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by mcdaid 9y ago
Unfortunately this is no longer true. In the wake of recent islamist attacks, it is now routine to seen armed police patrolling around cities.
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Unleash the power of HTML 5 Canvas for gaming – Part 1(blogs.msdn.com)
1 points by mcdaid 15y ago|0 comments
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Music helps children learn maths(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by mcdaid 15y ago|0 comments
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by mcdaid 15y ago
If the transformations/transitions are handled by the graphics card the faster js becomes irrelevant. For example js performance on IPad is not amazing, but it will run many transitions smoothly. As far as WebGL, it clearly is important for
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by mcdaid 15y ago
You make a fair point, but learning Italian or Portugese after Spanish is easy because they all share the same root language Latin. An eastern language such as mandarin won't be much easier because you have learnt a second European language
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by mcdaid 15y ago
The language in the browser is not the problem to me. If I could use python it wouldn't change the fact that you still need to deal with the DOM, CSS and browser differences.
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by mcdaid 15y ago
Hi posted this earlier, but it didn't get any traction. I guess the people here might be interested. http://www.visnos.com/demos/pi#launch
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Happy Pi Day(visnos.com)
2 points by mcdaid 15y ago|0 comments
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by mcdaid 15y ago
Brilliant!
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Original drawings and blueprints from Brunel, Stephenson and Wren(networkrail.co.uk)
1 points by mcdaid 15y ago|0 comments
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The march of technological progress doesn't create jobs: it destroys them(blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by mcdaid 15y ago|0 comments
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Secondary schools fail teenagers over computer lessons, says Ofsted(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by mcdaid 15y ago|0 comments
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Darwin censored by the Turkish government's porn filter(blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
4 points by mcdaid 15y ago|0 comments
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Computing classes don't teach programming skills(telegraph.co.uk)
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You are Facebook's product: that's why you don't pay to use it(blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by mcdaid 15y ago|0 comments
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by mcdaid 15y ago
Celsius please, or at least have both.This is supposed to be science not a localised weather report.
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by mcdaid 15y ago
Just finished porting a javascript fractal tree generator, the javascript version is at http://www.mcdaid.eu/labs/codify1 and the code to run in codify is in the textarea (small)
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Ralph Fiennes blames Twitter for 'eroding' language(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by mcdaid 15y ago|1 comments
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Failed fire project wasted £469m, says committee of MPs(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by mcdaid 15y ago|0 comments
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Public data: Government should get out of the way of innovation(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by mcdaid 15y ago|0 comments
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by mcdaid 15y ago
I wonder what effect this could have on the local climate. Pumping out hot air into cool air at height of 800 metres has got to have some affect. Now if the base is used area is used for growing plants then the air emitted at the top would
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Braben labels UK one of the least attractive places in world for games companies(cabume.co.uk)
2 points by mcdaid 15y ago|0 comments
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by mcdaid 15y ago
Actually I have been using a similar technique for the last six months. However 30mins intervals and I only do it on days when I feel tired or unmotivated. At the end of the period I go for a walk, or on an exercise bike for 5-10 mins. The
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Facebook's photo app: an earthquake for Mark Zuckerberg's rivals(blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by mcdaid 15y ago|0 comments
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by mcdaid 15y ago
See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/ob-... Clarifies that you will be paying per instance hour, instead of cpu. Nothing is in concrete yet, if there is enough outrage amongst users maybe they will change their tun
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by mcdaid 15y ago
The latest attempt in the UK to deal with the problem http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/8540055/Schools-win-rig...
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by mcdaid 15y ago
This is not exactly shocking. The quality of education has to be a factor as well. I am sure for most people an hour of one on one tuition, is more effective than a number of hours in a large class. Even more so if the rest in the large cla
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by mcdaid 15y ago
I was blown away by the google IO session. The idea of writing a game in Java and then having it converted to multiple formats, javascript/canvas/webgl, flash, android. Quite amazing! If they could add conversion to run on apple devices the
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by mcdaid 15y ago
On the topic of SVG and Canvas, I think it would be really useful if Canvas had a method similar to drawImage but instead could draw svg. for example var circle = document.createElementNS(" http://www.w3.org/2000/svg , "circle"); circle.s
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by mcdaid 15y ago
This is only the case if the user has not got a cached version of jQuery, which is likely if something like google's hosting service. In this case the jQuery code may well be shorter than the css especially with all the browser specific rul

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