thegrossman

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by thegrossman 16y ago
Yeah, CSS masks make a lot of sense. Internet Explorer also has some weird filter properties that almost -- but not quite -- do what we need. If someone can figure it out, it would be significantly better than using FlashCanvas.
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Using canvas to create alpha-channel JPEGs - 33% the size of PNGs(blog.jackadam.net)
124 points by thegrossman 16y ago|32 comments
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by thegrossman 16y ago
Reminds me of the story Feynman tells about Wheeler, who calls him up one day and tries to convince him that there is only one electron in the entire universe. This single electron is bouncing forward and background through time endlessly,
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by thegrossman 17y ago
This is really great. And it's more than just a neat analogy... in a very real sense, the momentum of a particle can be thought of as the fourier transform of the position ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum_space ).
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by thegrossman 17y ago
Actually, Lockheed is the company that is designing and building the Orion spacecraft. Which is why this whole thing is slightly confusing... NASA does very little design and construction of their own hardware. At least on paper, our manned
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by thegrossman 17y ago
Just to be clear: This announcement kills the entire Constellation program including Orion, the spacecraft meant to replace the Space Shuttle. In other words, after the last few shuttle missions this year, the United States will no longer
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by thegrossman 17y ago
If Chinese starts to dominate, I'd expect to see great strides in automated translation research here in America. Us Americans are freaked out by the prospect of a world that doesn't speak English.
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by thegrossman 17y ago
That works, too! The reason I like using _obj is because "this" is notoriously hard to work with in JS. If, inside foo(), you have an iterator that you pass a function to, "this" takes on a different meaning inside that function. Some peopl
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by thegrossman 17y ago
I haven't had a single issue in the 6 months of daily Javascriptin' since I've stopped using them. As I mentioned in another thread, I don't minify my application code so maybe it's not as important as it is for other people.
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by thegrossman 17y ago
Not only is that more thrifty, but it is necessary. Thanks for catching the typo!
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by thegrossman 17y ago
My mom always told me that I had a limited supply of semicolons in my semicolon bucket, and to not waste them on languages where they aren't strictly required. Now, maybe she was just joshing me... but I'm not taking that chance.
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by thegrossman 17y ago
I tend to use minified libraries (JQuery, effects libraries, etc), but unminified application-specific code. Been burned too many times having to root out some obscure error on the live server, and not being able to do so because of minific
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by thegrossman 17y ago
I used to live by the "revealing module pattern", although I didn't know that's what it was actually called. Currently, I do something along these lines: var MyObject = function() { var _obj = {} var privateVariable = 'foo' va