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by vitno 13y ago
Please consider why we don't have a single codec that works OOTB. H264 has all sorts of nasty licensing stuff, which Daala is not subject to. It should also avoid all valid patent claims because it is based on lapped transforms as oppo
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by vitno 13y ago
I'm not sure you realize how different Daala is from any other video codec in usage. It's ALSO royalty-free with a permissive FOSS license. It will also ideally be significantly better than anything else on the market.
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by vitno 13y ago
Check out his fantastic demo pages for a look at the work being done on Daala. http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo1.shtml This is great news!
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by vitno 13y ago
actually, it would be way more complex to establish a self-sufficient colony on the moon. The moon lacks a lot of basic resources that mars provides, albeit in different ratios than earth does.
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by vitno 13y ago
I just took a train from Shanghai down to 黄山. While I can't confirm there are entirely empty cities (I don't doubt it though), There were massive modern housing complexes... with no one in them. It was so surreal.
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by vitno 13y ago
SpaceX does not patent any of their stuff for the same reason; it can be stolen by people outside of the country and the patent is essentially directions on how to do so.
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by vitno 13y ago
way to put someone down for being not only security aware, but principled as well.
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by vitno 13y ago
I can understand the use case of having a personal & corporate Gmail. However, thats still a solved problem; Google has a multi-user account signin option. This incessant integration of google specific features into the browser is essen
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by vitno 13y ago
I've never understood the concept of multiple users in a browser. Isn't that what accounts on my computer are for? Isn't this already a long solved problem?
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by vitno 13y ago
It's also open-source. It always bothered me that Ghostery wasn't.
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by vitno 13y ago
Both of those are solved problems, and actually have been for quite a while. You should check out the Mars Direct plan proposed by Robert Zubrin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct
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by vitno 13y ago
check this page out to understand the underlying philosophy: http://nixos.org/nix/
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by vitno 13y ago
I love my pebble. It is exactly what I wanted from it. Only problem? I need to turn the watch off during exams.
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by vitno 13y ago
Oooh Exciting stuff! I've been following openworm off and on for a while now. The projects should be extremely complementary. I hope they communicate. (This projects is going to collect a totally new dataset)
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by vitno 13y ago
The design goals and philosophies are really quite different.
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by vitno 13y ago
Have you considered integrating something like Persona? While I have never like FB sign up, this is the exact situation where I would be tempted to use it. Possible interest, but I don't really wanna go through the sign-up. I keep hoping to
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by vitno 13y ago
There is a small chance you attend the same university I do. If you do, message me (FB, twitter, email... I don't care). I'd be happy to grab a coffee or something.
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by vitno 14y ago
while I recognize this is tongue-in-cheek, just as a PSA... When trying to hack something together, excellent. When trying to learn a new language, aim for idiomatic usage.
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by vitno 14y ago
not really... Assembly is a one-to-one mapping with machine code. 2 (fast) passes, and you are done. Compiling entails far more complex operations. while I understand that you are saying that the action of assembling is just trivial compili
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by vitno 14y ago
because microsoft would love for that google box in the upper right to turn into a bing box.
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by vitno 14y ago
well yes... just not from a browser.
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by vitno 14y ago
Wouldn't work. The right API calls aren't exposed. You would need something like webCL.
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by vitno 14y ago
Right, but they are all in the process of being standardized. The idea behind them is that they WILL be written using standardized APIs
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by vitno 14y ago
what apps? :D The whole idea behind firefox OS is the "open web", all "apps" are standards-compliant javascript. App portability shouldn't be much of a problem.
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by vitno 14y ago
Including housing stipends of about 1k, but none of the other benefits, most of my friends and I are going to be making almost 7k. Making 7k not including housing would be on the very high end (for non-returners). (samples: Microsoft, Mozil
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by vitno 14y ago
white on gray? Please change that. http://contrastrebellion.com/
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by vitno 14y ago
Can you elaborate on that? OpenID was designed to be browser-independent. Persona is essentially a distributed openID with some extra browser integration. Sure Mozilla doesn't support openID, but I'm unsure what you would want them to do...
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by vitno 14y ago
This is great. Thank you so much for showing me this.
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by vitno 14y ago
I removed that. I figured that I would get some flak. :P I did have my roommate prepare the food. Another one of my roommates swapped/labeled the food and then went to class, no interaction. It was mostly because he didn't believe that I c
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by vitno 14y ago
and this is why I wish the paleo-fanatics would stop harping on the "evolutionary based" part. I eat pretty much paleo. I avoid grains, I limit dairy consumption, I avoid a lot of sugar in my food. However, a lot of the "science" behind pal

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