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by watmough 11y ago
I have to quibble with blazing fast. What was the resolution on an A3000 or whatever. Pretty low. My recall was the anti-aliased text rendering was technically impressive, but practically less-so due to low-resolution. A SUN or Mac was quit
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by watmough 11y ago
Just had a quick read though that paper, and it doesn't really look like the same thing. This technique treats a pixel as a unit circle, coloring it according to its length of intersection, along multiple axes, with a glyph simply desc
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by watmough 11y ago
Here's my experience on my local devices: * Quad i7 16 GBytes GTX 970 OSX FFox - perfectly smooth * iPhone 6s+ - very smooth * Nexus 6p - slightly jumpy / laggy but still impressive * Lumia 640 Windows Phone 10 - dFdx un
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by watmough 11y ago
Exactly what I needed, just as I was about to start screwing with distance fields or the like. THANK-YOU! Edit: I may have spoken slightly too soon, not since the technique isn't awesome, but because this isn't yet usable without
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by watmough 11y ago
Sorry, I simply haven't been able to find them. However, the upshot was that in my FemCal app, loading several months of entered fertility cycles went from 100's-1000's of milliseconds to just a few 100's. The overall sp
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by watmough 11y ago
Facebook needs to stop a homegrown Facebook alternative arising in India. They need to stop it now, by smothering it in the crib, redirecting its potential future users into a Facebook-curated walled-garden. Growth is required for Facebook,
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by watmough 11y ago
Start applying for jobs. If you've demonstrated some talent you should be able to get in somewhere.
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Ask HN: What are your biggest demotivators?
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by watmough 11y ago
This is a great point. I do love sqlite, it really is awesome, but you had better need what it provides, since you are taking a 50x performance hit versus simply dumping an object tree to a binary file. If anyone is interested, I could tr
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by watmough 11y ago
Your job descriptions are the very model of clarity. I wouldn't normally comment, but it makes a great impression.
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by watmough 11y ago
My iPhone apps I created from 2009 - 2011 still provide a small income typically around $20 - $40 per month. Back in the day FemCal alone was doing $1500+ per month, with me 'full-time' on promoting and supporting it, but with lit
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by watmough 11y ago
Never used TimeMachine. I use SuperDuper to simply image my entire box to a disk every so often.
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by watmough 11y ago
Wow, terrifying. This is kinda similar to why I use SuperDuper to image my Mac, instead of trusting Time Machine. I do love Apple, but there's a few wrinkles sometimes.
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by watmough 11y ago
But the interesting thing, is that the iPad was created before the iPhone, and shelved to make way for the iPhone, so I'd say the modified graph reflects if not the release order, at least the order of innovation.
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by watmough 11y ago
I think this pretty much applies to anyone who has to talk to people, and get things done. I do tech support of complex software for a living, and if something is not solved on a call, then the best way to leave the call gracefully is to it
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by watmough 11y ago
Facebook's editorial control of users' postings makes it feel I have no control over when/where my own updates appear, thus rendering it irrelevant to me, though I do use it to follow others. Also, the bulk of my friends on F
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by watmough 11y ago
I completely agree and have a solid anecdote. Summer electricity bill in Texas for my previous 1600 sqft house, about $100-$150 month for cooling from Texas ambient to 74 F. For our new 3200 sq ft house, we cool to 73 F, for the same cost!!
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by watmough 11y ago
It crossed my mind that all you really need is the right engines and some means of control ... http://jetbeetle.com/JB_body_products.htm Cost for 150lbf thrust about $15k http://crxturbines.com/jetbeetle.htm
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by watmough 11y ago
I am about to go read the article, but after owning a 6s+ for the past couple weeks, I will give a few impressions first: * Very very very large (this is a big-ass phone), * Very very very very fast, * Some good options in the UI fo
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by watmough 11y ago
Hmmm, call me an old cynic, but this kind of populist move typically comes before a downturn.
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by watmough 11y ago
There was a ruler poised over my knuckles well into the 70's...
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by watmough 11y ago
It will not take much additional friction in practical usage to remove the hydrogen car from the equation. Just as steam cars were similarly discarded from the mainst[r]eam. We didn't run out of whale oil, coal, or wood. We haven'
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by watmough 11y ago
End private prisons that can incentivize arrest and imprisonment for minor offenders. No cite but commonly acknowledged that creating private prisons also creates a demand for prisoners. The US puts a larger percentage of its population beh
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by watmough 11y ago
Neat, but doesn't seem very IT/corporate, which would surely be the intended audience. My company uses these guys: http://www.knowbe4.com/
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by watmough 11y ago
cl : Command line warning D9040: ignoring option '/analyze'; Code Analysis warnings are not available in this edition of the compiler Ooops.
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by watmough 11y ago
Yeah, sorry, not turning off adblock!
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by watmough 11y ago
Right, but it's pretty clear from the paper that one major step forward would be for apps to check whether their keychain has been compromised. This is something that apps can go forward with. But doesn't close the door if it was
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by watmough 11y ago
That's a good little mailing list. The biggest issue seems to be keeping tcc working across all supported platforms when changing stuff for a single platform. tcc can actually be made to build Windows executables in the 'old-schoo
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by watmough 11y ago
Ideally it does one pass, except under the following conditions: For initialized arrays with unknown size, a first pass is done to count the number of elements. For architectures where arguments are evaluated in reverse order, a f
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by watmough 11y ago
Charge what a human would charge.

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