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by davissorenson 4y ago
No, Renderfarm.fi was completely based on volunteer computing, so there was no standardization.
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by davissorenson 4y ago
A long time ago, I worked on Renderfarm.fi, which was like what you're proposing but free. I was just an extremely junior developer working on the front end. The volunteer computing system itself was based on BOINC. I recall it was qui
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by davissorenson 7y ago
To OP: It's not exactly a nice move to link to the download folder before the main website has been updated, because as you might notice this has resulted in a lot of confusion from normal HN users who don't follow the Blender mai
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by davissorenson 7y ago
The first version since the NaN buyout... So you mean the first version since 2002? One advantage of Blender being open source is that you can use any previous version forever. And the previous versions are quite good!
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by davissorenson 7y ago
Blender Internal (1) and the Blender game engine were both removed in 2.80. Eevee uses the same nodes as Cycles. (1) Blender's legacy rendering engine which has been around since the '90s
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by davissorenson 7y ago
This is (a release candidate for) a huge milestone in Blender's history. So much has been improved, that some, including myself, have speculated why they didn't choose to make it a 3.0 release. Aside from the fantastic new feature
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by davissorenson 8y ago
Link to paper in question (with the images you wished were in the article): https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-26-18-2... Edit: Fixed link
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by davissorenson 8y ago
Looks nice, but it's yet another Chrome-only project.
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by davissorenson 9y ago
Finland and Denmark have mandatory military service for males. Sweden got rid of mandatory military service in 2010, then reinstated it in 2016. Norway currently has "weak conscription" in that recruits are not forced to serve. La
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by davissorenson 9y ago
2026: Pinboard acquires Pinterest
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by davissorenson 9y ago
Interestingly, while in English we now say "business card", it seems that at least Swedish and Finnish, and probably other languages too, retained some form of "visiting card". In Swedish "visitkort" and in Fin
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by davissorenson 10y ago
Website is quite slow, here's a cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
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by davissorenson 13y ago
Another small UX thing: Never use window.prompt(). On Chrome at least it prevents me from switching tabs, I know on some systems it also plays an annoying sound.
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by davissorenson 13y ago
Well if you're looking for any kind of project, some famous ones are: * Netscape a.k.a. Firefox * Blender ( http://blender.org ) was commercial until 2002 when the company behind it failed. The rights to the code were bought
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by davissorenson 13y ago
I meant more as a company culture.
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by davissorenson 13y ago
> There's nothing to "save". To be fair, there's a lot of intellectual property at stake.
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by davissorenson 13y ago
> On this last point, they talk about leveraging a non-corporate image, like the Dudesons or Madventures, and throw “the largest events, gigs, and parties of human kind”. Well that sounds really sustainable.
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by davissorenson 13y ago
It used to be like this, but throughout this year in preparation for the 1.0 release the devs really stepped it up. The official guides are good nowadays.
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by davissorenson 13y ago
Ember WAS Sproutcore, Sproutcore 2.0 is what became Ember. Worth noting: Sproutcore was used to build iCloud, apparently.