yaix

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by yaix 15y ago
Animals do have rights, just not all a human has. Many animals are proven to be both sentient and conscious (self-aware). They are just not very bright compared to many humans.
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by yaix 15y ago
This is nice on the browser, but not very useful in nodeJS. twait{} will block and stop my nodeJS process from doing anything else. It would be more useful if I could give twait{} a callback to fire when all its async events completed. Then
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by yaix 15y ago
Okay, thanks. I was just about to write the exact same thing (although I may have been more dramatic complaining about the huge amount of unnecessary white space that fills my small netbook screen). The new buttons however are quite nice an
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by yaix 15y ago
Yes, use pointer. I don't know why G doesn't, but that is not good practice. There should be a visual indication that an object can be clicked, other than a highlighted border.
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by yaix 15y ago
Yes, caching is only for the exact subset. But you could do your own little client side cache. When receiving the url/img-data pairs, just store them in the HTML5 browser storage database, as key:url/value:img-data pairs. Then you are indep
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by yaix 15y ago
When you have a million JPEG images, you would need to generate a sprite on-the-fly every time a random subset of those images is requested. You have to decode the images and encode the sprite each time. That sounds really slow. Better conv
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by yaix 15y ago
To see if WebGL is enabled you can type this in the address bar about:gpu Also helpful about:flags
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by yaix 15y ago
There is already an anonymous social network, that is where all this Anon stuff started.
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by yaix 15y ago
I really don't know how to say this without using a !%^&* word. Anybody tried to view the data on a small netbook screen? or on an older 1024x768 screen you would expect to be much more present in developing countries (those places the
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by yaix 15y ago
I was a little surprised that the legality of this was questioned, so looked it up. In Roman Law tradition this kind of action would apparently be called "periculum in mora". An example would be that you enter another person's apartment wit
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by yaix 15y ago
Interesting list of difficulties by language. In Chinese, while he and she is pronounced the same way ("ta"), the writing is different for he 他 and she 她. That's the only difficult part I could think of in Chinese, there are no changing wor
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by yaix 15y ago
Nice linkbait, but the problem is elsewhere. The problem is the focus on short term Shareholder Value and quarterly profits. It destroys the companies in the long term. Worse, it undermines the trust employees in their companies, because th
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by yaix 15y ago
Of course I "see" this. But I also see short to medium term considerations by the CN gov't of political stability in the country. Especially at a time of imminent power transition to the next political generation. Its called "political real
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by yaix 15y ago
Best and quotable sentence: [...] the target viewer, according to consultants, is also supposed to like easy stories that reinforce beliefs they already hold. Yep. People don't like to be told they are wrong or that things are no
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by yaix 15y ago
>> Facebook provides "hyper-local news," allowing people to broadcast [...] to their social circle [...] Nope, FB allows people only to broadcast to their social network. That is what G+ "solves for consumers". The "hyper-local news
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by yaix 15y ago
You need many other web sites linking to your content and many people liking/+1'ing you on the social net.
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by yaix 15y ago
I'm in Hangzhou, currently the most expensive city when it comes to housing, according to an article I read a few weeks ago. And it'll probably go further up, because there is a new bullet train and Shanghai is now only some 45 minutes away
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by yaix 15y ago
Why is this downvoted? It is a valid point. Especially in 2008/09 they were rebuilding every second road in the Chinese city I life in, even though the roads where perfectly fine and had just been finished a few years earlier. Same for apar
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by yaix 15y ago
Here in the city I am in, there is no problem at all selling those houses, and in other bigger cities it is similar. More and more people move to the cities if they can afford it. Better schools, better hospitals, and you Hukou (you "citize
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by yaix 15y ago
>> There are no property taxes in most of China, so people with money park it in real estate. There are now in Shanghai, Beijing and a few other major cities. That's quite new and started just this year.
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by yaix 15y ago
Great Firewall? Use a VPN, easy. (I'm doing it for many years). Sanya is not an island, its a city on the island of Hainan. Infrastructure in China is very good, especially train lines.
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by yaix 15y ago
Depends on the city. In the city I live in, apartments cost the same as in Germany, but with worse quality. But prices go down drastically in the countryside (because nobody wants to live there).
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by yaix 15y ago
This is mostly what happens. Additionally, these new apartment complexes are often build in "new areas" of the bigger cities, to grow the city. China is trying hard to reach a level of urbanization comparable to the west, so they need to "g
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by yaix 15y ago
I agree that in an introduction course, it is important to keep the code as readable as possible. But it is likewise important to get performance considerations in student's heads as early as possible.
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by yaix 15y ago
Think about performance for (var x = 0; x < im.getWidth(); x++) { for (var y = 0; y < im.getHeight(); y++) { That would repeatedly call the get*() methods, and for a 1000x1000px image, that is a lot of calls. Better call t
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by yaix 15y ago
My first thought. "Twitter's largest user group still SEO/SEM people" would have been a fitting title too.
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by yaix 15y ago
What do you mean with "something"? The brains of the voters?
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by yaix 15y ago
Its basically a microscope in a smartphone. However, I see a few practical problems when these high end phone get distributed in Africa by some aid organization. Because an expensive high end phone is also a good gift. I hope they will main
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by yaix 15y ago
Why does this populist nonsense get so many votes? Typical generalized politicians bashing. If you feel that you rep. is so evil, than just don't elect them. Better still, stand yourself and do a better job. Or at least help the guy you thi
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by yaix 15y ago
>> If you’re in a hurry to download a copy of the latest jQuery revision Pardon? If you download just any jQuery without even checking the domain you are downloading from, then you are very careless. That's just like typing your Pay

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