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by timje1 13y ago
In response to your last sentence: people who can hijack systems to gain power, money and influence tend to end up running things. It's pretty much inevitable.
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I thought it was quite a funny antidote to all of the serious anger-based talk..
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by timje1 13y ago
It's quite simple to reset gmail to it's normal, older inbox. Hover your mouse over the word 'Inbox' in the list on the left, hit the down arrow, and you get a list of different inbox styles to try.
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https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/12/monster-madness-creating-g... This is from a link in the article for more information. These Monster Madness fellows found Firefox gave them 33% of native performance, and Chrome
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It gives a fraction of the performance that Firefox gives you. quick google, this guy[0] got IE10 = 11900, chrome = 22500, firefox = 40000 [0] http://www.beyondjava.net/blog/google-adds-asm-js-test-octan... If IE is giv
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Well, no, they're not as rich as the desktop versions. But as they've had a team port (a trimmed version of) Minecraft to xbox live arcade, and the iPad, it would surprise me if they're not already working on a *.js version.
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I just hope that it helps drive growth away from Internet Exploder ...
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To be fair, if you want ultra-high performance for high quality 3d games, why did you learn javascript? Go away and learn C or C++ ... This doesn't give anything to web developers. It gives C / C++ developers a way onto the web.
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Minecraft in the browser has been done already, hasn't it? It'd be pretty trivial, as it's been ported to java / c# / objective c already, and has low system requirements. Given that asm.js games tend to run at some
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by timje1 13y ago
Another comment mentioned the economist's weekly digest - this gives a good summary of the important world news, but won't help with your local news. As an example, it covers the riots breaking out in Ukraine but completely skippe
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Uncanny valley, here we come. Studies have shown that people are more at ease around a robot that tries to look like a cute humanoid robot, rather than a near-human but not quite construct. Replacing the video feed of a person's face w
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It sounds like a significant hindrance is picking out voices in crowds, and making one's own voice heard in the crowd, as a result of the poor microphone / speakers on the iPad. With the great big self-balancing stick peripheral,
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Spotify premium subscriber here. What I've heard of LZ is good, but I don't think I've heard anything other than best-of albums. I'd love the chance to listen to their back catalogue. I gave away / lost / threw
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A horse killed Superman. Understand?! A horse paralysed and took down fucking Superman! No way in hell I'm going near one.
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Well, this Pope has been remarkably liberal and transformational. He's only remarkable in the context of the last few popes, who were insanely conservative. Francis is merely extremely conservative...
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"She said ‘ If I held it up to your neck, you wouldn’t know if it was real or not, ’ and I said ‘really?’" Here's the crux of the matter - a two inch gun was taken because the TSA agent made a judgement call, and the TSA agen
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Animals are not usually described as having immoral / moral actions. However, to foolishly continue your strawman: by allowing the animals to kill one another, are their keepers acting immorally?
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This is a good reply to the argument that I hear used a lot: "You just need to educate yourself. Read this website and watch this video: you'll never want to eat meat again!" What if I'm educated, have read the books, th
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You alluded to the difference in your last sentence: as budgets have escalated, many AAA titles have moved towards directors, script writers and DoPs from Hollywood. So we get games that follow mature, established tropes that work well in A
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That's correct, I love the actor system in Erlang, and I wish I had access to it in every other language I've used. Building multi-threaded applications with functional programming forced me to write pure functions - or close enou
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Personally I've found that learning a functional programming language, with strictly enforced 'no side effects' functions, has simplified multi-threaded programming for me. I just remember back to those restrictions and force
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7 surprising tricks for spotting link bait titles that might just transform HN
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This article doesn't recommend web scraping - he discusses making URLs for your 'API' resources and your human-consumable resources shared, with different 'accept:' content types.
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Someone that hacks your systems won't be limited to a single system or domain, I don't see why your reward system should be. Would you rather that vulnerabilities discovered in out-of-scope systems be sold on forums instead?
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Yes, perhaps we could pay these killers in bitcoins. It worked excellently for the DPR, after all!
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Wow that's appalling. Major Scott Pare of the State Police: "Again, this is a serious offense ... I’m shocked and appalled that somebody would wear this type of device to an airport." Switch out 'wear' with '
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The first link is a very interesting article in its own right, and a good lesson on taking statistics at face value.
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"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go
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I've always thought that call centre jobs are exactly the kind of thing that (google + apple + microsoft's) voice recognition software will soon largely replace. They're one of the few professions that could painlessly be rep
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Automating farming and improving efficiency freed up people to take on jobs as potters and blacksmiths. By this article's logic, both potters and blacksmiths are abstract, constructed jobs. To look at it another way, we're all sta

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