game Go. :)
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That doesn't really fulfill the "quality signal" aspect of journals, though -- the replacement would be some sort of open journal that still had peer review. There was an Elsevier math journal where the entire editorial staff got fed up, qu
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by starwed 15y ago
http://daviddahl.blogspot.com/2011/02/behold-domcrypt-extens...
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by starwed 15y ago
Something like that seems horribly hard to get right. Forget about cross domain scripting attacks, now you can't trust JS from the point of origin. Yet at the same time, you'll probably want it to be able to do all sorts of fancy AJAX-y
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by starwed 15y ago
Heh, I read a blog post a few days ago about the differences between various URL parsing/slicing implementations. http://tantek.com/2011/238/b1/many-ways-slice-url-name-piece... (Quick reference image: http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6203
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by starwed 15y ago
That's exactly why bringing up the "statement" in the article was a pointless distraction.
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by starwed 15y ago
Maybe, but that has nothing to do with copyright law or even the BBC's polices regarding it.

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