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Normal Mapping a Sprite in WebGL(mtmckenna.com)
1 points by hjkl 6y ago|0 comments
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by hjkl 7y ago
Not sure how how legit it is, but I saw there was a follow up study where researchers couldn’t reproduce the deliberate practice finding to the degree the original researchers did: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi&#x2F
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by hjkl 7y ago
Been working on a web service to convert JS apps to PWAs and host them: https://www.superweb.app Hoping that it makes it easier for folks to create native-like apps, especially games.
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Build a Game in Ember Starring Your Cat [video](youtube.com)
3 points by hjkl 10y ago|0 comments
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Deploy Your Ember App Along with Your Ruby on Rails App via Capistrano(mtmckenna.com)
1 points by hjkl 11y ago|0 comments
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by hjkl 14y ago
I really hope this site works out. Posted a few of my films: http://www.filmbreak.com/projects/framed-baby-photos http://www.filmbreak.com/projects/strange-human-custom http://www.filmbreak.com/projects/signatures
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by hjkl 14y ago
Thanks for posting the Delayed Gratification link. Sounds like a great idea.
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by hjkl 14y ago
Can Apple do anything other than lose its shine? Is it possible for it to get shinier? I mean, it already has the world's highest market cap and is revered in a way the subsequent next highest market cap companies aren't (Exxon, MS, Wal-mar
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by hjkl 14y ago
The argument isn't that success is due entirely to luck. It's that you'll never know how much of that success is due to luck. It may be a lot or it may be a little.
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by hjkl 14y ago
But then do people overestimate the impact of their own influence? Would it benefit themselves/the world to come to grips with randomness?
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by hjkl 14y ago
I'm surprised by how defensive people can get about their own success. It seems to me that you can never know if your success was due to your own hard work or some lucky breaks (or, more probably, a combination of both to which you'll never
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by hjkl 14y ago
"It will likely be a good-looking, entertaining disaster..." If it's good-looking and entertaining, I don't see how it can also be a disaster. My impression is that the writer is using "disaster" and "not factually accurate" interchangeably
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by hjkl 14y ago
Anybody have an opinion on ctrlp vs LustyExplorer? http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1890
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by hjkl 14y ago
"...HDCP encryption, a newer part of the HDMI standard..." I don't think that's true. My understanding is that HDCP encryption has been around for as long as HDMI has been around. For example, Blu-ray discs/players use HDCP to encrypt their
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by hjkl 15y ago
>Think of it as "Moneyball for movies" -- that is, what types of successful film productions does Hollywood tend to undervalue in favor of large, expensive (and tremendously risky) blockbuster attempts? Thing is, this has been done, and
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by hjkl 15y ago
I'm interested in the rent vs. buy thing too, so here are some of my thoughts: >What if I hate the place and want to move away from it? Then a high demand for housing would play in my favor. You'd still have to sell your house, which I'
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Incremental, Snapshot-based Backup with Rsync and SSH(mtmckenna.com)
3 points by hjkl 15y ago|0 comments
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by hjkl 15y ago
I'm a guy who went to school for a BA in Film/Digital Media and a BS in Mechanical Engineering. I now work as a software engineer. It is my opinion that my BA in film to did not develop any more "soft skills" than my engineering degree. The
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by hjkl 16y ago
I loved Black Swan for the same reasons. I also read "Hollywood Economics: How extreme uncertainty shapes the film industry," which reads like an applied version of the Black Swan in relation to the film industry.
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by hjkl 16y ago
Some context: this was a DeCal class which is run by students. From the DeCal website: "DeCal is a student-run democratic education program at the UC Berkeley - here, students create and facilitate their own classes on a variety of (often u
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by hjkl 16y ago
It does seem unfair to have to respond to an inflammatory anecdotal op-ed with a reasoned non-anecdotal argument, but I think that's the burden of a good faith response. In that respect, I think Michael Fleisher's background is a good indic
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by hjkl 16y ago
The original WSJ article struck me as disingenuous, but this article seems to just go the ad hominem route.
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by hjkl 16y ago
Cuban makes the point that he only had to be "right" once and then goes on to express his annoyance with people who refer to him as lucky. But how does he know that he was "right" rather than lucky? Isn't it possible that he could have be
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by hjkl 16y ago
This comic rings mostly true for me, but I disagree a bit with the claim that information in 1984 was restricted; Good information was hard to find, but if I recall correctly, bad information was abundant. For example, even when Winston be
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by hjkl 16y ago
I agree: so much of the criticism regarding Taleb's books seems to be that he's arrogant. However, I don't understand how it's arrogant to say that people are bad at predicting the future, which I think is his main point.