alexhaefner

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by alexhaefner 14y ago
I don't think so. But this stuff is always in flux. I see irony as constructive - it intends to produce something. In the case of the author, writing from an ironic perspective was the best way to describe a feeling and emotion that woul
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by alexhaefner 14y ago
Thanks again for writing this. You're writing about a feeling that I've experienced and can relate to, and I thought the piece was excellent. Great job.
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by alexhaefner 14y ago
Maybe I misunderstood this because of what books I have been reading lately, but I really enjoyed reading this piece as a piece of irony. Apparently the word irony, pre-14th century had more to do with an author writing an opinion he or sh
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by alexhaefner 14y ago
I was really thinking about mobile in terms of hw acceleration and risks/benefits. See comments below. Don't disagree that WebGL is faster at times, and more useful, just still a bit immature. And I started working on it about 2 years ago
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by alexhaefner 14y ago
Yeah sorry I was actually replying with a mobile centric view in mind. If you want to build something that "just works", it's better to strip down the geometry as much as possible and target canvas2d. The iOS implementation of canvas is h
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by alexhaefner 14y ago
If you just want to draw images into a canvas I don't see any benefits to using WebGL. You just lose cross browser compatibility. Most browsers have hardware accelerated rendering of 2d canvases. If you want to create unique shader effec
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by alexhaefner 14y ago
Is there anywhere you detail your methods? I'm currently finishing up an appearance based hand detection method for a class and would be interested to read about your methods.
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by alexhaefner 14y ago
I respectfully disagree with your use of low level, though I do understand your analogy about the pixelbuffer being like a frame buffer. But he's actually using Javascript arrays which can get passed around inside a javascript VM, and do no
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As Companies Seek Tax Deals, Governments Pay the Price(nytimes.com)
5 points by alexhaefner 14y ago|0 comments
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A Startling Gap Between Us And Them In 'Plutocrats'(npr.org)
1 points by alexhaefner 14y ago|0 comments
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by alexhaefner 14y ago
They also see that their product is an app store, and it is going to get eaten up in the next few years as desktop and mobile OSes converge around security models that will not let unsigned apps from outside the app store onto user devices.
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by alexhaefner 14y ago
Well, I'll try to keep my point simple. Our constant need to complain is corrosive. Visionary thinkers shaped our society for the next generation. I didn't enjoy reading this since it was a large complain fest, and that is the corrosive t
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by alexhaefner 14y ago
I agree with your assertions, and I'd like to bring a bit of rationale to this discussion rather than the "How can Apple be allowed to do this?" and other flamboyant language. This is on Dropbox to fix, not Apple. Imagine you provide a mark
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by alexhaefner 14y ago
This is common, it's somewhat frustrating, but I've found that my way to deal with it has been to let others pad their credentials. It's a waste of time for me to worry about, it would be like worrying about the weather day-to-day when the
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
Can someone explain to me what this is (or was since it is no longer listed)?
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
This is an appropriate place as any. WE have an ambitious start up idea to launch loaves of bread into space so that they will re-enter as toast, perfectly cooked to perfection and delivered right to your door.
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
This article goes along with, "What you could do if you were Apple and had their cash", and other greats like, "What you could do if you were a genie". Just saying.
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
Leslie sharpe is an ethnographer who wrote a whole book on organ donation after studying the topic called Strange Harvest. This article speaks to a lot of unnecessary and selfish criticism of organ donation practices. Doctors work very ha
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
Ah I see, I was tremendously confused by the site. The site itself does not actually explain any of this, and I am not a user who actively follows this stuff. So when I clicked on the site I saw a bunch of frameworks, with no understandin
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
This site does nothing to tell me what these frameworks actually do. Or where I would want to fit them into a project.
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
I find this absolutely startling: "It’s well known that many college students use Adderall to give themselves an extra edge for getting work done whether they’re prescribed or not ... Furthermore, a 2009 study on non-medical use (defined as
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
Agree on the no controversy. I went looking to make a chat icon for a project about a week ago, and looked on dribbble to see some ideas before I started. Chat icons all looked the same. I found examples that looked nearly identical to th
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FCC Bars Near-Term Deployment of LightSquared Network(nytimes.com)
3 points by alexhaefner 15y ago|0 comments
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
Dang. Finish weekend is on the start of spring break for students. I would love to go but I am leaving town, at least for a few days.
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
This is something we looked into a while ago. There are a number of disadvantages to this approach that were not highlighted. (1)Base64 encoding files makes them larger, this will eliminate the advantage of smaller headers, almost always.
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
These forms are open to injection. Not sanitized at all. Even for a prototype this is not good practice.
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
This is a really fantastic idea. Especially for people who have issues with eating, I would love to sit down and use this site with them and show them how to get the proper amount of food. (1) It needs tweaking for vegetarians/vegans. (2)
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
I am not logged into my google account.
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
Does anyone have a link that doesn't require me to login to see this?
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by alexhaefner 15y ago
Can anyone here speak to Tornado.websocket? What's the performance like? How could you load balance with torando.websocket? Is it production ready? Congrats on the release!

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