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by hamstersoup 8y ago
Yes, MQL really was an eloquent query language, especially when writing JavaScript for the browser. For the curious, most of the documentation seems to be gone, but there are a few examples here: https://github.com/nchah&#x2
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by hamstersoup 10y ago
My 4-year-old is really into The Foos app. In the beginning he was just messing around but after a month or two he's really getting it. I was wondering what to use next, thanks for the list!
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by hamstersoup 12y ago
The article presents some great 'explorable explanations' by (or inspired by) Bret Victor. This really does seem like the future of communicating hard concepts. At high school I would often write BBC Basic simulations of the dull
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The rise of explorable explanations(maartenlambrechts.be)
77 points by hamstersoup 12y ago|6 comments
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by hamstersoup 12y ago
I highly recommend the Handmade Hero series referred to in this blog post. I've been following the archives on YouTube (at 2x speed). Casey Muratori is an engaging presenter and I'm rediscovering my love of low-level programming.
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Google Webmaster Tools releases Structured Data Dashboard(googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com)
1 points by hamstersoup 14y ago|0 comments
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by hamstersoup 16y ago
Very generous offer. Any chance of ? will.ww.com --> ww.hamstersoup.com I know you excluded one letter domains but w.ww.com would be even cooler ;-) Bedankt!
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Diffusion Curves: A Vector Representation for Smooth-Shaded Images(artis.imag.fr)
9 points by hamstersoup 16y ago|0 comments
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by hamstersoup 16y ago
I was about to start a big project on App Engine, so your comment is worrying. Anybody else having reliability problems with GAE or is this just an isolated case?
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by hamstersoup 16y ago
The slider serves as a simple privacy reminder on your home page. It only takes a few moments at youropenbook.org to make it clear that many people could benefit from such a reminder. It's not the intention that you would interact with the
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by hamstersoup 16y ago
I had forgotten the sliders: http://www.designaesthetic.com/2007/07/17/facebooks-ridiculo... I don't think they were a privacy control, just a (complex) way of mixing your newsfeed.
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Proposed privacy control UI for Facebook(youropenbook.org)
10 points by hamstersoup 16y ago|7 comments
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by hamstersoup 16y ago
Here's an example of the fig leaf in action: http://willmoffat.github.com/FacebookSearch/?q=HIV%20test&#3... We decided the redactions reduce the impact without actually offering any privacy at all. (That's up to Facebook and the users).
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CDN performance: Downloading jQuery from Google, Microsoft, and Edgecast CDNs(royal.pingdom.com)
16 points by hamstersoup 16y ago|5 comments
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by hamstersoup 16y ago
(disclaimer, I worked on this) Facebook has focused on the social graph, Freebase connects people and more. We liked the lightweight approach of the Graph API, so here's our version: http://graph.freebaseapps.com/the_simpsons/seasons?html=